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Darrel Maddy is a researcher affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Their scientific work primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with particular attention to various subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Anthropology, Soil Science, Ecology, and Geophysics.

The main topics covered in Maddy's research include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Soil erosion and sediment transport, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geotourism and Geoheritage Conservation, and Landslides and related hazards.

Maddy has coauthored publications frequently with several researchers. These include Tuncer Demi̇r, Ahmet Serdar Aytaç, A. Veldkamp, J.M. Schoorl, and Selçuk Aksay.

The researcher's work has appeared in various scholarly journals, notably:

  • Geomorphology
  • Proceedings of the Geologists Association
  • CATENA
  • Geosciences
  • Quaternary Science Reviews

Significant recent publications by Maddy include:

  • Early Pleistocene River Terraces of the Gediz River, Turkey: The role of faulting, fracturing, volcanism and travertines in their genesis, 2020, Geomorphology

Other relevant publications featuring Maddy or frequently associated coauthors, highlighting related research in the field, include:

  • The Kula-Salihli UNESCO Geopark: Spectacular records of Quaternary volcanism, fluvial and landscape evolution and Quaternary environmental change, 2022, Proceedings of the Geologists Association
  • Timing of gully development in a structurally controlled badland landscape, western Turkey, 2023, CATENA
  • Structurally Controlled Landscape Evolution in Kula Badlands, Western Turkey, 2022, Geosciences
  • David Quentin Bowen: A memorial, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews

Maddy's research addresses multiple aspects of landscape evolution, sediment transport, and environmental dynamics, often within the geographical context of Turkey's geological formations and Quaternary period studies.

Best Publications

  • A sensitive high-resolution record of late Holocene climatic change from a raised bog in northern England:

    K E Barber;Frank M Chambers;D Maddy;R Stoneman

  • n-Alkane distributions in ombrotrophic mires as indicators of vegetation change related to climatic variation

    Chris J. Nott;Shucheng Xie;Luke A. Avsejs;Darrel Maddy

  • Uplift-driven valley incision and climate-controlled river terrace development in the Thames Valley, UK

    Darrel Maddy;David Bridgland;Rob Westaway

  • Holocene palaeoclimates from peat stratigraphy: macrofossil proxy climate records from three oceanic raised bogs in England and Ireland

    Keith E. Barber;Frank M. Chambers;Darrel Maddy

  • Uplift-driven valley incision and river terrace formation in southern England

    D. Maddy

  • Molecular and isotopic stratigraphy in an ombrotrophic mire for paleoclimate reconstruction

    Shucheng Xie;Chris J Nott;Luke A Avsejs;Darrel Maddy

  • Palaeoclimate records in compound-specific δD values of a lipid biomarker in ombrotrophic peat

    S Xie;CJ Nott;LA Avsejs;Fdm Volders

  • River Basin Sediment Systems - Archives of Environmental Change

    Darrel Maddy;Mark G. Macklin;Jamie C. Woodward

  • Closed-system behaviour of the intra-crystalline fraction of amino acids in mollusc shells

    K.E.H. Penkman;D.S. Kaufman;D. Maddy;M.J. Collins

  • Flow in the lower continental crust as a mechanism for the Quaternary uplift of south-east England: constraints from the Thames terrace record

    Rob Westaway;Darrel Maddy;David Bridgland

  • A 5500-year proxy-climate and vegetation record from blanket mire at Talla Moss, Borders, Scotland

    Frank M Chambers;Keith E Barber;Darrel Maddy;J Brew

  • Crustal uplift in southern England: evidence from the river terrace records

    D. Maddy;D.R. Bridgland;C.P. Green

  • Pliocene and Quaternary regional uplift in western Turkey: the Gediz River terrace staircase and the volcanism at Kula

    Rob Westaway;Malcolm Pringle;Sema Yurtmen;Tuncer Demir

  • River terrace sequences : templates for quaternary geochronology and marine-terrestrial correlation.

    David Bridgland;Darrel Maddy;Martin Bates

  • Replicated proxy-climate signals over the last 2000 yr from two distant UK peat bogs: new evidence for regional palaeoclimate teleconnections

    K.E Barber;D Maddy;N Rose;A.C Stevenson

  • Late Holocene climatic history of northern Germany and Denmark: peat macrofossil investigations at Dosenmoor, Schleswig-Holstein, and Svanemose, Jutland

    Keith E. Barber;Frank M. Chambers;Darrel Maddy

  • Testing the aminostratigraphy of fluvial archives: the evidence from intra-crystalline proteins within freshwater shells

    K.E.H. Penkman;R.C. Preece;D.H. Keen;D. Maddy

  • Accelerated uplift resulting from Anglian glacioisostatic rebound in the Middle Thames Valley, UK?: evidence from the river terrace record

    D Maddy;D.R Bridgland

  • An obliquity-controlled Early Pleistocene river terrace record from Western Turkey?

    Darrel Maddy;Tuncer Demir;David R. Bridgland;Antonie Veldkamp

  • A revised model for the Pleistocene development of the River Avon, Warwickshire

    D. Maddy;D. H. Keen;D. R. Bridgland;C. P. Green

Frequent Co-Authors

A. Veldkamp
A. Veldkamp University of Twente
David R. Bridgland
David R. Bridgland Durham University
Frank M. Chambers
Frank M. Chambers University of Gloucestershire
Jan Wijbrans
Jan Wijbrans Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Keith Barber
Keith Barber University of Southampton
Danielle C. Schreve
Danielle C. Schreve Royal Holloway University of London
Neil L. Rose
Neil L. Rose University College London
Richard P. Evershed
Richard P. Evershed University of Bristol
Rob Westaway
Rob Westaway University of Glasgow
Roy Thompson
Roy Thompson University of Pittsburgh

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