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Roger L. Gibson is affiliated with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Physics and Astronomy, with significant contributions in the subfields of Geophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geology, Artificial Intelligence, and Atmospheric Science.

Their work covers a range of topics including:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Planetary Science and Exploration
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Geological Studies and Exploration
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Frequent publication venues for their research are:

  • Neuro-Oncology
  • South African Journal of Geology
  • South African Journal of Science
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Tectonophysics

Roger L. Gibson has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, including:

  • M. A. G. Andreoli
  • S. Wela
  • Grant Bybee
  • Monika Yadav
  • Viveka Nand Yadav

Recent papers authored by Roger L. Gibson include:

  • "Granitoid gneisses of the Morokweng impact structure: Implications for Neoarchaean evolution of the western Kaapvaal craton," 2022, Lithos
  • "Melt breccias in parautochthonous basement rocks of the Morokweng impact structure, South Africa - Evidence for a friction origin," 2024, Journal of African Earth Sciences

Other notable recent publications related to the field include:

  • "Timescales of impact melt sheet crystallization and the precise age of the Morokweng impact structure, South Africa," 2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "A reappraisal of legacy reflection seismic data from the western margin of the Kaapvaal craton, South Africa, with implications for Mesozoic-Cenozoic regional tectonics," 2021, Tectonophysics
  • "Amphibolite facies metamorphism in lower Witwatersrand Supergroup rocks exposed in the Vredefort Dome - a Ventersdorp LIP connection," 2022, South African Journal of Geology

Best Publications

  • Precise U-Pb titanite age constraints on the emplacement of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa

    Ian Samuel Buick;Roland Maas;R L Gibson

  • The Namaqua-Natal Province

    D.H. Cornell;Robert James Thomas;R. Gibson;H.F.G. Moen

  • Geology and evolution of the Vredefort Impact Structure, South Africa

    W.U. Reimold;R.L. Gibson

  • A SHRIMP U–Pb and LA-ICP-MS trace element study of the petrogenesis of garnet–cordierite–orthoamphibole gneisses from the Central Zone of the Limpopo Belt, South Africa

    Ian S. Buick;Jörg Hermann;Ian S. Williams;Roger L. Gibson

  • The age and thermal evolution of the Vredefort impact structure: A single-grain UPb zircon study

    R.L. Gibson;R.A. Armstrong;W.U. Reimold

  • Thermal-metamorphic signature of an impact event in the Vredefort dome, South Africa

    Roger L. Gibson;W. Uwe Reimold;Gary Stevens

  • High-δ13C Paleoproterozoic carbonates from the Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa

    I. S. Buick;R. Uken;R. L. Gibson;T. Wallmach

  • The melt rocks of the Vredefort impact structure – Vredefort Granophyre and pseudotachylitic breccias: Implications for impact cratering and the evolution of the Witwatersrand Basin

    Wolf Uwe Reimold;Roger L. Gibson

  • Shock pressure distribution in the Vredefort impact structure, South Africa

    Roger L. Gibson;Wolf Uwe Reimold

  • Archean crustal structure of the Kaapvaal craton, South Africa – evidence from the Vredefort dome

    Cristiano Lana;Roger L. Gibson;Alexander F.M. Kisters;W.Uwe Reimold

  • Impact-induced melting of Archean granulites in the Vredefort Dome, South Africa. I: anatexis of metapelitic granulites

    R. L. Gibson

  • Tectono‐metamorphic setting and paragenetic sequence of Au‐U mineralisation in the Archaean Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa

    L. J. Robb;E. G. Charlesworth;G. R. Drennan;R. L. Gibson

  • Impact tectonics in the core of the Vredefort dome, South Africa: Implications for central uplift formation in very large impact structures

    C. Lana;R. L. Gibson;W. U. Reimold

  • Spinel–cordierite symplectites replacing andalusite: evidence for melt-assisted diapirism in the Bushveld Complex, South Africa

    T. Johnson;M. Brown;R. Gibson;B. Wing

  • Partial Melting of Metapelitic Rocks Beneath the Bushveld Complex, South Africa

    Tim E. Johnson;Roger L. Gibson;Michael Brown;Ian S. Buick

  • Mid-crustal granulite facies metamorphism in the Central Kaapvaal craton: the Bushveld Complex connection

    Gary Stevens;Roger L. Gibson;Giles T.R. Droop

  • Economic Mineral Deposits in Impact Structures: A Review

    Wolf Uwe Reimold;Christian Koeberl;Roger L. Gibson;Burkhard O. Dressler

  • Processes on the early Earth

    Wolf Uwe Reimold;Roger L. Gibson

  • Hercynian low-pressure-high-temperature regional metamorphism and subhorizontal foliation development in the Canigou massif, Pyrenees, France—Evidence for crustal extension

    Roger L. Gibson

  • Nature of the archean midcrust in the core of the Vredefort dome, Central Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa

    C. Lana;W.U. Reimold;R.L. Gibson;C. Koeberl

  • New observations on shatter cones in the Vredefort impact structure, South Africa, and evaluation of current hypotheses for shatter cone formation

    F. Wieland;W. U. Reimold;W. U. Reimold;R. L. Gibson

  • Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution IV

    Roger L. Gibson;Wolf Uwe Reimold

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Koeberl
Christian Koeberl University of Vienna
Wolf Uwe Reimold
Wolf Uwe Reimold University of the Witwatersrand
Cristiano Lana
Cristiano Lana Stellenbosch University
Ian S. Buick
Ian S. Buick Stellenbosch University
Ulrich Riller
Ulrich Riller Universität Hamburg
Richard Armstrong
Richard Armstrong Australian National University
Mark Jessell
Mark Jessell University of Western Australia
Judith A. Kinnaird
Judith A. Kinnaird University of the Witwatersrand
David Baratoux
David Baratoux Paul Sabatier University
Axel Hofmann
Axel Hofmann University of Johannesburg

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