Dr Neil C. Mitchell
University of Manchester
Reader, Earth And Planetary Sciences
United Kingdom
My co-authors include
Joao Duarte
Dr Peter Feldens
Dr Fernando Ornelas Marques
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My Publications
How waves decline as they reach the shore crossing rocky seabed
Geomorphology
December 2022
Mixing effect reveals how rapidly shell-generating organisms are growing in sand
Journal of Sedimentary Research
November 2022
Stream orientations on Mars reveals how the planet has been distorted after water flowed
Icarus
September 2022
Irregular relief of the surface of the salt deposits of the Red Sea
Tectonophysics
May 2022
Waves in the seabed around volcanic islands linked to winds
Marine Geology
May 2022
New ocean basin forming in the Red Sea with separating salt; evidence is in magnetic an...
Geophysical Journal International
January 2022
How well do we know when sand will move or deposit?
Sedimentology
January 2022
Swarms of earthquakes in the rift valley of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Tectonophysics
November 2021
Underwater landslides pose risks to coastal communities
Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
September 2021
Cores around the Azores islands reveal more volcanic sediments from eruptions than from...
Geological Society London Special Publications
September 2021
How a sand bank changes shape over 19 years and develops internal structures
Sedimentology
August 2021
Discordance Mapping of Argyre Basin: An Insight into the Fluvial and Subglacial Origin ...
March 2021
Sea mountains formed by submarine volcanism, landsliding and fault movements
January 2021
Earthquakes more precisely located on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
December 2020
Eroding rocky coasts – what controls their retreat rates? Lava deltas from the Azores
Geomorphology
December 2020
The central Red Sea became filled with evaporites during the Miocene but remained under...
Basin Research
October 2020
How the marine sciences have evolved since 1946 from changes in the rate of publishing ...
Scientometrics
May 2020
Movements of thick evaporites on the flanks of a mid-ocean ridge: the central Red Sea M...
March 2020
Erosion of a coastal volcanic cone by waves in the Azores islands
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
August 2019
Different origins of seafloor undulations in a submarine canyon system, northern South ...
Marine Geology
July 2019
Ridges of salt found offshore Egypt and, in the central Red Sea, evidence of small land...
December 2018
Could a submarine channel have been created when the Red Sea re-flooded after desiccation?
December 2018
A mid-ocean ridge underlies the evaporites in the Red Sea
Tectonophysics
November 2018
The role of subsidence in shelf widening around ocean island volcanoes: Insights from o...
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
September 2018
Subdued Red Sea seismicity due to thermal blanket effect of sediments and fluid overpre...
Geophysical Journal International
May 2018
Subtle lines on the ocean surface reveal processes occurring in Earth's mantle
Marine Geophysical Research
March 2018
Salt deposits beneath the North Sea have bumps that are spaced by varied amounts
Geological Society London Special Publications
February 2018
Salt deposits on the bed sea are compressed and broken by faults
February 2018
Salt deposits beneath the Red Sea are cut by erosion and distorted by stretching
February 2018
Submarine eruptions amongst the Azores islands have left many cones, lava flows and vol...
January 2018
Seabed ridges of salt and salt flows revealed in sonar data collected along the Red Sea...
Marine and Petroleum Geology
December 2017
Geomorphology where Earth's tectonic plates are separating in the oceans - mid-ocean ri...
July 2017
Landslide in the Azores predicted to have produced a giant wave (tsunami)
October 2016
Acoustic attenuation from reflectivity in Chirp seismic data from the Red Sea
Marine Geophysical Research
October 2016
Plate Boundaries and Natural Hazards
August 2016
How streams on Sicily and Calabria affect the adjacent seabed
Basin Research
April 2016
Sonar survey reveals meandering channel in the submarine slope of the Pacific coast of ...
Tectonophysics
March 2016
Shelves of the Azores islands are a product of coastal erosion
Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
February 2016
Aragonite-rich sediments deposited during sea level low stands are detected with Chirp ...
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
November 2015
Topography of the Red Sea Miocene evaporites
Basin Research
September 2015
Geological history of volcanic islands requires information from offshore as well as on...
Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
September 2015
Internal tidal beams and sediment hiatuses on guyots
Geosphere
August 2015
How erosion and emplacement of lava flows have modified the shelves of some Azores islands
Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
May 2015
Assessing how salt glacier-like flows in the Red Sea move
January 2015
Red Sea gravity - comparing satellite-derived with shipboard and structural patterns
January 2015
Encyclopedia-like entry for submarine geomorphology
January 2015
How bedrock is eroded in submarine canyons
Geosphere
September 2014
Lineaments in the satellite-derived gravity field of the central Red Sea are oceanic-like
Tectonophysics
July 2014
Survey between Sicily and Calabria reveals submarine channels and landslides
Geo-Marine Letters
May 2014
Data report: particle size distribution for IODP Expedition 329 sites in the South Paci...
