Dr James Hunt

Biography

My primary research is on submarine mass movements, including landslides and their associated turbidity currents. I am experienced in studying modern and ancient turbidite systems globally, working on fans and open basin settings.

My most recent research has focused on turbidites sourced from Canary Island and Northwest African submarine landslides. The results of these studies have highlighted that the last eight large-volume collapses from the Canary Islands have been multistage failures. My on-going research includes the effects of landsliding on eruptive cycles of submarine islands, focusing on study areas in the Canary Islands and Montserrat. I am also currently studying turbidite records in the Iberian and Northwest African canyon systems and their adjacent deep sea basins.

Following my interest in turbidites, I am active in researching the geometry and facies distributions within sheet and fan turbidite systems. In particular I am working on the association of particular facies with depositional processes, including linked-debrites [hybrid flows] and fluid muds. Currently, I am working on the £2.3M NERC Arctic Landslide-Tsunami project and the £5M EU FP7 ASTARTE project, both of which are aiming to assess landslide-tsunami recurrence and coastal resilience to inundation.

Committee Memberships

BSRG Member since 2008

Roles Provided

Marine Sedimentologist and Geochemist

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Clare, Michael A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1448-3878; Yeo, Isobel A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9306-3446; Nash, Jacob; Hunt, James E.; Panuve, Semisi; Wilkie, Alasdair; Williams, Rebecca; Dowey, Natasha; Rowley, Peter; Barclay, Jennifer; Phillips, Jeremy; Scarlett, Jazmin; Engwell, Samantha; Henstock, Timothy J.; Seabrook, Sarah; Watson, Sally; Wysoczanski, Richard; Ribo, Marta; Cronin, Shane; Talling, Peter J.; Cassidy, Michael; Watt, Sebastian; Robertson, Richard. 2025 Volcanic eruptions and the global subsea telecommunications network. Bulletin of Volcanology, 87 (6). 10.1007/s00445-025-01832-1

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2025

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Bricheno, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4751-9366; Yeo, Isobel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9306-3446; Clare, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1448-3878; Hunt, James; Griffiths, Allan; Carter, Lionel; Talling, Peter J.; Baker, Megan; Wilson, Stuart; West, Matthew; Panuve, Semisi; Fonua, Samuiela. 2024 The diversity, frequency and severity of natural hazard impacts on subsea telecommunications networks. Earth-Science Reviews, 259, 104972. 1, pp. 10.1016/j.earscirev.2024.104972

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2024

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Bailey, Lewis P.; Clare, Michael A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1448-3878; Hunt, James E.; Kane, Ian A.; Miramontes, Elda; Fonnesu, Marco; Argiolas, Ricardo; Malgesini, Giuseppe; Wallerand, Regis. 2024 Highly variable deep-sea currents over tidal and seasonal timescales. Nature Geoscience, 17 (8). 787-794. 10.1038/s41561-024-01494-2

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2024

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2024

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Seabrook, Sarah; Mackay, Kevin; Watson, Sally J.; Clare, Michael A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1448-3878; Hunt, James E.; Yeo, Isobel A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9306-3446; Lane, Emily M.; Clark, Malcolm R.; Wysoczanski, Richard; Rowden, Ashley A.; Kula, Taaniela; Hoffmann, Linn J.; Armstrong, Evelyn; Williams, Michael J. M.. 2023 Volcaniclastic density currents explain widespread and diverse seafloor impacts of the 2022 Hunga Volcano eruption. Nature Communications, 14 (1). 10.1038/s41467-023-43607-2

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2023

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Clare, Michael A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1448-3878; Yeo, Isobel A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9306-3446; Watson, Sally; Wysoczanski, Richard; Seabrook, Sarah; Mackay, Kevin; Hunt, James E.; Lane, Emily; Talling, Peter J.; Pope, Edward; Cronin, Shane; Ribo, Marta; Kula, Taaniela; Tappin, David; Henrys, Stuart; de Ronde, Cornel; Urlaub, Morelia; Kutterolf, Stefan; Fonua, Samuiela; Panuve, Semisi; Veverka, Dean; Rapp, Ronald; Kamalov, Valey; Williams, Michael. 2023 Fast and destructive density currents created by ocean-entering volcanic eruptions. Science, 381 (6662). 1085-1092. 10.1126/science.adi3038

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2023

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Heijnen, Maarten; Mienis, F.; Gates, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2798-5044; Bett, Brian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4977-9361; Hall, R. A.; Hunt, James; Kane, I. A.; Pebody, Corinne; Huvenne, Veerle ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7135-6360; Soutter, E. L.; Clare, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1448-3878. 2022 Challenging the highstand-dormant paradigm for land-detached submarine canyons. Nature Communications, 13 (1). 10.1038/s41467-022-31114-9

