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Adrian J. Hartley is affiliated with the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on subfields including Earth-Surface Processes, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Paleontology, and Geology.

Their research covers a range of topics concentrating on geological formations and processes, geology and paleoclimatology research, geological and geochemical analysis, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, hydrology and sediment transport processes, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, as well as geological and geophysical studies.

Frequent coauthors in their work include John Howell, David W. Jolley, Douglas Watson, Jessica H. Pugsley, and Magda Chmielewska. Adrian J. Hartley has published in multiple venues, with notable recurrent contributions to the Journal of the Geological Society, Journal of Sedimentary Research, Petroleum Geoscience, Basin Research, and Sedimentology.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Hartley include:

  • Controls on Early Cretaceous desert sediment provenance in south-west Gondwana, Botucatu Formation (Brazil and Uruguay), 2020, Sedimentology
  • Virtual field trips utilizing virtual outcrop: construction, delivery and implications for the future, 2022, Geoscience Communication
  • Tidal estuarine deposits of the transgressive Naturita Formation (Dakota Sandstone): San Rafael Swell, Utah, U.S.A., 2020, Journal of Sedimentary Research
  • Evolution of foreland basin fluvial systems in the mid-Cretaceous of Utah, USA (upper Cedar Mountain and Naturita formations), 2021, Sedimentology
  • Determining sediment provenance history in a Gondwanan erg: Botucatu formation, Northern Paraná Basin, Brazil, 2021, Sedimentary Geology

In addition to journal articles, their work also includes book publications, such as the title BAT for Reduction and Reuse of Emissions in Nordic Land-based Aquaculture, published by TemaNord in 2023.

Best Publications

  • The central Andean west-slope rainshadow and its potential contribution to the origin of hyper-aridity in the Atacama Desert

    John Houston;Adrian J. Hartley

  • Fluvial form in modern continental sedimentary basins: Distributive fluvial systems

    G.S. Weissmann;A.J. Hartley;G.J. Nichols;L.A. Scuderi

  • Large Distributive Fluvial Systems: Characteristics, Distribution, and Controls on Development

    Adrian John Hartley;Gary Weissmann;Gary J. Nichols;Gail L. Warwick

  • Late Pliocene age for the Atacama Desert: Implications for the desertification of western South America

    Adrian J. Hartley;Guillermo Chong

  • 150 million years of climatic stability: evidence from the Atacama Desert, northern Chile

    Adrian J. Hartley;Guillermo Chong;John Houston;Anne E. Mather

  • Andean uplift and climate change

    Adrian John Hartley

  • Development of a continental forearc: A Cenozoic example from the Central Andes, northern Chile

    Adrian J. Hartley;Geoffrey May;Guillermo Chong;Peter Turner

  • Sediment provenance and dispersal in a deep marine foreland basin: the Lower Carboniferous Culm Basin, Czech Republic

    Adrian John Hartley;J. Otava

  • Fluvial geomorphic elements in modern sedimentary basins and their potential preservation in the rock record: A review

    G.S. Weissmann;A.J. Hartley;L.A. Scuderi;G.J. Nichols

  • Prograding Distributive Fluvial Systems—Geomorphic Models and Ancient Examples:

    G. S. Weissmann;A. J. Hartley;L. A. Scuderi;G. J. Nichols

  • Quantification of a Distributive Fluvial System: The Salt Wash DFS of the Morrison Formation, SW U.S.A.

    Amanda Owen;Gary J. Nichols;Adrian J. Hartley;Gary S. Weissmann

  • Geomorphic elements on modern distributive fluvial systems

    Stephanie K. Davidson;Adrian J. Hartley;Gary S. Weissmann;Gary J. Nichols

  • Multiphase development of the Atacama Planation Surface recorded by cosmogenic 3He exposure ages: Implications for uplift and Cenozoic climate change in Western South America

    Laura A. Evenstar;Adrian J. Hartley;Finlay M. Stuart;Anne E. Mather

  • Slow rates of subduction erosion and coastal underplating along the Andean margin of Chile and Peru

    Peter Dominic Clift;Adrian John Hartley

  • Structural, stratigraphic and sedimentological characterisation of a wide rift system: The Triassic rift system of the Central Atlantic Domain

    Sophie Leleu;Adrian J. Hartley;Cees van Oosterhout;Lorcan Kennan

  • Controls on supergene enrichment of porphyry copper deposits in the Central Andes: A review and discussion

    Adrian John Hartley;Clive Maitland Rice

  • Extensional tectonics in convergent margin basins: An example from the Salar de Atacama, Chilean Andes

    S. Flint;P. Turner;E. J. Jolley;A. J. Hartley

  • The Variscan Orogeny: the development and deformation of Devonian/Carboniferous basins in SW England and South Wales

    B. E. Leveridge;Adrian John Hartley

  • Geomorphology on geologic timescales: Evolution of the late Cenozoic Pacific paleosurface in Northern Chile and Southern Peru

    Laura A Evenstar;A. E. Mather;A. J. Hartley;F. M. Stuart

  • Spatial and Temporal Evolution of an Avulsion on the Taquari River Distributive Fluvial System from Satellite Image Analysis

    Holly A Buehler;Gary S Weissmann;Louis A Scuderi;Adrian John Hartley

  • Characterization of Deep Marine Clastic Systems

    Adrian Hartley;Jeremy Prosser

  • Neogene climate change and uplift in the Atacama Desert, Chile: COMMENT COMMENT

    Adrian John Hartley

Frequent Co-Authors

David W. Jolley
David W. Jolley University of Aberdeen
Gary Nichols
Gary Nichols Royal Holloway University of London
Anne E. Mather
Anne E. Mather Plymouth University
Stephen S. Flint
Stephen S. Flint University of Manchester
Malcolm Hole
Malcolm Hole University of Aberdeen
John A. Howell
John A. Howell University of Aberdeen
Guillermo Chong
Guillermo Chong Catholic University of the North
Nick Schofield
Nick Schofield University of Aberdeen
Simon P. Holford
Simon P. Holford University of Adelaide
Finlay M. Stuart
Finlay M. Stuart University of Glasgow

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