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Rob Westaway is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial record in several subfields including Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

Their work encompasses diverse topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geological formations and processes, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Landslides and related hazards, Geological and Geophysical Studies, and Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques.

Recent publications by Rob Westaway include several papers spanning from 2020 to 2024. These are:

  • Basin inversion: A worldwide Late Cenozoic phenomenon (2020) published in Global and Planetary Change
  • The coupling between tectonic uplift and climate change recorded by the Yellow River terraces during the Zoige basin excavation in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau (2024) published in Geomorphology
  • Channel migration in the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau and its implication for fluvial response to the interaction between rapid tectonic activity, climatic fluctuation and human influence (2023) published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Tectonic deformation and kinematics of fluvial terraces marking the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau (2024) published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Risk governance strategy report (Project H2020 DESTRESS) (2020) published in HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Rob Westaway include:

  • David R. Bridgland
  • Zhenbo Hu
  • Qinhong Mo
  • Menghao Li
  • Baotian Pan

The scientist has published mainly in the following venues:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Geomorphology
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • E&G Quaternary Science Journal

Best Publications

  • Quaternary uplift of southern Italy

    Rob Westaway

  • Climatically controlled river terrace staircases: A worldwide Quaternary phenomenon

    David Bridgland;Rob Westaway;Rob Westaway

  • The November 2017 Mw 5.5 Pohang earthquake: A possible case of induced seismicity in South Korea

    Francesco Grigoli;S Cesca;A.P Rinaldi;A. Manconi

  • Present‐day kinematics of the Middle East and eastern Mediterranean

    Rob Westaway

  • Earthquake mechanisms in the Hellenic Trench near Crete

    T. Taymaz;J. Jackson;R. Westaway

  • Uplift-driven valley incision and climate-controlled river terrace development in the Thames Valley, UK

    Darrel Maddy;David Bridgland;Rob Westaway

  • The earthquake of 1980 November 23 in Campania—Basilicata (southern Italy)

    Rob Westaway;James Jackson

  • Flow in the lower continental crust as a mechanism for the Quaternary uplift of south-east England: constraints from the Thames terrace record

    Rob Westaway;Darrel Maddy;David Bridgland

  • The Quaternary uplift history of central southern England : evidence from the terraces of the Solent River system and nearby raised beaches.

    Rob Westaway;David Bridgland;Mark White

  • Seismic moment summation for historical earthquakes in Italy: Tectonic implications

    Rob Westaway

  • Kinematics of the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean Updated

    Rob Westaway

  • Phylogeographic patterns of genetic diversity in eastern Mediterranean water frogs were determined by geological processes and climate change in the Late Cenozoic

    Çiğdem Akın;C. Can Bilgin;Peter Beerli;Rob Westaway;Rob Westaway

  • Pliocene and Quaternary regional uplift in western Turkey: the Gediz River terrace staircase and the volcanism at Kula

    Rob Westaway;Malcolm Pringle;Sema Yurtmen;Tuncer Demir

  • Kinematic consistency between the Dead Sea Fault Zone and the Neogene and Quaternary left-lateral faulting in SE Turkey

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  • Subsidence in the super‐deep Pattani and Malay basins of Southeast Asia: a coupled model incorporating lower‐crustal flow in response to post‐rift sediment loading

    Christopher K. Morley;Rob Westaway;Rob Westaway

  • Quaternary fluvial archives and landscape evolution: a global synthesis

    David R. Bridgland;Rob Westaway

  • Preservation patterns of Late Cenozoic fluvial deposits and their implications: Results from IGCP 449

    David R. Bridgland;Rob Westaway

  • Surface faulting in the southern Italian Campania-Basilicata earthquake of 23 November 1980

    Rob Westaway;James Jackson

  • First field application of cyclic soft stimulation at the Pohang Enhanced Geothermal System site in Korea

    Hannes Hofmann;Günter Zimmermann;Marton Farkas;Ernst Huenges

  • The Quaternary evolution of the Gulf of Corinth, central Greece: coupling between surface processes and flow in the lower continental crust

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  • The Palaeolithic occupation of Europe as revealed by evidence from the rivers: Data from IGCP 449

    David R. Bridgland;Pierre Antoine;Nicole Limondin-Lozouet;Juan I. Santisteban

  • Fluvial sequences as evidence for landscape and climatic evolution in the Late Cenozoic: a synthesis of data from IGCP 518

    Rob Westaway;Rob Westaway;David R. Bridgland;Rajiv Sinha;Tuncer Demir

  • Block rotation in western Turkey: 1. Observational evidence

    Rob Westaway

Frequent Co-Authors

David R. Bridgland
David R. Bridgland Durham University
Paul L. Younger
Paul L. Younger University of Glasgow
Hervé Guillou
Hervé Guillou Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Darrel Maddy
Darrel Maddy Newcastle University
Danielle C. Schreve
Danielle C. Schreve Royal Holloway University of London
Günter Zimmermann
Günter Zimmermann Technical University of Berlin
Andrea Manconi
Andrea Manconi ETH Zurich
David A. Banks
David A. Banks University of Leeds
A. Veldkamp
A. Veldkamp University of Twente

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