Staff profile
Professor Alexander Densmore
Professor / Deputy Head of Department

Affiliation | Room number | Telephone |
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Professor / Deputy Head of Department in the Department of Geography | 233 | +44 (0) 191 33 41879 |
Professor / Deputy Head of Department , Catchments and Rivers | 233 | +44 (0) 191 33 41879 |
Professor / Deputy Head of Department , Hazards and Surface Change | 233 | +44 (0) 191 33 41879 |
Biography
I'm interested in the way in which mountains are built through tectonic activity, and in the erosional processes that tear them back down again. The spark behind much of this work came from growing up on the tectonically-active west coast of North America. I received a PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and held lectureships at Trinity College Dublin and ETH Zurich before joining Durham University in 2006. My current research projects include the long-term impacts of earthquakes on mass wasting and sediment transfer in Nepal and China; the use of scientific information to prepare for earthquake- and monsoon-triggered hazard chains, with a particular focus in Nepal; and efforts to understand sediment routing systems both in the field (northern India) and through numerical modelling.
Research groups
Research Projects
- Community Earthquake Disaster Risk Reduction in China (CEDRRiC)
- Earthquakes without frontiers: a partnership for increasing resilience to seismic hazard in the continents
Awarded Grants
- 2021: RF150498 Preparedness and planning for the Mountain Hazard and Risk chain in Nepal: GCRF UKRI Multi-hazard and Systemic Risks, Natural Environmental Research Council, £1202819.21
- 2017: Carbon export by erosion of the biosphere: the role of earthquake triggered landslides(£401021.00 from Natural Environmental Research Council)
- 2017: Earthquake triggered landsliding in Nepal: NERC / DFID SHEAR
- 2016: Review of the Nine Minimum Characteristics of A Disaster Resilient Community in Nepal(£76160.00 from Department for International Development)
- 2014: Durham International Fellowships for research and Enterprise - DIFeREns(£23434.59 from European Commission)
- 2012: Earthquakes without frontiers: a partnership for increasing resilience to seismic hazard in the continents(£658030.50 from NERC - Natural Environment Research Council)
- 2012: The structure and dynamics of groundwater systems in north-western India under past, present and future climates(£183558.80 from NERC - Natural Environment Research Council)
- 2010: Building rural resilience in seismically active regions(£22573.86 from NERC - Natural Environment Research Council)
- 2009: Rapid assessment of sediment dynamics on an active debris-flow fan(£27604.27 from NERC - Natural Environment Research Council)
- 2008: RIVER DYNAMICS AND HAZARD ASSESSMENT(£51007.76 from British Council)
- 2008: SURFACE RUPTURE(£19632.44 from NERC - Natural Environment Research Council)
Media Contacts
Available for media contact about:
- Tectonics: Earthquakes
- Geological hazards: Earthquakes
- The Earth: Rocks & natural forces: Earthquakes
- Landscape systems: Landslides and debris flows
- Geological hazards: Landslides and debris flows
- The Earth: Rocks & natural forces: Landslides and debris flows
Publications
Chapter in book
- Ivy-Ochs, S., Duehnforth, M., Densmore, A.L. & Alfimov, V. (2013). Dating fan deposits with cosmogenic radionuclides. In Dating Torrential Processes on Fans and Cones. Schneuwly-Bollschweiler, M., Stoffel, M. & Rudolf-Miklau, F. Springer. 47: 243-263.
- Ellis, M. A. & Densmore, A. L. (2006). First-order topography over blind thrusts. In Tectonics, Climate and Landscape Evolution. Willett, S., Hovius, N., Fisher, D. & Brandon, M. Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America. 398: 251-266.
- Allen, P.A., Bennett, S.D., Cunningham, M.J.M., Carter, A., Gallagher, K., Lazzaretti, E., Galewsky, J., Densmore, A.L., Phillips, W.E.A., Naylor, D. & Solla Hach, C. (2002). The post-Variscan thermal and denudational history of Ireland. In Exhumation of the North Atlantic Margin: Timing, Mechanisms and Implications for Petroleum Exploration. Doré, A.G., Cartwright, J., Stoker, M., Turner, J. & White, N. Geological Society of London Special Publications. 196: 371-399.