April 2014
Dunes crossing a nearshore sand bank found to connect with oppositely-moving flank dunes
Continental Shelf Research
March 2014
Large-scale submarine landslides, channel and gully systems on the southern Weddell Sea...
Marine Geology
February 2014
Coastal evolution on volcanic oceanic islands: A complex interplay between volcanism, e...
Earth-Science Reviews
December 2013
Giant volcanic ridge next to Faial Island hosts beach sediments on its summit
Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography
December 2013
GPS show volcanic slump is moving, but our submarine shelf data show no evidence
Geology
November 2013
Sediment thickness anomalies suggest ~1 degree movement of Pacific hotspots in the Miocene
Marine Geophysical Research
September 2013
Linear sediment drifts suggest a widespread current crossing the equatorial Pacific
Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers
August 2013
Introducing Geomorphology: A Guide to Landforms and Processes
Underwater Technology The International Journal of the Society for Underwater
July 2013
Comment on “Reconstructing the architectural evolution of volcanic islands from combine...
Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
April 2013
Reply to the comment by Quartau and Mitchell on “Reconstructing the architectural evolu...
Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
April 2013
Geomorphic signature of Antarctic submarine gullies: Implications for continental slope...
Marine Geology
March 2013
Characterising the hypsometries of slope canyons and gullies
Marine and Petroleum Geology
March 2013
Assessing whether extreme tidal and wave currents can erode bedrock
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
November 2012
Southern Weddell Sea shelf edge geomorphology: Implications for gully formation by the ...
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
November 2012
Review of marine geology and geophysics, with an emphasis of UK contributions
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering...
November 2012
Large-scale sediment redistribution on the equatorial Pacific seafloor
Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers
November 2012
How streams are eroding northeast Sicily
Geomorphology
October 2012
Submarine volcanic cones are like cinder cones but can spread out
Bulletin of Volcanology
September 2012
Depths of sand bodies in wave-exposed continental shelves related to wave properties
Journal of Sedimentary Research
July 2012
Simulating the shapes of infralittoral sandy wedges formed under waves
Journal of Sedimentary Research
July 2012
News and views comment on developments in monitoring submarine eruptions
Nature Geoscience
June 2012
Morphology of the Faial Island shelf (Azores): The interplay between volcanic, erosiona...
Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
April 2012
Reversed sediment wave migration in the Irish Sea, NW Europe: A reappraisal of the vali...
Marine Geology
February 2012
Mapping Condor Seamount Seafloor Environment and Associated Biological Assemblages (Azo...
January 2012
Initial burst of oceanic crust accretion in the Red Sea due to edge-driven mantle conve...
Geology
October 2011
Abrasional rock platforms adjacent to slumps for assessing Holocene movement
Bulletin of Volcanology
September 2011
Census of landslides in Sicily and SW Calabria
Geomorphology
September 2011
Lava penetrating water: the different behaviours of pāhoehoe and ‘a‘ā at the Nesjahraun...
Bulletin of Volcanology
June 2011
Lava flow on south bank of Thingvellir, Iceland
Bulletin of Volcanology
June 2011
Seismic interpretation of pelagic sedimentation regimes in the 18-53 Ma eastern equator...
Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
March 2011
Persistent lack of brine consistent with faults not breaching the mud sealing the evapo...
Journal of Geochemical Exploration
January 2011
Development of volcanic insular shelves: Insights from observations and modelling of Fa...
Marine Geology
September 2010
Despeckling SRTM and other topographic data with a denoising algorithm
Geomorphology
January 2010
Glacier-like flows of Miocene evaporites imaged with sonar in the central Red Sea
Geological Society of America Bulletin
December 2009
Variations in sediment wave dimensions across the tidally dominated Irish Sea, NW Europe
Marine Geology
July 2009
Post-glacial sediment dynamics in the Irish Sea and sediment wave morphology: Data–mode...
Continental Shelf Research
July 2009
Seafloor evidence for palaeo-ice streaming and calving of the grounded Irish Sea Ice St...
Boreas
February 2009
10Be chronology of the last deglaciation of County Donegal, northwestern Ireland
Boreas
February 2009
Comparing the shapes of channels in volcanic landscapes eroded above and below sea level
Basin Research
December 2008
Using data from immobile benchmarks to work out significance of differences between mul...
Continental Shelf Research
May 2008
Tree-like shapes of sea-penetrating lava flows
Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
March 2008
Rounded shape of the shelf edge/uppermost slope caused by wave and other currents?
