Prof Gerald Roberts
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Overview
Overview
Biography
I am a full professor of Earthquake Geology. I was Head of Department at Birkbeck (2012-2018). I am NERC Core Panel Member.
Highlights
I am a full Professor of Earthquake Geology. I am the PI on a NERC Standard Grant with two post-docs, "Active fault slip-rates and earthquake recurrence controlled by stress transfer and viscous flow", NE/V012894/1, £811,925, studying central Greece with Co-Is Dr. Zoe Mildon (Univ of Plymouth) and Dr. Joanna Faure Walker (UCL). I served two terms as Head of Department in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Birkbeck (2012-2015; 2015-2018). I am a NERC Core Panel member.
Qualifications
- PhD, University of Durham, 1991
- BSc Geology, University of Wales, Cardiff, 1987
Administrative responsibilities
- Programme Director for all geoscience degrees and certificates
ORCID
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Research
Research
Research interests
- Structural Geology of Active faults
- 36-Cl cosmogenic dating of fault scarps
- 36-Cl and U/Th dating of deformed palaeoshorelines
- Stress modelling of active faults
- Seismic hazard assessment
Research overview
Research Summary
I have an H-index of 44 with 5549 citations according to Google Scholar.
I am interested in the growth of active faults and how their slip-rates and growth control earthquake recurrence and seismic hazards. I am currently working in Italy and Greece and studying Mars.
The work involves:
(1) Structural geology fieldwork and mapping, concentrating on the geometry, kinematics and rates of deformation of active normal faults;
(2) Quaternary and Holocene dating of deformed geomorphology, through study of Holocene fault scarps and Quaternary marine terraces, using 36Cl cosmogenic exposure dating and U/Th coral dating;
(3) Observations and modelling of rivers deformed by active normal faults;
(4) Mapping deformation of the surface of Mars;
(5) Coulomb stress modelling of past earthquake sequences;
(6) Developing theoretical and numerical models of fault growth.
I am funded by NERC Standard Grant NE/V012894/1, with two post-docs. Active fault slip-rates and earthquake recurrence controlled by stress transfer and viscous flow. Roberts, G. P., Mildon, Z., Faure Walker, J. Sept 2021. £811,925.
Research projects
Active fault slip-rates and earthquake recurrence controlled by stress transfer and viscous flow.
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
I have a group of PhD students who are all working on the geology of active faulting or the geology of Mars.
1) Sam Mitchell - funded by NERC DTP. Studying active faulting and earthquakes in Greece.
2) Tom Wigley - Part-time self-funded. Studying faulting and stratigraphy of active faults in Greece
3) Brian Kneller - Part-time self-funded. Studying active faulting and volcano activity, Elysium Mons, Mars
4) Jason Brown - Part-time self-funded. Studying active faulting, Cerberus Fossae, Mars
Current doctoral researchers
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SAM MITCHELL
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BRIAN KNELLER
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THOMAS WIGLEY
Doctoral alumni since 2013-14
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JASON BROWN
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JENNIFER ROBERTSON
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FRANCESCO IEZZI
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MARCO MESCHIS
Teaching
Teaching modules
- Structural Geology II (EASC018H6)
- Field Mapping Training (EASC054H5)
- Map and Thesis (SCES015D6)
- Earth as a Planet (SCES060S4)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Mitchell, Sam and Roberts, Gerald P. and Sgambato, Claudia and Robertson, Jenni (2024) The relationship between kinematics and fault geometry for surface coseismic ruptures on across-strike faults: new observations of slip vectors and displacements along the Pisia and Skinos faults from the 1981 Eastern Gulf of Corinth, Greece earthquakes. Journal of Structural Geology 182 (105117), ISSN 0191-8141.
- Roberts, Gerald P. and Sgambato, Claudia and Robertson, Jenni and Mitchell, Sam (2024) Spatial migration of temporal earthquake clusters driven by the transfer of differential stress between neighbouring fault/shear-zone structures. Journal of Structural Geology 181 (105096), ISSN 0191-8141.