Journal Article
- Kincey, ME, Rosser, NJ Densmore, AL, Robinson, TR Shrestha, R Pujara, DS Horton, P Swirad, SM Oven, KJ & Arrell, K (2023). Modelling post-earthquake cascading hazards: Changing patterns of landslide runout following the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 48(3): 537-554.
- Zhang, Fei, Dellinger, Mathieu, Hilton, Robert G., Yu, Jimin, Allen, Mark B., Densmore, Alexander L., Sun, Hui & Jin, Zhangdong (2022). Hydrological control of river and seawater lithium isotopes. Nature Communications 13(1): 3359.
- Milledge, D.G., Bellugi, D.G., Watt, J. & Densmore, A.L. (2022). Automated determination of landslide locations after large trigger events: advantages and disadvantages compared to manual mapping. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 22(2): 481-508.
- Croissant, Thomas, Hilton, Robert G., Li, Gen K., Howarth, Jamie, Wang, Jin, Harvey, Erin L., Steer, Philippe & Densmore, Alexander L. (2021). Pulsed carbon export from mountains by earthquake-triggered landslides explored in a reduced-complexity model. Earth Surface Dynamics 9(4): 823-844.
- Joshi, S.K., Gupta, S., Sinha, R., Densmore, A.L., Rai, S.P., Shekhar, S., Mason, P.J. & van Dijk, W.M. (2021). Strongly heterogeneous patterns of groundwater depletion in northwestern India. Journal of Hydrology 598: 126492.
- Rosser, NJ, Kincey, ME, Oven, KJ, Densmore, AL, Robinson, TR, Pujara, DS, Shrestha, R, Smutny, J, Gurung, K, Lama, S & Dhital, MR (2021). Changing Significance of Landslide Hazard and Risk After The 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal Earthquake. Progress in Disaster Science 10: 100159.
- Kincey, Mark E., Rosser, Nick J., Robinson, Tom R., Densmore, Alexander L., Shrestha, Ram, Pujara, Dammar Singh, Oven, Katie J., Williams, Jack G. & Swirad, Zuzanna M. (2021). Evolution of coseismic and post‐seismic landsliding after the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 126(3): e2020JF005803.
- Shekhar, S., Kumar, S., Densmore, A.L., van Dijk, W.M., Sinha, R., Kumar, M., Joshi, S.K., Rai, S.P. & Kumar, D. (2020). Modelling water levels of northwestern India in response to improved irrigation use efficiency. Scientific Reports 10: 13452.
- Wang, J., Howarth, J.D., McClymont, E.L., Densmore, A.L., Fitzsimons, S.J., Croissant, T., Groecke, D.R., West, M.D., Harvey, E., Frith, N.V., Garnett, M.H. & Hilton, R.G. (2020). Long-term patterns of hillslope erosion by earthquake-induced landslides shape mountain landscapes. Science Advances 6(23): eaaz6446.
- van Dijk, Wout M, Densmore, Alexander L, Jackson, Christopher R, Mackay, Jonathan D, Joshi, Suneel K, Sinha, Rajiv, Shekhar, Shashank & Gupta, Sanjeev (2020). Spatial variation of groundwater response to multiple drivers in a depleting alluvial aquifer system, northwestern India. Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment 44(1): 94-119.
- De Haas, T. & Densmore, A.L. (2019). Debris-flow volume quantile prediction from catchment morphometry. Geology 47(8): 791-794.
- Zhang, Fei, Jin, Zhangdong, West, A. Joshua, An, Zhisheng, Hilton, Robert G., Wang, Jin, Li, Gen, Densmore, Alexander L., Yu, Jimin, Qiang, Xiaoke, Sun, Youbin, Li, Liangbo, Gou, Longfei, Xu, Yang, Xu, Xinwen, Liu, Xingxing, Pan, Yanhui & You, Chen-Feng (2019). Monsoonal control on a delayed response of sedimentation to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. Science Advances 5(6): eaav7110.
