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Alexander L. Densmore

Alexander L. Densmore

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Earth Science

D-Index
49
Citations
9158
World Ranking
3594
National Ranking
404

Overview

Alexander L. Densmore is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a significant focus on landslides and related hazards.

The main fields of study associated with Densmore include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Their work delves into key subfields such as management, monitoring, policy and law, global and planetary change, atmospheric science, geophysics, and sociology and political science.

  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Geophysics
  • Sociology and Political Science

The primary research topics covered by Densmore include landslides and related hazards, flood risk assessment and management, geology and paleoclimatology research, earthquake and tectonic studies, cryospheric studies and observations, disaster management and resilience, and tree root and stability studies.

  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Tree Root and Stability Studies

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Nick Rosser
  • Mark Kincey
  • Katie Oven
  • Tom Robinson
  • Ram Shrestha

Some of the primary venues where Densmore has published include:

  • Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Alexander L. Densmore are:

  • Strongly heterogeneous patterns of groundwater depletion in Northwestern India, 2021, Journal of Hydrology
  • Hydrological control of river and seawater lithium isotopes, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Modelling water levels of northwestern India in response to improved irrigation use efficiency, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Changing significance of landslide Hazard and risk after the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal Earthquake, 2021, Progress in Disaster Science
  • Evolution of Coseismic and Post-seismic Landsliding After the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha Earthquake, Nepal, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface

Best Publications

  • Active tectonics of the Beichuan and Pengguan faults at the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

    Alexander L. Densmore;Michael A. Ellis;Yong Li;Rongjun Zhou

  • Mass wasting triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake is greater than orogenic growth

    Robert N. Parker;Alexander L. Densmore;Nicholas J. Rosser;Marcello de Michele

  • The role of landslides in mountain range evolution.

    Oliver Korup;Alexander L. Densmore;Fritz Schlunegger

  • Extraordinary denudation in the Sichuan Basin: Insights from low- temperature thermochronology adjacent to the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

    N. J. Richardson;N. J. Richardson;A. L. Densmore;A. L. Densmore;D. Seward;A. Fowler

  • Evolution of the Longmen Shan Foreland Basin (Western Sichuan, China) during the Late Triassic Indosinian Orogeny

    L. Yong;P. A. Allen;A. L. Densmore;X. Qiang

  • Landsliding and the evolution of normal‐fault‐bounded mountains

    Alexander L. Densmore;Michael A. Ellis;Robert S. Anderson

  • Seismic mountain building: Landslides associated with the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in the context of a generalized model for earthquake volume balance

    Gen Li;A. Joshua West;Alexander L. Densmore;Zhangdong Jin

  • Topographic fingerprints of bedrock landslides

    Alexander L. Densmore;Niels Hovius

  • Sediment flux from an uplifting fault block

    Philip A. Allen;A. L. Densmore

  • Tracing groundwater recharge sources in the northwestern Indian alluvial aquifer using water isotopes (δ18O, δ2H and 3H)

    Suneel Kumar Joshi;Shive Prakash Rai;Rajiv Sinha;Sanjeev Gupta

  • Controls on fluvial evacuation of sediment from earthquake-triggered landslides

    Jin Wang;Jin Wang;Zhangdong Jin;Zhangdong Jin;Robert G. Hilton;Fei Zhang

  • Detection of surface change in complex topography using terrestrial laser scanning: application to the Illgraben debris-flow channel

    Peter Schürch;Peter Schürch;Alexander L. Densmore;Nicholas J. Rosser;Michael Lim

  • Development and response of a coupled catchment fan system under changing tectonic and climatic forcing

    Alexander L. Densmore;Philip A. Allen;Philip A. Allen;Guy Simpson

  • Spatial distributions of earthquake-induced landslides and hillslope preconditioning in the northwest South Island, New Zealand

    Robert Parker;Graham Hancox;David Petley;Christopher Massey

  • Hillslope Evolution by Bedrock Landslides

    Alexander L. Densmore;Robert S. Anderson;Brian G. McAdoo;Michael A. Ellis

  • A multidimensional stability model for predicting shallow landslide size and shape across landscapes

    David G. Milledge;Dino Bellugi;Jim A. McKean;Alexander L. Densmore

  • Did incision of the Three Gorges begin in the Eocene

    N.J. Richardson;A.L. Densmore;D. Seward;M. Wipf

  • Connectivity of earthquake-triggered landslides with the fluvial network: Implications for landslide sediment transport after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

    Gen Li;A. Joshua West;Alexander L. Densmore;Douglas E. Hammond

  • Counter-intuitive influence of Himalayan river morphodynamics on Indus Civilisation urban settlements

    Ajit Singh;Kristina Jørkov Thomsen;Rajiv Sinha;Jan-Pieter Buylaert;Jan-Pieter Buylaert

  • Footwall topographic development during continental extension

    Alexander L. Densmore;Nancye H. Dawers;Sanjeev Gupta;Roman Guidon

  • Geomorphology and Global Tectonics

    Alex Densmore

  • Effects of debris-flow magnitude-frequency distribution on avulsions and fan development

    T. de Haas;T. de Haas;A. Kruijt;A. L. Densmore

Frequent Co-Authors

Nick Rosser
Nick Rosser Durham University
Rajiv Sinha
Rajiv Sinha Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Zhangdong Jin
Zhangdong Jin Chinese Academy of Sciences
Philip A. Allen
Philip A. Allen Imperial College London
Brian W. McArdell
Brian W. McArdell Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
A. Joshua West
A. Joshua West University of Southern California
Michael A. Ellis
Michael A. Ellis British Geological Survey
Sanjeev Gupta
Sanjeev Gupta Imperial College London
Darren R. Gröcke
Darren R. Gröcke Durham University
Jan-Pieter Buylaert
Jan-Pieter Buylaert Technical University of Denmark

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