Stephen Sparks - Selected publications#

Wadge, G., Voight, B., Sparks, R.S.J., Cole, P., and Loughlin, S.C. An Overview of the Eruption of Soufriere Hills Volcano from 2000-2010. Geological Society Memoir (in press).

2012 Sparks, R.S.J., Biggs, J. and Neuberg, J.W. Monitoring Volcanoes. Science 335, 1310-1311.

2011 Lube, G., Huppert, H.E., Sparks, R.S.J. and Freundt, A. Granular column collapses down rough, inclined channels. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 675, 347-368.

2011 Kavanagh, J. and Sparks R.S.J. Insights of dyke emplacement mechanics from detailed 3-D dyke thickness datasets. Journal of Geological Society of London 168, 965-978.

2009 Costa, A., Sparks, R.S.J., Macedonio, G., and Melnik, O. Dynamics of explosive volcanic eruptions in coupled dyke-conduit systems. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 288, 455-462.

2009 Kavanagh, J. and Sparks, R.S.J. Temperature changes in ascending kimberlite magmas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 286, 404-413. [9]

2009 Sparks, R.S.J., Brooker, R.A., M. Field, M. Kavanagh, J. Schumacher, J.C., Walter, M.J., and White, J. The nature of erupting kimberlite melts. Lithos 112S, 429-438. [9]

2009 Gernon, T., Field, M. and Sparks, R.S.J. Depositional processes in a kimberlite crater: the Upper Cretaceous Orapa South Pipe (Botswana). Sedimentology, 56, 623-643. [9]

2007 Jones, M.T., Sparks, R.S.J. and Valdes, P.J. The climatic impact of supervolcanic ash blankets. Climate Dynamics 29, 553-564. [21]]

2006 Huppert, H.E. and Sparks, R.S.J. Extreme natural hazards: population growth, globalization and environmental change. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, 364, 1875–1888. [22]


Top author in geology. Approximately 400 papers and 7500 citations with an h number of 46. President of a host of Earth science organisations as well as keen research generator and leader.