Dorothy J. Merritts

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Dorothy J. Merritts

Earth Sciences

#2618

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#3528

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Physical Geography

#171

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#199

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Dorothy J. Merritts's Degrees

PhD Geology University of Maryland, College Park
Masters Geology University of Maryland, College Park
Bachelors Geology University of Maryland, College Park

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According to Wikipedia, Dorothy Jane Merritts is an American geologist. She is the Harry W. & Mary B. Huffnagle Professor of Geosciences at Franklin & Marshall College. In 2022, Merritts was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Landscape response to tectonic forcing: Digital elevation model analysis of stream profiles in the Mendocino triple junction region, northern California (2000) (826)
Natural Streams and the Legacy of Water-Powered Mills (2008) (815)
Long river profiles, tectonism, and eustasy: A guide to interpreting fluvial terraces (1994) (389)
Geomorphic response of coastal streams to low, intermediate, and high rates of uplift, Medocino triple junction region, northern California (1989) (304)
Importance of a stochastic distribution of floods and erosion thresholds in the bedrock river incision problem (2003) (268)
Channel response to tectonic forcing: field analysis of stream morphology and hydrology in the Mendocino triple junction region, northern California (2003) (240)
Bedrock Fluvial Incision and Longitudinal Profile Development Over Geologic Time Scales Determined by Fluvial Terraces (2013) (220)
Interpreting Quaternary uplift rates at the Mendocino triple junction, northern California, from uplifted marine terraces. (1989) (192)
Anthropocene streams and base-level controls from historic dams in the unglaciated mid-Atlantic region, USA (2011) (148)
Pool and riffle characteristics in relation to channel gradient (1993) (104)
What Is a Natural River (2007) (101)
Forecasting the response of Earth's surface to future climatic and land use changes: A review of methods and research needs (2015) (100)
Rates and processes of soil evolution on uplifted marine terraces, northern California (1991) (97)
The mass balance of soil evolution on late Quaternary marine terraces, northern California (1992) (76)
The Mendocino triple junction: Active faults, episodic coastal emergence, and rapid uplift (1996) (68)
Holocene forearc block rotation in response to seamount subduction, southeastern Península de Nicoya, Costa Rica (2001) (58)
Interactions between onshore bedrock‐channel incision and nearshore wave‐base erosion forced by eustasy and tectonics (2002) (56)
Introduction to Special Section on Tectonics and Topography (1994) (50)
The rise and fall of Mid-Atlantic streams: Millpond sedimentation, milldam breaching, channel incision, and stream bank erosion (2013) (42)
ESTIMATING VOLUME, NUTRIENT CONTENT, AND RATES OF STREAM BANK EROSION OF LEGACY SEDIMENT IN THE PIEDMONT AND VALLEY AND RIDGE PHYSIOGRAPHIC PROVINCES, SOUTHEASTERN AND CENTRAL PA (2007) (41)
Late Pleistocene landscape response to climate change: eolian and alluvial fan deposition, Cape Liptrap, southeastern Australia (2006) (39)
Stream Networks and Long-Term Surface Uplift in the New Madrid Seismic Zone (1994) (38)
Elevations and ages of marine terraces and late Quaternary rock uplift in southeastern Korea (2008) (34)
Variable rates of Late Quaternary surface uplift along the Banda Arc-Australian plate collision zone, eastern Indonesia (1999) (32)
Northern San Andreas fault near Shelter Cove, California (1999) (30)
Episodic intraplate deformation of stable continental margins: evidence from Late Neogene and Quaternary marine terraces, Cape Liptrap, Southeastern Australia (2009) (29)
Freeze–thaw processes and intense rainfall: the one-two punch for high sediment and nutrient loads from mid-Atlantic watersheds (2018) (28)
