Odstone Coombes near Wayland's Smithy; a rippled valley formed by solifluction.
April 22, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Odstone Coombes near Wayland's Smithy; a rippled valley formed by solifluction.
Alpine palimpsest ❄️✏️
A Lateglacial moraine complex 🧊
covered by
Holocene solifluction lobes 🌊
covered by
20th century ski tracks 🎿
📷 IGN LiDAR (Vanoise massif)
A Lateglacial moraine complex 🧊
covered by
Holocene solifluction lobes 🌊
covered by
20th century ski tracks 🎿
📷 IGN LiDAR (Vanoise massif)
April 10, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Alpine palimpsest ❄️✏️
A Lateglacial moraine complex 🧊
covered by
Holocene solifluction lobes 🌊
covered by
20th century ski tracks 🎿
📷 IGN LiDAR (Vanoise massif)
A Lateglacial moraine complex 🧊
covered by
Holocene solifluction lobes 🌊
covered by
20th century ski tracks 🎿
📷 IGN LiDAR (Vanoise massif)
Here
Is a solifluction feature covered by loess and the mid Holocene Palaeosoil
Is a solifluction feature covered by loess and the mid Holocene Palaeosoil
January 22, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Here
Is a solifluction feature covered by loess and the mid Holocene Palaeosoil
Is a solifluction feature covered by loess and the mid Holocene Palaeosoil
How do solifluction patterns form? Find out with our recently published paper in AGU Advances! Our writing style takes the reader with us on the long and winding process of discovery, rather than simply presenting a nicely packaged final story! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
June 15, 2026 at 2:43 PM
How do solifluction patterns form? Find out with our recently published paper in AGU Advances! Our writing style takes the reader with us on the long and winding process of discovery, rather than simply presenting a nicely packaged final story! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
#GoOrGrow fieldwork successfully completed! Captured high resolution #UAV images, read out #TOMST loggers, found a miniature #solifluction #lobe and camped in beautiful Pipjitälli for early morning flights. Thanks @leonduurkoop.bsky.social for great help! #biogeomorphology
July 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
#GoOrGrow fieldwork successfully completed! Captured high resolution #UAV images, read out #TOMST loggers, found a miniature #solifluction #lobe and camped in beautiful Pipjitälli for early morning flights. Thanks @leonduurkoop.bsky.social for great help! #biogeomorphology
Cherhill Downs from Wellington Barn, is this solifluction too? Always wondered about this feature.
February 23, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Cherhill Downs from Wellington Barn, is this solifluction too? Always wondered about this feature.
Lovely solifluction lobes on Sgòr Gaoith, Cairngorm Mountains, Scotland #SgòrGaoith #cairngormmountains #periglacial #geography #geographyteacher #geosky
February 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Lovely solifluction lobes on Sgòr Gaoith, Cairngorm Mountains, Scotland #SgòrGaoith #cairngormmountains #periglacial #geography #geographyteacher #geosky
L'été supportable... et le relief nous protège aussi des vents forts, tout ca sans que rien n'ai bougé alors qu'on est dans une zone de solifluction... c'était une façon d'exprimer le fait que j'ai l'impression qu'on a zappé un truc ce dernier siècle...
May 21, 2026 at 5:57 AM
L'été supportable... et le relief nous protège aussi des vents forts, tout ca sans que rien n'ai bougé alors qu'on est dans une zone de solifluction... c'était une façon d'exprimer le fait que j'ai l'impression qu'on a zappé un truc ce dernier siècle...
My physique was also formed by solifluction
April 22, 2026 at 9:07 PM
My physique was also formed by solifluction
What are the necessary and sufficient ingredients for the formation of solifluction patterns? This vexing question has been the albatross round my neck for years. Through process of elimination and a hunch, I believe we have the whisper of an answer. See our preprint! eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
January 26, 2026 at 3:22 PM
What are the necessary and sufficient ingredients for the formation of solifluction patterns? This vexing question has been the albatross round my neck for years. Through process of elimination and a hunch, I believe we have the whisper of an answer. See our preprint! eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
Very proud of PhD student JohnPaul Sleiman @JpGeomorph
for submitting his first paper! We find that lobate patterns on Martian crater walls are quantitatively similar to solifluction lobes in arctic landscapes on Earth. Check out the preprint! eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
for submitting his first paper! We find that lobate patterns on Martian crater walls are quantitatively similar to solifluction lobes in arctic landscapes on Earth. Check out the preprint! eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
Viewing Lobate Patterns on Mars and Earth as Climate Modulated Fluid-like Instabilities
eartharxiv.org
November 15, 2024 at 10:22 PM
Very proud of PhD student JohnPaul Sleiman @JpGeomorph
for submitting his first paper! We find that lobate patterns on Martian crater walls are quantitatively similar to solifluction lobes in arctic landscapes on Earth. Check out the preprint! eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
for submitting his first paper! We find that lobate patterns on Martian crater walls are quantitatively similar to solifluction lobes in arctic landscapes on Earth. Check out the preprint! eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
Solifluction is a collective name for gradual processes in which a mass moves down a slope ("mass wasting") related to freeze-thaw activity
Also it's beautiful, both the word, and the landscape
Also it's beautiful, both the word, and the landscape
February 23, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Solifluction is a collective name for gradual processes in which a mass moves down a slope ("mass wasting") related to freeze-thaw activity
Also it's beautiful, both the word, and the landscape
Also it's beautiful, both the word, and the landscape
Sources; Head Gravels (Solifluction Deposits), River Terrace and River Gravels, Glacial and Fluvio-glacial Deposits.
