Robert P. Sharp

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Robert P. Sharp is affiliated with the following schools: California Institute of Technology, Harvard University

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#1254

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#46

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Robert P. Sharp's Degrees

PhD Geology California Institute of Technology
Masters Geology California Institute of Technology
Bachelors Geology California Institute of Technology

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According to Wikipedia, Robert Phillip Sharp was an American geomorphologist and expert on the geological surfaces of the Earth and the planet Mars. Sharp served as the chairman of the Division of Geological Sciences at California Institute of Technology from 1952 to 1968. He built the modern department and especially recruited new faculty in geochemistry, tectonic geomorphology, planetary science, and field geology.

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Robert P. Sharp's Published Works

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Mars: Fretted and chaotic terrains (1973) (276)
Channels on Mars (1975) (262)
Preliminary Mariner 9 Report on the Geology of Mars (A 4. 3) (1972) (261)
MUDFLOW OF 1941 AT WRIGHTWOOD, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (1953) (216)
CHEMICAL DATA ON DESERT VARNISH (1958) (187)
Geological framework of the south polar region of Mars. (1972) (173)
Structure of the Lower Blue Glacier, Washington (1960) (154)
Antarctic Ice Sheet: Stable Isotope Analyses of Byrd Station Cores and Interhemispheric Climatic Implications (1970) (150)
Wind Ripples (1963) (145)
Wind-Driven Sand in Coachella Valley, California (1964) (145)
Barchan-dune movement in Imperial Valley, California (1964) (145)
Mariner IV Photography of Mars: Initial Results (1965) (143)
Kelso Dunes, Mojave Desert, California (1966) (140)
Mars: Troughed terrain (1973) (140)
Mariner 6 and 7 television pictures: preliminary analysis. (1969) (108)
Mariner 9 Television Reconnaissance of Mars and Its Satellites: Preliminary Results (1972) (100)
Six‐year record of oxygen and hydrogen isotope variations in South Pole firn (1965) (98)
Studies of superglacial debris on valley glaciers (1949) (89)
ADDITIONS TO CLASSICAL SEQUENCE OF PLEISTOCENE GLACIATIONS, SIERRA NEVADA, CALIFORNIA (1963) (81)
Surface geology from Viking landers on Mars: A second look (1984) (79)
Internal Deformation and Thermal Anomalies in Lower Blue Glacier, Mount Olympus, Washington, U.S.A. (1970) (77)
The surface of Mars 1. Cratered terrains (1971) (71)
Television experiment for Mariner Mars 1971 (1970) (67)
Wind-driven sand in Coachella Valley, California: Further data (1980) (64)
Pleistocene Ventifacts East of the Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming (1949) (63)
Mars: South polar pits and etched terrain (1973) (60)
The surface of Mars 2. Uncratered terrains (1971) (59)
Semiquantitative Differentiation of Glacial Moraines near Convict Lake, Sierra Nevada, California (1969) (58)
Flow of Blue Glacier, Olympic Mountains, Washington, U.S.A. (1974) (51)
Sherwin Till–Bishop Tuff Geological Relationships, Sierra Nevada, California (1968) (42)
Periglacial Involutions in Northeastern Illinois (1942) (40)
Oxygen-Isotope Variations in the Malaspina and Saskatchewan Glaciers (1959) (39)
The surface of Mars 4. South polar cap (1971) (38)
Oxygen-Isotope Ratios in Antarctic Snow, Firn, and Ice (1963) (37)
A Cambrian slide breccia, Grand Canyon, Arizona (1940) (35)