- Haas, T., Densmore, A. L., Hond, T. & Cox, N. J. (2019). Fan‐surface evidence for debris‐flow avulsion controls and probabilities, Saline Valley, California. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 124(5): 1118-1138.
- Milledge, D.G., Densmore, A.L., Bellugi, D., Rosser, N.J., Watt, J., Li, G. & Oven, K.J. (2019). Simple rules to minimise exposure to coseismic landslide hazard. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 19(4): 837-856.
- Wang, Jin, Hilton, Robert G., Jin, Zhangdong, Zhang, Fei, Densmore, Alexander L., Gröcke, Darren R., Xu, Xiaomei, Li, Gen & Joshua West, A. (2019). The isotopic composition and fluxes of particulate organic carbon exported from the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 252: 1-15.
- Burrows, Katy, Walters, Richard J., Milledge, David, Spaans, Karsten & Densmore, Alexander L. (2019). A New Method for Large-Scale Landslide Classification from Satellite Radar. Remote Sensing 11(3): 237.
- Robinson, T.R., Rosser, N.J., Densmore, A.L., Oven, K.J., Shrestha, S.N. & Guragain, R. (2018). Use of scenario ensembles for deriving seismic risk. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115(41): E9532–E9541.
- Frith, N., Hilton, R.G., Howarth, J.D., Gröcke, D.R., Fitzsimons, S.J., Croissant, T., Wang, J., McClymont, E.L., Dahl, J. & Densmore, A.L. (2018). Carbon export from mountain forests enhanced by earthquake-triggered landslides over millennia. Nature Geoscience 11(10): 772-776.
- de Haas, T., Kruijt, A. & Densmore, A.L. (2018). Effects of debris-flow magnitude-frequency distribution on avulsions and fan development. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 43(13): 2779-2793.
- Zhuang, Jianqi, Peng, Jianbing, Xu, Chong, Li, Zhenhong, Densmore, Alexander, Milledge, David, Iqbal, Javed & Cui, Yifei (2018). Distribution and characteristics of loess landslides triggered by the 1920 Haiyuan Earthquake, Northwest of China. Geomorphology 314: 1-12.
- Joshi, S.K., Rai, S.P., Sinha, R., Gupta, S., Densmore, A.L., Rawat, Y.S. & Shekhar, S. (2018). Tracing groundwater recharge sources in the northwestern Indian alluvial aquifer using water isotopes (delta-18O, delta-2H, and 3H). Journal of Hydrology 559: 835-847.
- Williams, J.G., Rosser, N.J., Kincey, M.E., Benjamin, J., Oven, K.J., Densmore, A.L., Milledge, D.G., Robinson, T.R., Jordan, C.A. & Dijkstra, T.A. (2018). Satellite-based emergency mapping using optical imagery: experience and reflections from the 2015 Nepal earthquakes. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 18: 185-205.
- de Haas, T., Densmore, A.L., Stoffel, M., Suwa, H., Imaizumi, F., Ballesteros-Cánovas, J.A. & Wasklewicz, T. (2018). Avulsions and the spatio-temporal evolution of debris-flow fans. Earth-Science Reviews 177: 53-75.
- Singh, A., Thomsen, K.J., Sinha, R., Buylaert, J.P., Carter, A., Mark, D.F., Mason, P.J., Densmore, A.L., Murry, A.S., Jain, M., Paul, D. & Gupta, S. (2017). Counter-intuitive influence of Himalayan river morphodynamics on Indus Civilisation urban settlements. Nature Communications 8(1): 1617.
- Tejedor, A., Singh, A., Zaliapin, I., Densmore, A.L. & Foufoula-Georgiou, E. (2017). Scale-dependent erosional patterns in steady-state and transient-state landscapes. Science Advances 3(9): e1701683.
- Robinson, T.R., Rosser, N.J., Densmore, A.L., Williams, J.G., Kincey, M.E., Benjamin, J. & Bell, H.J.A. (2017). Rapid post-earthquake modelling of coseismic landsliding intensity and distribution for emergency response decision support. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 17(9): 1521-1540.
- Li, G., West, A.J., Densmore, A.L., Jin, Z., Zhang, F., Wang, J., Clark, M. & Hilton, R.G. (2017). Earthquakes drive focused denudation along a tectonically active mountain front. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 472: 253-265.