- Lavecchia, G. and Bello, S. and Andrenacci, C. and Cirillo, D. and Pietrolungo, F. and Talone, D. and Ferrarini, F. and de Nardis, R. and Galli, P. and Faure Walker, J. and Sgambato, Claudia and Menichetti, M. and Monaco, C. and Gambino, S. and De Guidi, G. and Barreca, G. and Carnemolla, F. and Brighenti, F. and Giuffrida, S. and Pirrotta, C. and Carboni, F. and Ferranti, L. and Valoroso, L. and Toscani, G. and Barchi, M.R. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Brozzetti, F. (2024) QUIN 2.0 - new release of the QUaternary fault strain INdicators database from the Southern Apennines of Italy. Scientific Data 11 (189), ISSN 2052-4463.
- Wilkinson, M. and Bonforte, A. and Jones, R. and Wadsworth, F. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Guglielmino, F. (2023) The performance of differential point positioning using low-cost GNSS in comparison to DInSAR for monitoring coseismic displacement of the Provenzana–Pernicana fault system (Mt. Etna, 2018 December eruptive phase). Geophysical Journal International 234 (2), pp. 1012-1023. ISSN 0956-540X.
- Brown, Jason and Roberts, Gerald P. (2023) Repeated, cross-cutting and spatially migrating outflow channel formation, Grjótá Valles, Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets ISSN 2169-9097.
- Mildon, Zoe and Roberts, Gerald P. and Faure Walker, J.P. and Beck, J. and Papanikolaou, I. and Michetti, A.M. and Toda, S. and Iezzi, Francesco and Campbell, L. and McCaffrey, K.J.W. and Shanks, R. and Sgambato, Claudia and Robertson, Jenni and Meschis, Marco and Vittori, E. (2022) Surface faulting earthquake clustering controlled by fault and shear-zone interactions. Nature Communications 13 (7126), ISSN 2041-1723.
- Meschis, Marco and Roberts, Gerald P. and Robertson, Jenni (2022) Out of phase Quaternary uplift-rate changes reveal normal fault interaction, implied by deformed marine palaeoshorelines. Geomorphology 416 (108432), ISSN 0169-555X.
- Lavecchia, G. and Bello, S. and Andrenacci, C. and Cirillo, D. and Ferrarini, F. and Vicentini, N. and de Nardis, R. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Brozzetti, F. (2022) QUaternary fault strain INdicators database - QUIN 1.0 - first release from the Apennines of central Italy. Scientific Data 9 (204), ISSN 2052-4463.
- Iezzi, Francesco and Roberts, Gerald P. (2021) Temporal and spatial earthquake clustering revealed through comparison of millennial strain-rates from 36Cl cosmogenic exposure dating and decadal GPS strain-rate. Scientific Reports 11 (23320), ISSN 2045-2322.
- Faure Walker, J and Boncio, P. and Pace, G. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Benedetti, L. and Scotti, O. and Visini, F. and Peruzza, L. (2021) Fault2SHA Central Apennines database and structuring active fault data for seismic hazard assessment. Scientific Data 8 (1), ISSN 2052-4463.
- Scotti, Oona and Visini, F. and Faure Walker, J. and Peruzza, L. and Pace, B. and Benedetti, L. and Boncio, P. and Roberts, Gerald P. (2021) Which fault threatens me most? Bridging the gap between geologic data-providers and seismic risk practitioners. Frontiers in Earth Science 8, pp. 750. ISSN 2296-6463.
- Meschis, Marco and Scicchitano, G. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Robertson, J. and Barreca, G. and Monaco, C. and Spampinato, C. and Sahy, D. and Antonioli, F. and Mildon, Z.K. and Scardino, G. (2020) Regional deformation and offshore crustal local faulting as combined processes to explain uplift through time constrained by investigating differentially-uplifted Late Quaternary palaeoshorelines: the foreland Hyblean Plateau, SE Sicily. Tectonics 39 (12), ISSN 0278-7407.
