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Charles Rowland Twidale's Degrees
- Masters Geomorphology University of Melbourne
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Charles Rowland Twidale is an Australian geomorphologist active at the University of Adelaide. Twidale's research has covered varied subjects including structural geomorphology, weathering, ancient landscapes in shield regions, granite landforms in deserts, paleosurfaces and the history of geomorphology. Twidale has been most active investigating the geomorphology of Australia and Spain.
Charles Rowland Twidale's Published Works
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- River patterns and their meaning (2004) (219)
- The two-stage concept of landform and landscape development involving etching: origin, development and implications of an idea (2002) (113)
- Episodic exposure of inselbergs (1975) (96)
- Gondwanan (Late Jurassic and Cretaceous) palaeosurfaces of the Australian craton (1994) (81)
- Evolution of Sand Dunes in the Simpson Desert, Central Australia (1972) (80)
- Role of Salts in Development of Granitic Tafoni, South Australia (1978) (79)
- The age of the lateritized summit surface on Kangaroo Island and adjacent areas of South Australia (1974) (70)
- The evolution of bornhardts in silicic volcanic rocks in the gawler ranges (1991) (70)
- Relative and 'absolute' dating of land surfaces (2002) (70)
- On the origin of sheet jointing (1973) (67)
- Treatment of broad palaeodose distributions in OSL dating of dune sands from the western Murray Basin, South Australia (2007) (67)
- The Origin and Implications of Some Erosional Landforms (1990) (66)
- Duricrusts in Tropical and Subtropical Landscapes (1973) (63)
- Formation and age of desert dunes in the Lake Eyre depocentres in central Australia (1988) (62)
- The onset of dune formation in the Strzelecki Desert, South Australia (2003) (57)
- Minor granite landforms associated with the release of compressive stress (1978) (55)
- The subsurface initiation of some minor granite landforms (1975) (53)
- Early Mesozoic (?Triassic) Landscapes in Australia: Evidence, Argument, and Implications (2000) (51)
- Granite landform evolution: Factors and implications (1986) (50)
- Rock bursts and associated neotectonic forms at Minnipa Hill, northwestern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia (2000) (47)
- Origin and age of bornhardts, Southwest Western Australia (1998) (46)
- The origin of bornhardts (1980) (46)
- Ancient Australian Landscapes (2007) (45)
- An overview of silicification in Cainozoic landscapes of arid central and southern Australia (1983) (44)
- Granitic Inselbergs: Domed, Block-Strewn and Castellated (1981) (44)
- Composition and genesis of silcretes and silcrete skins from the Beda valley, southern Arcoona plateau, South Australia (1972) (42)
- Analysis of landforms (1975) (41)
- Sheet fractures: response to erosional offloading or to tectonic stress? (1996) (37)
- Australian desert dunes: Wind rift or depositional origin? (2001) (36)
- Age of desert dunes near Birdsville, southwest Queensland (2001) (36)
- Antiquity of landforms: an 'extremely unlikely' concept vindicated (1998) (36)
- Origin of the Piedmont Angle as Evidenced in South Australia (1967) (36)
- A Contribution to the General Theory of Domed Inselbergs: Conclusions Derived from Observations in South Australia (1964) (34)
- Characteristics and origin of some Australian silcretes (1978) (34)
- The use of duricrusts and topographic relationships in geomorphological correlation: conclusions based in Australian experience (1998) (33)
- Landform Development in the Lake Eyre Region, Australia (1972) (32)