- Robinson, T.R., Rosser, N.J., Densmore, A.L., Williams, J.G., Kincey, M.E., Benjamin, J. & Bell, H.J.A. (2017). Rapid post-earthquake modelling of coseismic landslide magnitude and distribution for emergency response decision support. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussions 17: 1521-1540.
- Dühnforth, Miriam, Densmore, Alexander L., Ivy-Ochs, Susan, Allen, Philip & Kubik, Peter W. (2017). Early to Late Pleistocene history of debris-flow fan evolution in western Death Valley (California) using cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al. Geomorphology 281: 53-65.
- He, H., Wei, Z. & Densmore, A.L. (2016). Quantitative morphology of bedrock fault surfaces and identification of paleo-earthquakes. Tectonophysics 693(Part A): 22-31.
- Schürch, P., Densmore, A.L., Ivy-Ochs, S., Rosser, N.J., Kober, F., Schlunegger, F., McArdell, B. & Alfimov, V. (2016). Quantitative reconstruction of late Holocene surface evolution on an alpine debris-flow fan. Geomorphology 275: 46-57.
- van Dijk, W.M., Densmore, A.L., Sinha, R., Singh, A. & Voller, V.R. (2016). Reduced-complexity probabilistic reconstruction of alluvial aquifer stratigraphy, and application to sedimentary fans in northwestern India. Journal of Hydrology 541(B): 1241-1257.
- Wang, J., Jin, Z., Hilton, R.G., Zhang, F., Li, G., Densmore, A. L., Gröcke, D. R., Xu, X. & West, A. J. (2016). Earthquake-triggered increase in biospheric carbon export from a mountain belt. Geology 44(6): 471-474.
- Li, G., West, A.J., Densmore, A.L., Hammond, D.E., Jin, Z., Zhang, F., Wang, J. & Hilton, R.G. (2016). Connectivity of earthquake-triggered landslides with the fluvial network: implications for landslide sediment transport after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface 121(4): 703-724.
- Shi, F., He, H., Densmore, A.L., Li, A., Yang, X. & Xu, X. (2016). Active tectonics of the Ganzi-Yushu fault in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Tectonophysics 676: 112-124.
- van Dijk, W., Densmore, A.L., Singh, A., Gupta, S., Sinha, R., Mason, P.J., Joshi, S.K., Nayak, N., Kumar, M., Shekhar, S., Kumar, D. & Rai, S.P. (2016). Linking the morphology of fluvial fan systems to aquifer stratigraphy in the Sutlej-Yamuna plain of northwest India. Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface 121(2): 201-222.
- Densmore, A.L., Sinha, R., Sinha, S., Tandon, S.K. & Jain, V. (2016). Sediment storage and release from Himalayan piggyback basins and implications for downstream river morphology and evolution. Basin Research 28(4): 446-461.
- Parker, R.N., Hancox, G.T., Petley, D.N., Massey, C.I., Densmore, A.L. & Rosser, N.J. (2015). Spatial distributions of earthquake-induced landslides and hillslope preconditioning in northwest South Island, New Zealand. Earth Surface Dynamics 3(4): 501-525.
- Wang, J., Jin, Z., Hilton, R.G., Zhang, F., Densmore, A.L., Li, G. & West, A.J. (2015). Controls on fluvial evacuation of sediment from earthquake-triggered landslides. Geology 43(2): 115-118.
- Davies, T.R.H., Beaven, S., Conradson, D., Densmore, A., Gaillard, J.C., Johnston, D., Milledge, D., Oven, K., Petley, D., Rigg, J., Robinson, T.R., Rosser, N. & Wilson, T. (2015). Towards disaster resilience: A scenario-based approach to co-producing and integrating hazard and risk knowledge. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 13: 242-247.
- Milledge, D.G., Bellugi, D., McKean, J., Densmore, A.L. & Dietrich, W.E. (2014). A multi-dimensional stability model for predicting shallow landslide size and shape across landscapes. Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface 119(11): 2481-2504.
