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Earth Science

D-Index
35
Citations
5381
World Ranking
7534
National Ranking
769

Best Publications

  • The Storegga Slides: Evidence from eastern Scotland for a possible tsunami

    A.G Dawson;D Long;D.E Smith

  • The Storegga Slide tsunami—comparing field observations with numerical simulations

    Stein Bondevik;Finn Løvholt;Carl Harbitz;Jan Mangerud

  • Tsunami Deposits

    Unknown

  • Geomorphological effects of tsunami run-up and backwash

    Unknown

  • Coastal Sedimentation Associated with the December 12th, 1992 Tsunami in Flores, Indonesia

    Shaozhong Shi;Alastair G. Dawson;David E. Smith

  • Ice Age Earth: Late Quaternary Geology and Climate

    Alastair G. Dawson

  • Record-breaking height for 8000-year-old tsunami in the North Atlantic

    Stein Bondevik;Jan Mangerud;Sue Dawson;Alastair Dawson

  • Tsunami sedimentation associated with the Lisbon earthquake of 1 November AD 1755: Boca do Rio, Algarve, Portugal

    A.G. Dawson;R. Hindson;C. Andrade;C. Freitas

  • Evidence for three North Sea tsunamis at the Shetland Islands between 8000 and 1500 years ago

    Stein Bondevik;Jan Mangerud;Sue Dawson;Alastair Dawson

  • A Holocene tsunami deposit in eastern Scotland

    David Long;David E. Smith;Alastair G. Dawson

  • Sedimentary processes associated with the tsunami generated by the 1755 Lisbon earthquake on the Algarve coast, Portugal

    R.A. Hindson;C. Andrade;A.G. Dawson

  • Coastal sedimentation associated with the June 2nd and 3rd, 1994 tsunami in Rajegwesi, Java

    Unknown

  • Microtextural characteristics of quartz grains transported and deposited by tsunamis and storms

    Pedro J.M. Costa;C. Andrade;A.G. Dawson;W.C. Mahaney

  • Lake shoreline development, frost weathering and rock platform erosion in an alpine periglacial environment, Jotunheimen, southern Norway

    John A. Matthews;Alastair G. Dawson;Richard A. Shakesby

  • The Role of Climate in Settlement and Landscape Change in the North Atlantic Islands: An Assessment of Cumulative Deviations in High-Resolution Proxy Climate Records

    Andrew J. Dugmore;Douglas M. Borthwick;Mike J. Church;Alastair Dawson

  • Rock glaciers, protalus ramparts and related phenomena, Rondane, Norway: a continuum of large‐scale talus‐derived landforms

    Richard A. Shakesby;Alastair G. Dawson;John A. Matthews

  • Complex North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) Index signal of historic North Atlantic storm-track changes

    Alastair G. Dawson;Kieran Hickey;Tom Holt;L. Elliott

  • Late-Holocene North Atlantic climate ‘seesaws’, storminess changes and Greenland ice sheet (GISP2) palaeoclimates

    Alastair G. Dawson;Lorne Elliott;Paul Mayewski;Peter Lockett

  • Late Holocene coastal tectonics at Falasarna, western Crete: a sedimentary study

    Dale Dominey-Howes;Alastair Dawson;David Smith

  • Geological and historical investigation of the 1650 Mt. Columbo (Thera Island) eruption and tsunami, Aegean Sea, Greece

    D. T. M. Dominey-Howes;G. A. Papadopoulos;A. G. Dawson

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