- The research frontier and beyond: granitic terrains (1993) (31)
- The weathering of norite at Black Hill, South Australia (1977) (31)
- Climatic geomorphology: a critique (1994) (30)
- Development of a basin, doughnut and font assemblage on a sandstone coast, western Eyre Peninsula, South Australia (1998) (30)
- Origins and environments of pediments (1981) (30)
- Active dislocations in granitic terrains of the Gawler and Yilgarn cratons, Australia, and some implications (2003) (27)
- Pre-Quaternary landforms in the low latitude context: the example of Australia (1995) (27)
- The great age of some Australian landforms: examples of, and possible explanations for, landscape longevity (1997) (26)
- Etch and intracutaneous landforms and their implications (1987) (26)
- Some problems of slope development (1959) (25)
- Beach etching and shore platforms (2005) (24)
- Sinkholes (Dolines) in lateritised sediments, western Sturt plateau, Northern Territory, Australia (1987) (24)
- Origin of minor sandstone landforms (1980) (23)
- Uluru (Ayers Rock) and Kata Tjuta (The Olgas): Inselbergs of Central Australia (2009) (22)
- Australian Landforms: Understanding a Low, Flat, Arid and Old Landscape (2005) (21)
- Thermoluminescence dating of Australian palaeo-earthquakes (1994) (21)
- Australian Landforms: Structure, Process and Time (1995) (20)
- Bornhardts and associated fracture patterns (2007) (20)
- ORIGIN AND IMPLICATIONS OF THE A-TENT, A MINOR GRANITE LANDFORM (1971) (20)
- The age of the palaeodunefield of the northern Murray Basin in South Australia: Preliminary results (2007) (19)
- Dolines of the Pleistocene dune calcarenite terrain of western Eyre Peninsula, South Australia : a reflection of underprinting? (2000) (19)
- Morphology and origin of three bornhardt inselbergs near Lake Johnston, Western Australia (2002) (19)
- Stepped landscapes and their significance for general theories of landscape development (2000) (18)
- Thermoluminescence dating of coastal dune sand related to a higher stand of lake woods, Northern Territory (1984) (18)
- Flared slopes revisited (1998) (17)
- CHAPTER 7 – GRANITE PLAINS (1982) (17)
- Bornhardt inselbergs in the Salt River Valley, south of Kellerberrin, Western Australia (with notes on a tesselated pavement in granite and pinnacles in laterite) (1999) (16)
- Lithologic and climatic convergence in granite morphology (1995) (16)
- Multistage Landform Development, with Particular Reference to a Cratonic Bornhardt (1998) (15)
- The origin of recently initiated exogenetic landforms, South Australia (1976) (15)
- Character and interpretation of the regolith exposed at Point Drummond, west coast of Eyre Peninsula, South Australia (1995) (15)
- Silcrete as a climatic indicator: Discussion (1986) (15)
- The shaping and interpretation of large residual granite boulders (1976) (15)
- Pediments and alluvial fans: Genesis and relationships in the western piedmont of the Flinders Ranges, South Australia (1998) (14)
- Landforms Ancient and Recent: the Paradox (1999) (14)
- Caves in granitic rocks: types, terminology and origins (2008) (14)
- Origin and inversion of fluting in granitic rocks (2003) (14)
- Granite platforms and low domes: newly exposed compartments or degraded remnants (1986) (13)
- Siliceous cylindrical speleotherms in granitoids in warm semiarid and humid climates (2003) (13)
- Geomorphological development of the eastern margin of the Australian Craton (1992) (13)
- Persistent and Ancient Rivers - some Australian examples. (1997) (13)
- The Various origins of minor granite Landforms (1995) (13)
- Landform development at the Ciudad Encantada, near Cuenca, Spain (1993) (13)
- The character and interpretation of some pediment mantles (1979) (13)
