02 · Research
Sediment routing
pastRivers carry a geochemical fingerprint of the landscapes they drain. This project developed techniques to unmix bulk sediment geochemistry into source-region contributions, reconstructing the erosional history of entire continental-scale drainage systems from their downstream deposits — a source-to-sink approach that links mountain erosion rates to the stratigraphic record in ocean basins.
Publications
2026
Ruby, A., McNab, F., Schildgen, T., Wickert, A. S., & Fernandes, V. M. How sediment supply, sea-level and glacial isostatic oscillations affect river long-profile evolution and terrace formation. AGU Advances, 7. doi.org/10.1029/2025AV002035
2023
Basilone, L., Roberts, G. G., Maia de Almeida, N., Fernandes, V. M., Souza, A. C. B., Alves, D. P. V., & Jovane, L. Cretaceous to Recent tectono-sedimentary history and subsidence of the Barreirinhas, Ceará and Potiguar Basins, Brazilian Equatorial Margin. Basin Research. doi.org/10.1111/bre.12810
2021
Lipp, A. G., Roberts, G. G., Whittaker, A., Gowing, C., & Fernandes, V. M. Source region geochemistry from unmixing downstream sedimentary elemental compositions. G-cubed, 22(10), e2021GC009838. doi.org/10.1029/2021GC009838
2021
Wapenhans, I., Fernandes, V. M., O’Malley, C., & Roberts, G. Scale-dependent contributors to river profile geometry. JGR: Earth Surface, 126(6), e2020JF005879. doi.org/10.1029/2020JF005879
2020
Lipp, A. G., Roberts, G. G., Whittaker, A. C., Gowing, C. J. B., & Fernandes, V. M. River sediment geochemistry as a conservative mixture of source regions: observations and predictions from the Cairngorms, UK. JGR: Earth Surface, 125, e2020JF005700. doi.org/10.1029/2020JF005700
2019
Fernandes, V. M., Roberts, G. G., White, N., & Whittaker, A. Continental-scale landscape evolution: a history of North American topography. JGR: Earth Surface, 124(11), 2689–2722. doi.org/10.1029/2018JF004979