Tom Paradise
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American geomorphologist and professor of geosciences
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Tom Paradise's Degrees
- PhD Geosciences Stanford University
- Masters Geology Stanford University
- Bachelors Geology Stanford University
Why Is Tom Paradise Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Thomas R. Paradise is an American geomorphologist and professor of geosciences at the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Arkansas. He is known for his work on the Nabatean city of Petra in Jordan, which he has studied since the late 1980s, and has published work on the deterioration of architectural stone. He was the lead researcher and presenter on Petra: Lost City of Stone, broadcast by PBS in 2015.
Tom Paradise's Published Works
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Published Works
- Sandstone weathering: a century of research and innovation (2005) (189)
- Geomorphology's role in the study of weathering of cultural stone ☆ (2002) (112)
- Perception of earthquake risk in Agadir, Morocco: A case study from a Muslim community (2005) (78)
- Sandstone weathering and aspect in Petra, Jordan (2002) (44)
- SANDSTONE WEATHERING THRESHOLDS IN PETRA, JORDAN (1995) (39)
- Petra revisited: An examination of sandstone weathering research in Petra, Jordan (2005) (37)
- Disparate sandstone weathering beneath lichens, red mountain, arizona (1997) (36)
- Tafoni and Other Rock Basins (2013) (27)
- Perception of seismic risk in a Muslim city (2006) (22)
- Assessment of tafoni distribution and environmental factors on a sandstone djinn block above Petra, Jordan (2013) (20)
- LIMESTONE WEATHERING AND RATE VARIABILITY, GREAT TEMPLE OF AMMAN, JORDAN (1998) (19)
- The role of fieldwork in rock decay research: Case studies from the fringe (2013) (19)
- Analysis of sandstone weathering of the Roman theater in Petra, Jordan (1999) (16)
- The Bedouins of Petra, Jordan: A geographer's life with the Bdoul (2016) (16)
- WEATHERING PIT CHARACTERISTICS AND TOPOGRAPHY ON STONE MOUNTAIN, GEORGIA (1993) (14)
- The sublethal salinity tolerance of selected freshwater macroinvertebrate species (2009) (10)
- Defining tafoni: Re-examining terminological ambiguity for cavernous rock decay phenomena (2015) (10)
- Sandstone architectural deterioration in Petra, Jordan (2000) (9)
- 4.7 Tafoni and Other Rock Basins (2013) (9)
- The Natural Formation and Occurrence of Green Quartz (1982) (7)
- Sandstone Chamber Humidity and Tourism in Petra, Jordan (2010) (6)
- Islam and earthquakes: seismic risk perception in a Muslim city (2008) (6)
- Architecture and Deterioration in Petra: Issues, Trends, and Warnings (2012) (4)
- Assessing the impact of Syrian refugees on earthquake fatality estimations in southeast Turkey (2017) (3)
- Sandstone Weathering Thresholds at Petra, Jordan: Comments on Paradise, 1995; Sandstone Weathering Thresholds at Petra, Jordan: Reply to Yaalon, 1996 (1996) (3)
- The Occurrence of Botryoidal and Gem-Quality Nephrite in Monterey County, California (1985) (2)
- Atlas of Hawai'i : Department of Geography, University of Hawai'i at Hilo (1983) (2)
- Seismic Risk Perception Assessment of Earthquake Survivors: A Case Study from the 2005 Kashmir Earthquake (2020) (0)
- Creating a Libyan Earthquake Archive: From Classical Times to the Present (2020) (0)
- THE QUARTZ OF ARKANSAS: (2019) (0)
- The Influence of Islam on the Assessment of Earthquake Hazards and Seismic Risk (2012) (0)
- Coastal relict landforms and the legacy of Tony Orme (2021) (0)
- Tax-Loss Harvesting: An Individual Investor’s Perspective (2021) (0)
- Seismic Risk Perception in Al-Marj, Libya: A Case Study after the 1963 Earthquake (2020) (0)
- Corrigendum (2014) (0)
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