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C. R. Twidale is affiliated with the University of Adelaide in Australia, focusing research within the Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science fields. Their work integrates study areas including Atmospheric Science, Geology, Earth-Surface Processes, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The scientist has contributed to topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological formations and processes, Landslides and related hazards, Geological and Geophysical Studies, Grouting, Rheology, and Soil Mechanics, Rock Mechanics and Modeling, and Drilling and Well Engineering.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with C. R. Twidale include Juan Ramón Vidal Romaní and James A. Harrell.

Publications have appeared predominantly in the following venues:

  • Cadernos do Laboratorio Xeolóxico de Laxe Revista de Xeoloxía Galega e do Hercínico Peninsular
  • Géomorphologie relief processus environnement
  • The Journal of Geology
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Earth Sciences History

Representative recent papers include:

  • "Are corestones due to weathering and/or tectonism? Problems and suggestions" (2020) in Cadernos do Laboratorio Xeolóxico de Laxe Revista de Xeoloxía Galega e do Hercínico Peninsular
  • "Distribution and Morphology of the Bedrock Basins Known as Pans in a Granitic Inselberg Landscape" (2022) in The Journal of Geology
  • "Evolution of an ancient cratonic upland, the Gawler Ranges of inland South Australia" (2020) in Géomorphologie relief processus environnement
  • "Flared slopes: The work of water or fire?" (2023) in Earth-Science Reviews
  • "The origin, age, and conservation, of an 'elevated platform', Yarwondutta Rock, north-western Eyre Peninsula, South Australia" (2023) in Cadernos do Laboratorio Xeolóxico de Laxe Revista de Xeoloxía Galega e do Hercínico Peninsular

Best Publications

  • River patterns and their meaning

    C.R. Twidale

  • Landforms and Geology of Granite Terrains

    C Twidale;J Vidal Romaní

  • The reenchantment of geomorphology

    V.R. Baker;C.R. Twidale

  • The two-stage concept of landform and landscape development involving etching: origin, development and implications of an idea

    C.R Twidale

  • Episodic exposure of inselbergs

    C. R. Twidale;Jennifer A. Bourne

  • On the survival of paleoforms

    C. R. Twidale

  • Gondwanan (Late Jurassic and Cretaceous) palaeosurfaces of the Australian craton

    C.R. Twidale

  • Role of Salts in Development of Granitic Tafoni, South Australia

    W. C. Bradley;J. T. Hutton;C. R. Twidale

  • The age of the lateritized summit surface on Kangaroo Island and adjacent areas of South Australia

    B. Daily;C. R. Twidale;A. R. Milnes

  • Relative and 'absolute' dating of land surfaces

    A.L Watchman;C.R Twidale

  • The Origin and Implications of Some Erosional Landforms

    C. R. Twidale

  • The evolution of bornhardts in silicic volcanic rocks in the gawler ranges

    E.M. Campbell;C.R. Twidale

  • Formation and age of desert dunes in the Lake Eyre depocentres in central Australia

    H. Wopfner;C. R. Twidale

  • Evolution of Sand Dunes in the Simpson Desert, Central Australia

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  • Treatment of broad palaeodose distributions in OSL dating of dune sands from the western Murray Basin, South Australia

    J. Lomax;A. Hilgers;C.R. Twidale;J.A. Bourne

  • On the origin of sheet jointing

    C. R. Twidale

  • A model of landscape evolution involving increased and increasing relief amplitude

    C. R. Twidale

  • The onset of dune formation in the Strzelecki Desert, South Australia

    J Lomax;A Hilgers;H Wopfner;Rainer Grun

  • Granite landform evolution: Factors and implications

    C. R. Twidale

  • Formas y paisajes graníticos

    Juan Ramón Vidal Romaní;C. R. Twidale

  • Minor granite landforms associated with the release of compressive stress

    C. R. Twidale;G. Sved

  • Natural history of Kangaroo Island

    M. Davies;C. R. Twidale;M. J. Tyler

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrich Radtke
Ulrich Radtke University of Duisburg-Essen
Nigel A. Spooner
Nigel A. Spooner University of Adelaide
Rainer Grün
Rainer Grün Australian National University
Richard R. Hillis
Richard R. Hillis University of Adelaide
Edward J. Rhodes
Edward J. Rhodes University of Sheffield
Victor R. Baker
Victor R. Baker University of Arizona

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