Geomorphology articles from across Nature Portfolio

Continued ground uplift long after the drying out of the Aral Sea demonstrates that human activity can provoke a response deep inside our planet, in this case by causing rock in Earth’s mantle to flow.

Self-secondary impact craters are rare on Mars relative to airless bodies and are almost absent in layered ejecta deposits, according to satellite observations of Martian surface geology which suggest the two deposit types form largely contemporaneously.

A warming pulse in continental Antarctica between 900 and 989 years before present produced significant erosion and changed Antarctic landscapes, according to GPR surveys, stratigraphic analyses, and radiocarbon dating along a glacial unconformity at the Boulder Clay glacier, Antarctica.

Numerical simulations suggest the wavelength of wind ripples is controlled by the mechanics of grain–bed impacts, not grain hop length, explaining why ripples on Mars and Earth are the same scale despite very different atmospheric conditions.

The provenance, formation and exposure history of the lunar regolith at the sampling site of the Chinese Chang’e-6 lander are investigated through remote sensing and regolith evolution modelling, providing critical insights into exotic materials and the weathering process on the Moon’s farside.

Continued ground uplift long after the drying out of the Aral Sea demonstrates that human activity can provoke a response deep inside our planet, in this case by causing rock in Earth’s mantle to flow.

Dominique Townsend explains how X-band radar can be used to detect and monitor nearshore bedforms.

Climate change is causing rapid shrinkage of high-latitude glaciers, fundamentally altering the nature of Arctic landscapes. Now, research quantifies the substantial, yet under-reported, development of new coastlines and islands that are revealed as marine-terminating glaciers fall back from the sea.

Mac (6, UK) asks Prof. Sean Willett how mountains grow.

Alissa Flatley explains how detailed assessments of morphological dune changes are conducted with handheld terrestrial laser scanning.