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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1931 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Richard V. Fisher was affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their academic contributions included authorship of a book published by Princeton University Press titled Out of the Crater, released in 2020.

Fisher's scholarly record did not indicate frequent co-authors or repeated publication venues, suggesting a possibly focused or specialized research output or a limited number of publications entered in the available data.

Their research fields, subfields, and main topics of work were not specifically listed. This absence of detailed data limits the scope of thematic categorization commonly found in academic profiles.

Richard V. Fisher received recognition in the form of being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1931. This fellowship status generally reflects a contribution to scientific advancement acknowledged by peers.

Best Publications

  • Flow transformations in sediment gravity flows

    Richard V. Fisher

  • PROPOSED CLASSIFICATION OF VOLCANICLASTIC SEDIMENTS AND ROCKS

    Richard V Fisher

  • Mobility of a large-volume pyroclastic flow — emplacement of the Campanian ignimbrite, Italy

    Richard V. Fisher;Giovanni Orsi;Michael Ort;Grant Heiken

  • Geochemical zoning, mingling, eruptive dynamics and depositional processes; the Campanian Ignimbrite, Campi Flegrei caldera, Italy

    L. Civetta;G. Orsi;L. Pappalardo;R.V. Fisher

  • Models for pyroclastic surges and pyroclastic flows

    Richard V. Fisher

  • Features of coarse-grained, high-concentration fluids and their deposits

    Richard V. Fisher

  • Base surges and their deposits: Capelinhos and Taal Volcanoes

    Aaron C. Waters;Richard V. Fisher

  • The Agnano-Monte Spina eruption (4100 years BP) in the restless Campi Flegrei caldera (Italy)

    S de Vita;G Orsi;L Civetta;A Carandente

  • Rocks composed of volcanic fragments and their classification

    Richard V. Fisher

  • Base surge bed forms in maar volcanoes

    Richard V. Fisher;Aaron C. Waters

  • Sedimentation in Volcanic Settings

    Richard V. Fisher;Gary A. Smith

  • Antidune and chute and pool structures in the base surge deposits of the Laacher See area, Germany

    Hans-Ulrich Schmincke;Richard V. Fisher;Aaron C. Waters

  • Transport and deposition of a pyroclastic surge across an area of high relief: The 18 May 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, Washington

    Richard V. Fisher

  • Mt. Pelée, martinique: may 8 and 20, 1902, pyroclastic flows and surges

    Richard V. Fisher;Richard V. Fisher;Grant Heiken;Grant Heiken

  • Sedimentary Structures in Base-Surge Deposits with Special Reference to Cross-Bedding, Ubehebe Craters, Death Valley, California

    Bruce M. Crowe;Richard V. Fisher

  • Submarine volcaniclastic rocks

    Richard V. Fisher

  • Mechanism of deposition from pyroclastic flows

    Richard V. Fisher

  • Pyroclastic Flow Deposits

    Richard V. Fisher;Hans-Ulrich Schmincke

  • The 1982 eruptions of El Chichon volcano, Mexico (3): Physical properties of pyroclastic surges

    H. Sigurdsson;S. N. Carey;R. V. Fisher

  • Maximum size, median diameter, and sorting of tephra

    Richard V. Fisher

Frequent Co-Authors

Greg A. Valentine
Greg A. Valentine University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Grant Heiken
Grant Heiken Los Alamos National Laboratory
M. A. Di Vito
M. A. Di Vito National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Giovanni Orsi
Giovanni Orsi University of Naples Federico II
Eliezer Masliah
Eliezer Masliah National Institutes of Health
Edward Rockenstein
Edward Rockenstein University of California, San Diego
Lucia Civetta
Lucia Civetta University of Naples Federico II
Daniel A. Kirschner
Daniel A. Kirschner Boston College
Elliott J. Mufson
Elliott J. Mufson Barrow Neurological Institute
Kim N. Green
Kim N. Green University of California, Irvine

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