- The Enigma of Survival: Problems Posed by Very Old Paleosurfaces (2003) (13)
- On the Origin and Significance of Basal Notches or Footcaves in Karst Terrains (2011) (13)
- Lineage As a Factor in Landscape Analysis (2005) (12)
- Eustatic and Climatic History of the Adelaide Area South Australia: A Discussion (1967) (12)
- “Canons” revisited and reviewed: Lester King's views of landscape evolution considered 50 years later (2003) (11)
- Structural landforms : landforms associated with granitic rocks, faults and folded strata (1972) (11)
- Commentary: practices, problems and principles for ecotourism – a case study (2003) (10)
- Some recently developed landforms: climatic implications (1997) (10)
- Pediments as Etch Forms: Implications for Landscape Evolution (2013) (9)
- Rock basins (gnammas) revisited (2018) (9)
- The imprint of the plough: ‘lands’ in the mt lofty ranges, South Australia (1971) (9)
- Do pediplains exist? Suggested criteria and examples (2013) (9)
- Concatenation and Resultant Inequalities in Denudation (2007) (9)
- Geomorphic development of the Giants of the Mimbres, Grant County, New Mexico (2002) (8)
- Geomorphological development of the Baxter Hills, a conglomeratic upland near Iron Knob, South Australia (with 10 figures) (2003) (8)
- A note on the role of protection in landform development: examples from granitic terrains (with 8 figures) (2000) (8)
- Origin and development of Karstinselberge, with particular reference to some South East Asian evidence (2006) (8)
- OLDLANDS: CHARACTERISTICS AND IMPLICATIONS BASED ON THE AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCE (1999) (8)
- Discussion: Age and origin of laterite and silcrete duricrusts and their relationship to episodic tectonism in the mid‐north of South Australia (1977) (8)
- J. T. Jutson's contributions to geomorphological thought (1984) (8)
- Notes on the geomorphology of The Humps, near Hyden, Western Australia (2004) (8)
- Playas of inland Australia (2010) (8)
- Kappakoola dunes — aeolian landforms induced by man (1975) (8)
- The Lochiel Landslip, South Australia (1986) (8)
- The ancient landscapes concept: ‘Important if true’ (2011) (8)
- Preliminary investigations of dunes of the Gawler Ranges province, South Australia (1996) (7)
- Backwearing of slopes - the development of an idea (2007) (7)
- Ancient landscapes: Their nature and significance for the question of inheritance (1985) (7)
- A physiographic reconnaissance of some Volcanic Provinces in North Queensland, Australia (1956) (7)
- Role of Salts in Development of Granitic Tafoni, South Australia: A Reply (1980) (7)
- J.T. Jutson and the Work of the Wind in Shaping the Landscape (2011) (7)
- SCARP RETREAT, SLOPE STABILITY, AND THE EVOLUTION OF PIEDMONT ASSEMBLAGES (2000) (6)
- The early Cretaceous marine transgression and its significance for landscape interpretation (1991) (6)
- Ancient Australia (1988) (6)
- Weathering, soil development, and landforms. (1990) (6)
- Neglected and cryptostructural effects in drainage development (2011) (6)
- Neotectonism in Australia: its expressions and implications (2004) (6)
- ETCHING AS A PROCESS OF LANDFORM DEVELOPMENT (1988) (6)
- Fractures as Planes of Dislocation and Two-Way Translocation: Their Significance in Landform Development (2007) (6)
- Course of the lower River Murray in South Australia: effects of underprinting and neotectonics? (2009) (6)
- Bornhardts, Bouldes and Inselbergs (1995) (5)
- C.H. Crickmay, a Canadian rebel (1993) (5)
- Pediments and platforms: problems and solutions (2014) (5)
- Comment on “10Be and 26Al Evidence for Exceptionally Low Rates of Australian Bedrock Erosion and the Likely Existence of Pre- Pleistocene Landscapes” (Bierman and Turner, 1995) (1997) (5)
