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Ken L. Ferrier
Researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Publications - 43
Citations - 1264
Ken L. Ferrier is an academic researcher from University of Wisconsin-Madison. The author has contributed to research in topics: Erosion & Sediment. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 40 publications receiving 1001 citations. Previous affiliations of Ken L. Ferrier include University of California, Berkeley & Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Climatic control of bedrock river incision
TL;DR: Measurements of river incision rates across one of Earth’s steepest rainfall gradients provide rare empirical evidence for the long-proposed coupling between climate and river incison, suggesting that previously proposed feedbacks among topography, climate and tectonics may occur.
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Effects of physical erosion on chemical denudation rates: A numerical modeling study of soil-mantled hillslopes
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a numerical model that computes changes in soil mineralogy and cosmogenic radionuclide (CRN) concentrations under time-varying physical erosion rates, and use this model to assess the accuracy of the CRN-based technique for estimating chemical denudation rates in nonsteady conditions.
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The root of branching river networks
TL;DR: It is shown that branching at the uppermost reaches of river networks is rooted in two coupled instabilities: first, valleys widen at the expense of their smaller neighbours, and second, side slopes of the widening valleys become susceptible to channel incision.
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Covariation of climate and long-term erosion rates across a steep rainfall gradient on the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i
Ken L. Ferrier,J. Taylor Perron,Sujoy Mukhopadhyay,Matt Rosener,Jonathan D. Stock,Kimberly Huppert,Michelle Slosberg +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present new measurements of erosion rates over 5 yr to 5 m.y. timescales on the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i, across which mean annual precipitation ranges from 0.5 to 9.5 m/yr.
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Global ice volume during MIS 3 inferred from a sea-level analysis of sedimentary core records in the Yellow River Delta
TL;DR: This paper used sediment cores in the Bohai and Yellow Sea that record a migration of the paleoshoreline at ∼50-37-ka through a transition from marine to brackish conditions.