Publications (2010-2019)
2010 †
171. Trenbirth, H.E. and Matthews, J.A. (2010) Lichen growth rates on glacier forelands in southern Norway: preliminary results from a 25-year monitoring programme. Geografiska Annaler, Series A (Physical Geography) 92A: 19-39. ‡ Contribution to the Special Issue: Lichenometry in Sub-Polar Environments.
172. Winkler, S. and Matthews, J.A. (2010) Observations on terminal-moraine ridge formation during recent advances of southern Norwegian glaciers. Geomorphology 116: 87-106.
173. Robbins, J.A. and Matthews, J.A. (2010) Regional variation in successional trajectories and rates of vegetation change on glacier forelands in south-central Norway. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 42: 351-361.
174. Owen, G., Hiemstra, J.F., Matthews, J.A. and McEwen, L.J. (2010) Landslide- glacier interaction in a neoparaglacial setting at Tverrbyttnede, Jotunheimen, southern Norway. Geografiska Annaler, Series A (Physical Geography) 92A: 421-436.
† Expedition results also appeared in: Winkler, S. and Matthews, J.A. (2010) Holocene glacier chronologies: are high-resolution global and inter-hemispheric comparisons possible? The Holocene 20: 1137-1147.
‡ A photograph of a monitored lichen thallus (Rhizocarpon subgenus) from the Bøverbreen glacier foreland, Jotunheimen, also appeared on the cover of Geografiska Annaler, Series A (Physical Geography) 92A (Issue No. 1), 2010.
2011
175. Matthews, J.A. and Winkler, S. (2011) Schmidt hammer exposure-age dating (SHD): application to early-Holocene moraines and a reappraisal of the reliability of terrestrial cosmogenic-nuclide dating (TCND) at Austanbotnbreen, Jotunheimen, Norway. Boreas 40: 256-270.
176. Matthews, J.A. and Trenbirth, H.E. (2011) Growth rate of a very large crustose lichen (Rhizocarpon subgenus) and its implications for lichenometry. Geografiska Annaler, Series A (Physical Geography) 93A: 27-39.
177. Matthews, J.A. and Owen, G. (2011) Holocene chemical weathering, surface lowering and rock weakening rates from glacially-eroded bedrock surfaces in an alpine periglacial environment, Jotunheimen, southern Norway. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 22: 279-290. [Contribution to the Special Issue in honour of Professor Charles Harris]
178. Shakesby, R.A., Matthews, J.A., Karlén, W. and Los, S. (2011) The Schmidt hammer as a Holocene calibrated-age dating technique: testing the form of the R-value – age relationship and defining the predicted age errors. The Holocene 21: 615-628.
179. McEwen, L.J., Owen, G., Matthews, J.A. and Hiemstra, J. F. (2011) Late- Holocene development of a Norwegian alpine alluvial fan affected by proximal glacier variations, distalundercutting and colluvial activity. Geomorphology 127: 198-215.
180. Matthews, J.A., Shakesby, R.A., Owen, G. and Vater, A.E. (2011) Pronival rampart formation in relation to snow-avalanche activity and Schmidt-hammer exposure age dating (SHD): three case studies from southern Norway. Geomorphology 130: 280-288.
2012 †
181. Nesje, A. and Matthews, J.A. (2012) The Briksdalsbre Event: A winter precipitation- induced decadal-scale glacial advance in southern Norway in the AD 1990s. The Holocene 22: 249-261.
182. Vater, A.E. (2012) Insect and arachnid colonization on the Storbreen glacier foreland, Jotunheimen, Norway: persistence of taxa suggests an alternative model of succession. The Holocene 22: 1123-1133.
† Expedition results were used as case studies in Kent M (2012) Vegetation Description and Analysis: a Practical Approach, 2nd edition. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell [see pp. 3-6, 94-95, 264-266, 299-301].
2013
183. McEwen, L.J. and Matthews, J.A. (2013) Sensitivity, persistence and resolution of the Holocene geomorphological record of valley-floor floods in an alpine glacier-fed catchment, Leirdalen, Jotunheimen, southern Norway. The Holocene 23: 974-989.
184. Vater, A.E. and Matthews, J.A. (2013) Testing the ‘addition and persistence model’ of invertebrate succession in a subalpine glacier-foreland chronosequence: Fåbergstølsbreen, southern Norway. The Holocene 23: 1151-1162.
185. Matthews, J.A. and McEwen, L.J. (2013) High-precision Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating (SHD) of flood berms, Vetlestølsdalen, alpine southern Norway: first application and some methodological issues. Geografiska Annaler, Series A (Physical Geography) 95: 185-195.
186. Matthews, J.A. (2013) Neoglaciation in Europe. In: Elias S.A. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, Volume 2, pp. 257-268. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
187. Matthews, J.A., Nesje, A. and Linge, H. (2013) Relict talus-foot rock glaciers at Øyberget, upper Ottadalen, southern Norway: Schmidt-hammer exposure age and palaeoenvironmental implications. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 24: 336-346.
2014
188. Matthews, J.A., Winkler, S. and Wilson, P. (2014) Age and origin of ice-cored moraines in Jotunheimen and Breheimen, southern Norway: insights from Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating. Geografiska Annaler, Series A (Physical Geography) 96: 531-548.