- A Plea for the Best of the Past - Suggestions for Teaching about Landforms (1999) (5)
- The study of desert dunes in Australia (2008) (5)
- Origin of miniature mogotes in granite, King Rocks, southern Yilgarn Block, Western Australia (1999) (5)
- Book reviews: Bles, J.L. et al. 1986: Fracturation profonde des massifs rôcheux granitiques. Documents du BRGM 102. 316 pp. FF 130 cloth (1987) (5)
- Sturts Stony Desert, Central Australia (2002) (5)
- Response to R. A. Callen and G. C. Nanson (1992) (4)
- Granite outcrops: their utilisation and conservation (2000) (4)
- Geomorphology of Uluru, Australia: Discussion (2011) (4)
- Lineaments and cryptostructural effects (2007) (4)
- The Lochiel landslip, a mass movement developing in 1974 but originating 600-700 million years earlier (2000) (4)
- C. T. MADIGAN'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO GEOLOGY IN SOUTH AND CENTRAL AUSTRALIA (1990) (4)
- Differentiating etch, epigene, and subaerial landforms (2009) (4)
- Distribution of relic ‘lands’ or strip fields in South Australia (1978) (4)
- The Simpson Desert, Central Australia. (1980) (4)
- Landscape analysis: derivation and rediscovery of ideas (2012) (3)
- Penecontemporary tectonic forms in basement areas: evidence derived from quarry exposures on northwestern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia (2005) (3)
- Enigmatic mesozoic paleoforms revisited: the Australian experience (2016) (3)
- Abandoned ingrown meander (1964) (3)
- J.R. Logan's 1846 observations on Pulau Ubin, Singapore: Their significance for landscape interpretation (2009) (3)
- Karst towers: some questions and answers (2004) (3)
- Karstification of interior Eyre Peninsula, South Australia and its impacts on land use (2016) (3)
- Multistage landform development in various settings and at various scales (2002) (3)
- Morphological impacts of low magnitude seismic events on granite: viewing certain landforms with new eyes (2014) (3)
- Landform development of City of Rocks State Park and Giant of the Mimbres (1988) (3)
- Reinventing the wheel: recurrent conception in geomorphology (2004) (2)
- CHAPTER 10 – CAVES AND TAFONI (1982) (2)
- Drainage patterns in an appalachian fold mountain belt: flinders ranges, south Australia (2010) (2)
- Haloclasty on the bed of the Lake Gairdner salina, South Australia (2008) (2)
- ULTIMATE AND PROXIMATE ORIGINS: TESTS BASED IN THE GEOMORPHIC EVOLUTION OF THE SOUTHEASTERN GAWLER CRATON AND THE STUART AND SPENCER SHELVES, SOUTH AUSTRALIA (2001) (2)
- Natural history of Kangaroo Island, 1. Geology and geomorphology (1979) (2)
- Uplift, Erosion and Stability: perspective on long-term landscape development (2001) (2)
- Lateral stability of central Australian longitudinal dunes (2019) (2)
- The putative pre-Cenozoic age of Waddikee Rocks, Koongawa, northern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia (2017) (2)
- The gawler ranges, South Australia: an unusual volcanic massif (1991) (2)
- Anthropogenically - induced erosion in arid and semiarid Australia (2004) (2)
- The Lochiel Landslip in 2010 and the Significance of Reinforcement Mechanisms (2011) (2)
- CHAPTER 4 – BOULDERS (1982) (2)
- Charles Fenner and Early Landform Studies in South Australia (2010) (2)
- Walks on Hyden Rock (2000) (1)
- Horace R. Blank and the origin of rock doughnuts (2018) (1)
- Contrasted Perceptions of Uluru (2012) (1)
- Jean-Henri Hassenfratz, Corestone Boulders and the Two-Stage or ETCH Concept of Landform Development (2006) (1)
- CHAPTER 2 – CHARACTERISTICS OF GRANITIC ROCKS (1982) (1)
- Are corestones due to weathering and/or tectonism? Problems and suggestions (2020) (1)