- Sanyal, J., Carbonneau, P. & Densmore, A.L. (2014). Low-cost inundation modelling at the reach scale with sparse data in the Lower Damodar River basin, India. Hydrological Sciences Journal 59(12): 2086-2102.
- Li, G., West, A. J., Densmore, A. L., Jin, Z., Parker, R. N. & Hilton, R. G. (2014). Seismic mountain building: Landslides associated with the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in the context of a generalized model for earthquake volume balance. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 15(4): 833-844.
- West, A. J., Hetzel, R., Li, G., Jin, Z., Zhang, F., Hilton, R. G. & Densmore, A. L. (2014). Dilution of 10Be in detrital quartz by earthquake-induced landslides: Implications for determining denudation rates and potential to provide insights into landslide sediment dynamics. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 396: 143-153.
- Sanyal, J., Densmore, A.L. & Carbonneau, P. (2014). Analysing the effect of land use/cover changes at sub-catchment levels on downstream flood peaks: a semi-distributed modelling approach with sparse data. Catena 118: 28-40.
- Sanyal, J., Densmore, A.L. & Carbonneau, P. (2014). 2D finite element inundation modelling in anabranching channels with sparse data: examination of uncertainties. Water Resources Management 28(8): 2351-2366.
- Sanyal, J., Carbonneau, P. & Densmore, A.L. (2013). Hydraulic routing of extreme floods in a large ungauged river and the estimation of associated uncertainties: a case study of the Damodar River, India. Natural Hazards 66(2): 1153-1177.
- Leduc, A.M., Davies, R.J., Densmore, A.L. & Imber, J. (2012). The lateral strike-slip domain in gravitational detachment delta systems: a case study of the northwestern margin of the Niger Delta. AAPG Bulletin 96(4): 709-728.
- Hillman, S.E., Horwell, C.J., Densmore, A.L., Damby, D.E., Fubini, B., Ishimine, Y. & Tomatis, M. (2012). Sakurajima volcano: a physico-chemical study of the health consequences of long-term exposure to volcanic ash. Bulletin of Volcanology 74(4): 913-930.
- Parker, R.N., Densmore, A.L., Rosser, N.J., de Michele, M., Li, Y., Huang, R., Whadcoat, S. & Petley, D.N. (2011). Mass wasting triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake is greater than orogenic growth. Nature Geoscience 4(7): 449-452.
- Schürch, P., Densmore, A.L., Rosser, N.J., Lim, M. & McArdell, B. (2011). Detection of surface change in complex topography using terrestrial laser scanning: application to the Illgraben debris-flow channel. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 36(14): 1847-1859.
- Schürch, P., Densmore, A.L., Rosser, N.J. & McArdell, B.W. (2011). Dynamic controls on erosion and deposition on debris-flow fans. Geology 39(9): 827-830.
- Barnes, J.B., Densmore, A.L., Mukul, M., Sinha, R., Jain, V. & Tandon, S. K. (2011). Interplay between faulting and base level in the development of Himalayan frontal fold topography. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 116(F3): F03012.
- Korup, O., Densmore, A.L. & Schlunegger, F. (2010). The role of landslides in mountain range evolution. Geomorphology 120(1-2): 77-90.
- Densmore, A.L., Li, Y., Richardson, N.J., Zhou, R., Ellis, M. & Zhang, Y. (2010). The role of late Quaternary upper-crustal faults in the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 100(5B): 2700-2712.
- Richardson, N.J., Densmore, A.L., Seward, D., Wipf, M. & Li, Y. (2010). Did incision of the Three Gorges begin in the Eocene? Geology 38(6): 551-554.
- Densmore, A.L., Hetzel, R., Ivy-Ochs, S., Krugh, W.C., Dawers, N. & Kubik, P. (2009). Spatial variations in catchment-averaged denudation rates from normal fault footwalls. Geology 37(12): 1139-1142.
- Dühnforth, M., Densmore, A.L., Ivy-Ochs, S. & Allen, P.A. (2008). Controls on sediment evacuation from glacially modified and unmodified catchments in the eastern Sierra Nevada, California. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 33(10): 1602-1613.
