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Professor John Chappell

ANU College of Science

E: john.chappell@anu.edu.au

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Areas of expertise

Geomorphology And Regolith And Landscape Evolution 040601
Physical Geography And Environmental Geoscience 0406

Publications

Fallon, S, Fifield, L & Chappell, J 2010, 'The next chapter in radiocarbon dating at the Australian National University: Status report on the single stage AMS', Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research: Section B, vol. 268, no. 7-8, pp. 898-901.
Fujioka, T, Fifield, L, Stone, J et al. 2010, 'In situ cosmogenic ⁵³Mn production rate from ancient low-denudation surface in tropic Brazil', Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research: Section B, vol. 268, no. 7-8, pp. 1209-1213.
Elliot, M, Welsh, K, Chilcott, C et al 2009, 'Profiles of trace elements and stable isotopes derived from giant long-lived Tridacna gigas bivalves: Potential applications in paleoclimate studies', Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, vol. 280, pp. 132-142.
Burke, B, Heimsath, A, Dixon, J et al 2009, 'Weathering the escarpment: chemical and physical rates and processes, South-eastern Australia', Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 768-785.
Fujioka, T, Chappell, J, Fifield, L et al. 2009, 'Australian desert dune fields initiated with Pliocene-Pleistocene global climatic shift', Geology, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 51-54.
Chappell, J, Zheng, H & Fifield, L 2006, 'Yangtse River sediments and erosion rates from source to sink traced with cosmogenic ¹⁰Be: Sediments from major rivers', Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, vol. 241, pp. 79-94.
Anderson, A, Chappell, J, Gagan, M et al 2006, 'Prehistoric maritime migration in the Pacific islands: an hypothesis of ENSO forcing', Holocene, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 1-6.
Rustomji, P, Olley, J & Chappell, J 2006, 'Holocene valley aggradation driven by river mouth progradation: examples from Australia', Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, vol. 31, pp. 1510-1524.
Pandolfi, J, Tudhope, A, Burr, G et al 2006, 'Mass mortality following disturbance in Holocene coral reefs from Papua New Guinea', Geology, vol. 34, no. 11, pp. 949-952.
Fujioka, T, Chappell, J, Honda, M et al. 2005, 'Global cooling initiated stony deserts in central Australia 2-4 Ma, dated by cosmogenic ²¹Ne-¹⁰Be', Geology, vol. 33, no. 12, pp. 993-996.
Rhodes, E, Chappell, J, Fujioka, T et al 2005, 'The history of aridity in Australia: chronological developments', CRC LEME Regional Regolith Symposia 2005, ed. Ian C Roach, CRC LEME, Bentley, WA, pp. 265-268.
Anderson, A, Chappell, J, Clark, G et al 2005, 'Comparative Radiocarbon dating of Lignite, Pottery and Charcoal samples from Babeldaob Island, Republic of Palau', Radiocarbon, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 1-9.
Chappell, J 2005, 'Geographic changes of coastal lowlands in the Papuan past', in Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Jack Golson and Robin Hide (ed.), Papuan pasts: Cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra Australia, pp. 525-539.
Rhodes, E, Fitzsimmons, K, Magee, J et al 2005, 'The History of Aridity in Australia', in Ian C Roach (ed.), Regolith 2005 Ten Years of CRC LEME, CRC LEME, Bentley, Western Australia, pp. 265-268.
Wilkinson, M, Chappell, J, Humphreys, G et al. 2005, 'Erratum: Soil production in heath and forest, Blue Mountains, Australia: influence of lithology and palaeoclimate', Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, vol. 30, no. 13, pp. 1683-1685.
Treble, P, Chappell, J, Gagan, M et al. 2005, 'In situ measurement of seasonal &delta¹⁸O variations and analysis of isotopic trends in a modern speleothem from southwest Australia', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 233, pp. 17-32.
Treble, P, Chappell, J & Shelley, J 2005, 'Complex speleothem growth processes revealed by trace element mapping and scanning electron microscopy of annual layers', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 69, no. 20, pp. 4855-4863.
Eggins, S, Grün, R, McCulloch, M et al 2005, 'In situ U-series dating by laser-ablation multi-collector ICPMS: new prospects for Quaternary geochronology', Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 24, no. 23-24, pp. 2523-2538.
Rhodes, E, Farwig, V, Chappell, J et al 2004, 'Luminescence of single quartz grains to determine past movement and heating', CRC LEME Regional Regolith Symposia 2004, ed. Ian C. Roach, CRC LEME, Perth, W.A, pp. 295-298.
Abram, N, Gagan, M, McCulloch, M et al 2004, 'Response to comment on Coral reef death during the 1997 Indian Ocean dipole linked to Indonesian wildfires', Science, vol. 303, pp. 1297b.
Abram, N, Gagan, M, McCulloch, M et al 2004, 'The sudden death of a coral reef - response', Science, vol. 303, pp. 1293-1294.
Kiernan, K, Fifield, L & Chappell, J 2004, 'Cosmogenic Nuclide Ages for Last Glacial Maximum Moraine at Schnells Ridge, Southwest Tasmania', Quaternary Research, vol. 61, pp. 335-338.
Rhodes, E, Fitzsimmons, K, Magee, J et al 2004, 'The history of aridity in Australia: preliminary chronological data', CRC LEME Regional Regolith Symposia 2004, ed. Ian C. Roach, CRC LEME, Perth, W.A, pp. 299-302.
