Professor John Matthews

Research Highlights

1. Matthews, J. (2005). 'Little Ice Age' glacier variations in Jotunheimen, southern Norway: a study in regionally controlled lichenometric dating of recessional moraines with implications for climate and lichen growth rates. The Holocene, 15(1), 1

   https://doi.org/10.1191/0959683605hl779rp, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa2062
2. Wilson, P. & Matthews, J. (2016). Age assessment and implications of late Quaternary periglacial and paraglacial landforms on Muckish Mountain, northwest Ireland, based on Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating (SHD). Geomorphology, 270, 134-144.

   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.07.002, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa29530
3. Matthews, J., Berrisford, M., Dresser, P., Nesje, A., Dahl, S., Bjune, A., Bakke, J., John, H., Birks, B., Lie, Ø., Dumayne-Peaty, L., & Barnett, C. (2005). Holocene glacier history of Bjørnbreen and climatic reconstruction in central Jotunheimen, Norway, based on proximal glaciofluvial stream-bank mires. Quaternary Science Reviews, 24(1-2), 67

   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.07.003, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa2063
4. Matthews, J., Seppälä, M., & Dresser, P. (2005). Holocene solifluction, climate variation and fire in a subarctic landscape at Pippokangas, Finnish Lapland, based on radiocarbon-dated buried charcoal. Journal of Quaternary Science, 20(6), 533

   https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.932, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa2064
5. Matthews, J., McEwen, L., & Owen, G. (2015). Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating (SHD) of snow-avalanche impact ramparts in southern Norway: approaches, results and implications for landform age, dynamics and development. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 40(13), 1705-1718.

   https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.3746, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa23552
6. Winkler, S., Matthews, J., Haselberger, S., Hill, J., Mourne, R., Owen, G., Wilson, P., & Matthews, J. (2020). Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating (SHD) of sorted stripes on Juvflye, Jotunheimen (central South Norway): Morphodynamic and palaeoclimatic implications. Geomorphology, 353, 107014

   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.107014, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa53381
7. Matthews, J., Haselberger, S., Hill, J., Owen, G., Winkler, S., Hiemstra, J., & Harper, H. (2020). Snow-avalanche boulder fans in Jotunheimen, southern Norway: Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating, geomorphometrics, dynamics and evolution. Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography, 102(2), 118-140.

   https://doi.org/10.1080/04353676.2020.1762365, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa53840
8. Harper, H., Hiemstra, J., Los, S., Matthews, J., & Froyd, C. (2020). Carbon dioxide emissions from periglacial patterned ground under changing permafrost conditions and shrub encroachment in an alpine landscape, Jotunheimen, Norway. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 31(4), 524-537.

   https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.2078, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54383

   https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.2078
9. Matthews, J. & Winkler, S. (2022). Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating: a review of principles and practice. Earth-Science Reviews, 230, 104038

   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104038, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60208
10. Klopsch, C., Yde, J., Matthews, J., Vater, A., & Gillespie, M. (2023). Repeated survey along the foreland of a receding Norwegian glacier reveals shifts in succession of beetles and spiders. The Holocene, 33(1), 14-26.

    https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836221126032, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61869

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