Publications

Best to look at papers by year, which has links to PDFs.

This page gives some topical groupings.

Environmental contamination, sedimentary flux and provenance

Chrapkiewicz K, Lipp A, Barron L, Barnes R, Roberts GG, 2024. Apportioning sources of chemicals of emerging concern along an urban river with inverse modelling, Science of the Total Environment, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172827

Okwara IC, Hampson GJ, Whittaker AC, Roberts GG, Ball P, 2023. Source-to-sink mass balance analysis of an ancient wave-influenced sediment routing system: Middle Jurassic Brent Delta, Northern North Sea, offshore UK and Norway, Basin Research, doi:10.1111/bre.12765.

Lipp AG, de Caritat P, Roberts GG, 2023. Geochemical mapping by unmixing alluvial sediments: An example from northern Australia, Journal of Geochemical Exploration, doi:10.1016/j.gexplo.2023.107174.

Eschenfelder J, Lipp AG, Roberts GG, 2023. Predicting hazardous elemental concentrations in drainage basins assuming conservative mixing, Journal of Geochemical Exploration, doi: 10.1016/j.gexplo.2023.107178.
Lipp AG, Roberts GG, Whittaker AC, Gowing C, Fernandes V, 2021. Source region geochemistry from unmixing downstream sedimentary elemental compositions, G-Cubed, doi: 10.1029/2021GC009838.
Lipp AG, Roberts GG, Whittaker AC, Gowing C, Fernandes V, 2020. River sediment geochemistry as a conservative mixture of source regions: Observations and predictions from the Cairngorms, UK, JGR: Earth Surface, doi: 10.1029/2020JF005700.
Lipp AG, Shorttle O, Syvret F, Roberts GG, 2020. Major-element composition of fine grained sediments in terms of weathering and provenance: Implications for crustal recycling, G-Cubed, doi:10.1029/2019GC008758.
Brewer C, Hampson G, Whittaker AC, Roberts GG, Watkins S, 2020. Comparison of methods to estimate sediment flux in ancient sediment routing systems, Earth Sci. Reviews, doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103217.
Lodhia BH, Roberts GG, Fraser A, Jarvis J, Newton R, Cowan RJ, 2019. Observation and Simulation of Solid Sedimentary Flux: Examples From Northwest Africa, G-Cubed, doi:10.1029/2019GC008262.

Fundamentals of Landscape Evolution

Roberts GG, Wani O, 2024. A theory of stochastic fluvial landscape evolution, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, doi:10.1098/rspa.2023.0456

O’Malley C, White NJ, Stephenson S, Roberts GG, 2021. Large-Scale Tectonic Forcing of the African Landscape, JGR: Earth Surface, doi:10.1029/2021JF006345.
Roberts GG, 2021. Emergence of Simplicity Despite Local Complexity in Eroding Landscapes, Geology, doi:10/1130/G48942.1.
Wapenhans I, Fernandes V, O’Malley C, White N, Roberts GG, 2021. Scale-Dependent Contributors to River Profile Geometry, JGR: Earth Surface, doi:10/1029/2020JF005879.
Lipp AG, Roberts GG, 2021. Scale-dependent flow directions of rivers and the importance of sub-plate support, Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2020GL091107.
Roberts GG, 2019. Scales of Similarity and Disparity Between Drainage Networks, Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2019GL082446.
Roberts GG, White NJ, Lodhia BH, 2019. Generation and Scaling of Longitudinal River Profiles. Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2018JF004796.
Stucky de Quay G, Roberts GG, Rood D, Fernandes V, 2019. Holocene uplift and rapid fluvial erosion of Iceland: A record of post-glacial landscape evolution, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 505, 118–130. On EPSL’s most downloaded list.

Tectonics From Topography and Inverse Modelling

Morris M, Lipp AG, Roberts GG, 2023. Towards inverse modeling of landscapes using the Wasserstein distance, Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2023GL103880.

Alqahtani SA, Collier R, Paton D, Mortimer E, Roberts GG, O’Malley C, 2022. Uplift evolution along the Red Sea continental rift margin from stream profile inverse modeling and drainage analysis, Journal of African Earth Science, doi:10.1016/j.afrearsci.2022-104551.