Environmental Geology: An Earth System Science Approach (1997) (26)
Rediscovering, Reevaluating, and Restoring Lost River-Wetland Corridors (2021) (21)
Legacy sediment storage in New England river valleys: Anthropogenic processes in a postglacial landscape (2016) (20)
Correction to “Importance of a stochastic distribution of floods and erosion thresholds in the bedrock river incision problem” (2003) (17)
The Anthropocene as an Event, not an Epoch (2022) (15)
A practical solution: the Anthropocene is a geological event, not a formal epoch (2021) (15)
Northern California LIDAR Data: A Tool for Mapping the San Andreas Fault and Pleistocene Marine Terraces in Heavily Vegetated Terrain (2003) (15)
Legacy sediment erosion hot spots: A cost-effective approach for targeting water quality improvements (2019) (11)
Subfossil Leaves Reveal a New Upland Hardwood Component of the Pre-European Piedmont Landscape, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (2013) (11)
Ghosts of landuse past: legacy effects of milldams for riparian nitrogen (N) processing and water quality functions (2021) (10)
Quaternary Uplift of Coral Terraces from Active Folding and Thrusting Along the Northern Coast of Timor-Leste (2006) (10)
Rivers, glaciers, landscape evolution, and active tectonics of the central Appalachians, Pennsylvania and Maryland (2006) (9)
FLUVIAL ENVIRONMENTS | Terrace Sequences (2007) (7)
High Suspended Sediment Yields of the Conestoga River Watershed to the Susquehanna River and Chesapeake Bay are the Result of Ubiquitous Post-Settlement Mill Dams (2004) (7)
Erosion of coastal drainages in the Mendocino Triple Junction region (MTJ), northern California (2018) (6)
Colonial Mill Ponds of Lancaster County Pennsylvania as a Major Source of Sediment Pollution to the Susquehanna River and Chesapeake Bay (2003) (6)
Draining the Landscape: How Do Nitrogen Concentrations in Riparian Groundwater and Stream Water Change Following Milldam Removal? (2021) (5)
Estimating the timescale of fluvial response to anthropogenic disturbance using two generations of dams on the South River, Massachusetts, USA (2020) (5)
Anthropocene: event or epoch? (2021) (5)
Threshold constraints on the size, shape and stability of alluvial rivers (2022) (5)
The effects of variable river flow on human communities. (2011) (5)
Riparian and valley-margin hardwood species of pre-colonial Piedmont forests: A preliminary study of subfossil leaves from White Clay Creek, southeastern Pennsylvania, USA (2016) (5)
Volcanic and Tectonic Hazard Assessment for Nuclear Facilities: Tectonic uplift and subsidence (2009) (4)
Effective Use of Hands-On Activities, State-of-the-Art Technology, and Computers In Introductory Environmental Geology (1992) (4)
Pleistocene Periglacial Processes and Landforms, Mid-Atlantic Region, Eastern United States (2022) (4)
Taking the pulse of the earth's surface systems (2016) (3)
Geomorphic response to late Quaternary tectonism: Coastal northern California, Mendocino triple junction region. (1987) (3)
Saturated, Suffocated, and Salty: Human Legacies Produce Hot Spots of Nitrogen in Riparian Zones (2022) (2)
Sediment Budgets and Sources Inform a Novel Valley Bottom Restoration Practice Impacted by Legacy Sediment: The Big Spring Run, PA, Restoration Experiment (2017) (2)
The Anthropocene serves science better as an event, rather than an epoch (2022) (2)
Nitrate Decrease in Surface and Groundwater After Legacy Sediment Removal Restoration in a Floodplain Stream, Big Spring Run, PA USA. (2018) (2)
Response to Waters et al. (2022) The Anthropocene is complex. Defining it is not (2023) (2)
Unearthing a stream-wetland floodplain system: increased denitrification and nitrate retention at a legacy sediment removal restoration site, Big Spring Run, PA, USA (2022) (1)
A COMPARISON OF LAND-USE AND GLACIAL CONTROLS ON EROSION IN THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES (2017) (1)
