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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1988 - Penrose Medal, The Geological Society of America
  • 1974 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Robert S. Dietz was affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their research spanned several key areas within environmental science and earth sciences, with a focus on global and planetary change alongside atmospheric science.

Their recent work included a publication titled Reassessing and Extending the Composite Rainfall Record of Manchester, Northwest England: 1786-Present published in 2024 in the journal Climate.

Frequent co-authors included:

  • Neil Macdonald

The main fields of study covered by their research were:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these broader fields, the subfields of study most prominently addressed included:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science

Several topics recurred throughout their work, notably:

  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Climate variability and models
  • Tree-ring climate responses

Research outputs were frequently published in the journal Climate.

Among honors received during their career were the Penrose Medal from The Geological Society of America in 1988 and election as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 1974.

Best Publications

  • Continent and Ocean Basin Evolution by Spreading of the Sea Floor

    Robert S. Dietz

  • Reconstruction of Pangaea: Breakup and dispersion of continents, Permian to Present

    Robert S. Dietz;John C. Holden

  • Sudbury Structure as an Astrobleme

    Robert S. Dietz

  • Vredefort Ring Structure: Meteorite Impact Scar?

    Robert S. Dietz

  • The breakup of Pangaea

    Robert S. Dietz;John C. Holden

  • Hawaiian Swell, Deep, and Arch, and Subsidence of the Hawaiian Islands

    Robert S. Dietz;H. W. Menard

  • Plate Tectonic Evolution of Caribbean–Gulf of Mexico Region

    George L. Freeland;Robert S. Dietz

  • Shatter Cones in Cryptoexplosion Structures (Meteorite Impact

    Robert S. Dietz

  • Collapsing Continental Rises: An Actualistic Concept of Geosynclines and Mountain Building

    Robert S. Dietz

  • Wave-Base, Marine Profile of Equilibrium, and Wave-Built Terraces: A Critical Appraisal

    Robert S Dietz

  • Morphological Continental Drift Fit of Australia and Antarctica

    Walter P. Sproll;Robert S. Dietz

  • Meteorite Impact Suggested by Shatter Cones in Rock.

    Robert S. Dietz

  • CLAY MINERAL COMPOSITION OF SOME SEDIMENTS FROM THE PACIFIC OCEAN OFF THE CALIFORNIA COAST AND THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA

    Ralph E Grim;Robert S Dietz;W. F Bradley

  • Galapagos Gore, NazCoPac Triple Junction and Carnegie/Cocos Ridges

    John C. Holden;Robert S. Dietz

  • Phosphorite deposits on the sea floor off southern California

    R. S. Dietz;K. O. Emery;F. P. Shepard

  • ALPINE SERPENTINES AS OCEANIC RIND FRAGMENTS

    Robert S Dietz

  • Meteorite Impact Suggested by the Orientation of Shatter-Cones at the Kentland, Indiana, Disturbance

    Robert S. Dietz

  • Gravity coring instrument and mechanics of sediment coring

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  • Geotectonic Evolution and Subsidence of Bahama Platform

    Robert S Dietz;John C Holden;Walter P Sproll

  • TRANSPACIFIC DETECTION OF MYOJIN VOLCANIC EXPLOSIONS BY UNDERWATER SOUND

    R. S Dietz;M. J Sheehy

  • Origin of Abrupt Change in Slope at Continental Shelf Margin

    Robert Sinclair Dietz;Henry William Menard

Frequent Co-Authors

Henry W. Menard
Henry W. Menard Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Francis P. Shepard
Francis P. Shepard Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Susan W. Kieffer
Susan W. Kieffer University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Edwin L. Hamilton
Edwin L. Hamilton United States Marine Corps
Peter A. Rona
Peter A. Rona Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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