- Sgambato, Claudia and Faure Walker, Joanna and Mildon, Zoe and Roberts, Gerald P. (2020) Stress loading history of earthquake faults influenced by fault/shear zone geometry and Coulomb pre-stress. Scientific Reports 10, pp. 12724. ISSN 2045-2322.
- Robertson, Jenni and Roberts, Gerald P. and Iezzi, Francesco and Meschis, Marco (2020) Distributed normal faulting in the tip zone of the South Alkyonides Fault System, Gulf of Corinth, constrained using 36Cl exposure dating of Late-Quaternary wave-cut platforms. Journal of Structural Geology 136, pp. 104063. ISSN 0191-8141.
- Iezzi, Francesco and Roberts, Gerald P. and Faure Walker, J. (2020) Throw-rate variations within linkage zones during the growth of normal faults: case studies from the Western Volcanic Zone, Iceland.. Journal of Structural Geology 133, pp. 103976. ISSN 0191-8141.
- Sgambato, C. and Faure Walker, J. and Roberts, Gerald P. (2019) Uncertainty in strain-rate from field 1 measurements of the geometry, rates and kinematics of active normal faults: implications for seismic hazard assessment. Journal of Structural Geology 131, pp. 103934. ISSN 0191-8141.
- Mildon, Z. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Faure Walker, J. and Toda, S. (2019) Coulomb pre-stress and fault bends are ignored yet vital factors for earthquake triggering and hazard. Nature Communications 10 (2744), ISSN 2041-1723.
- Iezzi, Francesco and Roberts, Gerald P. and Faure Walker, J.P. and Papanikolaou, I. (2019) Occurrence of partial and total coseismic ruptures of segmented normal fault systems: insights from the Central Apennines, Italy. Journal of Structural Geology 126, pp. 83-99. ISSN 0191-8141.
- Meschis, M. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Mildon, Z.K. and Robertson, Jennifer and Michetti, A.M. and Faure Walker, J.P. (2019) Slip on a mapped normal fault for the 28th December 1908 Messina earthquake (Mw 7.1) in Italy. Scientific Reports 9 (6481), ISSN 2045-2322.
- Robertson, Jennifer and Meschis, M. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Ganas, A. and Gheorghiu, D. (2019) Temporally constant quaternary uplift rates and their relationship with extensional upper-plate faults in south Crete (Greece), constrained with 36Cl cosmogenic exposure dating. Tectonics 38 (4), pp. 1189-1222. ISSN 0278-7407.
- Brown, J. and Roberts, Gerald P. (2019) Possible evidence for variation in magnitude for marsquakes from fallen boulder populations, Grjota Valles, Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 124 (3), pp. 801-822. ISSN 2169-9097.
- Kneller, B. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Grindrod, Peter (2019) Correlation between graben orientation, channel direction change and tectonic loading: The Elysium Province, Mars.. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 124 (3), pp. 652-680. ISSN 2169-9097.
- Iezzi, Francesco and Mildon, Z. and Faure Walker, J. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Goodall, H. and Wilkinson, M. and Robertson, Jennifer (2018) Coseismic throw variation across along-strike bends on active normal faults: implications for displacement versus length scaling of earthquake ruptures. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 123 (11), pp. 9817-9841. ISSN 0148-0227.
- Faure Walker, J. and Visini, F. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Galasso, C. and McCaffrey, K. and Mildon, Z. (2018) Variable fault geometry suggests detailed fault slip-rate profiles and 1 geometries are needed for fault-based probabilistic seismic hazard assessment (PSHA). Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 109 (1), pp. 110-123. ISSN 0037-1106.
- Beck, J. and Wolfers, S. and Roberts, Gerald P. (2018) Bayesian earthquake dating and seismic hazard assessment using chlorine-36 measurements (BED v1). Geoscientific Model Development 11, pp. 4383-4397. ISSN 1991-959X.