Modeling stochastic floods and erosion thresholds in bedrock rivers: Field data from northern California (2001) (1)
Influence of groundwater residence time on biogeochemical transformation after legacy sediment removal from a headwater stream in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA (2019) (1)
The Northern California Coast: the Oregon Border to Cape Mendocino (2005) (1)
Introduction to Geomorphology (2000) (0)
10. POINT DELGADA TO POINT ARENA (2019) (0)
Freeze-thaw processes and intense winter rainfall: The one-two punch for high streambank legacy sediment and nutrient loads from Mid-Atlantic watersheds (2017) (0)
FIELD AND COSMOGENIC NUCLIDE STUDIES OF POSSIBLE LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM GELIFLUCTION BENCHES IN NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA (2020) (0)
OFFSET FLUVIAL AND NEAR-SHORE SEDIMENTS ALONG THE SAN ANDREAS FAULT, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA (2004) (0)
Self-organization in irregular landscapes: Detecting autogenic interactions from field data using descriptive statistics and dynamical systems theory (2015) (0)
Data-driven approaches to delineating morphodynamically distinct vegetation communities in deltas and floodplains (2018) (0)
Aerial Photogrammetry and Repeat Lidar as a Method of Quantifying Erosion Rates in Legacy Sediment as an Alternative to Traditional Methodologies (2018) (0)
Starting Point: Linking Methods and Materials for Introductory Geoscience Courses (2004) (0)
11. POINT ARENA TO SAN FRANCISCO (2019) (0)
Denudation and topographic responses of coastal drainages near the Mendocino Triple Junction region (MTJ), northern California (2015) (0)
Earth issues reader for understanding earth, third edition, Frank Press and Raymond Siever and envionmental geology by Dorothy Merritts, Andrew de Wet and Kirsten Menking (2001) (0)
The importance of threshold in alluvial river channel geometry and dynamics (2021) (0)
2022 QG&G CAREER AWARD: CHANGING VIEWS OF THE RIVER (2022) (0)
MAPPING THE LAST PERMAFROST MAXIMUM BOUNDARY SOUTH OF THE LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM ICE MARGIN, EASTERN US APPALACHIAN REGION (2020) (0)
A Controlled Freeze-Thaw Experiment to Model Sediment and Phosphorus Loads from Bank Erosion of Legacy Sediments (2018) (0)
QUANTIFYING VOLUME OF ANTHROPOCENE SEDIMENT STORAGE IN VALLEY BOTTOMS OF SELECTED NEW ENGLAND WATERSHEDS (2016) (0)
"Late Pleistocene Ice-dammed Lakes, Drainage Diversion, and Outburst Flooding; Upper Rio Grande Drainage, San Juan Mountains, Colorado." (1994) (0)
HIGH-RESOLUTION TOPOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF X-TREME GEOMORPHIC FEATURES ON LATE GLACIAL MAXIMUM AGE STRATH TERRACES, SUSQUEHANNA RIVER, PENNSYLVANIA (2022) (0)
Progressive Emergence and Warping of Islands in the Active Banda Arc-Continent Collision As Recorded By Uplifted Coral Terraces: Tectonic and Geohazards Implications (2014) (0)
HISTORIC MILLPOND SEDIMENT STORAGE AND POST-DAM BREACH EROSION, CHIQUES CREEK WATERSHED, PENNSYLVANIA (2018) (0)
ASSESSING GEOPHYSICAL LANDMINE DETECTION METHODS IN SAND AND SOIL BEDS SIMILAR TO DONETSK REGION OF EASTERN UKRAINE (2016) (0)
Critical Zone Architecture and the Last Glacial Legacy in Unglaciated North America (2015) (0)
MARINE TERRACE MAPPING, FORMATION AND UPLIFT; CAPE LIPTRAP, SOUTHEASTERN AUSTRALIA (2003) (0)
9. THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COAST: THE OREGON BORDER TO SHELTER COVE (2019) (0)
Late Pleistocene, calcareous and siliceous aeolian and alluvial fan deposits, Cape Liptrap, southeastern Victoria, Australia. (2003) (0)
MULTI-DECADAL POST-DAM BREACH CHANNEL EVOLUTION ALONG BIG BEAVER CREEK, SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA (2018) (0)
Intraplate deformation of Late Neogene and Quaternary marine terraces, Cape Liptrap, Southeastern Victoria, Australia (2006) (0)
Centuries of mill dams in the watershed: implications for stream restoration and reducing sediment delivery to the Chesapeake Bay (2013) (0)

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