Dr Vernon Manville
- Position
- Lecturer in Flood and Sediment Dynamics
- Areas of expertise
- morpho-sedimentary responses to explosive volcanism; catastrophic flooding; lahars and debris avalanches; natural hazards; clastic sedimentology; field geology
- earvrm@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone
- +44 (0) 113 343 1307
- Location
- 8.25 Priestley Building
- Faculty
- Faculty of Environment
- School
- School of Earth and Environment
- Faculty profile link
- https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/see/staff/1396/dr-vern-manville
Landscape responses to large-scale explosive volcanic eruptions; Dam-breach floods from natural impoundments, including volcanogenic lakes and landslide dams; Sedimentology of volcaniclastic deposits in continental and marine environments; Lahar initiation and propagation processes, including debris- and hyperconcentrated flow rheology and numerical modelling; Debris avalanche initiation and run-out processes; Volcano-tectonic interactions at caldera volcanoes; Coupled catchment-channel dynamics in peturbed earth systems; Giant rafted pumice blocks from subaqueous felsic dome eruptors