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Adrian M. Hall is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a considerable focus on subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Geophysics, Earth-Surface Processes, and Mechanics of Materials.

Their main areas of study include geological and paleoclimatology research, cryospheric studies and observations, landslides and related hazards, geological formations and processes, climate change and permafrost, geological and geochemical analysis, and hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

Adrian M. Hall has authored several research papers published in various academic journals. Some recent papers include:

  • The extreme yet transient nature of glacial erosion, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Present-Day Stress Field Influences Bedrock Fracture Openness Deep Into the Subsurface, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Origin of the Baltic Sea basin by Pleistocene glacial erosion, 2020, GFF
  • Glacial ripping: geomorphological evidence from Sweden for a new process of glacial erosion, 2020, Geografiska Annaler Series A Physical Geography
  • Ultra-slow cratonic denudation in Finland since 1.5 Ga indicated by tiered unconformities and impact structures, 2020, Precambrian Research

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Maarten Krabbendam
  • Mikis van Boeckel
  • Niko Putkinen
  • Jakob Heyman
  • Arjen P. Stroeven

Adrian M. Hall has published repeatedly in several venues, with multiple papers appearing in:

  • GFF
  • Geografiska Annaler Series A Physical Geography
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Deglaciation of the Eurasian ice sheet complex.

    Henry Patton;Alun Lloyd Hubbard;Karin Andreassen;Amandine Auriac

  • Dynamic cycles, ice streams and their impact on the extent, chronology and deglaciation of the British-Irish ice sheet

    Alun Lloyd Hubbard;Tom Bradwell;Nicholas Golledge;Adrian Hall

  • Cliff-top megaclast deposits of Ireland, a record of extreme waves in the North Atlantic—storms or tsunamis?

    D.Michael Williams;Adrian M. Hall

  • Distribution, geomorphology and lithofacies of cliff-top storm deposits: Examples from the high-energy coasts of Scotland and Ireland

    A.M. Hall;J.D. Hansom;D.M. Williams;J. Jarvis

  • Cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al exposure ages of tors and erratics, Cairngorm Mountains, Scotland : Timescales for the development of a classic landscape of selective linear glacial erosion

    William M. Phillips;Adrian M. Hall;Ruth Mottram;L. Keith Fifield

  • Middle and Late Weichselian (Devensian) glaciation history of south-western Norway, North Sea and eastern UK

    H.P. Sejrup;A. Nygård;A.M. Hall;H. Haflidason

  • Modelling the processes of cliff-top erosion and deposition under extreme storm waves

    J.D. Hansom;N.D.P. Barltrop;A.M. Hall

  • Pre-Quaternary landscape evolution in the Scottish Highlands

    A. M. Hall

  • Limited modification of mid-latitude landscapes by ice sheets: The case of northeast Scotland

    Adrian M. Hall;David E. Sugden

  • Patterns and rates of erosion produced by high energy wave processes on hard rock headlands: The Grind of the Navir, Shetland, Scotland

    Adrian M. Hall;James D. Hansom;Jack Jarvis

  • Magnitude and frequency of extra-tropical North Atlantic cyclones: A chronology from cliff-top storm deposits

    J.D. Hansom;A.M. Hall

  • Reconstructing the basal thermal regime of an ice stream in a landscape of selective linear erosion: Glen Avon, Cairngorm Mountains, Scotland

    Adrian M. Hall;Neil F. Glasser

  • Luminescence dating and its application to key pre-Late Devensian sites in Scotland

    G.A.T. Duller;A.G. Wintle;A.M. Hall;A.M. Hall

  • Cenozoic weathering covers in Buchan, Scotland and their significance

    A. M. Hall

  • The Tolsta Interstadial, Scotland: correlation with D–O cycles GI-8 to GI-5?

    Graeme Whittington;Adrian M Hall

  • Deep weathering patterns in north-east Scotland and their geomorphological significance

    Adrian M. Hall

  • The clay mineralogy and age of deeply weathered rock in north-east Scotland

    Adrian Hall;Antony Mellor;Matthew Wilson

  • Wave-Emplaced Coarse Debris and Megaclasts in Ireland and Scotland: Boulder Transport in a High-Energy Littoral Environment: A Discussion

    A. M. Hall;J. D. Hansom;D. M. Williams

  • Storm wave currents, boulder movement and shore platform development: A case study from East Lothian, Scotland

    Adrian M. Hall

  • Extent of the last ice sheet in northern Scotland tested with cosmogenic 10Be exposure ages

    William M. Phillips;Adrian M. Hall;Colin K. Ballantyne;Steven Binnie

  • Glacial modification of granite tors in the Cairngorms, Scotland

    A. M. Hall;W. M. Phillips

Frequent Co-Authors

Clas Hättestrand
Clas Hättestrand Stockholm University
Arjen P. Stroeven
Arjen P. Stroeven Stockholm University
Johan Kleman
Johan Kleman Stockholm University
Jakob Heyman
Jakob Heyman University of Gothenburg
Colin K. Ballantyne
Colin K. Ballantyne University of St Andrews
Stephen J. Martel
Stephen J. Martel University of Hawaii at Manoa
David E. Sugden
David E. Sugden King's College London
Kevin J. Edwards
Kevin J. Edwards University of Aberdeen
Alun Hubbard
Alun Hubbard University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway

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