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Missy C. Eppes
Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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Holocene and Late Pleistocene landscape dynamics in SE US Piedmont Uplands: revisiting hillslope sediment, gully incision, and sediment storage
FROM RIDGELINES TO VALLEYS: HILLSLOPE PROCESSES AND MORPHOLOGY ACROSS SCALES II POSTER
earth and planetary surface processes | 15 december 2023
Nora Vaughan, Terry A. Ferguson, Martha Cary C. Ep...
A synthesis of recent and historic investigations of low-order watersheds in SE US Piedmont indicate episodic formation of hillslope sediment (HSS), g...
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The influence of rock and environmental parameters on natural rock fracturing rates and characteristics
FROM THE TECTONIC ROCK CRUSHER TO THE CRACKING SURFACE: CONNECTIONS BETWEEN PROGRESSIVE ROCK FAILURE, EROSION, AND THE CRITICAL ZONE POSTER
earth and planetary surface processes | 12 december 2023
Monica Rasmussen, Martha Cary C. Eppes, Philip G. ...
Rock mechanical weathering (cracking/fracturing) depends upon, e.g., grain size, mineralogy, rock elastic properties, environmental temperature flux, ...
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Design and testing of a rapid sample preparation and double torsion testing for stress corrosion fracture testing under controlled environmental conditions
FROM THE TECTONIC ROCK CRUSHER TO THE CRACKING SURFACE: CONNECTIONS BETWEEN PROGRESSIVE ROCK FAILURE, EROSION, AND THE CRITICAL ZONE POSTER
earth and planetary surface processes | 12 december 2023
Alex Rinehart, Marissa Fichera, Martha Cary C. Epp...
Time and rate dependent rock fracture properties are increasingly tied to the rates and style of a wide range of planetary processes, from mechanical ...
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Evidence for Increase in Crack Damage in Rocks with Duration of Exposure at Earth's Surface
FROM THE TECTONIC ROCK CRUSHER TO THE CRACKING SURFACE: CONNECTIONS BETWEEN PROGRESSIVE ROCK FAILURE, EROSION, AND THE CRITICAL ZONE POSTER
earth and planetary surface processes | 12 december 2023
Philip G. Meredith, Yang Yuan, Monica Rasmussen, K...
Fractures in rock are ubiquitous; occurring at all scales, in all environments and propagating progressively over geologic time. To measure how fractu...
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Influences Driving and Limiting the Efficacy of Ice Segregation in Alpine Rocks
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
03 july 2023
Till Mayer, Daniel Draebing, Martha Cary C. Eppes

Rockwall erosion by rockfall is largely controlled by frost weathering in high alpine environments. As alpine rock types are characterized by crack...

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Climate-dependent Subcritical Fracture Propagation in Cobbles from the McMurdo Dry Valleys
QUANTIFYING THE DRIVERS OF LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION ACROSS SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALES IV POSTER
earth and planetary surface processes | 13 december 2022
Maxwell P. Dahlquist, Martha Cary C. Eppes, Jennif...
Climate-dependent subcritical cracking is increasingly recognized as an important mechanism for mechanical weathering of rocks, influencing soil and s...
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Barking up the wrong tree? Tree root tapping, subcrtitical cracking, and potential influence on bedrock porosity
FRACTURE AND SURFACE PROCESSES UNDER A BESTIARY OF SCALES: CRACK TIPS, CRACK NETWORKS, AND THE CRITICAL ZONE II POSTER
earth and planetary surface processes | 17 december 2021
Jill A. Marshall, Jacob Clyne, Martha Cary C. Eppe...
As fresh bedrock enters the Critical Zone (CZ), fracturing sets the subsurface architecture through time. Both biotic and abiotic mechanisms (e.g., ro...
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Thermal-stress-induced exfoliation and weathering in critical zone rock masses
RESPONDING TO THE PRESENT AND PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL, AND BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES TO CREATE TRANSFORMATIVE APPROACHES IN CRITICAL ZONE AND SOIL SCIENCE I ORAL
earth and planetary surface processes | 16 december 2021
Brian D. Collins, Greg M. Stock, Martha Cary C. Ep...
Weathering of rocks by various forces leads to the development of soils the lifeblood of the critical zone. Among those forcing agents, thermal stres...
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