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Professor Peter Talling

Professor in Submarine Geohazards in the Department of Earth Sciences

Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 42255

Fax: +44 (0) 191 33 41801

Room number: Geography Rm 240

Professor in the Department of Geography

Room number: 240

Professor, Hazards and Surface Change

Contact Professor Peter Talling (email at peter.j.talling@durham.ac.uk)

Research Groups

Department of Earth Sciences

Sedimentology Research Group

Department of Geography

Hazards and Surface Change

Publications

Journal Article

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.
Pope, Ed L., Normandeau, Alexandre, Cofaigh, Colm Ó., 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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(1): 4114.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 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.