Penn State Home
Home

Rudy Slingerland

EESI Associate

Rudy Slingerland
Ph.D.,
Penn State University, 1977

Contact Information:
Department of Geosciences
513A Deike Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 865-6892
email:
sling@geosc.psu.edu
Dept. website:
http://www.geosc.psu.edu/

Current Research Interests:
Sedimentology, deterministic models

Selected Publications:
Hartshorn, K., Hovius, N., Dade, W. B., and Slingerland , R. L., 2002, Climate-driven bedrock incision in an active mountain belt. Science, vol. 297, p. 2036-2038.

Fuller, C. W., Willett, SD., Hovius, Niels, Slingerland , Rudy, 2003, Erosion rates for Taiwan mountain basins: New determinations from suspended sediment records and a stochastic model of their temporal variation. Journal of Geol­ogy, 111 (1): 71-87.

Meijer, P. Th.; Slingerland, R.; Wortel, M. J. R., 2004, Tectonic control on past circulation of the Mediterranean Sea : A model study of the Late Miocene. Paleoceanography, Vol. 19, No. 1, PA1026 10.1029/2003PA000956.

A dams, P. N., Slingerland, R. L., and Smith, N. D., in press, Variations in natural levee morphology in anastomosed channel floodplain complexes. Geomorphology.

Abbado, D., Slingerland , R., and Smith, N. D., in press, The origin of anastomosis on the Columbia River, British Columbia, Canada. In: Blum, M. D., Marriott, S. B., and Leclair, S. (eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International Con­ference on Fuvial Sedimentology, Special Publication No. 35, International Association of Sedimentologists.

Slingerland , R. and Smith, N. D ., 2004, River Avulsions and Their Deposits, Ann. Rev. of Earth and Planetary Sci., 32:255-283.