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Martin R. Gibling

Martin R. Gibling

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Earth Science

D-Index
62
Citations
13449
World Ranking
1682
National Ranking
76

Overview

Martin R. Gibling is affiliated with Dalhousie University in Canada. Their research spans several areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on Earth-Surface Processes, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Geology, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the study of geological formations and processes, geology and paleoclimatology research, and hydrology and sediment transport processes. Other notable topics in their work include geological studies and exploration, geochemistry and geologic mapping, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, and flood risk assessment and management.

Frequent publication venues for Martin R. Gibling include:

  • Geosphere
  • Journal of Sedimentary Research
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Integrative and Comparative Biology

They have co-authored multiple papers with Masoud Aali, M. R. Nedimović, Robert A. Gastaldo, Johann Neveling, and Heriberto Rochín-Bañaga.

Selected recent papers include:

  • "The impact of vegetation on meandering rivers," 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "The Invasion of the Land in Deep Time: Integrating Paleozoic Records of Paleobiology, Ichnology, Sedimentology, and Geomorphology," 2022, Integrative and Comparative Biology
  • "Rivers in reverse: Upstream-migrating dechannelization and flooding cause avulsions on fluvial fans," 2021, Geology
  • "Geometrical Breakdown Approach to interpretation of depositional sequences," 2021, Geosphere
  • "Quantitative assessment of the erosion and deposition effects of landslide-dam outburst flood, Eastern Himalaya," 2024, Scientific Reports

In addition to journal articles, Martin R. Gibling has published a book titled River Planet (2021) through Liverpool University Press.

Best Publications

  • Towards the standardization of sequence stratigraphy

    Octavian Catuneanu;V. Abreu;J. P. Bhattacharya;M. D. Blum

  • Reply to the comments of W. Helland-Hansen on "Towards the standardization of sequence stratigraphy" by Catuneanu et al. (Earth-Sciences Review 92(2009)1-33)

    Octavian Catuneanu;V. Abreu;J. P. Bhattacharya;M. D. Blum

  • Width and Thickness of Fluvial Channel Bodies and Valley Fills in the Geological Record: A Literature Compilation and Classification

    Martin R. Gibling

  • Peat formation in a Westphalian B piedmont setting, Cumberland Basin, Nova Scotia; implications for the maceral-based interpretation of rheotrophic and raised paleomires

    J. H. Calder;Martin Gibling;P. K. Mukhopadhyay

  • Cambrian to Devonian evolution of alluvial systems: The sedimentological impact of the earliest land plants

    Neil S. Davies;Martin R. Gibling

  • Palaeozoic landscapes shaped by plant evolution

    Martin R. Gibling;Neil S. Davies;Neil S. Davies

  • Discontinuity-Bounded Alluvial Sequences of the Southern Gangetic Plains, India: Aggradation and Degradation in Response to Monsoonal Strength

    Martin Gibling;S. K. Tandon;R. Sinha;M. Jain

  • Anastomosing river sedimentation in the Channel Country of central Australia

    Martin R. Gibling;Gerald C. Nanson;Jerry C. Maroulis

  • Resolving MISS conceptions and misconceptions: A geological approach to sedimentary surface textures generated by microbial and abiotic processes

    Neil S. Davies;Alexander G. Liu;Martin R. Gibling;Randall F. Miller

  • Late Carboniferous cyclothems and alluvial paleovalleys in the Sydney Basin, Nova Scotia

    Martin R. Gibling;Donna J. Bird

  • Facies model for fluvial systems in the seasonal tropics and subtropics

    Christopher R. Fielding;Jonathan P. Allen;Jan Alexander;Martin R. Gibling

  • The impact of vegetation on meandering rivers

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  • Thematic Set: Sequence stratigraphy: common ground after three decades of development

    O. Catuneanu;J. P. Bhattacharya;M. D. Blum;R. W. Dalrymple

  • Late Quaternary geology and alluvial stratigraphy of the Ganga Basin

    Rajiv Sinha;Sampat Tandon;Martin Gibling;Parthasarathi Bhattacharjee

  • Paleozoic vegetation and the Siluro-Devonian rise of fluvial lateral accretion sets

    Neil S. Davies;Martin R. Gibling

  • Architecture of coastal and alluvial deposits in an extensional basin: the Carboniferous Joggins Formation of eastern Canada

    Sarah J. Davies;M.R. Gibling

  • Calcrete and coal in late Carboniferous cyclothems of Nova Scotia, Canada: Climate and sea-level changes linked

    Sk Tandon;Martin Gibling

  • Evolution of fixed-channel alluvial plains in response to Carboniferous vegetation

    Neil S. Davies;Martin R. Gibling

  • Considering river structure and stability in the light of evolution: feedbacks between riparian vegetation and hydrogeomorphology

    Dov Jean-François Corenblit;Neil S. Davies;Johannes Steiger;Martin R. Gibling

  • Late Carboniferous and Early Permian drainage patterns in Atlantic Canada

    Martin R. Gibling;John H. Calder;Robert Ryan;H. Walter van de Poll

  • Vegetation‐induced sedimentary structures from fossil forests in the Pennsylvanian Joggins Formation, Nova Scotia

    Michael C. Rygel;Martin R. Gibling;John H. Calder

Frequent Co-Authors

Howard J. Falcon-Lang
Howard J. Falcon-Lang Royal Holloway University of London
Sampat K. Tandon
Sampat K. Tandon Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal
Christopher R. Fielding
Christopher R. Fielding University of Connecticut
Rajiv Sinha
Rajiv Sinha Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Wolfgang Kalkreuth
Wolfgang Kalkreuth Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Michael D. Blum
Michael D. Blum University of Kansas
Henry W. Posamentier
Henry W. Posamentier Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
Brian R. Pratt
Brian R. Pratt University of Saskatchewan
Janok P. Bhattacharya
Janok P. Bhattacharya McMaster University
William E. Galloway
William E. Galloway The University of Texas at Austin

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