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Charlie S. Bristow is affiliated with Birkbeck, University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research expertise lies primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Earth-Surface Processes, Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Ocean Engineering, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

Their scholarly work covers a range of topics including Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geophysical Methods and Applications, Aeolian processes and effects, Geological formations and processes, Seismic Waves and Analysis, and Geological Modeling and Analysis.

Recent published papers authored or co-authored by Bristow include:

  • Three North African dust source areas and their geochemical fingerprint, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Characterization of Saharan and Sahelian dust sources based on geochemical and radiogenic isotope signatures, 2022, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Morphology, Development, and Sediment Dynamics of Elongating Linear Dunes on Mars, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Holocene evolution of the Chan May coastal embayment, central Vietnam: Changing coastal dynamics associated with decreasing rates of progradation possibly forced by mid- to late-Holocene sea-level changes, 2020, Geomorphology
  • Observe, Record, Interpret: some examples of teaching sedimentology by distance learning including virtual graphic logs, 2020, The Sedimentary Record

Bristow frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Chris Gouramanis, Adam D. Switzer, L. Buck, Lucy Buck, and Amy Jewell. These co-authors often contribute to joint work in sedimentology and related fields.

Their publications have appeared in a variety of venues, most notably:

  • 18th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, Golden, Colorado, 14-19 June 2020
  • Birkbeck Research Data
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Understanding Mesozoic accretion in Southeast Asia: Significance of Triassic thermotectonism (Indosinian orogeny) in Vietnam

    Andrew Carter;Delphine Roques;Charles Bristow;Peter Kinny

  • Ancient watercourses and biogeography of the Sahara explain the peopling of the desert

    Nick A. Drake;Roger M. Blench;Simon J. Armitage;Charlie S. Bristow

  • GPR in sediments: advice on data collection, basic processing and interpretation, a good practice guide

    Harry M. Jol;Charlie S. Bristow

  • Brahmaputra River: Channel Migration and Deposition

    Charles S. Bristow

  • Three-Dimensional Sedimentary Architecture of a Large, Mid-Channel Sand Braid Bar, Jamuna River, Bangladesh

    James Leonard Best;Philip J. Ashworth;Charles S. Bristow;Julie Roden

  • Morphological evolution and dynamics of a large, sand braid-bar, Jamuna River, Bangladesh

    Philip J. Ashworth;James Leonard Best;Julie E. Roden;Charles S. Bristow

  • The sedimentary structure of linear sand dunes

    Charlie S. Bristow;S.D. Bailey;N. Lancaster

  • Braided rivers: perspectives and problems

    C. S. Bristow;James Leonard Best

  • Fertilizing the Amazon and equatorial Atlantic with West African dust

    Charlie S. Bristow;Karen A. Hudson-Edwards;Adrian Chappell

  • Ground Penetrating Radar in Sediments

    C. S. Bristow;H. M. Jol

  • Links between topography, wind, deflation, lakes and dust: The case of the Bodélé Depression, Chad

    R. Washington;M.C. Todd;G. Lizcano;I. Tegen

  • Age and dynamics of linear dunes in the Namib Desert

    C.S. Bristow;G.A.T. Duller;N. Lancaster

  • Sedimentary structures exposed in bar tops in the Brahmaputra River Bangladesh

    C. S. Bristow

  • The structure and development of foredunes on a locally prograding coast: Insights from ground-penetrating radar surveys, Norfolk, UK

    Charlie S. Bristow;P. Neil Chroston;Simon D. Bailey

  • Quantifying rates of coastal progradation from sediment volume using GPR and OSL: the Holocene fill of Guichen Bay, south-east South Australia

    C. S. Bristow;K. Pucillo

  • Architecture of channel-belt deposits in an aggrading shallow sandbed braided river: the lower Niobrara River, northeast Nebraska

    Raymond L. Skelly;Charlie S. Bristow;Frank G. Ethridge

  • How paleosols influence groundwater flow and arsenic pollution: A model from the Bengal Basin and its worldwide implication

    J.M. McArthur;P. Ravenscroft;D.M. Banerjee;J. Milsom

  • Shorelines in the Sahara: geomorphological evidence for an enhanced monsoon from palaeolake Megachad

    Nick Drake;Charlie Bristow

  • West African monsoon dynamics inferred from abrupt fluctuations of Lake Mega-Chad

    Simon J. Armitage;Charlie S. Bristow;Nicholas Andrew Drake

  • Combining ground penetrating radar surveys and optical dating to determine dune migration in Namibia

    C.S. Bristow;N. Lancaster;G.A.T. Duller

  • Internal structure of aeolian dunes in Abu Dhabi determined using ground‐penetrating radar

    Charlie Bristow;Jonathan Pugh;Tim Goodall

Frequent Co-Authors

Harry M. Jol
Harry M. Jol University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire
Nicholas Drake
Nicholas Drake King's College London
James Leonard Best
James Leonard Best University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nicholas Lancaster
Nicholas Lancaster Desert Research Institute
Andrew Carter
Andrew Carter Birkbeck, University of London
Ian Livingstone
Ian Livingstone University of Northampton
Kevin White
Kevin White University of Reading
Geoff A.T. Duller
Geoff A.T. Duller Aberystwyth University
Giles F.S. Wiggs
Giles F.S. Wiggs University of Oxford
Alexander G. Hayes
Alexander G. Hayes Cornell University

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