Pleistocene glaciation in the Trinity Alps of northern California (1960) (34)
Intradune flats of the Algodones chain, Imperial Valley, California (1979) (33)
MALASPINA GLACIER, ALASKA (1958) (33)
Pleistocene Glaciation, Bridgeport Basin, California (1972) (32)
Features of the Firn on Upper Seward Glacier St. Elias Mountains, Canada (1951) (31)
ACCUMULATION AND ABLATION ON THE SEWARD-MALASPINA GLACIER SYSTEM, CANADA-ALASKA (1951) (29)
Sliding stones, Racetrack Playa, California (1976) (27)
Stripping of Keanakakoi tephra on Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii (1983) (27)
Pleistocene glaciers on southern California mountains (1959) (27)
Oxygen-Isotope Ratios in the Blue Glacier, Olympic Mountains, Washington, U.S.A. (1960) (26)
GEOMORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSES ON TERRESTRIAL PLANETARY SURFACES (1980) (25)
The Miocene Humboldt Formation in Northeastern Nevada (1939) (24)
The Wolf Creek Glaciers, St. Elias Range, Yukon Territory (1947) (23)
Surface processes modifying Martian craters (1968) (23)
SEISMIC EXPLORATIONS ON THE FLOOR OF YOSEMITE VALLEY, CALIFORNIA (1956) (22)
The surface of Mars 3. Light and dark markings (1971) (22)
Stratigraphy and structure of the Southern Ruby Mountains, Nevada (1942) (20)
Geomorphology of the Ruby-East Humboldt Range, Nevada (1940) (20)
Glacial History of Wolf Creek, St. Elias Range, Canada (1951) (20)
Ep-Archean and Ep-Algonkian erosion surfaces, Grand Canyon, Arizona (1940) (20)
Basin-range structure of the Ruby-East Humboldt Range, north-eastern Nevada (1939) (20)
Early Tertiary Fanglomerate, Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming (1948) (19)
The geology of cook county, Minnesota (1959) (19)
GLACIER FLOW: A REVIEW (1954) (19)
DEFORMATION OF BORE HOLE IN MALASPINA GLACIER, ALASKA (1953) (17)
Glacial features of Cook County, Minnesota (1953) (17)
Ice on Mars (1974) (17)
Landscape evolution (A Review) (1982) (16)
Multiple Pleistocene Glaciation on San Francisco Mountain, Arizona (1942) (16)
Mariner 6 television pictures: first report. (1969) (16)
SPINAL OR GENERAL ANESTHESIA FOR INGUINAL HERNIA REPAIR?A COMPARISON OF CERTAIN COMPLICATIONS IN A CONTROLLED SERIES. (1964) (15)
The Latest Major Advance of Malaspina Glacier, Alaska (1958) (15)
Preliminary Data from Saskatchewan Glacier, Alberta, Canada (1954) (15)
Ground-Ice Mounds in Tundra (1942) (15)
Geology: Field Guide To Southern California (1972) (14)
Planetary Contamination I: The Problem and the Agreements (1967) (13)
The Constitution of Valley Glaciers (1948) (13)
Living Ice: Understanding Glaciers and Glaciation (1988) (13)
Glaciers in the Arctic (1956) (13)
Principles of Structural Glaciology [Book Review] (1965) (13)
Geology of the Wolf Creek area, St. Elias Range, Yukon Territory, Canada (1943) (12)
EARTH SCIENCE FIELD WORK: ROLE AND STATUS (1988) (11)
Mariner 7 television pictures: first report. (1969) (11)
Geomorphology of Cima Dome, Mojave desert, California (1957) (11)
Deformation of a Vertical Bore Hole in a Piedmont Glacier (1953) (11)
Landslides and Earthflows near Ventura, Southern California (1940) (10)
Production of friction surfaced components using steel metal matrix composites produced by Osprey process (1994) (10)
Thermal Regimen of Firn on Upper Seward Glacier, Yukon Territory, Canada (1951) (9)
Meltwater behavior in firn on upper Seward Glacier, St. Elias Mountains, Canada (1951) (9)
Climatological Implications of Stable Isotope Variations in Deep Ice Cores from Byrd Station, Antarctica (1973) (8)
