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Hugh Sinclair is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research largely focuses within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, covering a significant volume of publications in these areas.

Their main subfields of study include Geophysics, Earth-Surface Processes, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, and Atmospheric Science. The core topics of their work encompass Geological formations and processes, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Soil erosion and sediment transport, and Landslides and related hazards.

Hugh Sinclair has published frequently in several prominent scientific venues. These include:

  • International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (4 papers)
  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (3 papers)
  • Geophysical Research Letters (3 papers)
  • Earth Surface Dynamics (3 papers)
  • Geomorphology (2 papers)

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Editorial. Risk-based, Pro-poor Urban Design and Planning for Tomorrow's Cities," 2021, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • "Sediment dynamics across gravel-sand transitions: Implications for river stability and floodplain recycling," 2020, Geology
  • "Physics-based simulations of multiple natural hazards for risk-sensitive planning and decision making in expanding urban regions," 2022, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • "Dynamic flood topographies in the Terai region of Nepal," 2020, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • "Formation of Longitudinal River Valleys and the Fixing of Drainage Divides in Response to Exhumation of Crystalline Basement," 2021, Geophysical Research Letters

Hugh Sinclair has collaborated with several frequent coauthors, including Maggie Creed, Simon M. Mudd, Mikaël Attal, C. Scott Watson, and Manoranjan Muthusamy. These collaborations span multiple papers and topics within their fields of expertise.

Best Publications

  • Tectonostratigraphic model for underfilled peripheral foreland basins: An Alpine perspective

    Hugh Sinclair

  • Simulation of Foreland Basin Stratigraphy using a diffusion model of mountain belt uplift and erosion: An example from the central Alps, Switzerland

    Hugh Sinclair;B. J. Coakley;P. A. Allen;A. B. Watts

  • Vertical versus horizontal motions in the Alpine orogenic wedge: stratigraphic response in the foreland basin

    Hugh Sinclair;P. A. Allen

  • Climate-induced rebound and exhumation of the European Alps

    Charlotte E. Cederbom;Hugh D. Sinclair;Fritz Schlunegger;Meinert K. Rahn

  • The inception and early evolution of the North Alpine Foreland Basin, Switzerland

    Philip A. Allen;Sarah L. Crampton;Hugh D. Sinclair

  • Depositional Evolution of Confined Turbidite Basins

    H.D. Sinclair;M. Tomasso

  • FLYSCH TO MOLASSE TRANSITION IN PERIPHERAL FORELAND BASINS : THE ROLE OF THE PASSIVE MARGIN VERSUS SLAB BREAKOFF

    Hugh Sinclair

  • Asymmetric growth of the Pyrenees revealed through measurement and modeling of orogenic fluxes

    H. D. Sinclair;M. Gibson;M. Naylor;R. G. Morris

  • Increase in late Neogene denudation of the European Alps confirmed by analysis of a fission-track thermochronology database

    A. J. Vernon;A. J. Vernon;P. A. van der Beek;Hugh Sinclair;M. K. Rahn

  • Late Cretaceous‐Palaeogene stratigraphic and basin evolution in the Zhepure Mountain of southern Tibet: implications for the timing of India‐Asia initial collision

    Xiumian Hu;Hugh D. Sinclair;Jiangang Wang;Hehe Jiang

  • The Qs problem: Sediment volumetric balance of proximal foreland basin systems

    Philip A. Allen;John J. Armitage;Andrew Carter;Robert A. Duller

  • Pro- vs. retro-foreland basins

    M. Naylor;H. D. Sinclair

  • Tectonic evolution of the Himalaya constrained by detrital 40Ar–39Ar, Sm–Nd and petrographic data from the Siwalik foreland basin succession, SW Nepal

    A. G. Szulc;Y. Najman;H. D. Sinclair;M. Pringle

  • Sedimentology of the Indus Group, Ladakh, northern India: implications for the timing of initiation of the palaeo-Indus River

    Hugh Sinclair;N. Jaffey

  • Rapid extensive erosion of the North Alpine foreland basin at 5–4 Ma

    Charlotte E. Cederbom;Peter van der Beek;Fritz Schlunegger;Hugh D. Sinclair

  • Sediment routing system evolution within a diachronously uplifting orogen: Insights from detrital zircon thermochronological analyses from the South-Central Pyrenees

    A. L. Whitchurch;A. Carter;H. D. Sinclair;R. A. Duller

  • Delta-Fed Turbidites Infilling Topographically Complex Basins: A New Depositional Model for the Annot Sandstones, SE France

    Hugh Sinclair

  • Tectonic forcing of longitudinal valleys in the Himalaya: morphological analysis of the Ladakh Batholith, North India

    S.S.R Jamieson;H.D Sinclair;L.A Kirstein;R.S Purves

  • Late‐ to post‐orogenic exhumation of the Central Pyrenees revealed through combined thermochronological data and modelling

    M. Gibson;H. D. Sinclair;G. J. Lynn;G. J. Lynn;F. M. Stuart

  • The influence of lateral basinal slopes on turbidite sedimentation in the Annot sandstones of SE France

    Hugh Sinclair

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon M. Mudd
Simon M. Mudd University of Edinburgh
Finlay M. Stuart
Finlay M. Stuart University of Glasgow
Patience A. Cowie
Patience A. Cowie University of Bergen
Philip A. Allen
Philip A. Allen Imperial College London
Mary Ford
Mary Ford University of Lorraine
Peter van der Beek
Peter van der Beek University of Potsdam
Alistair G.L. Borthwick
Alistair G.L. Borthwick University of Edinburgh
Xiumian Hu
Xiumian Hu Nanjing University
Jeremy G. Venditti
Jeremy G. Venditti Simon Fraser University
Alexander C. Whittaker
Alexander C. Whittaker Imperial College London

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