- Walters, Richard and Gregory, L.C. and Wedmore, L.N.J. and Craig, T.J. and McCaffrey, K. and Wilkinson, M. and Chen, J. and Lie, Z. and Elliott, J.R. and Goodall, H. and Iezzi, Francesco and Livio, F. and Michetti, A.M. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Vittori, E. (2018) Dual control of fault intersections on stop-start rupture in the 2016 Central Italy seismic sequence. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 500, pp. 1-14. ISSN 0012-821X.
- Meschis, Marco and Roberts, Gerald P. and Robertson, Jennifer and Briant, Rebecca M. (2018) The relationships between regional Quaternary uplift, deformation across active normal faults and historical seismicity in the upper plate of subduction zones: The Capo D’Orlando Fault, NE Sicily. Tectonics 37 (5), pp. 1231-1255. ISSN 0278-7407.
- Deligiannakis, G. and Papanikolaou, I.D. and Roberts, Gerald P. (2018) Fault specific GIS based seismic hazard maps for the Attica Region, Greece. Geomorphology 306, pp. 264-282. ISSN 0169-555X.
- Civico, R. and Pucci, S. and Villani, F. and Pizzimenti, L. and De Martini, P.M. and Nappi, R. and Open EMERGEO Working Group, None and Roberts, Gerald P. (2018) Surface ruptures following the 30 October 2016 Mw 6.5 Norcia earthquake, central Italy. Journal of Maps 14 (2), pp. 151-160. ISSN 1744-5647.
- Mildon, Z.K. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Faure Walker, J.P. and Iezzi, F. (2017) Coulomb stress transfer and fault interaction over millenia on non-planar active normal faults: the Mw 6.5-5.0 seismic sequence of 2016-2017, central Italy.. Geophysical Journal International 210 (2), pp. 1206-1218. ISSN 0956-540X.
- Wilkinson, M. and McCaffrey, K.J.W and Jones, R.P. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Holdsworth, R. and Gregory, L. and Walters, R. and Wedmore, L. and Goodall, H. and Iezzi, F. (2017) Near-field fault slip of the 2016 Vettore Mw 6.6 earthquake (Central Italy) measured using low-cost GNSS. Scientific Reports 7 (4612), ISSN 2045-2322.
- Wedmore, L.N.J. and Faure Walker, J.P. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Sammonds, P.R. and McCaffrey, K.J.W. and Cowie, P.A. (2017) A 667 year record of coseismic and interseismic Coulomb stress changes in central Italy reveals the role of fault interaction in controlling irregular earthquake recurrence intervals. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 122 (7), pp. 5691-5711. ISSN 2169-9313.
- Cowie, P.A. and Philips, R.J. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Others, A.N. (2017) Orogen-scale uplift in the central Italian Apennines drives episodic behaviour of earthquake faults. Scientific Reports 7, pp. 44858. ISSN 2045-2322.
- Peruzza, L. and Gee, R. and Pace, B. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Scotti, O. and Visini, F. and Benedetti, L. and Pagani, M. (2017) PSHA after a strong earthquake: hints for the recovery. Annals of Geophysics ISSN 2037-416X.
- Mildon, Z.K. and Toda, S. and Faure Walker, J.P. and Roberts, Gerald P. (2016) Evaluating models of Coulomb stress transfer: is variable fault geometry important?. Geophysical Research Letters 43 (24), pp. 12407-12414. ISSN 0094-8276.
- Mildon, Z.K. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Faure Walker, J.P. and Wedmore, L.N.J. and McCaffrey, K.J.W. (2016) Active normal faulting during the 1997 seismic sequence in Colfiorito, Umbria: did slip propagate to the surface?. Journal of Structural Geology 91, pp. 102-113. ISSN 0191-8141.
- Livio, F.A. and Michetti, A.M. and Vittori, E. and Gregory, L. and Wedmore, L. and Piccardi, L. and Tondi, E. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Blumetti, A.M. and Bonadeo, L. and Brunamonte, F. and Comerci, V. and Dimanna, P. and Ferrario, M.F. and Faure Walker, J. and Frigerio, C. and Fumanti, F. and Guerrieri, L. and Iezzi, F. and Leoni, G. and McCaffrey, K. and Mildon, Z. and Phillips, R. and Rhodes, E. and Walters, R.J. and Wilkinson, M. (2016) Surface faulting during the August 24, 2016, central Italy earthquake (Mw 6.0): preliminary results. Annals of Geophysics 59 (5), ISSN 2037-416X.
