Staff profile
Overview
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Professor Peter Talling
Professor in Submarine Geohazards

Affiliation | Room number | Telephone |
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Professor in Submarine Geohazards in the Department of Earth Sciences | Geography Rm 240 | +44 (0) 191 33 42255 |
Professor in the Department of Geography | 240 | +44 (0) 191 33 42255 |
Professor , Hazards and Surface Change | 240 | +44 (0) 191 33 42255 |
Research groups
- Hazards and Surface Change
- Sedimentology Research Group
Awarded Grants
- 2017: Scaling and design of laboratory experiments to understand environmental flows(£40249.00 from NERC - Natural Environment Research Council)
Publications
Journal Article
- Talling, Peter J., Baker, Megan L., Pope, Ed L., Ruffell, Sean C., Jacinto, Ricardo Silva, Heijnen, Maarten S., Hage, Sophie, Simmons, Stephen M., Hasenhündl, Martin, Heerema, Catharina J., McGhee, Claire, Apprioual, Ronan, Ferrant, Anthony, Cartigny, Matthieu J. B., Parsons, Daniel R., Clare, Michael A., Tshimanga, Raphael M., Trigg, Mark A., Cula, Costa A., Faria, Rui, Gaillot, Arnaud, Bola, Gode, Wallance, Dec, Griffiths, Allan, Nunny, Robert, Urlaub, Morelia, Peirce, Christine, Burnett, Richard, Neasham, Jeffrey & Hilton, Robert J. (2022). Longest sediment flows yet measured show how major rivers connect efficiently to deep sea. Nature Communications 13(1): 4193.
- Pope, Ed L., Cartigny, Matthieu J. B., Clare, Michael A., Talling, Peter J., Lintern, D. Gwyn, Vellinga, Age, Hage, Sophie, Açikalin, Sanem, Bailey, Lewis, Chapplow, Natasha, Chen, Ye, Eggenhuisen, Joris T., Hendry, Alison, Heerema, Catharina J., Heijnen, Maarten S., Hubbard, Stephen M., Hunt, James E., McGhee, Claire, Parsons, Daniel R., Simmons, Stephen M., Stacey, Cooper D. & Vendettuoli, Daniela (2022). First source-to-sink monitoring shows dense head controls sediment flux and runout in turbidity currents. Science Advances 8(20): eabj3220.
- Bailey, Lewis P., Clare, Michael A., Rosenberger, Kurt J., Cartigny, Matthieu J.B., Talling, Peter J., Paull, Charles K., Gwiazda, Roberto, Parsons, Daniel R., Simmons, Stephen M., Xu, Jingping, Haigh, Ivan D., Maier, Katherine L., McGann, Mary & Lundsten, Eve (2021). Preconditioning by sediment accumulation can produce powerful turbidity currents without major external triggers. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 562: 116845.
- Barrett, R. S., Bellwald, B., Talling, P. J., Micallef, A., Gross, F., Berndt, C., Planke, S., Myklebust, R. & Krastel, S. (2021). Does Retrogression Always Account for the Large Volume of Submarine Megaslides? Evidence to the Contrary From the Tampen Slide, Offshore Norway. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 126(2): e2020JB020655.
- Hage, S., Galy V.V., Cartigny, M.J.B., Acikalin, S., Clare, M.A., Gröcke, D.R., Hilton, R.G., Hunt, J.E., Lintern, D.G., McGhee, C.A., Parsons, D.R., Stacey, C.D., Sumner, E.J. & Talling, P.J. (2020). Efficient preservation of young terrestrial organic carbon in sandy turbidity current deposits. Geology 48(9): 882-887.
- Simmons, S.M., Azpiroz-Zabala, M., Cartigny, M.J.B., Clare, M.A., Cooper, C., Parsons, D.R., Pope, E.L., Sumner, E.J. & Talling, P.J. (2020). Novel acoustic method provides first detailed measurements of sediment concentration structure within submarine turbidity currents. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 125(5): e2019JC015904.
- Peakall, Jeff, Best, Jim, Baas, Jaco H., Hodgson, David M., Clare, Michael A., Talling, Peter J., Dorrell, Robert M. & Lee, David R. (2020). An integrated process‐based model of flutes and tool marks in deep‐water environments: Implications for palaeohydraulics, the Bouma sequence and hybrid event beds. Sedimentology 67(4): 1601-1666.
- Wang, Zhiwen, Xu, Jingping, Talling, Peter J., Cartigny, Matthieu J.B., Simmons, Stephen M., Gwiazda, Roberto, Paull, Charles K., Maier, Katherine L. & Parsons, Daniel R. (2020). Direct evidence of a high-concentration basal layer in a submarine turbidity current. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 161: 103300.
