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2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
56
Citations
8468
World Ranking
2493
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in South Africa Leader Award
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa

Overview

Terence S. McCarthy is affiliated with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Their research contributions span several domains in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Engineering, with a strong emphasis on geophysics and related subfields.

The scientist's work extensively addresses topics such as landslides and related hazards, earthquake and tectonic studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, geological and geophysical studies worldwide, earthquake detection and analysis, seismic waves and analysis, and geophysical methods and applications.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with McCarthy include Ivo Baroň, Jan Balek, Rostislav Melichar, Lukas Plan, and Jan Blahút.

Selected recent publications include:

  • Three large prehistoric earthquakes in the Eastern Alps evidenced by cave rupture and speleothem damage, 2022, Geomorphology
  • Volcanic edifice slip events recorded on the fault plane of the San Andrés Landslide, El Hierro, Canary Islands, 2020, Tectonophysics
  • Differentiating between artificial and natural sources of electromagnetic radiation at a seismogenic fault, 2022, Engineering Geology
  • 3D active fault kinematic behaviour reveals rapidly alternating near-surface stress states in the Eastern Alps, 2023, Geological Society London Special Publications
  • From Oblique Thrust to Strike-Slip Fault: Progressive Stages of an Accretionary Wedge Development, 2025, Lithosphere

McCarthy has published in a variety of academic venues including Geomorphology, Engineering Geology, Tectonophysics, Geological Society London Special Publications, and Lithosphere.

Their subfields of study cover geophysics, management, monitoring, policy and law, atmospheric science, ocean engineering, and mechanics of materials. This reflects a multidisciplinary approach to earth science research, incorporating natural hazard assessment and geophysical monitoring techniques.

Best Publications

  • The Okavango Fan and the classification of subaerial fan systems

    I.G. Stanistreet;T.S. McCarthy

  • The chemical characteristics of acid mine drainage with particular reference to sources, distribution and remediation: The Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa as a case study

    H. Tutu;T.S. McCarthy;E. Cukrowska

  • Avulsion mechanisms on the Okavango fan, Botswana: the control of a fluvial system by vegetation

    T. S. McCARTHY;W. N. Ellery;I. G. Stanistreet

  • Trace element distribution patterns and their relationship to the crystallization of granitic melts

    T.S. McCarthy;R.A. Hasty

  • Wetlands in drylands: geomorphological and sedimentological characteristics, with emphasis on examples from southern Africa:

    Stephen Tooth;Terence S. McCarthy

  • The Mesozoic–Cenozoic interior sag basins of Central Africa: The Late-Cretaceous–Cenozoic Kalahari and Okavango basins

    I.G. Haddon;T.S. McCarthy

  • Flooding Patterns of the Okavango Wetland in Botswana between 1972 and 2000

    Jenny M. McCarthy;Thomas Gumbricht;Terence McCarthy;Philip Frost

  • Groundwater in the wetlands of the Okavango Delta, Botswana, and its contribution to the structure and function of the ecosystem

    T.S. McCarthy

  • Some observations on the geomorphological impact of hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius L.) in the Okavango Delta, Botswana

    T. S. McCARTHY;W. N. Ellery;A. Bloem

  • The topography of the Okavango Delta, Botswana, and its tectonic and sedimentological implications

    T. Gumbricht;T. S. McCarthy;C. L. Merry

  • The sedimentary dynamics of active fluvial channels on the Okavango fan, Botswana

    T. S. McCARTHY;I. G. Stanistreet;B. Cairncross

  • Forecasting the spatial extent of the annual flood in the Okavango delta, Botswana

    T Gumbricht;P Wolski;P Frost;T.S McCarthy

  • Channels, Wetlands and Islands in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, and their Relation to Hydrological and Sedimentological Processes

    Thomas Gumbricht;Jenny McCarthy;T. S. McCarthy

  • Vegetation-induced, subsurface precipitation of carbonate as an aggradational process in the permanent swamps of the Okavango (delta) fan, Botswana

    T.S. McCarthy;W.N. Ellery;Karen Ellery

  • Sills associated with the Bushveld Complex, South Africa: an estimate of the parental magma composition

    R. Grant Cawthorn;G. Davies;A. Clubley-Armstrong;T.S. McCarthy

  • Geological controls on the formation of alluvial meanders and floodplain wetlands: the example of the Klip River, eastern Free State, South Africa

    S. Tooth;T. S. McCarthy;D. Brandt;P. J. Hancox

  • The effect of vegetation on soil and ground water chemistry and hydrology of islands in the seasonal swamps of the Okavango Fan, Botswana

    T.S. McCarthy;W.N. Ellery

  • Plant distribution in islands of the Okavango Delta, Botswana: determinants and feedback interactions

    W. N. Ellery;K. Ellery;T. S. McCARTHY

  • Observations on the hydrology and geohydrology of the Okavango Delta

    T. S. McCarthy;A. Bloem;P. A. Larkin

  • The role of biota in the initiation and growth of islands on the floodplain of the Okavango alluvial fan, Botswana

    T. S. McCarthy;W. N. Ellery;J. M. Dangerfield

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Tooth
Stephen Tooth Aberystwyth University
Ian G. Stanistreet
Ian G. Stanistreet University of Liverpool
Geoff A.T. Duller
Geoff A.T. Duller Aberystwyth University
A. J. Erlank
A. J. Erlank University of Cape Town
Kirstie Fryirs
Kirstie Fryirs Macquarie University
Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson
Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson University of South Carolina
Norman D. Smith
Norman D. Smith University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Michael Bizimis
Michael Bizimis University of South Carolina
Brian M. Chase
Brian M. Chase University of Montpellier
Zenobia Jacobs
Zenobia Jacobs University of Wollongong

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