Volume 43 Issue 13

Earth Surface October 2018

ESPLDB
43(13) 2683–2843 (2018)

Processes and
ISSN 0197-9337

Landforms

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THE JOURNAL OF THE

BRITISH SOCIETY FOR
GEOMORPHOLOGY
Earth Surface
Processes and
Landforms
THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR GEOMORPHOLOGY
(FORMERLY BRITISH GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESEARCH GROUP)
Managing Editor: Professor S. N. Lane
Institut de géographie, Faculté des géosciences et l’environnement, Université de Lausanne
Batiment Anthropole, LAUSANNE CH2015, Suisse
Associate Editors
Professor Alison Anders
Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
Associate Professor Chris Houser
Geography and Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University, USA
Professor M. J. Kirkby
School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Senior Lecturer Larissa Naylor
Glasgow University, UK
Senior Lecturer Kevin Norton
Environment and Earth Science, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Professor Heather Viles
Biogeomorphology and Heritage Conservation, Oxford University, UK
Professor E. Wohl
Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, C080523-1482 USA
Assistant Editor: Fiona Kirkby
School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Editorial Advisory Board:
Irasema Alcántara-Ayala, Richard Dikau, David Montgomery,
UNAM, Mexico University of Bonn, Germany University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Marie-Françoise André, Sergio Fagherazzi, Futoshi Nakamura,
Université Blaise Pascal, Boston University, USA Hokkaido University, Japan
Clermont-Ferrand, France Monique Fort,
Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7, France Jon Olley,
Paul Bishop, Griffith University, Australia
University of Glasgow, UK Jon French,
University College London, UK Jean Poesen,
Mary Bourke, Angela Gurnell, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, USA University of London, UK Massimo Rinaldi,
Jo E. Bullard, Arjun Heimsath, Università di Firenze, Italy
Loughborough University, UK Arizona State University, USA
Richard Roberts,
David Butler, Niels Hovius, University of Wollongong, Australia
Texas State University, USA University of Cambridge, UK
Zhongyuan Chen, Jim Kirchner, Martin Sharp,
East China Normal University, China Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow University of Alberta, Canada
Chris Clark, and Landscape Research, Switzerland Rajiv Sinha,
University of Sheffield, UK Dr O. Korup, IIT Kanpur, India
Potsdam University, Germany Paolo Tarolli,
Patience Cowie, Nick Lancaster,
University of Edinburgh, UK University of Padova, Italy
Desert Research Institute, Reno, USA
Steve Darby, Xixi Lu, Marco Tubino,
Southampton University, UK National University of Singapore, Singapore Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy
Philippe Davy, Bruce Malamud, Greg Tucker,
Université de Rennes, France King’s College London, UK University of Colorado, USA

