Mine tailings dams: Characteristics, failure, environmental impacts, and remediation

D Kossoff, WE Dubbin, M Alfredsson, SJ Edwards… - Applied …, 2014 - Elsevier
On a global scale demand for the products of the extractive industries is ever increasing.
Extraction of the targeted resource results in the concurrent production of a significant volume of …

Correlation of fluvial sequences in the Mediterranean basin over the last 200 ka and their relationship to climate change

MG Macklin, IC Fuller, J Lewin, GS Maas… - Quaternary Science …, 2002 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new correlation of Late and Middle Pleistocene fluvial sedimentary
sequences in Greek, Libyan and Spanish river basins and evaluates river response to climate …

River response to rapid Holocene environmental change: evidence and explanation in British catchments

MG Macklin, AF Jones, J Lewin - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
Since the late 1980s our understanding of the relationship between climate, land-use and
Holocene river development in Britain has changed radically. Conceptually simplistic and data…

Past hydrological events reflected in the Holocene fluvial record of Europe

MG Macklin, G Benito, KJ Gregory, E Johnstone… - Catena, 2006 - Elsevier
A comprehensive database of radiocarbon dated fluvial units in Great Britain, Poland and
Spain has been compiled to investigate the relationship between environmental change, …

A geomorphological approach to the management of rivers contaminated by metal mining

MG Macklin, PA Brewer, KA Hudson-Edwards, G Bird… - Geomorphology, 2006 - Elsevier
As the result of current and historical metal mining, river channels and floodplains in many
parts of the world have become contaminated by metal-rich waste in concentrations that may …

Impacts of metal mining on river systems: a global assessment

MG Macklin, CJ Thomas, A Mudbhatkal, PA Brewer… - Science, 2023 - science.org
An estimated 23 million people live on floodplains affected by potentially dangerous
concentrations of toxic waste derived from past and present metal mining activity. We analyzed the …

The long term fate and environmental significance of contaminant metals released by the January and March 2000 mining tailings dam failures in Maramureş County …

MG Macklin, PA Brewer, D Balteanu, TJ Coulthard… - Applied …, 2003 - Elsevier
In January and March 2000 two tailings dam failures in Maramureş County, northwest
Romania, resulted in the release of 200,000 m 3 of contaminated water and 40,000 tonnes of …

River sediments, great floods and centennial‐scale Holocene climate change

MG Macklin, J Lewin - … of Quaternary Science: Published for the …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
… Coulthard JC, Macklin MG. 2001. How sensitive are river systems to climate and land-use …
In River Basin Sediment Systems: Archives of Environmental Change, Maddy D, Macklin MG, …

The rivers of civilization

MG Macklin, J Lewin - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
The hydromorphic regimes that underpinned Old World river-based civilizations are reviewed
in light of recent research. Notable Holocene climatic changes varied from region to region…

The fluvial record of climate change

MG Macklin, J Lewin… - … Transactions of the …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… Newson MD& Macklin MG . 1990 The geomorphologically effective flood and vertical
instability in river channels: a feedback mechanism in the flood series for gravel bed rivers. River …