- Heerema, Catharina J., Talling, Peter J., Cartigny, Matthieu J., Paull, Charles K., Bailey, Lewis, Simmons, Stephen M., Parsons, Daniel R., Clare, Michael A., Gwiazda, Roberto, Lundsten, Eve, Anderson, Krystle, Maier, Katherine L., Xu, Jingping P., Sumner, Esther J., Rosenberger, Kurt, Gales, Jenny, McGann, Mary, Carter, Lionel & Pope, Edward (2020). What determines the downstream evolution of turbidity currents? Earth and Planetary Science Letters 532: 116023.
- Hage, Sophie, Cartigny, Matthieu J.B., Sumner, Esther J., Clare, Michael A., Hughes Clarke, John E., Talling, Peter J., Lintern, D. Gwyn, Simmons, Stephen M., Silva Jacinto, Ricardo, Vellinga, Age J., Allin, Joshua R., Azpiroz‐Zabala, Maria, Gales, Jenny A., Hizzett, Jamie L., Hunt, James E., Mozzato, Alessandro, Parsons, Daniel R., Pope, Ed L., Stacey, Cooper D., Symons, William O., Vardy, Mark E. & Watts, Camilla (2019). Direct monitoring reveals initiation of turbidity currents from extremely dilute river plumes. Geophysical Research Letters 46(20): 11310-11320.
- Maier, Katherine L., Gales, Jennifer A., Paull, Charles K., Rosenberger, Kurt, Talling, Peter J., Simmons, Stephen M., Gwiazda, Roberto, McGann, Mary, Cartigny, Matthieu J. B., Lundsten, Eve, Anderson, Krystle, Clare, Michael A., Xu, Jingping, Parsons, Daniel, Barry, James P., Wolfson-Schwehr, Monica, Nieminski, Nora M. & Sumner, Esther J. (2019). Linking Direct Measurements of Turbidity Currents to Submarine Canyon-Floor Deposits. Frontiers in Earth Science 7: 144.
- Pope, Ed L., Normandeau, Alexandre, Ó Cofaigh, Colm, Stokes, Chris R. & Talling, Peter J. (2019). Controls on the formation of turbidity current channels associated with marine-terminating glaciers and ice sheets. Marine Geology 415: 105951.
- Vendettuoli, D., Clare, M.A., Hughes Clarke, J.E., Vellinga, A., Hizzet, J., Hage, S., Cartigny, M.J.B., Talling, P.J., Waltham, D., Hubbard, S.M., Stacey, C. & Lintern, D.G. (2019). Daily bathymetric surveys document how stratigraphy is built and its extreme incompleteness in submarine channels. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 515: 231-247.
- Stacey, Cooper D., Hill, Philip R., Talling, Peter J., Enkin, Randolph J., Hughes Clarke, John & Lintern, D. Gwyn (2019). How turbidity current frequency and character varies down a fjord-delta system: Combining direct monitoring, deposits and seismic data. Sedimentology 66(1): 1-31.
- Gales, J., Talling, P.J., Cartigny, M.J.B., Hughes Clarke, J., Lintern, G., Stacey, C. & Clare, M.A. (2019). What controls submarine channel development and the morphology of deltas entering deep-water fjords? Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 44(2): 535-551.
- Maier, Katherine L., Rosenberger, Kurt J., Paull, Charles K., Gwiazda, Roberto, Gales, Jenny, Lorenson, Thomas, Barry, James P., Talling, Peter J., McGann, Mary, Xu, Jingping, Lundsten, Eve, Anderson, Krystle, Litvin, Steven Y., Parsons, Daniel R., Clare, Michael A., Simmons, Stephen M., Sumner, Esther J. & Cartigny, Matthieu J.B. (2019). Sediment and organic carbon transport and deposition driven by internal tides along Monterey Canyon, offshore California. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 153: 103108.
- Paull, Charles K., Talling, Peter J., Maier, Katherine L., Parsons, Daniel, Xu, Jingping, Caress, David W., Gwiazda, Roberto, Lundsten, Eve M., Anderson, Krystle, Barry, James P., Chaffey, Mark, O’Reilly, Tom, Rosenberger, Kurt J., Gales, Jenny A., Kieft, Brian, McGann, Mary, Simmons, Steve M., McCann, Mike, Sumner, Esther J., Clare, Michael A. & Cartigny, Matthieu J. (2018). Powerful turbidity currents driven by dense basal layers. Nature Communications 9: 4114.