March 23, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Sources; Head Gravels (Solifluction Deposits), River Terrace and River Gravels, Glacial and Fluvio-glacial Deposits.
Looks like a solifluction/creep slump. Happens usually on very gentle slopes. What age do you estimate the overlying peat is?
December 1, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Looks like a solifluction/creep slump. Happens usually on very gentle slopes. What age do you estimate the overlying peat is?
Viewing Lobate Patterns On Mars And Earth As Climate Modulated Fluid-like Instabilities
Science Direct
astrobiology.com/2025/05/view... #astrobiology #mars #geology
Science Direct
astrobiology.com/2025/05/view... #astrobiology #mars #geology
Viewing Lobate Patterns On Mars And Earth As Climate Modulated Fluid-like Instabilities - Astrobiology
Lobate features found on high-latitude slopes on Mars resemble terrestrial cold-climate soil patterns known as solifluction lobes.
astrobiology.com
May 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Viewing Lobate Patterns On Mars And Earth As Climate Modulated Fluid-like Instabilities
Science Direct
astrobiology.com/2025/05/view... #astrobiology #mars #geology
Science Direct
astrobiology.com/2025/05/view... #astrobiology #mars #geology
But in some of those areas solifluction was significant & any craters would've eroded away. If they're anywhere I'd guess at the Driftless, but they'd be buried by trees & fields
September 30, 2025 at 11:51 PM
But in some of those areas solifluction was significant & any craters would've eroded away. If they're anywhere I'd guess at the Driftless, but they'd be buried by trees & fields
I found my scans of that day, and then came across your aerial shot of Odstone Coombes. Now I know what 'solifluction' means!
May 13, 2026 at 7:46 AM
I found my scans of that day, and then came across your aerial shot of Odstone Coombes. Now I know what 'solifluction' means!
Sampling across debris flow, rock glacier, moraine and solifluction slopes in Valais, Switzerland, we found that if biogeomorphic feedbacks can happen depends on both geomorphic activity and sediment properties, with grain size related textural establishment and ecosystem engineering thresholds.
November 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Sampling across debris flow, rock glacier, moraine and solifluction slopes in Valais, Switzerland, we found that if biogeomorphic feedbacks can happen depends on both geomorphic activity and sediment properties, with grain size related textural establishment and ecosystem engineering thresholds.
Amidst an onslaught of bad news, I'm very happy to report some *good* news that JohnPaul Sleiman, DRIP Lab PhD student, just published his very first paper in Icarus! We find that lobate patterns on Mars are likely similar to those found in arctic regions on Earth. Congrats JP! tinyurl.com/3mwrarm2
Viewing lobate patterns on Mars and Earth as climate modulated fluid-like instabilities
Lobate features found on high-latitude slopes on Mars resemble terrestrial cold-climate soil patterns known as solifluction lobes. Whether this provid…
tinyurl.com
April 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Amidst an onslaught of bad news, I'm very happy to report some *good* news that JohnPaul Sleiman, DRIP Lab PhD student, just published his very first paper in Icarus! We find that lobate patterns on Mars are likely similar to those found in arctic regions on Earth. Congrats JP! tinyurl.com/3mwrarm2
Hickory Run is such a gem! Those periglacial boulder fields are fascinating — freeze-thaw cycles fractured the bedrock, then solifluction slowly moved the debris downslope during the Pleistocene. What lithology are those boulders? Looks like sandstone/conglomerate? 🪨
September 15, 2026 at 8:20 AM
Hickory Run is such a gem! Those periglacial boulder fields are fascinating — freeze-thaw cycles fractured the bedrock, then solifluction slowly moved the debris downslope during the Pleistocene. What lithology are those boulders? Looks like sandstone/conglomerate? 🪨
Frozen Arctic soils take on curious shapes like circles and stripes thanks to gravity and some funky physics. #permafrost
Patterned frozen soils get their shape from gravity and funky physics
Hillslopes in Arctic regions with frozen soils can host a suite of geometric patterns, from circles and stripes to polygonal patterned ground. They can also have solifluction patterns, or markings left behind when partially thawed permafrost slips and flows down a slope. Solifluction patterns look like pairings of flat, terraced soil—like a big staircase—and rounded lobes of soil at the terrace's base.
phys.org
August 6, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Frozen Arctic soils take on curious shapes like circles and stripes thanks to gravity and some funky physics. #permafrost