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L. Robin M. Cocks was affiliated with the Natural History Museum in the United Kingdom and contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a specialized focus on Paleontology. Their research covered main topics such as Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geological Studies and Exploration, and Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis.

The scientist published research in a variety of academic journals, often collaborating with other experts in related fields. Key publication venues included:

  • Gondwana Research
  • Geological Magazine
  • Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften
  • Irish Journal of Earth Sciences
  • Fossils and strata

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by L. Robin M. Cocks were:

  • Ordovician palaeogeography and climate change (2020, Gondwana Research)
  • The identity and significance of the high-latitude Early Ordovician Mediterranean brachiopod Province (2021, Geological Magazine)
  • Late Ordovician brachiopods from the Portrane Limestone, Ireland, and their significance (2022, Irish Journal of Earth Sciences)
  • Devonian palaeogeography and environmental change: an incomplete chronicle (2025, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften)
  • Front Matter (2021, Fossils and strata)

Their work intersected with several subfields, including Paleontology, Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Geology, and Oceanography.

Frequent co-authors included:

  • Trond H. Torsvik
  • Leonid E. Popov
  • Mathew Domeier
  • Chloé M. Marcilly
  • Elizabeth M. Dowding

L. Robin M. Cocks also contributed to book publications, including a title published by Wiley: A mid-Ordovician brachiopod evolutionary hotspot in southern Kazakhstan (2021).

Best Publications

  • Phanerozoic polar wander, palaeogeography and dynamics

    Trond H. Torsvik;Rob Van der Voo;Rob Van der Voo;Ulla Preeden;Conall Mac Niocaill

  • Earth geography from 500 to 400 million years ago: a faunal and palaeomagnetic review

    L.R.M. Cocks;T.H. Torsvik;T.H. Torsvik

  • Earth History and Palaeogeography

    Trond H. Torsvik;L. Robin M. Cocks

  • Gondwana from top to base in space and time

    Trond H. Torsvik;Trond H. Torsvik;L. Robin M. Cocks

  • Baltica from the late Precambrian to mid-Palaeozoic times: The gain and loss of a terrane's identity

    L. Robin M. Cocks;Trond H. Torsvik

  • Faunal evidence for oceanic separations in the Palaeozoic of Britain

    L. R. M. Cocks;R. A. Fortey

  • Earth geography from 400 to 250 Ma: a palaeomagnetic, faunal and facies review

    Trond H. Torsvik;Trond H. Torsvik;L. Robin M. Cocks

  • Palaeontological evidence bearing on global Ordovician-Silurian continental reconstructions

    Richard A. Fortey;L.Robin M. Cocks

  • The dynamic evolution of the Palaeozoic geography of eastern Asia

    L. Robin M. Cocks;Trond H. Torsvik

  • Siberia, the wandering northern terrane, and its changing geography through the Palaeozoic

    L. Robin M. Cocks;Trond H. Torsvik;Trond H. Torsvik

  • Chapter 2 New global palaeogeographical reconstructions for the Early Palaeozoic and their generation

    Trond H. Torsvik;Trond H. Torsvik;L. Robin M. Cocks

  • European geography in a global context from the Vendian to the end of the Palaeozoic

    L. R. M. Cocks;T. H. Torsvik;T. H. Torsvik

  • The Palaeozoic geography of Laurentia and western Laurussia: A stable craton with mobile margins

    L. Robin M. Cocks;Trond H. Torsvik;Trond H. Torsvik

  • The Palaeozoic Variscan oceans revisited

    Wolfgang Franke;L. Robin M. Cocks;Trond H. Torsvik;Trond H. Torsvik

  • Late Ordovician global warming—The Boda event

    Richard A. Fortey;L. Robin M. Cocks

  • Biogeography of Ordovician and Silurian faunas

    L. R. M. Cocks;R. A. Fortey

  • Longitude: Linking Earth's ancient surface to its deep interior

    Trond H. Torsvik;Trond H. Torsvik;Bernhard Steinberger;L. Robin M. Cocks;Kevin Burke;Kevin Burke

  • The Lower Palaeozoic palaeogeographical evolution of the northeastern and eastern peri-Gondwanan margin from Turkey to New Zealand

    Trond H. Torsvik;Trond H. Torsvik;L. Robin M. Cocks

  • Ordovician palaeogeography and climate change

    L. Robin M. Cocks;Trond H. Torsvik;Trond H. Torsvik

  • The Palaeozoic palaeogeography of central Gondwana

    Trond H. Torsvik;Trond H. Torsvik;L. Robin M. Cocks

Frequent Co-Authors

Trond H. Torsvik
Trond H. Torsvik University of Oslo
Leonid E. Popov
Leonid E. Popov Cardiff University
Richard A. Fortey
Richard A. Fortey Natural History Museum
Bernhard Steinberger
Bernhard Steinberger Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Kevin Burke
Kevin Burke University of Houston
Carmen Gaina
Carmen Gaina University of Oslo
Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen
Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen Utrecht University
Rob Van der Voo
Rob Van der Voo University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Eric Tohver
Eric Tohver Universidade de São Paulo
Joseph G. Meert
Joseph G. Meert University of Florida

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