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Ari Matmon is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences with a research focus spanning several subfields and topics within this domain.

Their work primarily addresses Geological and Paleoclimatology Research, with a significant focus on the Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology, geological formations and processes, landslides and related hazards, earthquake and tectonic studies, evolution and paleontology studies, as well as marine and environmental studies.

Matmon has contributed extensively in Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Geophysics, Anthropology, and the Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law aspects related to geological sciences.

Frequent publication venues where Ari Matmon's research appears include:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Geomorphology

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Matmon are:

  • Magnetostratigraphy and cosmogenic dating of Wonderwerk Cave: New constraints for the chronology of the South African Earlier Stone Age, 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Sediment Residence Times in Large Rivers Quantified Using a Cosmogenic Nuclides Based Transport Model and Implications for Buffering of Continental Erosion Signals, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Extended-range luminescence dating of quartz and alkali feldspar from aeolian sediments in the eastern Mediterranean, 2020, Geochronology
  • Landscape responses to intraplate deformation in the Kalahari constrained by sediment provenance and chronology in the Okavango Basin, 2020, Basin Research
  • The convexity of carbonate hilltops: 36Cl constraints on denudation and chemical weathering rates and implications for hillslope curvature, 2021, Geological Society of America Bulletin

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Matmon's research career, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Alan J. Hidy
  • Moshe Armon
  • Itai Haviv
  • Naomi Porat
  • Yehouda Enzel

Best Publications

  • Temporally and spatially uniform rates of erosion in the southern Appalachian Great Smoky Mountains

    A. Matmon;P.R. Bierman;J. Larsen;S. Southworth

  • Laser scanning for conservation and research of African cultural heritage sites: the case study of Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa

    Heinz Rüther;Michael Chazan;Ralph Schroeder;Rudy Neeser

  • Erosion of an Ancient Mountain Range, The Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina and Tennessee

    A. Matmon;P. R. Bierman;J. Larsen;S. Southworth

  • Evolution of vertical knickpoints (waterfalls) with resistant caprock: Insights from numerical modeling

    I Haviv;Y Enzel;K. X Whipple;E. Zilberman

  • Desert pavement-coated surfaces in extreme deserts present the longest-lived landforms on Earth

    Ari Matmon;Ori Simhai;Rivka Amit;Itai Haviv

  • Climate in the dry central andes over geologic, millennial, and interannual timescales

    Christa Placzek;Jay Quade;Julio L. Betancourt;P. Jonathan Patchett

  • Radiometric dating of the Earlier Stone Age sequence in excavation I at Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa: preliminary results.

    Michael Chazan;Hagai Ron;Ari Matmon;Naomi Porat

  • Pattern and tempo of great escarpment erosion

    Ari Matmon;Paul Bierman;Yehouda Enzel

  • Denali fault slip rates and Holocene-late Pleistocene kinematics of central Alaska

    A. Matmon;D. P. Schwartz;Peter J. Haeussler;R. Finkel

  • Displacement history of a limestone normal fault scarp, northern Israel, from cosmogenic 36Cl

    Sara Gran Mitchell;Ari Matmon;Paul R. Bierman;Yehouda Enzel

  • Dating offset fans along the Mojave section of the San Andreas fault using cosmogenic 26Al and 10Be

    A. Matmon;D.P. Schwartz;R. Finkel;S. Clemmens

  • Tracing hillslope sediment production and transport with in situ and meteoric 10Be

    Matthew C. Jungers;Matthew C. Jungers;Paul R. Bierman;Ari Matmon;Kyle Nichols

  • Evidence for active landscape evolution in the hyperarid Atacama from multiple terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides

    C.J. Placzek;A. Matmon;D.E. Granger;J. Quade

  • The Oldowan horizon in Wonderwerk Cave (South Africa): archaeological, geological, paleontological and paleoclimatic evidence.

    Michael Chazan;D. Margaret Avery;Marion K. Bamford;Francesco Berna

  • Reconstructing the history of sediment deposition in caves: A case study from Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa

    A. Matmon;H. Ron;M. Chazan;N. Porat

  • Incision of alluvial channels in response to a continuous base level fall: Field characterization, modeling, and validation along the Dead Sea

    L. Ben Moshe;I. Haviv;Y. Enzel;E. Zilberman

  • Late Pliocene and Pleistocene reversal of drainage systems in northern Israel: tectonic implications

    A. Matmon;Y. Enzel;E. Zilberman;A. Heimann

  • Amplified erosion above waterfalls and oversteepened bedrock reaches

    I. Haviv;Y. Enzel;K. X. Whipple;E. Zilberman

  • Isotopic insights into smoothening of abandoned fan surfaces, Southern California

    Ari Matmon;Ari Matmon;Kyle Nichols;Robert Finkel

  • Morphological and structural relations in the Galilee extensional domain, northern Israel

    A Matmon;S Wdowinski;J.K Hall

  • Aggradation–incision transition in arid environments at the end of the Pleistocene: An example from the Negev Highlands, southern Israel

    Galina Faershtein;Naomi Porat;Yoav Avni;Ari Matmon

  • Styles and rates of long-term denudation in carbonate terrains under a Mediterranean to hyper-arid climatic gradient

    U. Ryb;A. Matmon;Y. Erel;I. Haviv

Frequent Co-Authors

Naomi Porat
Naomi Porat Physical Research Laboratory
Robert C. Finkel
Robert C. Finkel Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
David Fink
David Fink Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
Yigal Erel
Yigal Erel Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yehouda Enzel
Yehouda Enzel Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Samuel Niedermann
Samuel Niedermann Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Paul R. Bierman
Paul R. Bierman University of Vermont
Michael Chazan
Michael Chazan University of Toronto
Rivka Amit
Rivka Amit Geological Survey of Israel
Lucilla Benedetti
Lucilla Benedetti Aix-Marseille University

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