ESPL: Aims and Scope

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms is an interdisciplinary international journal concerned with:
• the interactions between surface processes and landforms and landscapes; that lead to
• physical, chemical and biological changes; and which in turn create
• current landscapes and the geological record of past landscapes.
Its focus is core to both physical geographical and geological communities, and also the wider geosciences.
We publish manuscripts that address the full range of the discipline of geomorphology including the following specific areas:
• The geological records of Earth surface processes in relation to environmental change, including the interpretation and use of such records
to reconstruct landforms, landscapes and landscape evolution
• The application of quantitative retrodictive and predictive models to support such interpretations
• The impacts of past, current and future environmental change upon Earth surface processes, and the influences of core drivers such as
climate, tectonics, seismic and volcanic activity, vegetation and ecology, ice sheets and glaciers; and oceans and sea level
• Fluxes of material, both solid and in solution, and their contribution to landscape development and landform evolution
• The full range of environments associated with the Earth, including glacial, paraglacial, periglacial; hillslopes; soils; fluvial; karst; aeolian;
estuarine and coastal
• Planetary geomorphology and the interpretation of planetary processes and landforms in the light of our understanding of Earth surface
processes and landforms and the emerging knowledge of the planets themselves
• The relationship between Earth surface processes and management
• State of the art developments in techniques that enable new geomorphological questions to be asked, including remote sensing (airborne
and ground-based) GIS, mathematical modelling and analysis, dating
• Geomorphological theory, including conceptual development
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms does not publish case studies of particular landforms or landscapes unless they have wider
systematic relevance.
We welcome the following kinds of manuscripts:
1. Full papers on any of the above topics, with a text length that does not normally exceed 8000 words.
2. Earth Surface EXchange (ESEX) Letters, shorter papers that are reviewed and published rapidly, on any of the above topics. Their length
should not normally exceed 4000 words and are suited to research that is in its early stages of development.
3. Earth Surface EXchange (ESEX) Commentaries, short articles, normally up to 1500 words in length, designed to raise issues of
geomorphological interest to the wider community.
4. Earth Surface EXchange (ESEX) Discussions and Replies, short articles, normally up to 1500 words in length that discuss individual articles
that have appeared in ESPL.
5. Earth Surface EXchange (ESEX) State of the Science papers, of a length to be negotiated with the Managing Editor, which provide a
cutting edge synthesis of the direction of one element of geomorphological research in the light of future research challenges. Potential
authors of State of the Science manuscripts are required to consult with the Managing Editor (stuart.lane@unil.ch) before making their
submission.
All manuscripts are subject to full peer review and managed through an electronic system, Manuscript Central. To submit a manuscript, please
go to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/esp
Cover Photo credits from top to bottom: Jerome Mayaud: A dune horn extends onto an arid gravel plain in the Skeleton Coast, Namibia; Mikael Attal:
Gorge and debris cones to the west of the Sólheimajökull glacier; Edwin Baynes: Looking into the Markarfljót valley from Smjörgil, South Iceland;
Laura Vezzola: Coastal processes, Peniche, Portugal. These are the winners of the British Society for Geomorphology Photo Competition 2015.
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A Journal of Geomorphology
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CONTENTS

VOLUME 43, ISSUE No. 13 October 2018

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Description of soil micro-topography and fractional wetted area under runoff using fractal dimensions: M. García-Serrana,
J. S. Gulliver and J. L. Nieber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2685
Variations in near-surface debris temperature through the summer monsoon on Khumbu Glacier, Nepal Himalaya:
M. J. Gibson, T. D. L. Irvine-Fynn, P. Wagnon, A. V. Rowan, D. J. Quincey, R. Homer and N. F. Glasser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2698
A clarification and extension of our model of regolith formation on hillslopes: M. I. Lebedeva and S. L. Brantley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2715
Storage and weathering of landslide debris in the eastern San Gabriel Mountains, California, USA: Implications for mountain solute
flux: J. Del Vecchio, K. A. Lang, C. R. Robins, C. P. McGuire and E. J. Rhodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2724
Tide-induced bedload transport pathways in a multiple-sand-ridge system offshore of Hainan Island in the Beibu Gulf,
northwest South China Sea: X. Ma, J. Li and J. Yan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2738
Going against the flow: Testing the hypothesis of pulsed axial glacier flow: D. A. Swift and A. H. Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2754
Modeling wet headwater stream networks across multiple flow conditions in the Appalachian Highlands: C. K. Jensen,
K. J. McGuire, Y. Shao and C. Andrew Dolloff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2762
Effects of debris-flow magnitude –frequency distribution on avulsions and fan development: T. de Haas, A. Kruijt
and A. L. Densmore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2779
Dust on a Hawaiian volcano: A regional model using field measurements to estimate transport and deposition:
M. M. Douglas, J. D. Stock, K. Bishaw II, C. Cerovski-Darriau and D. R. Bedford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2794
Geodiversity decreases shrub mortality and increases ecosystem tolerance to droughts and climate change: I. Stavi,
S. Rachmilevitch, A. Hjazin and H. Yizhaq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2808
Mapping and spatial-temporal assessment of gully density in the Middle Volga region, Russia: V. Golosov, O. Yermolaev,
I. Rysin, M. Vanmaercke, R. Medvedeva and M. Zaytseva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2818
Evaluating erosion control practices in an actively gullying watershed in the highlands of Ethiopia: G. K. Ayele, M. B. Addisie,
E. J. Langendoen, N. H. Tegegne, S. A. Tilahun, M. A. Moges, C. F. Nicholson and T. S. Steenhuis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2835

The cover image, by T. de Haas et al., is based on the Research Article Effects of debris-flow magnitude–frequency distribution on
avulsions and fan development, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4432.

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