Alice Turkington is a geomorphologist with a particular interest in rock and mineral weathering in a range of geologic and climatic contexts.

The focus of Alice’s recent research has been the development of new theoretical and methodological approaches within the discipline of weathering geomorphology, with a view to advancing our understanding of the underlying control exerted by rock weathering on landscape evolution. These research projects are concerned with examining the landforms explicitly produced by subaerial weathering processes, and the interactions between bedrock weathering processes and other geomorphic processes in producing and controlling certain landscape dynamics. Two projects that are nearing completion are based in the southwestern US, and have focused on the role of rock weathering in creating surface features in arid environments (where rocks are exposed at the surface), and in determining the influence of this suite of processes on landscape change.

The question of bedrock weathering processes, and the potential stability of subsoil weathering systems, is under investigation in a field-based project in the Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas, and will hopefully be complemented by research into the weathering processes responsible for promoting massive erosion in the Waipaoa River Basin in New Zealand in collaboration with Jonathan Phillips and Basil Gomez.