References¶
Citing gFlex¶
When you use gFlex, please cite the model description paper:
Wickert, A. D. (2016), Open-source modular solutions for flexural isostasy: gFlex v1.0, Geosci. Model Dev., 9(3), 997–1017.
To cite a specific version of the source code, use the Zenodo record for the version you ran. The concept DOI doi:10.5281/zenodo.10471939 always resolves to the latest deposited release; version-specific DOIs are listed on that page. For the current release (v1.4.0):
Wickert, A. D. and Hutton, E. W. H. (2026), gFlex v1.4.0 [software], Zenodo, doi:10.5281/zenodo.10471939.
Uses of gFlex¶
The following is a non-exhaustive selection of published work that has used or incorporated gFlex.
Mey, J., Scherler, D., Wickert, A. D., Egholm, D. L., Tesauro, M., Schildgen, T. F., and Strecker, M. R. (2016), Glacial isostatic uplift of the European Alps, Nature Commun., 7, 13382.
Salles, T. and Hardiman, L. (2016), Badlands: An open-source, flexible and parallel framework to study landscape dynamics, Comput. Geosci., 91, 77–89.
Hobley, D. E. J., Adams, J. M., Nudurupati, S. S., Hutton, E. W. H., Gasparini, N. M., Istanbulluoglu, E., and Tucker, G. E. (2017), Creative computing with Landlab: an open-source toolkit for building, coupling, and exploring two-dimensional numerical models of Earth-surface dynamics, Earth Surf. Dyn., 5, 21–46.
Salles, T., Ding, X., and Brocard, G. (2018), pyBadlands: A framework to simulate sediment transport, landscape dynamics and basin stratigraphic evolution through space and time, PLOS ONE, 13(4), e0195557.
Wickert, A. D., Anderson, R. S., Mitrovica, J. X., Naylor, S., and Carson, E. C. (2019), The Mississippi River records glacial-isostatic deformation of North America, Sci. Adv., 5(1), eaav2366.
Barnhart, K. R., Hutton, E. W. H., Tucker, G. E., Gasparini, N. M., Istanbulluoglu, E., Hobley, D. E. J., Lyons, N. J., Mouchene, M., Nudurupati, S. S., Adams, J. M., and Bandaragoda, C. (2020), Short communication: Landlab v2.0: a software package for Earth surface dynamics, Earth Surf. Dyn., 8, 379–397.
Chang, C. and Liu, L. (2021), Investigating the formation of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway using landscape evolution simulations, GSA Bull., 133(1–2), 347–361.
Polanco, S., Blum, M., Salles, T., Frederick, B. C., Farrington, R., Ding, X., Mather, B., Mallard, C., and Moresi, L. (2024), Flexural isostatic response of continental-scale deltas to climatically driven sea level changes, Earth Surf. Dyn., 12, 301–320.
Nielsen, C. E., Andersen, J. L., Margreth, A., Fredin, O., and Pedersen, V. K. (2024), Constraining the origin of the Norwegian strandflat – The influence of isostatic and dynamic surface changes, Geomorphology, 460, 109276.
Scientific background and dependencies¶
The following works underpin gFlex’s methods or are required to reproduce its visualisations.
van Wees, J.-D. and Cloetingh, S. (1994), A finite-difference technique to incorporate spatial variations in rigidity and planar faults into 3-D models for lithospheric flexure, Geophys. J. Int., 117(1), 179–195.
Turcotte, D. L. and Schubert, G. (2002), Geodynamics (2nd ed.), Cambridge University Press.
Crameri, F., Shephard, G. E., and Heron, P. J. (2020), The misuse of colour in science communication, Nature Commun., 11, 5444.
Crameri, F. (2023), Scientific colour maps (v8.0.0) [software], Zenodo, doi:10.5281/zenodo.1243862.