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Robert W. King

Robert W. King

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Earth Science

D-Index
58
Citations
17699
World Ranking
2118
National Ranking
917

Overview

Robert W. King is affiliated with MIT in the United States and focuses on research within Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several main topics and subfields, including earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, and geochemistry and geologic mapping. These topics are complemented by studies in geological formations and processes, geological and geophysical studies worldwide, astronomy and astrophysical research, as well as adaptive optics and wavefront sensing.

Their contributions have appeared in various publication venues, with frequent publications in the TURKISH JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES. Other venues include the Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, Geophysical Journal International, arXiv (Cornell University), and Geoheritage.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Robert W. King include the following:

  • Accommodation of East African Rifting Across the Turkana Depression, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Fragmentation of the Sinai Plate indicated by spatial variation in present-day slip rate along the Dead Sea Fault System, 2020, Geophysical Journal International
  • New geodetic constraints on the role of faults and blocks vs. distribute strain in the Nubia-Arabia-Eurasia zone of active plate interactions, 2023, TURKISH JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES
  • Quantifying Geotourism: A Demoscopic Study for the "Litoral del Biobío" Geopark project (Chile), 2021, Geoheritage
  • Euclid. II. The VIS Instrument, 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)

The scientist has collaborated with multiple frequent co-authors, which include:

  • Michael Floyd
  • Robert Reilinger
  • Semih Ergintav
  • Hayrullah Karabulut
  • Ellen Knappe

Within the subfields, Robert W. King has contributed primarily to geophysics, with additional work in artificial intelligence, earth-surface processes, instrumentation, and atomic and molecular physics, and optics. Their interdisciplinary approach reflects the integration of geophysical methods with advancing technologies.

Best Publications

  • Global Positioning System constraints on plate kinematics and dynamics in the eastern Mediterranean and Caucasus

    S. McClusky;S. Balassanian;A. Barka;C. Demir

  • Surface Deformation and Lower Crustal Flow in Eastern Tibet

    Leigh H. Royden;B. Clark Burchfiel;Robert W. King;Erchie Wang

  • A geological and geophysical context for the Wenchuan earthquake of 12 May 2008, Sichuan, People's Republic of China

    B.C. Burchfiel;L.H. Royden;R.D. van der Hilst;B.H. Hager

  • Global Positioning System measurements of present-day crustal movements in the Arabia-Africa-Eurasia plate collision zone

    R. E. Reilinger;S. C. McClusky;M. B. Oral;R. W. King

  • Global Positioning System measurements from eastern Tibet and their implications for India/Eurasia intercontinental deformation

    Z. Chen;B. C. Burchfiel;Y. Liu;R. W. King

  • GPS Meteorology: Direct Estimation of the Absolute Value of Precipitable Water

    Jingping Duan;Michael Bevis;Peng Fang;Yehuda Bock

  • Estimating regional deformation from a combination of space and terrestrial geodetic data

    D. Dong;T. A. Herring;R. W. King

  • Fault locking, block rotation and crustal deformation in the Pacific Northwest

    Robert McCaffrey;Anthony I. Qamar;Robert W. King;Ray Wells

  • Space geodetic measurement of crustal deformation in central and southern California, 1984–1992

    Kurt L. Feigl;Duncan C. Agnew;Yehuda Bock;Danan Dong

  • Geodynamics of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau from seismic anisotropy and geodesy

    S. Sol;A. Meltzer;R. Bürgmann;R.D. van der Hilst

  • Geodetic measurement of crustal motion in southwest China

    Robert W. King;Feng Shen;B. Clark Burchfiel;Leigh H. Royden

  • Verification of the Principle of Equivalence for Massive Bodies

    I. I. Shapiro;C. C. Counselman;R. W. King

  • Active tectonics of northwestern U.S. inferred from GPS-derived surface velocities

    Robert McCaffrey;Robert W. King;Suzette J. Payne;Matthew Lancaster

  • Plate Boundary Observatory and related networks: GPS data analysis methods and geodetic products

    Thomas A. Herring;Timothy I. Melbourne;Mark H. Murray;Michael A. Floyd

  • New GPS constraints on active deformation along the Africa-Iberia plate boundary

    A. Koulali;D. Ouazar;A. Tahayt;R.W. King

  • Zonal and meridional circulation of the lower atmosphere of Venus determined by radio interferometry

    C. C. Counselman;S. A. Gourevitch;R. W. King;G. B. Loriot

  • The strain rate field in the eastern Mediterranean region, estimated by repeated GPS measurements

    Hans-Gert Kahle;Christian Straub;Robert Reilinger;Simon McClusky

  • Present day kinematics of the Eastern California Shear Zone from a geodetically constrained block model

    Simon C. McClusky;S.C. Bjornstad;Bradford H. Hager;R. W. King

  • Southern California Permanent GPS Geodetic Array: Continuous measurements of regional crustal deformation between the 1992 Landers and 1994 Northridge earthquakes

    Y. Bock;S. Wdowinski;S. Wdowinski;P. Fang;Jiahua Zhang

  • Co-seismic displacements of the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake

    K. W. Hudnut;Z. Shen;M. Murray;S. McClusky

  • Independent active microplate tectonics of northeast Asia from GPS velocities and block modeling

    E. V. Apel;R. Bürgmann;G. Steblov;N. Vasilenko

Frequent Co-Authors

Irwin I. Shapiro
Irwin I. Shapiro Harvard University
Yehuda Bock
Yehuda Bock University of California, San Diego
Robert McCaffrey
Robert McCaffrey Portland State University
Simon McClusky
Simon McClusky Australian National University
Zheng-Kang Shen
Zheng-Kang Shen University of California, Los Angeles

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