Some previous and ongoing research

Relationships between denudation, topograpahy, climate and tectonics

 

• Deriving denudation rates from cosmogenic nuclides and other techniques to develop denudation rate chronologies.
• Using basin-wide cosmogenic nuclide derived denudation rate measurements to investigate landscape forming processes.
• Quantifying sediment mixing and transport times with multiple cosmogenic nuclides.
• Dating abandoned fluvial features to examine relationships between faulting and climate in arid environments.

 

 

Rates of faulting and palaeoseismic records

• Exposure age dating of offset surfaces to constrain rates of faulting and develop palaeoseismic histories.
• Developing novel approaches of cosmogenic nuclide sampling to measure rates of fault slip.

Dating of glacial events

• Dating glacial events using cosmogenic nuclides. Projects in South America, Europe and Antarctica.

Lunar Geomorphology

• Cosmogenic nuclide measurements in Apollo 16 lunar cores to investigate lunar surface processes.

Methodological developments

• Constraining terresrial cosmogenic nuclide production rates.
• Developing novel lithologies and new nuclides for cosmogenic exposure age dating.

Teaching