Dowell, K, Mavrogenes, J, McPhail, D et al. 2003, 'Fantastic Australian Opals', CRC LEME Regional Regolith Symposia 2003, ed. Ian C Roach, CRC LEME, Australia, pp. 100-103.
Treble, P, Shelley, J & Chappell, J 2003, 'Comparison of high resolution sub-annual records of trace elements in a modern (1911-1992) speleothem with instrumental climate data from southwest Australia', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 216, no. 1-2, pp. 141-153.
O'Connor, S & Chappell, J 2003, 'Colonisation and coastal subsistence in Australia and Papua New Guinea: different timing, different modes', International Conference for the 50th anniversary of the first Lapita excavation (July 1952), ed. Christophe Sand, Le Cahiers de lï¿½Archï¿½ologie en Nouvelle-Calï¿½donie, Noumea, pp. 17-32.
Rhodes, E, Chappell, J & Spooner, N 2003, 'Age and mobility of arid regolith: Assessment by luminescence dating methods', CRC LEME Regional Regolith Symposia 2003, ed. Ian C Roach, CRC LEME, Australia, pp. 342-344.
Abram, N, Gagan, M, McCulloch, M et al 2003, 'Coral reef death during the 1997 Indian Ocean Dipole linked to Indonesian wildfires', Science, vol. 301, no. 5635, pp. 952-955.
O'Connor, S & Chappell, J 2003, 'Colonisation and coastal subsistence in Australia and Papua New Guinea: different timing, different modes?', in Christophe Sand (ed.), Pacific Archaeology: assessments and prospects, proceedings of the International Conference for the 50th anniversary of the first Lapita excavation, Service des Musees et du Patrimoine, New Caledonia, pp. 17-32.
Heimsath, A, Chappell, J, Spooner, N et al 2002, 'Creeping soil', Geology, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 111-114.
Chappell, J 2002, 'Sea level changes forced ice breakouts in the Last Glacial cycle: new results from coral terraces', Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 21, no. 10, pp. 1229-1240.
Chappell, J 2001, 'Climate before Agriculture', in A.Anderson, I.Lilley & S.O'Connor (ed.), Histories of Old Ages: Essays in honour of Rhys Jones, Pandanus Books, Canberra, pp. 171-184.
Tudhope, A, Chilcott, C, McCulloch, M et al 2001, 'Variability in the El Nino-Southern Oscillation through a glacial-interglacial cycle', Science, vol. 291, no. 5508, pp. 1511-1517.
dos Santos, G, Bird, M, Pillans, B et al. 2001, 'Radiocarbon dating of wood using different pretreatment procedures: Application to the chronology of Rotoehu ash, New Zealand', Radiocarbon, vol. 43, no. 2A, pp. 239-248.
Heimsath, A, Chappell, J, Dietrich, W et al 2001, 'Late Quaternary erosion in southeastern Australia: a field example using cosmogenic nuclides', Quaternary International, vol. 83-85, pp. 169-185.
Lambeck, K & Chappell, J 2001, 'Sea level change through the last glacial cycle', Science, vol. 292, pp. 679-686.
English, P, Spooner, N, Chappell, J et al 2001, 'Lake Lewis basin, central Australia: environmental evolution and OSL chronology', Quaternary International, vol. 83-85, pp. 81-101.
Hayne, M & Chappell, J 2001, 'Cyclone frequency during the last 5000 years at Curacoa Island, north Queensland, Australia', Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, vol. 168, pp. 207-219.
Wang, P & Chappell, J 2001, 'Foraminifera as Holocene environmental indicators in the South Alligator River, northern Australia', Quaternary International, vol. 83-85, pp. 47-62.
Braun, J, Heimsath, A & Chappell, J 2001, 'Sediment transport mechanisms on soil-mantled slopes', Geology, vol. 29, pp. 683-686.
Chappell, J 2001, 'Geomorphology and Holocene geology of coastal and estuarine plains of northern Australia', Geological Society of Australia Special Publication (now Australian Journal of Earth Science), vol. 21, pp. 303-314.
Williams, M, Prescott, J, Chappell, J et al 2001, 'The enigma of a late Pleistocene wetland in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia', Quaternary International, vol. 83-85, pp. 129-144.
Chappell, J 2001, 'Coral terraces, sea level changes, ice sheets and isotopes', Leopoldina-Symposium, ed. M. Kaasch and J Kaasch, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Halle (Saale) Germany, pp. 195-204.
Gagan, M & Chappell, J 2000, 'Massive corals: Grand Archives of ENSO', in Grove, R H; Chappell, J (ed.), El Nino, history and crisis: Studies from the Asia-Pacific Region, The White Horse Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 35-50.
Grove, R & Chappell, J 2000, 'El Niñ¯ ?hronology and the History of Global Crises During the Little Ice Age', in Grove, R H; Chappell, J (ed.), El Nino, history and crisis: Studies from the Asia-Pacific Region, The White Horse Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 5-34.
Chappell, J 2000, 'Pleistocene seedbeds of western Pacific maritime cultures and the importance of chronology', in O?Connor, S.; Veth, P. (ed.), East of Wallaceï¿½s Line: Studies of past and present maritime cultures of the Indo-Pacific region, A A Balkema, Rotterdam, pp. 77-98.
Heimsath, A, Chappell, J, Dietrich, W et al 2000, 'Soil production on a retreating escarpment in southeastern Australia', Geology, vol. 28, no. 9, pp. 787-790.
McCulloch, M, Tudhope, A, Esat, T et al 1999, 'Coral record of equatorial sea-surface temperatures during the penultimate deglaciation of Huon Peninsula', Science, vol. 283, pp. 202-204.
Esat, T, McCulloch, M, Chappell, J et al 1999, 'Rapid fluctuations in sea level recorded at Huon Peninsula during the penultimate deglaciation.', Science, vol. 283, pp. 197-201.

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