- Origin and age of the Mantung High Plain, a karst surface in the western Murray Basin of South Australia (2012) (1)
- Weather pit (Gnamma) (1965) (1)
- Management implications of neotectonic activity at Minnipa Hill, north-western Eyre Peninsula, South Australia (2000) (1)
- Elizabeth Mary Campbell 1940-2008 (2010) (1)
- J. T. Jutson: A Master of Synthesis (2014) (1)
- R.L. Crocker and the South Australian palaeodunefields (2018) (1)
- A note on the development of wash aprons in dune sand, central Australia (with 3 figures) (2002) (1)
- Edwin Hills: morphotectonics and other geomorphological contributions (2000) (1)
- Significance of dimpled and grooved surfaces (2008) (1)
- Mass movements on granitic slopes and the question of human interference (2000) (1)
- Notes on the origin and significance of stone layers (2006) (1)
- Distribution and Morphology of the Bedrock Basins Known as Pans in a Granitic Inselberg Landscape (2022) (1)
- Sounding Sand entries; SAND entries; SHOESTRING SANDS; SOUNDING SANDSsands (1982) (0)
- Landscape inheritance: Report of Working Group Number 2 (1985) (0)
- Palaeosurface Contrasts between the Eastern and Western Margins of the Great Australian Basin (2013) (0)
- Landform terminology - some problems addressed (2013) (0)
- CHAPTER 1 – LANDFORMS DEVELOPED ON GRANITIC ROCKS (1982) (0)
- CHAPTER 3 – WEATHERING WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO GRANITIC ROCKS (1982) (0)
- CHAPTER 6 – ALL-SLOPES TOPOGRAPHY (1982) (0)
- Contrasted morphologies of the Western and Eastern Piedmonts of the Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia (2014) (0)
- Neglected geomorphological concepts: some canons revisited, reviewed and revived (2008) (0)
- THE ONSET AND SUBSEQUENT HISTORY OF DUNE FORMATION IN THE STRZELECKI DESERT AND ADJACENT DUNEFIELDS , SOUTH AUSTRALIA (2003) (0)
- Biography: Elizabeth Mary Campbell, 1940-2008, including a listing of referred publications (2010) (0)
- CHAPTER 9 – FORMS ASSOCIATED WITH STEEP SLOPES (1982) (0)
- CHAPTER 12 – DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS (1982) (0)
- Structure, surface and drainage development in the Cleve Hills and associated uplands, northeastern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia (2006) (0)
- SIMPSON DESERT DUNES - DATES AND PROBLEMS (2001) (0)
- CHAPTER 5 – INSELBERGS (1982) (0)
- Auto-exposure and underprinting in the exhumation of Neoproterozoic (subNama) inselbergs in southeastern Namibia (2013) (0)
- CHAPTER 8 – FORMS OF GENTLE SLOPES (1982) (0)
- What is exfoliation (2017) (0)
- Late quaternary palaeoenvironments of Southern Africa, J. Deacon, N. Lancaster (Eds.). Clarendon Press, Oxford (1988), £stg.30.00 (1989) (0)
- Discovery and naming of the Baxter Hills near Iron Knob, South Australia (2001) (0)
- The ancient landscapes concept: 'Important if true': L'ancienneté de certains reliefs: un concept d'importance si c'est vrai (2011) (0)
- Chapter 2. Weathering, soil development, and landforms (1990) (0)
- CHAPTER 11 – SPLIT AND CRACKED BLOCKS AND PLATES (1982) (0)
- Role of subterranean water in landform development in tropical and subtropical regions (2020) (0)
- 1.16 The Field, the First, and Latest Court of Appeal: An Australian Cratonic Landscape and its Wider Relevance (2013) (0)
- C. D. Ollier's 'Evolutionary Geomorphology of Australia': Discussion (1981) (0)
- Fault Blocks and Rifts in South Australia (1966) (0)
- "Obscure" references: a cautionary tale (2009) (0)
- J. D. Falconer and his Geomorphological Interpretations in Northern Nigeria (2008) (0)
- Contrasted Piedmont Developments (2008) (0)
- ELEANORA BLISS KNOPF AND UNEQUAL EROSION (2008) (0)
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