Candidate: Open Supervisors: Kerry Leith Institution: ETH Zurich Activity: Beginning Fall 2018 In late August 2017 moderately-sized rockfall occurred on a south-facing rock wall above the popular Gelmersee hiking trail (immediately north of Grimsel Pass), leaving six people injured. Although the occurrence of such rockfalls in alpine regions is unsurprising, the location, geological setting, and timing of this […]
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Month: December 2017
Recently, my co-authors and I published a rather controversial article entitled ‘Signatures of Late Pleistocene fluvial incision in an Alpine landscape‘ in Earth and Planetary Science Letters (Volume 483, Leith et al., 2018). In this post we summarise the main outcomes, and look into a part of the backstory that never made it to print. […]
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Leith et al. (2018) EPSL
Do glaciers really do all the work? Opinions are divided, but here’s a chance to make up your own mind! Our new paper with @apatite4life and @UtahGeohaz is finally out in EPSL https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X17306945
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