Quye-Sawyer J, Whittaker AC, Roberts GG, Rood D, 2021. Fault Throw and Regional Uplift Histories from Drainage Analysis: Evolution of Southern Italy, Tectonics, doi:10.1029/2020TC006076.
Fernandes V, Roberts GG, White NJ, Whittaker AC, 2019. Continental Scale Landscape Evolution: A History of North American Topography, Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2018JF004979.
Conway-Jones B. Roberts GG, Fichtner A, Hoggard M, 2019. Neogene Epeirogeny of Iberia, G-Cubed, doi:10.1029/2018GC007899.
Rodriguez-Tribaldos V, White NJ, Roberts GG, Hoggard M, 2017. Spatial and Temporal Uplift History of South America from Drainage Analysis. G-Cubed, doi:10.1002/2017GC006909.
Rudge J, Roberts GG, White NJ, Richardson CN, 2015. Uplift Histories of Africa and Australia From Linearised Inversion of River Profiles. Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1002/2014JF003297.
Stephenson S, Roberts GG, Hoggard M, Whittaker AC, 2014. A Cenozoic Uplift History of Mexico and its Surroundings From Longitudinal River Profiles. G-Cubed , doi:10.1002/2014GC005425.
Wilson J, Roberts GG, Hoggard M, White NJ, 2014. Cenozoic Epeirogeny of Arabian Peninsula from Drainage Modeling. G-cubed, doi:10.1002/2014GC005283.
Paul J, Roberts GG, White NJ, 2014. The African Landscape Through Space and Time. Tectonics, doi:10.1002/2013TC003479.
Czarnota K, Roberts GG, White NJ, Fishwick S, 2014. Cretaceous-Recent Dynamic Support of Australia. Journal of Geophysical Research, doi: 10.1002/2013JB010436.
Roberts GG, White NJ, Shaw B, 2013. An uplift history of Crete, Greece, from inverse modeling of longitudinal river profiles. Geomorphology, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.05.026.
Roberts GG, White NJ, Martin-Brandis GL, & Crosby AG, 2012. An Uplift History of the Colorado Plateau and its Surroundings from Inverse Modeling of Longitudinal River Profiles. Tectonics, doi:10.1029/2012TC003107.
Roberts GG, Paul JD, White NJ, Winterbourne J, 2012. Temporal and Spatial Evolution of Dynamic Support From River Profiles: A Study of Madagascar. G-cubed, doi:10.1029/2012GC004040.
Roberts GG, White NJ, 2010. Estimating uplift rate histories from river profiles using African examples. Journal of Geophysical Research, 115(B02406), doi:10.1029/2009JB006692.
Pritchard D, Roberts GG, White NJ, Richardson CN, 2009. Uplift histories from river profiles. Geophysical Research Letters, 36(L24301), doi:10.1029/2009GL040928.

Basin Analysis and Mantle Convection

Fernandes VM, Roberts GG, Richards FD, 2024. Testing Mantle Convection Simulations with Paleobiology and Other Stratigraphic Observations: Examples from Western North America, GCubed.

Hazzard JAN, Richards FD, Goes SDB, Roberts GG, 2023. Probabalistic assessement of Antarctic thermomechanical Structure: Impacts on ice sheet stability, JGR: Solid Earth, doi:10.1029/2023JB026653.

Spurin C, Roberts GG, O'Malley CPB, Kurotori T, Krevor S, Blunt M, Tchelepi H, 2023. Pore-scale fluid dynamics resolved in pressure fluctations at the Darcy scale, GRL, doi:10.1029/2023GL104473.

Sheyh Husein S, Fraser A, Roberts GG, Bell R, 2023. New insights into the stratigraphic evolution of southwest Britain: Implications for Triassic salt and hydrocarbon prospectivity, Petroleum Geoscience, doi:10.1144/petgeo2022-051.

Ball PW, Roberts GG, Mark DF, Barfod D, White N, Lodhia BH, Nahdi MM, Garni S, 2023. Geochemical and geochronological analysis of Harrat Rahat, Saudi Arabia: An example of plume related intraplate magmatism, Lithos, doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2023.107112.

Stucky de Quay G, Roberts GG, 2022. Geodynamic Generation of a Paleocene-Eocene Landscape Buried Beneath North Bressay, North Sea, Journal of the Geological Society, doi:10.1144/jgs2022-063.

Fernandes V, Roberts GG, 2020. Cretaceous to Recent net continental uplift from paleobiological data: Insights into sub-plate support, GSA Bulletin, doi:10.1130/B35739.1.
Morris M, Fernandes V, Roberts GG, 2019. Extricating dynamic topography from subsidence patterns: Examples from Eastern North America's passive margin, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115840.
Roberts GG, White N, Hoggard M, Meenan C, 2018. A Neogene History of Convective Support Beneath Borneo. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 496, 142–158.
Lodhia BH, Roberts GG, Fraser A, Fishwick S, Goes S, Jarvis J, 2018. Continental margin subsidence from shallow mantle convection: Example from West Africa. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2017.10.024.
Stucky de Quay G, Roberts GG, Watson J, Jackson C, 2017. Incipient mantle plume evolution: Constraints from ancient landscapes buried beneath the North Sea. G-Cubed, doi:10.1002/2016GC006769.
Hartley R, Roberts GG, White NJ, 2011. Transient convective uplift of an ancient buried landscape. Nature Geoscience, 4, doi:10.1038/ngeo1191. Related commentary by Philip Allen in same issue.

Biodiversity & Palaeobiology

O’Malley C, Roberts GG, Mannion P, Hackel J, Wang Y, 2023. Scale-dependent coherence of terrestrial vertebrate biodiversity with environment, Global Ecology and Biogeography, doi:10.1111/geb.13702.
Roberts GG, Mannion P, 2019. Timing and periodicity of Phanerozoic marine biodiversity and environmental change, Scientific Reports.