- Richardson, N.J., Densmore, A.L., Seward, D., Wipf, M., Li, Y., Ellis, M.A. & Zhang, Y. (2008). Extraordinary denudation in the Sichuan Basin: insights from low-temperature thermochronology adjacent to the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research 113(B4): B04409.
- Densmore, A. L., Gupta, S., Allen, P. A. & Dawers, N. H. (2007). Transient landscapes at fault tips. Journal of Geophysical Research earth surface 112(F3): F03S08.
- Densmore, A.L., Ellis, M.A., Li, Y., Zhou, R., Hancock, G.S. & Richardson, N. (2007). Active tectonics of the Beichuan and Pengguan faults at the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Tectonics 26(4): TC4005.
- Densmore, A.L., Allen, P.A. & Simpson, G. (2007). Development and response of a coupled catchment fan system under changing tectonic and climatic forcing. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 112(F1): F01002.
- Dühnforth, M., Densmore, A.L., Ivy-Ochs, S., Allen, P.A. & Kubik, P.W. (2007). Timing and patterns of debris flow deposition on Shepherd and Symmes Creek fans, Owens Valley, California, deduced from cosmogenic 10Be. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 112(F3): F03S15.
- Hampel, A., Hetzel, R. & Densmore, A.L. (2007). Postglacial slip-rate increase on the Teton normal fault, northern Basin and Range Province, caused by melting of Yellowstone ice cap and deglaciation of the Teton Range? Geology 35(12): 1107-1110.
- Schuerch, P., Densmore, A. L., McArdell, B. & Molnar, P. (2006). The influence of landsliding on sediment supply and channel change in a steep mountain catchment. Geomorphology 78(3-4): 222-235.
- Densmore, A. L., Dawers, N. H., Gupta, S. & Guidon, R. (2005). What sets topographic relief in extensional footwalls? Geology 33(6): 453-456.
- Densmore, A.L., Dawers, N.H., Gupta, S., Guidon, R. & Goldin, T. (2004). Footwall topographic development during continental extension. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 109(F3): F03001.
- Cunningham, M. J. M., Phillips, W. E. A. & Densmore, A. L. (2004). Evidence for Cenozoic tectonic deformation in SE Ireland and near offshore. Tectonics 23(6): TC6002.
- Li, Y., Allen, P.A., Densmore, A.L. & Xu, Q. (2003). Evolution of the Longmen Shan Foreland Basin (Western Sichuan, China) during the Late Triassic Indosinian Orogeny. Basin Research 15(1): 117-138.
- Densmore, A.L., Dawers, N.H., Gupta, S., Allen, P.A. & Gilpin, R. (2003). Landscape evolution at extensional relay zones. Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth 108(B5): 2273.
- Cunningham, M.J.M., Densmore, A.L., Allen, P.A. Phillips, W.E.A., Bennett, S.D., Gallagher, K. & Carter, A. (2003). Evidence for post-early Eocene tectonic activity in southeastern Ireland. Geological Magazine 140(2): 101-118.
- Densmore, A. L. & Hovius, N. (2000). Topographic fingerprints of bedrock landslides. Geology 28(4): 371-374.
- Allen, P. A. & Densmore, A. L. (2000). Sediment flux from an uplifting fault block. Basin Research 12(3-4): 367-380.
- Anderson, R. S., Densmore, A. L. & Ellis, M. A. (1999). The generation and degradation of marine terraces. Basin Research 11(1): 7-19.
- Ellis, M. A., Densmore, A. L. & Anderson, R. S. (1999). Development of mountainous topography in the Basin Ranges, U.S.A. Basin Research 11(1): 21-41.
- Densmore, A. L., Ellis, M. A. & Anderson, R. S. (1998). Landsliding and the evolution of normal fault-bounded mountains. Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth 103(B7): 15203-15219.
- Densmore, A. L. & Anderson, R. S. (1997). Tectonic geomorphology of the Ash Hill fault, Panamint Valley, California. Basin Research 9(1): 53-63.
- Densmore, A. L., Anderson, R. S., McAdoo, B. G. & Ellis, M. A. (1997). Hillslope evolution by bedrock landslides. Science 275(5298): 369-372.
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