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  1. Peatlands are carbon-rich wetlands that accumulate organic matter over millennia, but recent structural modeling reveals they possess physical limits to carbon storage, potentially cracking or sliding under their own weight before reaching previously predicted capacities.
    #EnvironmentalEngineering #EarthScience #Geomorphology #Hydrology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/09/imes0914260

  2. This week's #NewBooks at the library: Several new books bought at bargain prices:
    - The Nile Basin: Quaternary #Geology, #Geomorphology and Prehistoric Environments by Martin Williams, published by Cambridge University Press.
    - A Pipeline Runs Through It: The Story of #Oil from Ancient Times to the First World War by Keith Fisher, published by Allen Lane.
    - The Great Paradox of #Science: Why Its Conclusions Can Be Relied Upon Even Though They Cannot Be Proven by Mano Singham, published by Oxford University Press.

    #Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm #EarthSciences #FossilFuels #Energy #History #Philosophy @bookstodon

  3. Permafrost Formation In A Meandering River Floodplain
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    doi.org/10.1029/2024AV001175 <-- shared paper
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    “... KEY POINTS:
    • River meandering resets permafrost development and vegetation succession by eroding old floodplain areas and depositing new land
    • On the Koyukuk River, permafrost rapidly forms in new deposits, but it takes over 4 Kyr to develop to its full areal extent of 85%
    • The rate of permafrost formation is likely linked to vegetation succession on younger and overbank deposition on older floodplain areas…”
    #water #hydrology #permafrost #development #research #Alaska #river #stream #watercourse #channel #meandering #vegetation #spatialanalysis #erosion #floodplain #overbank #deposition #sedimentation #KoyukukRiver #riverdynamics #climate #climatechange #Arctic #environment #landform #geomorphology #dating #spatiotemporal #model #modeling #network #GIS #spatial #mapping