189. Winkler, S. and Matthews, J.A. (2014) Comparison of electronic and mechanical Schmidt hammers in the context of exposure-age dating: are Q- and R-values interconvertible? Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 39: 1128-1136.
190. Robbins, J.A. and Matthews, J.A. (2014) Use of ecological indicator values to investigate successional change in boreal to high-alpine glacier-foreland chronosequences, southern Norway. The Holocene 24: 1453-1464.
191. Pardoe, H.S. (2014) Surface pollen deposition on glacier forelands in southern Norway, II: regional patterns across the Jotunheimen-Jostedalsbreen region. The Holocene 24: 1675-1685.
2015
192. Vater, A.E. and Matthews, J.A. (2015) Succession of pitfall-trapped insects and arachnids on eight Norwegian glacier forelands along an altitudinal gradient: patterns and models. The Holocene 25: 108-129. [Contribution to the Special Issue in honour of Professor H. John B. Birks]
193. Hiemstra, J.F., Matthews, J.A., Evans, D.J.A. and Owen, G. (2015) Sediment fingerprinting and the mode of formation of singular and composite annual moraine ridges at two southern Norwegian glacier margins. The Holocene 25: 1772-1785.
194. Matthews, J.A., McEwen, L.J. and 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: 1705-1718.
195. Matthews, J.A. and Wilson, P. (2015) Improved Schmidt-hammer exposure ages for active and relict pronival ramparts in southern Norway, and their palaeoenvironmental implications. Geomorphology 246: 7-21.
196. Matthews, J.A. and Vater, A.E. (2015) Pioneer zone geo-ecological change: observations from a chronosequence on the Storbreen glacier foreland, Jotunheimen, southern Norway. Catena 135: 219-230.
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2016
197. Wilson, P., Matthews, J.A. and Mourne, R.W. (2017) Relict blockstreams at Insteheia, Valldalen-Tafjorden, southern Norway: their nature and Schmidt-hammer exposure age. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes [28: 286-297].
198. Matthews, J.A., Owen, G., Winkler, S., Vater, A.E., Wilson, P., Mourne, R.W. and Hill, J.L. (2016) A rock-surface microweathering index from Schmidt hammer R-values and its preliminary application to some common rock types in southern Norway. Catena 143: 35-44.
199. Winkler, S., Matthews, J.A., Mourne, R.W. and Wilson, P. (2016) Schmidt-hammer exposure ages from periglacial patterned ground (sorted circles) in Jotunheimen, Norway, and their interpretive problems. Geografiska Annaler: Series A (Physical Geography) 98: 265-285.
200. Winkler, S. and Matthews, J.A. (2016) Inappropriate instrument calibration for Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating (SHD) – a comment on Dortch et al., Quaternary Geochronology 35 (2016), 67-68. Quaternary Geochronology 36: 102-103. †
2017
201. Matthews, J.A., Wilson, P. and Mourne, R.W. (2017) Landform transitions from pronival ramparts to moraines and rock glaciers: a case study from the Smørbotn cirque, Romsdalsalpane, southern Norway. Geografiska Annaler: Series A (Physical Geography) 99A: 15-37.
202. Matthews, J.A., Shakesby, R.A. and Fabel, D. (2017) Very low inherited age in cosmogenic nuclide dating of glacial deposits: a field experiment from two Norwegian glacier forelands. The Holocene 27: 1406-1414.
203. Matthews, J.A., Owen, G., McEwen, L.J., Shakesby, R.A., Hill, J.L., Vater, A.E. and Ratcliffe, A.C. (2017) Snow-avalanche impact craters in southern Norway: their morphology and dynamics compared with small terrestrial meteorite craters. Geomorphology 296: 11-30.
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2018
204. Hill, J.L., Vater, A.E., Geary, A.P. and Matthews, J.A. (2018) Chronosequences of ant-nest mounds from glacier forelands of Jostedalsbreen, southern Norway: insights into the distribution, succession and geo-ecology of red wood ants (Formica lugubris and F. aquilonia). The Holocene 28: 1113-1130.
205. Matthews, J.A., Hill, J.L., J.A., Winkler, S., Owen, G. and Vater A. (2018) Autosuccession in alpine vegetation: testing the concept on an altitudinal bioclimatic gradient, Jotunheimen, southern Norway. Catena 170: 169-182.
206. Matthews, J.A., Winkler, S., Wilson, P., Tomkins, M.D., Dortch, J.M., Mourne, R.W., Hill. J.L., Owen, G. and Vater, A. (2018) Small rock-slope failures conditioned by Holocene permafrost degradation: a new approach and conceptual model based on Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating, Jotunheimen, southern Norway. Boreas [in press; already published on-line].
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2019
207. Matthews, J.A., Wilson, P., Winkler, S., Mourne, R.W., Hill, J.L., Owen, G., Hiemstra, J., Hallang, H. and Geary, A. P. (2019) Age and development of active cryoplanation terraces in the alpine permafrost zone at Svartkampan, Jotunheimen, southern Norway. Quaternary Research 92: 641-664.
208. Wilson, P., Linge, H., Matthews, J.A., Mourne, R.W. and Olsen, J. (2019) Comparative numerical surface exposure-age dating (10Be and Schmidt hammer) of an early-Holocene rock avalanche at Alstadfjellet, Valldalen, southern Norway. Geografiska Annaler: Series A (Physical Geography) 101: 293-309.
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