- Wilkinson, M. and Roberts, Gerald P. and McCaffrey, K. and Cowie, P.A. and Faure Walker, J.P. and Papanikolaou, I. and Phillips, R.J. and Michetti, A.M. and Vittori, E. and Gregory, L. and Wedmore, L. and Watson, Z.K. (2015) Slip distributions on active normal faults measured from LiDAR and field mapping of geomorphic offsets: an example from L'Aquila, Italy, and implications for modelling seismic moment release. Geomorphology 237, pp. 130-141. ISSN 0169-555X.
- Bubeck, A. and Wilkinson, M. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Cowie, P.A. and McCaffrey, K.J.W. and Phillips, R.J. and Sammonds, P.R. (2014) The tectonic geomorphology of bedrock scarps on active normal faults in the Italian Apennines mapped using combined ground penetrating radar and terrestrial laser scanning. Geomorphology 237, pp. 38-51. ISSN 0169-555X.
- Roberts, Gerald P. and Meschis, M. and Houghton, S. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Briant, Rebecca M. (2013) The implications of revised Quaternary palaeoshoreline chronologies for the rates of active extension and uplift in the upper plate of subduction zones. Quaternary Science Reviews 78, pp. 169-187. ISSN 0277-3791.
- Papanikolaou, Ioannis D. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Deligiannakis, G. and Sakellariou, A. and Vassilakis, E. (2013) The Sparta fault, southern Greece: from segmentation and tectonic geomorphology to seismic hazard mapping and time dependent probabilities. Tectonophysics 597, pp. 85-105. ISSN 0040-1951.
- Cowie, P.A. and Scholz, C.H. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Faure Walker, J.P. and Steer, P. (2013) Viscous roots of active seismogenic faults revealed by geologic slip rate variations. Nature Geoscience 6, pp. 1036-1040. ISSN 1752-0894.
- Kitching, T. and Biggs, J. and Barstow, M. and Roberts, Gerald P. (2012) Euclid, tectonics and white dwarfs. Astronomy and Geophysics 53 (6), pp. 6.9-6.9. ISSN 1366-8781.
- Wilkinson, M. and McCaffrey, K.J.W. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Cowie, P.A. and Phillips, R.J. and Degasperi, M. and Vittori, E. and Michetti, A.M. (2012) Distribution and magnitude of post-seismic deformation of the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake (M6.3) surface rupture measured using repeat terrestrial laser scanning. Geophysical Journal International 189 (2), pp. 911-922. ISSN 0956-540X.
- Cowie, P.A. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Bull, J. and Visini, F. (2012) Relationships between fault geometry, slip rate variability and earthquake recurrence in extensional settings. Geophysical Journal International 189 (1), pp. 143-160. ISSN 0956-540X.
- Faure Walker, J.P. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Cowie, P.A. and Papanikolaou, Ioannis D. and Michetti, A.M. and Sammonds, P.R. and Wilkinson, M. and McCaffrey, K.J.W. and Phillips, R.J. (2012) Relationship between topography, rates of extension and mantle dynamics in the actively-extending Italian Apennines. Earth & Planetary Science Letters 325, pp. 76-84. ISSN 0012-821X.
- Roberts, Gerald P. and Matthews, B. and Bristow, Charlie S. and Guerrieri, L. and Vetterlein, J. (2012) Possible evidence of paleomarsquakes from fallen boulder populations, Cerberus Fossae, Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 17 (E2), ISSN 0148-0227.
- Attal, M. and Cowie, P.A. and Whittaker, A.C. and Hobley, D. and Tucker, G.E. and Roberts, Gerald P. (2011) Testing fluvial erosion models using the transient response of bedrock rivers to tectonic forcing in the Apennines, Italy. Journal of Geophysical Research 116 (F2005), ISSN 0148-0227.