Journal of Sedimentary Research
January 2008
Geomorphological characteristics of continental slope canyons
Geological Society London Special Publications
January 2008
Hydrothermal pits in the biogenic sediments of the equatorial Pacific Ocean
Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
March 2007
Ridges between slope canyons have simple rounded shapes typical of slow downslope movement
Marine Geology
February 2007
Multibeam sonar survey of a nearshore banner bank, Helwick Sands, Bristol Channel
Geological Society London Special Publications
January 2007
Shapes and surface textures of submarine volcanic cones from deep-towed sidescan sonar
Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
August 2006
Anomalously steep submarine channel segments reveal varied styles of erosion
Geological Society of America Bulletin
May 2006
Morphologies of knickpoints in submarine canyons
Geological Society of America Bulletin
January 2006
Development of a channel in a delta front captured in time-lapse bathymetry
Marine Geology
October 2005
Do geochemical estimates of sediment focusing pass the sediment test in the equatorial ...
Paleoceanography
January 2005
Variability of sedimentation rates along two profiles crossing the Pacific equatorial s...
Geology
January 2005
The longitudinal shapes of slope canyons
Marine Geology
January 2005
Faults in a lake within Iceland's western rift
Geological Society of America Bulletin
January 2005
Geomorphological characteristics of continental slope canyons
Geological Society London Special Publications
January 2005
Slope canyons converging with equal elevations suggest channels obey Playfair's Rule
American Journal of Science
September 2004
Erosion from differences in local relief between old and young submarine parts of volca...
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
October 2003
Faults imaged with Chirp sonar within a lake in the West Rift Zone of Iceland
Geophysical Journal International
July 2003
Using seismic data to investigate how carbonate accumulation rates vary with depth
Paleoceanography
May 2003
Height threshold for large-scale landsliding in volcanoes near mid-ocean ridges
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
January 2003
Giant Landslides off the Island of La Palma
January 2003
Magma bodies at mid-ocean ridges incorporate hydrothermally altered roof rocks containi...
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
January 2003
Comparing volcanic and landslide features in the submarine slopes of the Canary and Haw...
Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
June 2002
A rifted inside corner massif on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 5°S
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
June 2002
Passage of debris flows and turbidity currents through a topographic constriction: seaf...
January 2002
Canary Island landslides
Earth-Science Reviews
January 2002
The layered structure of the Earth's crust in the oceans tested with submersible observ...
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
November 2001
Giant landslides of El Hierro island investigated with marine geophysical data
Marine Geology
July 2001
How submarine volcanoes grow from simple cones to star-shapes with increasing height
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
February 2001
Structure of ridges emanating from a volcanic ocean island
Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
January 2001
Slopes of different lithologies measured from dive transects reveals low gradients of s...
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
December 2000
Area of obliquely oriented normal faults found on the African plate adjacent to Bouvet ...
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
April 2000
Quantifying tectonic strain and magmatic accretion at a slow spreading ridge segment, M...
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
May 1999
Correction to “Spiess Ridge: An axial high on the slow spreading Southwest Indian Ridge...
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
September 1998
Simulating the pattern of long-term sediment deposition around the Pacific equator
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
August 1998
Imaging of a giant rifting volcano near Bouvet Island
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
July 1998
Sediment deposits resolved in deep-tow sediment profiler records from a mid-ocean ridge
Marine Geology
June 1998
The non-circular shapes of volcanic islands
Geomorphology
May 1998
Triple junction between South America, Africa and Antarctica
Geology
January 1998
Deep-towed geophysical survey of faults and magnetic structure of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
January 1998
Time-averaged sedimentation rate from sediment thickening from Galapagos spreading centre
Geological Society London Special Publications
January 1998
Fault scarp statistics at the Galapagos spreading centre from Deep Tow data
Marine Geophysical Research
January 1998
Calculating terrain curvature and gradient within swaths for improved attribute mapping
Marine Geophysical Research
December 1996
Rounded shapes of pelagic sediments on fault escarpments follow a diffusion-type model
Geophysical Research Letters
March 1996
Representing pelagic sediment accumulation on rugged topography with a diffusion equation
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
October 1995
Uniform pelagic sediment thicknesses reveal extents of lava flows at the Galapagos spre...
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
September 1995
Finding backscatter variability where sonar or radar image data are affected by speckle...
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
January 1995
Mapping out sediment ponds and ridge/trough bedrock topography from multibeam echo-soun...
Marine Geology
November 1994
Thicknesses of mud drapes over rough surfaces from acoustic attenuation in sonar backsc...
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
December 1993
Comment on the mapping of iron-manganese nodule fields using reconnaissance sonars such...
Geo-Marine Letters
December 1993
Series of en echelon normal faults mark the trace of the Rodriquez triple junction on A...
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
February 1993
Pattern of spreading segments about the Rodriguez Triple Junction varying since ~5 m.y.
Marine Geophysical Research
August 1991
Rifting of young oceanic lithosphere imaged at the Rodriguez triple junction
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
January 1991
Image-processing of sidescan sonar images using seabed topography data from a multibeam...
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
January 1991
Image processing of sidescan sonar data developed in the 1980s
Marine Geophysical Research
May 1990
Image processing applied to long-range sidescan sonar data in the 1980s
January 1990
Quantitative backscatter measurements with a long-range side-scan sonar
IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering
January 1989
