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Overview

Martin Stokes is affiliated with Plymouth University in the United Kingdom and focuses on research in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work covers various subfields including Earth-Surface Processes, Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their research topics encompass:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies

Martin Stokes has published extensively, with a total of 38 publications in Earth and Planetary Sciences and 12 in Environmental Science. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Geomorphology
  • Modeling Earth Systems and Environment
  • Quaternary International
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters

The scientist has frequently collaborated with other researchers such as Sarah J. Boulton, Mhamed Alaeddine Belfoul, Jesse Zondervan, Matt W. Telfer, and Anne E. Mather.

Notable recent papers by Martin Stokes include:

  • Alluvial fans on volcanic islands: A morphometric perspective (São Vicente, Cape Verde), 2020, Geomorphology
  • Rock strength and structural controls on fluvial erodibility: Implications for drainage divide mobility in a collisional mountain belt, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Temporal Variations in Landslide Distributions Following Extreme Events: Implications for Landslide Susceptibility Modeling, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • 30-year record of Himalaya mass-wasting reveals landscape perturbations by extreme events, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Soil erosion assessment in a semi-arid environment: a case study from the Argana Corridor, Morocco, 2020, Environmental Earth Sciences

Best Publications

  • Alluvial fans: geomorphology, sedimentology, dynamics — introduction. A review of alluvial-fan research

    Adrian M. Harvey;Anne E. Mather;Martin Stokes

  • The impact of Quaternary sea-level and climatic change on coastal alluvial fans in the Cabo de Gata ranges, southeast Spain

    Adrian M. Harvey;Pablo G. Silva;Anne E. Mather;José Luis Goy

  • Which DEM is best for analyzing fluvial landscape development in mountainous terrains

    Sarah J. Boulton;Martin Stokes

  • River terraces and alluvial fans: The case for an integrated Quaternary fluvial archive

    A.E. Mather;M. Stokes;E. Whitfield

  • Transient fluvial incision as an indicator of active faulting and Plio-Quaternary uplift of the Moroccan High Atlas.

    S.J. Boulton;M. Stokes;A.E. Mather

  • Using river long profiles and geomorphic indices to evaluate the geomorphological signature of continental scale drainage capture, Duero basin (NW Iberia)

    Loreto Antón;Gerardo De Vicente;Gerardo De Vicente;Alfonso Muñoz-Martín;Alfonso Muñoz-Martín;Martin Stokes

  • Alluvial Fans: Geomorphology, Sedimentology, Dynamics

    A. M. Harvey;A. E. Mather;Martin R. Stokes

  • Rock strength and structural controls on fluvial erodibility: implications for drainage divide mobility in a collisional mountain belt

    Jesse Ruben Zondervan;Martin Stokes;Sarah Jean Boulton;Matt W. Telfer

  • Quantification of river-capture-induced base-level changes and landscape development, Sorbas Basin, SE Spain

    M. Stokes;A. E. Mather;A. M. Harvey

  • Tectonic origin and evolution of a transverse drainage: the Rı́o Almanzora, Betic Cordillera, Southeast Spain

    Martin Stokes;Anne E. Mather

  • Techniques for analysing Late Cenozoic river terrace sequences

    Martin Stokes;Pedro P. Cunha;António A. Martins

  • Controls on dryland mountain landscape development along the NW Saharan desert margin: Insights from Quaternary river terrace sequences (Dadès River, south-central High Atlas, Morocco)

    M. Stokes;A.E. Mather;M. Belfoul;F. Faik

  • Response of Plio-Pleistocene alluvial systems to tectonically induced base-level changes, Vera Basin, SE Spain

    M. Stokes;A. E. Mather

  • Quantifying long-term catchment changes of alluvial fan systems

    A.E. Mather;A.M. Harvey;M. Stokes

  • Quaternary landscape evolution: a framework for understanding contemporary erosion, southeast Spain

    A. E. Mather;M. Stokes;J. S. Griffiths

  • Active and passive tectonic controls for transverse drainage and river gorge development in a collisional mountain belt (Dades Gorges, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco)

    Martin Stokes;Anne E. Mather;Alaeddine Belfoul;Farid Farik

  • Plio-Pleistocene drainage development in an inverted sedimentary basin: Vera basin, Betic Cordillera, SE Spain

    Martin Stokes

  • Temporal Variations in Landslide Distributions Following Extreme Events: Implications for Landslide Susceptibility Modeling

    Joshua Nathan Jones;Joshua Nathan Jones;Sarah Jean Boulton;Georgina L Bennett;Martin Stokes

  • Anatomy of a ‘fossil’ landslide from the Pleistocene of SE Spain

    Anne E Mather;James S Griffiths;Martin Stokes

  • K-Feldspar IRSL dating of a Pleistocene river terrace staircase sequence of the Lower Tejo River (Portugal, western Iberia)

    António A. Martins;Pedro P. Cunha;Jan-Pieter Buylaert;Sébastien Huot

  • Exceptional river gorge formation from unexceptional floods.

    Loreto Antón;A. E. Mather;M. Stokes;A. Muñoz-Martín

  • Engineering geomorphological input to ground models: an approach based on Earth systems

    J.S. Griffiths;M. Stokes

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne E. Mather
Anne E. Mather Plymouth University
Jan-Pieter Buylaert
Jan-Pieter Buylaert Technical University of Denmark
Adrian M. Harvey
Adrian M. Harvey University of Liverpool
Pedro P. Cunha
Pedro P. Cunha University of Coimbra
Andrew S. Murray
Andrew S. Murray Technical University of Denmark
Mayank Jain
Mayank Jain Technical University of Denmark
Ralph Fyfe
Ralph Fyfe Plymouth University
Andrew Goudie
Andrew Goudie University of Oxford
Doug Stead
Doug Stead Simon Fraser University
Darrel Maddy
Darrel Maddy Newcastle University

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