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Peter D. Clift is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial body of work in Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Earth-Surface Processes, Ocean Engineering, and Geology. The scientist's contributions span a range of subfields and topics related to geology and geophysical processes.

Their recent papers include the following notable publications:

  • Monsoon controls on sediment generation and transport: Mass budget and provenance constraints from the Indus River catchment, delta and submarine fan over tectonic and multimillennial timescales (2021) in Earth-Science Reviews
  • Formation of the First Bend in the late Eocene gave birth to the modern Yangtze River, China (2020) in Geology
  • A Late Eocene-Oligocene Through-Flowing River Between the Upper Yangtze and South China Sea (2020) in Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Human impact overwhelms long-term climate control of fire in the Yangtze River Basin since 3.0 ka BP (2020) in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Birth of the Pearl River at 30 Ma: Evidence from sedimentary records in the northern South China Sea (2022) in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Stephen M. Hubbard
  • Bas Van
  • Olivier Lacombe
  • Shiming Wan
  • Anchun Li

Publication venues where Peter D. Clift has contributed extensively include:

  • Geological Magazine
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems

Peter D. Clift's research covers the following main topics:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

The scientist has also authored books published by Cambridge University Press, including "Monsoon Rains, Great Rivers and the Development of Farming Civilisations in Asia" (2020).

Best Publications

  • Controls on tectonic accretion versus erosion in subduction zones: Implications for the origin and recycling of the continental crust

    Peter D. Clift;Paola Vannucchi

  • Correlation of Himalayan exhumation rates and Asian monsoon intensity

    Peter D. Clift;Kip V. Hodges;David Heslop;Robyn Hannigan

  • Ages and magnetic structures of the South China Sea constrained by deep tow magnetic surveys and IODP Expedition 349

    Chun Feng Li;Xing Xu;Jian Lin;Zhen Sun

  • Reconstructing chemical weathering, physical erosion and monsoon intensity since 25 Ma in the northern South China Sea: A review of competing proxies

    Peter D. Clift;Peter D. Clift;Shiming Wan;Jerzy Blusztajn

  • Development of the East Asian monsoon: Mineralogical and sedimentologic records in the northern South China Sea since 20 Ma

    Shiming Wan;Anchun Li;Peter D. Clift;Jan Berend W. Stuut

  • Palaeogeographic and palaeotectonic evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean Neotethys

    A.H.F. Robertson;P.D. Clift;P.J. Degnan;G. Jones

  • Controls on the erosion of Cenozoic Asia and the flux of clastic sediment to the ocean

    Peter Dominic Clift

  • Pre-Miocene birth of the Yangtze River.

    Hongbo Zheng;Peter D. Clift;Ping Wang;Ryuji Tada

  • Seven Million Years of Glaciation in Greenland

    H. C. Larsen;A. D. Saunders;P. D. Clift;J. Beget

  • The sedimentary and tectonic evolution of the Yinggehai-Song Hong basin and the southern Hainan margin, South China Sea : Implications for Tibetan uplift and monsoon intensification

    Peter Dominic Clift;Peter Dominic Clift;Zhen Sun

  • A Detailed Geochemical Study of Island Arc Crust: the Talkeetna Arc Section, South-Central Alaska

    Andrew R. Greene;Susan M. Debari;Peter B. Kelemen;Jerzy S. Blusztajn

  • Fluvial landscapes of the Harappan civilization

    Liviu Giosan;Peter D. Clift;Mark G. Macklin;Dorian Q. Fuller

  • Past East Asian monsoon evolution controlled by paleogeography, not CO2

    Alex Farnsworth;Daniel J. Lunt;Stuart A. Robinson;Paul J. Valdes

  • Evidence of low flexural rigidity and low viscosity lower continental crust during continental break-up in the South China Sea

    Peter Dominic Clift;J. Lin;U. Barckhausen

  • Large‐scale drainage capture and surface uplift in eastern Tibet–SW China before 24 Ma inferred from sediments of the Hanoi Basin, Vietnam

    Peter D. Clift;Peter D. Clift;Jerzy S. Blusztajn;Anh Duc Nguyen

  • Zircon U–Pb and Hf isotopic constraints on the onset time of India-Asia collision

    Fu-Yuan Wu;Wei-Qiang Ji;Jian-Gang Wang;Chuan-Zhou Liu

  • Erosional response of South China to arc rifting and monsoonal strengthening; a record from the South China Sea

    Peter Clift;Jae Il Lee;Marin K. Clark;Jerzy Blusztajn

  • The Asian Monsoon: Causes, History and Effects

    Peter D. Clift;R. Alan Plumb

  • Development of the Indus Fan and its significance for the erosional history of the Western Himalaya and Karakoram

    P.D. Clift;N. Shimizu;G.D. Layne;J.S. Blusztajn

  • Evolution and variability of the Asian monsoon and its potential linkage with uplift of the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau

    Ryuji Tada;Hongbo Zheng;Peter D. Clift

  • Pre-Miocene Birth of the Yangtze River

    Hongbo Zheng;Peter Clift;Ping Wang;Ryuji Tada

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Carter
Andrew Carter Birkbeck, University of London
Shiming Wan
Shiming Wan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jerzy S. Blusztajn
Jerzy S. Blusztajn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Liviu Giosan
Liviu Giosan Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Tiegang Li
Tiegang Li Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
Hongbo Zheng
Hongbo Zheng Yunnan University
Graham D. Layne
Graham D. Layne Memorial University of Newfoundland
Anchun Li
Anchun Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ryuji Tada
Ryuji Tada University of Tokyo
Sergio Andò
Sergio Andò University of Milano-Bicocca

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