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2022

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Hage, S.; Galy, V. V.; Cartigny, M. J. B.; Heerema, C.; Heijnen, M. S.; Acikalin, S.; Clare, M. A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1448-3878; Giesbrecht, I.; Gröcke, D. R.; Hendry, A.; Hilton, R. G.; Hubbard, S. M.; Hunt, J. E.; Lintern, D. G.; McGhee, C.; Parsons, D. R.; Pope, E. L.; Stacey, C. D.; Sumner, E. J.; Tank, S.; Talling, P. J.. 2022 Turbidity currents can dictate organic carbon fluxes across river‐fed fjords: An example from Bute Inlet (BC, Canada). Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127 (6). 10.1029/2022JG006824

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2022

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Pope, Ed L.; Cartigny, Matthieu; Clare, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1448-3878; Talling, Peter; 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; Hubbard, Stephen M.; Hunt, James; 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). 10.1126/sciadv.abj3220

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2022

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Cutler, Kyra S.; Watt, Sebastian F.L.; Cassidy, Mike; Madden-Nadeau, Amber L.; Engwell, Samantha L.; Abdurrachman, Mirzam; Nurshal, Muhammad E.M.; Tappin, David R.; Carey, Steven N.; Novellino, Alessandro; Hayer, Catherine; Hunt, James E.; Day, Simon J.; Grilli, Stephan T.; Kurniawan, Idham A.; Kartadinata, Nugraha. 2022 Downward-propagating eruption following vent unloading implies no direct magmatic trigger for the 2018 lateral collapse of Anak Krakatau. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 578, 117332. 10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117332

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2022

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Chen, Ye; Parsons, Daniel R.; Simmons, Stephen M.; Williams, Rebecca; Cartigny, Matthieu J. B.; Hughes Clarke, John E.; Stacey, Cooper D.; Hage, Sophie; Talling, Peter J.; Azpiroz‐Zabala, Maria; Clare, Michael A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1448-3878; Hizzett, Jamie L.; Heijnen, Maarten S.; Hunt, James E.; Lintern, D. Gwyn; Sumner, Esther J.; Vellinga, Age J.; Vendettuoli, Daniela; Slootman, Arnoud. 2021 Knickpoints and crescentic bedform interactions in submarine channels. Sedimentology, 68 (4). 1358-1377. 10.1111/sed.12886

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2021

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Hunt, J.E.; Tappin, D.R.; Watt, S.F.L.; Susilohadi, S.; Novellino, A.; Ebmeier, S.K.; Cassidy, M.; Engwell, S.L.; Grilli, S.T.; Hanif, M.; Priyanto, W.S.; Clare, M.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1448-3878; Abdurrachman, M.; Udrekh, U.. 2021 Submarine landslide megablocks show half of Anak Krakatau island failed on December 22nd, 2018. Nature Communications, 12, 2827. 10.1038/s41467-021-22610-5

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2021

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Priyanto, Wisnu S.; Hunt, James E.; Hanif, Muhammad; Tappin, David R.; Permana, Haryadi; Susilohadi; Cassidy, Michael; Yulianto, Eko. 2021 Bathymetry and shallow seismic imaging of the 2018 flank collapse of Anak Krakatau. Frontiers in Earth Science, 8, 577448. 10.3389/feart.2020.577448

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2021

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Hage, S.; Galy, V.V.; Cartigny, M.J.B.; Acikalin, S.; Clare, M.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1448-3878; 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. 10.1130/G47320.1

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2020

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Novellino, Alessandro; Engwell, Samantha; Grebby, Stephen; Day, Simon; Cassidy, Michael; Madden-Nadeau, Amber; Watt, Sebastian; Pyle, David; Abdurrachman, Mirzam; Edo Marshal Nurshal, Muhammad; Tappin, David R.; Hunt, James. 2020 Mapping recent shoreline changes spanning the lateral collapse of Anak Krakatau Volcano, Indonesia [in special issue: Mapping and Monitoring of Geohazards] Applied Sciences, 10 (2). 10.3390/app10020536

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2020

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Hunt, J.E.; Jarvis, I.. 2019 The lifecycle of mid-ocean ridge seamounts and their prodigious flank collapses. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 530. 115867. 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115867

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2019

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Hage, Sophie; Cartigny, Matthieu J.B.; Sumner, Esther J.; Clare, Michael A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1448-3878; 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. 10.1029/2019GL084526

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2019

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Clare, Michael A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1448-3878; Le Bas, Tim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2545-782X; Price, David M.; Hunt, James E.; Sear, David; Cartigny, Matthieu J. B.; Vellinga, Age; Symons, William; Firth, Christopher; Cronin, Shane. 2018 Complex and Cascading Triggering of Submarine Landslides and Turbidity Currents at Volcanic Islands Revealed From Integration of High-Resolution Onshore and Offshore Surveys. Frontiers in Earth Science, 6. 10.3389/feart.2018.00223

