David S. Leigh

Recent Journal Articles:

2015:  (Leigh, D.S., Gragson, T.L, Coughlan, M.R.)  Pedogenic effects of mid- to late-Holocene conversion of forests to pastures in the French western Pyrenees.  Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie 59, 225-245.

2015:  (Wang, L. and Leigh, D.S.)  Anthropic signatures in alluvium of the Upper Little Tennessee River valley, Southern Blue Ridge Mountains, USA,  Anthropocene 11, 35-47.

2016:  (Leigh, D.S., Gragson, T.L, Coughlan, M.R.)  Colluvial legacies of millennial landscape change on individual hillsides, place-based investigation in the western Pyrenees Mountains.  Quaternary International 402, 61-71.

2018: (Leigh, D.S.) Vertical accretion sand proxies of gaged floods along the upper Little Tennessee River, Blue Ridge Mountains, USA, Sedimentary Geology, 364, 342-350.  (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0037073817301963)

2018: (McDonald, J.M., Leigh, D.S., Jackson, C.R.) Watershed- to continental-scale influences on winter stormflow in the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains, Journal of Hydrology 563, 633-656. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.06.013 .

2018: (Suther, B.E., Leigh, D.S., Brook, G.A., LinHai, Y.) Mega-meander paleochannels of the southeastern Atlantic Coastal Plain, USA, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 511, 52-79.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.07.002

2018: (Holdridge, G., Leigh, D.S.)  Stable Carbon Analysis of Alluvial Paleosols in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, Mexico, Quaternary International 490, 60-73.   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.05.020

2019: (Leigh, D.S., Gragson, T.L., LeFebvre, B.) Rapid alluvial sedimentation aided expansion of Moissac during the Middle Ages in southern France, Geomorphology 331, 49-58.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2018.08.002

2020: (Suther, B.E. and Leigh, D.S.) Soil morphology of an alluvial chronosequence from the Little River, North Carolina Coastal Plain, USA. Geomorphology 351, accepted and in press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.106921

2020: (Gragson, T.L., Coughlan, M.R., Leigh, D.S.) Contingency & Agency in the Mountain Landscapes of the western Pyrenees : A Place-Based Approach to the Long Anthropocene. Sustainability 12, 22pp., Special Issue "Historical Ecology and Landscape Archeology: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to the Long Anthropocene".

2021: (Fesenmyer, K., Wenger, S., Leigh, D., & Neville, H.). Large portion of USA streams lose protection with new interpretation of Clean Water Act. Freshwater Science. doi:10.1086/713084

Recent Book Chapters:

2016:  (Leigh, D.S.).  Multi-millennial Record of Erosion and Fires in the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains, USA. In (K. Greenberg & B. Collins, Eds.), pp. 167-202. “Natural Disturbances and Range of Variation: Type, Frequency, Severity, and Post-disturbance Structure in Central Hardwood Forests”.  Springer, Basel, Switzerland.

2019: (Mason, J., Jacobs, P., Leigh, D.S.).  Loess, Eolian Sand, and Colluvium in the Driftless Area.  Chapter  in (E. Carson et al., Eds),  “The Physical Geography and Geology of the Driftless Area: The Career and Contributions of James C. Knox”, Geological Society of America Special Paper 543, Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO.

2019: (Daniels, M., Leigh, D.S., Carson, E.).  Holocene paleohydrology and paleofloods in the Driftless Area.  Chapter in (E. Carson et al., Eds),   “The Physical Geography and Geology of the Driftless Area: The Career and Contributions of James C. Knox”, Geological Society of America Special Paper 543, Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO.