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Christopher L. Fergusson

Christopher L. Fergusson

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Earth Science

D-Index
36
Citations
5586
World Ranking
7167
National Ranking
351

Overview

Christopher L. Fergusson is affiliated with the University of Wollongong in Australia. Their research spans various aspects of Earth and Planetary Sciences, focusing notably on geophysics and geology. Their work integrates geological and geophysical studies with detailed geological and geochemical analysis, contributing to understanding of earthquake and tectonic studies.

The primary fields of study for Fergusson include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

The subfields of their work emphasize:

  • Geophysics
  • Geology
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Artificial Intelligence

Main topics addressed in their research are:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping

Fergusson's recent publications include:

  • Coeval basin formation, plutonism and metamorphism in the Northern Tasmanides: extensional Cambro-Ordovician tectonism of the Charters Towers Province, 2020, published in Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
  • Devonian-Carboniferous regional deformation in the northeastern Lachlan Orogen, southeastern Australia, 2021, published in Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
  • Late Quaternary neotectonics in the Bird's Head Peninsula (West Papua), Indonesia: Implications for plate motions in northwestern New Guinea, western Pacific, 2022, published in Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
  • Neogene uplift and deformation in the northeastern Bird's Head Peninsula, West Papua, Indonesia: consequences of oblique plate convergence, 2023, published in International Geology Review
  • Segmentation and fault-monocline relationships in the Lapstone Structural Complex, Sydney Basin, New South Wales, 2022, published in Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Frequent co-authors of Fergusson include:

  • Sukahar Eka Adi Saputra
  • Colin V. Murray-Wallace
  • R. A. Henderson
  • Asahiko Taira
  • Gregory F. Moore

The main venues where Fergusson has published are:

  • Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
  • International Geology Review
  • Indonesian Journal on Geoscience

Best Publications

  • Cretaceous–Tertiary convergence and continental collision, Sanandaj–Sirjan Zone, western Iran

    M Mohajjel;C.L Fergusson;M.R Sahandi

  • Dextral transpression in Late Cretaceous continental collision, Sanandaj–Sirjan Zone, western Iran

    Mohammad Mohajjel;Christopher L Fergusson

  • Interactions between deformation and fluids in the frontal thrust region of the NanTroSEIZE transect offshore the Kii Peninsula, Japan: Results from IODP Expedition 316 Sites C0006 and C0007

    E Screaton;G Kimura;D Curewitz;D Curewitz;G Moore;G Moore

  • Plate tectonic model for the Carboniferous evolution of the New England Fold Belt

    C. G. Murray;C. L. Fergusson;P. G. Flood;W. G. Whitaker

  • New insights into deformation and fluid flow processes in the Nankai Trough accretionary prism: Results of Ocean Drilling Program Leg 190

    Gregory F. Moore;Asahiko Taira;Adam Klaus;Luann Becker

  • Jurassic to cenozoic tectonics of the zagros orogen in northwestern Iran

    M. Mohajjel;C. L. Fergusson

  • Structural, metamorphic, and geochronological constraints on alternating compression and extension in the Early Paleozoic Gondwanan Pacific margin, northeastern Australia

    Christopher Lloyd Fergusson;Robert Henderson;I W Withnall;Christopher Fanning

  • Structure and tectonics

    D. H. Gray;R. L. Allen;M. A. Etheridge;C. L. Fergusson

  • Convergence and intraplate deformation in the Lachlan Fold Belt of Southeastern Australia

    Christopher L. Fergusson;Peter J. Coney

  • Overthrust terranes in the Lachlan fold belt, southeastern Australia

    Christopher L. Fergusson;David R. Gray;Ray A.F. Cas

  • Detrital zircon ages in Neoproterozoic to Ordovician siliciclastic rocks, northeastern Australia: implications for the tectonic history of the East Gondwana continental margin

    Christopher L. Fergusson;Robert A. Henderson;C.Mark Fanning;Ian W. Withnall

  • Gondwanan Eoarchean–Neoproterozoic ancient crustal material in Iran and Turkey: zircon U–Pb–Hf isotopic evidence

    Allen Phillip Nutman;Mohammad Mohajjel;Vickie Bennett;Chris L Fergusson

  • Crustal architecture and geodynamics of North Queensland, Australia: Insights from deep seismic reflection profiling

    R. J Korsch;D. L Huston;Robert Henderson;Richard Blewett

  • Ordovician–Silurian accretion tectonics of the Lachlan Fold Belt, southeastern Australia

    C. L. Fergusson

  • Proterozoic–Cambrian detrital zircon and monazite ages from the Anakie Inlier, central Queensland: Grenville and Pacific‐Gondwana signatures*

    Christopher Lloyd Fergusson;Paul Francis Carr;Christopher Fanning;Tracey Green

  • The upper Devonian Boyd Volcanic complex, Eden, New South Wales

    C. L. Fergusson;R. A. F. Cas;W. J. Collins;G. Y. Craig

  • The Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone in the Neo-Tethyan suture, western Iran: Zircon U-Pb evidence of late Palaeozoic rifting of northern Gondwana and mid-Jurassic orogenesis

    Chris L Fergusson;Allen Phillip Nutman;Mohammad Mohajjel;Vickie C Bennett

  • Thin‐skinned thrusting in the northern New England Orogen, central Queensland, Australia

    Christopher L. Fergusson

  • Implications of a Bengal Fan-type deposit in the Paleozoic Lachlan fold belt of southeastern Australia

    Christopher L. Fergusson;Peter J. Coney

  • Late Ordovician stratigraphy, zircon provenance and tectonics, Lachlan Fold Belt, southeastern Australia*

    Christopher Lloyd Fergusson;Christopher Fanning

  • Middle Palaeozoic thrusting in the eastern Lachlan Fold Belt, southeastern Australia

    Christopher L. Fergusson;A.H.M. VandenBerg

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael B. Underwood
Michael B. Underwood New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
David Phillips
David Phillips University of Melbourne
Kitty L. Milliken
Kitty L. Milliken The University of Texas at Austin
Gregory F. Moore
Gregory F. Moore University of Hawaii at Manoa
Allen P. Nutman
Allen P. Nutman University of Wollongong
Michael Strasser
Michael Strasser University of Innsbruck
C. McA. Powell
C. McA. Powell University of Western Australia
Christopher Fanning
Christopher Fanning Australian National University
Kohtaro Ujiie
Kohtaro Ujiie University of Tsukuba

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