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2018

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Gladstone, C.; McClelland, H. M. O.; Woodcock, N. H; Pritchard, D; Hunt, J.. 2018 The formation of convolute lamination in mud-rich turbidites. Sedimentology, 65 (5). 1800-1825. 10.1111/sed.12447

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2018

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Hage, Sophie; Cartigny, Matthieu J.B.; Clare, Michael A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1448-3878; Sumner, Esther J.; Vendettuoli, Daniela; Hughes Clarke, John E.; Hubbard, Stephen M.; Talling, Peter J.; Lintern, D. Gwyn; Stacey, Cooper D.; Englert, Rebecca G.; Vardy, Mark E.; Hunt, James E.; Yokokawa, Miwa; Parsons, Daniel R.; Hizzett, Jamie L.; Azpiroz-Zabala, Maria; Vellinga, Age 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. 10.1130/G40095.1

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2018

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Clare, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1448-3878; Chaytor, Jason; Dabson, Oliver; Gamboa, Davide; Georgiopoulou, Aggeliki; Eady, Harry; Hunt, James; Jackson, Christopher; Katz, Oded; Krastel, Sebastian; León, Ricardo; Micallef, Aaron; Moernaut, Jasper; Moriconi, Roberto; Moscardelli, Lorena; Mueller, Christof; Normandeau, Alexandre; Patacci, Marco; Steventon, Michael; Urlaub, Morelia; Völker, David; Wood, Lesli; Jobe, Zane. 2018 A consistent global approach for the morphometric characterization of subaqueous landslides. In: Lintern, D.G., (ed.) Subaqueous mass movements and their consequences: assessing geohazards, environmental implications and economic significance of subaqueous landslides. Geological Society of London, 455-477. (Geological Society Special Publication, 477, 477).

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2018

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Allin, Joshua R.; Hunt, James E.; Clare, Michael A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1448-3878; Talling, Peter J.. 2018 Eustatic sea level controls on the flushing of a shelf-incising submarine canyon. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 130 (1-2). 222-237. 10.1130/B31658.1

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2018

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Hunt, James; Cassidy, Michael; Talling, Peter. 2018 Multi-stage volcanic island flank collapses with coeval explosive caldera-forming eruptions. Scientific Reports, 8. 1146. 10.1038/s41598-018-19285-2

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2018

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2017

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2017

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Madhusudhan, B.N.; Clare, M.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1448-3878; Clayton, C.R.I.; Hunt, J.E.. 2017 Geotechnical profiling of deep-ocean sediments at the AFEN submarine slide complex. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 50 (2). 148-157. 10.1144/qjegh2016-057

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2017

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Pope, Ed L.; Talling, Peter J.; Carter, Lionel; Clare, Michael A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1448-3878; Hunt, James E.. 2017 Damaging sediment density flows triggered by tropical cyclones. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 458. 161-169. 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.10.046

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2017

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Pope, Ed L.; Talling, Peter J.; Hunt, James E.; Dowdeswell, Julian A.; Allin, Joshua R.; Cartigny, Matthieu J.B.; Long, David; Mozzato, Alessandro; Stanford, Jennifer D.; Tappin, David R.; Watts, Millie. 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. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.08.014

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2016

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Coussens, Maya; Wall-Palmer, Deborah; Talling, Peter J.; Watt, Sebastian F.L.; Cassidy, Michael; Jutzeler, Martin; Clare, Michael A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1448-3878; Hunt, James E.; Manga, Michael; Gernon, Thomas M.; Palmer, Martin R.; Hatter, Stuart J.; Boudon, Georges; Endo, Daisuke; Fujinawa, Akihiko; Hatfield, Robert; Hornbach, Matthew J.; Ishizuka, Osamu; Kataoka, Kyoko; Le Friant, Anne; Maeno, Fukashi; McCanta, Molly; Stinton, Adam J.. 2016 The relationship between eruptive activity, flank collapse, and sea level at volcanic islands: A long-term (>1 Ma) record offshore Montserrat, Lesser Antilles. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 17 (7). 2591-2611. 10.1002/2015GC006053

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2016

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Allin, Joshua R.; Hunt, James E.; Talling, Peter J.; Clare, Michael A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1448-3878; Pope, Ed; Masson, Douglas G.. 2016 Different frequencies and triggers of canyon filling and flushing events in Nazaré Canyon, offshore Portugal. Marine Geology, 371. 89-105. 10.1016/j.margeo.2015.11.005

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2016

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Clare, M.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1448-3878; Talling, P.J.; Challenor, P.G.; Hunt, J.E.. 2016 Tempo and triggering of large submarine landslides: statistical analysis for hazard assessment. In: Lamarche, G.; et al, ., (eds.) Submarine Mass Movements and their Consequences: 7th International Symposium. Cham, Switzerland, Springer International, 509-517, 621pp. (Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 41).