Shorelines of the Glacial Great Lakes in Cook County, Minnesota (1953) (8)
Petrofabric study of a fossiliferous schist, Mount Clough, New Hampshire (1937) (7)
Oxygen- and Hydrogen-Isotope Variations in a Firn Core, Eights Station, Western Antarctica (1967) (7)
Suitability of ice for aircraft landings (1947) (6)
Do You Know Where You Are (1975) (6)
Note on the Geology of Agattu, an Aleutian Island (1946) (5)
Mariner 9 Mars Television Experiment (1972) (5)
Planetary Contamination I: The Problem and the Agreements (1967) (5)
Television observations from Mariners 6 and 7 (1969) (5)
Bulletin No. 39. The Geology of Cook County Minnesota (1959) (5)
Melting versus Evaporation in the Sierra Nevada, California (1951) (5)
Mariner 6 and 7 Television Pictures: Preliminary Analysis (1971) (4)
Mariner Mars 1964 Project Report: Television Experiment. Part 1 - Investigators' Report. Mariner IV Pictures of Mars (1967) (4)
Geology and Ourselves (1956) (3)
Glacier Variations and Climatic Fluctuations by, H. W :son Ahlmann (1953) (3)
Recollections of Kirk Bryan: A biographical sketch (1993) (2)
Planetary contamination. II. (1967) (2)
The surface of Mars. I - Cratered terrains. II - Uncratered terrains. III - Light and dark markings. IV - South polar cap (1971) (2)
Some rocks of the central Saint Elias Mountains, Yukon Territory, Canada (1956) (2)
Geology of the Ravenna quadrangle, Los Angeles County, California (1935) (2)
Mariner 4 pictures of Mars (1967) (2)
Project "Snow Cornice" (1948) (2)
Big Pumice cut, California: A well-dated, 750,000-year-old glacial till (1987) (2)
Mega-geomorphology: Mars vis a vis Earth (1985) (2)
Objectives of Antarctic Glaciological Research (2013) (1)
Glaciological Work of the British Jungfraujoch Research Party (1948) (1)
Henry Gross and His Dowsing Rod (1951) (1)
Galcial-Meteorological Investigations in Swedish Lappland (1950) (1)
Glacier Bay: The Land and the Silence [Book Review] (1969) (0)
Landform Studies from Australia and New Guinea [Book Review] (1968) (0)
Clifford Embleton and Chuchlaine A. M. King .Glacial and Periglacial Geomorphology. (1969) (0)
Summer Field Courses in Geology (1940) (0)
The Pleistocene glaciation of the San Francisco Mountain, Arizona (1958) (0)
Evolution of basaltic landforms: modifications by heterogeneous tephra deposits. (1979) (0)
Geomorphology in the Space Age (1967) (0)
Geomorphology -- The Science of Today's Geology (1948) (0)
Sliding rocks at the Racetrack, Death Valley: What makes them move?: Comment and Reply (1996) (0)
General Scour and Fill Along a Stream Reach. (1976) (0)
Landform Studies from Australia and New Guinea. J. N. Jennings and J. A. Mabbutt, Eds. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1967. xxiv + 434 pp., illus. $19.50 (1968) (0)
Geology of the Tujunga region, southwestern San Gabriel Mountains (1934) (0)
Reply Sliding rocks at the Racetrack , Death Valley : What makes them move ? : Comment (1996) (0)
A new locality for Middle Cambrian fossils near Noxon, Montana (1937) (0)
Geology at Caltech, an Introduction (1967) (0)
Proceedings of Conference VIII: Analysis of actual fault zones in bedrock: convened under auspices of National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, 1-5 April 1979 (1979) (0)
Geomorphology Down Under: Landform Studies from Australia and New Guinea . J. N. Jennings and J. A. Mabbutt, Eds. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1967. xxiv + 434 pp., illus. $19.50. (1968) (0)
Recollections of Ian Campbell (1978) (0)
The World of Ice [Book Review] (1963) (0)

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