- Hage, S., Cartigny, M.J.B., Clare, M.A., Sumner, E.J., Vendettuoli, D., Hughes Clarke, J.E., Hubbard, S.M., Talling, P.J., Lintern, D.G., Stacey, C.D., Englert, R.G., Vardy, M.E., Hunt, J.E., Yokokawa, M., Parsons, D.R., Hizzett, J.L., Azpiroz-Zabala, M. & Vellinga, A.J. (2018). How to recognize crescentic bedforms formed by supercritical turbidity currents in the geologic record: insights from active submarine channels. Geology 46(6): 563-566.
- Pope, Ed L., Talling, Peter J. & Ó Cofaigh, Colm (2018). The relationship between ice sheets and submarine mass movements in the Nordic Seas during the Quaternary. Earth-Science Reviews 178: 208-256.
- Hizzett, J. L., Hughes Clarke, J. E., Sumner, E. J., Cartigny, M. J. B., Talling, P. J. & Clare, M. A. (2018). Which triggers produce the most erosive, frequent and longest runout turbidity currents on deltas? Geophysical Research Letters 45(2): 855-863.
- Hunt, James E., Cassidy, Michael & Talling, Peter J. (2018). Multi-stage volcanic island flank collapses with coeval explosive caldera-forming eruptions. Scientific Reports 8(1): 1146.
- Azpiroz-Zabala, M., Cartigny, M.J.B., Sumner, E.J., Clare, M.A., Talling, P.J., Parsons, D.R. & Cooper, C. (2017). A general model for the helical structure of geophysical flows in channel bends. Geophysical Research Letters 44(23): 11,932-11,941.
- Azpiroz-Zabala, Maria, Cartigny, Matthieu, Talling, Peter, Parsons, Daniel, Sumner, Esther, Clare, Michael, Simmons, Stephen, Cooper, Cortis & Pope, Ed (2017). Newly recognized turbidity current structure can explain prolonged flushing of submarine canyons. Science Advances 3(10): e1700200.
- Clare, M.A., Vardy, M.E., Cartigny, M.J.B., Talling, P.J., Himsworth, M.D., Dix, J.K., Harris, J.M., Whitehouse, R.J.S. & Belal, M. (2017). Direct monitoring of active geohazards: emerging geophysical tools for deep-water assessments. Near surface geophysics 15(4): 427-444.
- Allin, Joshua R., Hunt, James E., Clare, Michael A. & Talling, Peter J. (2017). Eustatic sea-level controls on the flushing of a shelf-incising submarine canyon. GSA Bulletin 130(1-2): 222-237.
- Symons, W.O., Sumner, E.J., Paull, C.K., Cartigny, M.J.B., Xu, J.P., Maier, K.L., Lorenson, T.D. & Talling, P.J. (2017). A new model for turbidity current behavior based on integration of flow monitoring and precision coring in a submarine canyon. Geology 45(4): 367-370.
- Pope, E. L., Talling, P. J., Carter, L., Clare, M. A. & Hunt, J. E. (2017). Damaging sediment density flows triggered by tropical cyclones. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 458: 161-169.
- Jutzeler, M., Manga, M., White, J.D.L., Talling, P.J., Proussevitch, A., Le Friant, A. & Ishizuka, O. (2017). Submarine deposits from pumiceous pyroclastic density currents traveling over water: An outstanding example from offshore Montserrat (IODP 340). Geological Society of America Bulletin 129(3-4): 392-414.
- Pope, E.L., Talling, P.J., Hunt, J.E., Dowdeswell, J.A., Allin, J.R., Cartigny, M.J.B., Long, D., Mozzato, A., Stanford, J.D., Tappin, D.R. & Watts, M. (2016). Long-term record of Barents Sea Ice Sheet advance to the shelf edge from a 140,000 year record. Quaternary Science Reviews 150: 55-66.
- Clare, M.A., Hughes Clarke, J.E., Talling, P.T., Cartigny, M.J.B. & Pratomo, D.G. (2016). Preconditioning and triggering of offshore slope failures and turbidity currents revealed by most detailed monitoring yet at a fjord-head delta. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 450: 208-220.
- Jutzeler, M., Marsh, R., Carey, R.J., White, J.D.L., Talling, P.J. & Karlstrom, L. (2014). On the fate of pumice rafts formed during the 2012 Havre submarine eruption. Nature Communications 5: 3660.
Supervision students
Miss Eloise Bretagne
PhD
Mr. Gustavo Soares
PhD
Mr Niall Tracey
PhD