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2016

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2015

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Hunt, J.E.; Croudace, I.W.; Maclachlan, S.E.. 2015 Use of calibrated ITRAX XRF data in determining geochemistry and provenance in Agadir Basin, Northwest African Passive Margin. In: Croudace, I.W.; Rothwell, R.G., (eds.) Micro-XRF Studies of Sediment Cores: Applications of a non-destructive tool for the environmental sciences. Dordrecht, The Netherlands, Springer, 127-146, 688pp.

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2015

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Hunt, J.E.; Maclachlan, S.E.; Croudace, I.W.. 2015 An Empirical Assessment of Variable Water Content and Grain-Size on X-Ray Fluorescence Core-Scanning Measurements of Deep Sea Sediments. In: Croudace, I.W.; Rothwell, R.G., (eds.) Micro-XRF Studies of Sediment Cores: Applications of a non-destructive tool for the environmental sciences. Dordrecht, The Netherlands, Springer, 173-185, 688pp.

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2015

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Hunt, J.E.; Romano, E.; Ausili, A.; Bergamin, L.; Rothwell, R.G.. 2015 X-Ray Core Scanners as an Environmental Forensics Tool: A Case Study of Polluted Harbour Sediment (Augusta Bay, Sicily). In: Croudace, I.W.; Rothwell, R.G., (eds.) Micro-XRF Studies of Sediment Cores: Applications of a non-destructive tool for the environmental sciences. Dordrecht, The Netherlands, Springer, 393-421, 688pp.

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2015

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Hunt, J.E.; Wynn, R.B.; Croudace, I.W.. 2015 Identification, Correlation and Origin of Multistage Landslide Events in Volcaniclastic Turbidites in the Moroccan Turbidite System. In: Croudace, I.W.; Rothwell, R.G., (eds.) Micro-XRF Studies of Sediment Cores: Applications of a non-destructive tool for the environmental sciences. Dordrecht, The Netherlands, Springer, 147-172, 688pp.

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2015

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2015

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Hunt, J.E.; Talling, P.J.; Clare, M.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1448-3878; Jarvis, I.; Wynn, R.B.. 2014 Long-term (17 Ma) turbidite record of the timing and frequency of large flank collapses of the Canary Islands. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15 (8). 3322-3345. 10.1002/2014GC005232

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2014

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Wynn, Russell B.; Huvenne, Veerle A.I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7135-6360; Le Bas, Timothy P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2545-782X; Murton, Bramley J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1522-1191; Connelly, Douglas P.; Bett, Brian J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4977-9361; Ruhl, Henry A.; Morris, Kirsty J.; Peakall, Jeffrey; Parsons, Daniel R.; Sumner, Esther J.; Darby, Stephen E.; Dorrell, Robert M.; Hunt, James E.. 2014 Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs): their past, present and future contributions to the advancement of marine geoscience. Marine Geology, 352. 451-468. 10.1016/j.margeo.2014.03.012

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2014

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Talling, Peter; Clare, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1448-3878; Urlaub, Morelia; Pope, Ed; Hunt, James; Watt, Sebastian. 2014 Large Submarine Landslides on Continental Slopes: Geohazards, Methane Release, and Climate Change. Oceanography, 27 (2). 32-45. 10.5670/oceanog.2014.38

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2014

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Clare, Michael A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1448-3878; Talling, Peter J.; Challenor, Peter; Malgesini, Guiseppe; Hunt, James. 2014 Distal turbidites reveal a common distribution for large (>0.1 km3) submarine landslide recurrence. Geology, 42 (3). 263-266. 10.1130/G35160.1

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2014

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2013

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Stevenson, Christopher J.; Talling, Peter J.; Wynn, Russell B.; Masson, Douglas G.; Hunt, James E.; Frenz, Michael; Akhmetzhanhov, Andrey; Cronin, Bryan T.. 2013 The flows that left no trace: Very large-volume turbidity currents that bypassed sediment through submarine channels without eroding the sea floor. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 41. 186-205. 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2012.02.008

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2013

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Hunt, James E.; Wynn, Russell B.; Masson, Douglas G.; Talling, Peter J.; Teagle, Damon A.H.. 2011 Sedimentological and geochemical evidence for multistage failure of volcanic island landslides: A case study from Icod landslide on north Tenerife, Canary Islands. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 12. Q12007. 10.1029/2011GC003740

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2011

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Masson, D.G.; Arzola, R.G.; Wynn, R.B.; Hunt, J.E.; Weaver, P.P.E.. 2011 Seismic triggering of landslides and turbidity currents offshore Portugal. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 12. Q12011. 10.1029/2011GC003839

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2011

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