- Tucker, G.E. and McCoy, S.W. and Whittaker, A.C. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Lancaster, S.T. and Phillips, R.J. (2011) Geomorphic significance of postglacial bedrock scarps on normal-fault footwalls. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 116, ISSN 0148-0227.
- Vittori, E. and Di Manna, P. and Blumetti, A.M. and Comerci, V. and Guerrieri, L. and Esposito, E. and Michetti, A.M. and Porfido, S. and Piccardi, L. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Berlusconi, A. and Livio, F. and Sileo, G. and Wilkinson, M. and McCaffrey, K.J.W. and Phillips, R.J. and Cowie, P.A. (2011) Surface faulting of the 6 April 2009 Mw 6.3 L'Aquila earthquake in central Italy. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 101 (4), pp. 1507-1530. ISSN 0037-1106.
- Roberts, Gerald P. and Raithatha, B. and Sileo, G. and Pizzi, A. and Pucci, S. and Faure Walker, J.P. and Wilkinson, M. and McCaffrey, K.J.W. and Phillips, R.J. and Michetti, A.M. and Guerrieri, L. and Blumetti, A.M. and Vittori, E. and Cowie, P.A. and Sammonds, P.R. and Galli, P. and Boncio, P. and Bristow, Charlie S. and Walters, R.J. (2010) Shallow subsurface structure of the 2009 April 6 M-w 6.3 L'Aquila earthquake surface rupture at Paganica, investigated with ground-penetrating radar. Geophysical Journal International 183 (2), pp. 774-790. ISSN 0956-540X.
- Roberts, Gerald P. and Raithatha, B. and Sileo, G. and Pizzi, A. and Pucci, S. and Walker, J.F. and Wilkinson, M. and McCaffrey, K. and Phillips, R.J. and Michetti, A.M. and Guerrieri, L. and Blumetti, A.M. and Vittori, E. and Cowie, P. and Sammonds, Peter and Galli, P. and Boncio, P. and Bristow, Charlie S. and Walters, R. (2010) Shallow subsurface structure of the 2009 April 6 Mw 6.3 L’Aquila earthquake surface rupture at Paganica, investigated with ground-penetrating radar. Geophysical Journal International 183 (2), pp. 774-790. ISSN 0956-540X.
- Vetterlein, J. and Roberts, Gerald P. (2010) Structural evolution of the Northern Cerberus Fossae graben system, Elysium Planitia, Mars. Journal of Structural Geology 32 (4), pp. 394-406. ISSN 0191-8141.
- Walker, J.P.F. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Sammonds, P.R. and Cowie, P.A. (2010) Comparison of earthquake strains over 10(2) and 10(4) year timescales: insights into variability in the seismic cycle in the central Apennines, Italy. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 15, ISSN 0148-0227.
- Wilkinson, M. and McCaffrey, K.J.W. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Cowie, P.A. and Phillips, R.J. and Michetti, A.M. and Vittori, E. and Guerrieri, L. and Blumetti, A.M. and Bubeck, A. and Yates, A. and Sileo, G. (2010) Partitioned postseismic deformation associated with the 2009 Mw 6.3 L'Aquila earthquake surface rupture measured using a terrestrial laser scanner. Geophysical Research Letters 37 (10), ISSN 0094-8276.
- Tondi, E. and Chiaraluce, L. and Roberts, Gerald P. (2009) Foreword: Ten years after the Umbria–Marche earthquake. Tectonophysics 476 (1-2), pp. 2-2. ISSN 0040-1951.
- Faure Walker, J.P. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Cowie, P.A. and Papanikolaou, Ioannis D. and Sammonds, P.R. and Michetti, A.M. and Phillips, R.J. (2009) Horizontal strain-rates and throw-rates across breached relay zones, central Italy: implications for the preservation of throw deficits at points of normal fault linkage. Journal of Structural Geology 31 (10), pp. 1145-1160. ISSN 0191-8141.
- Houghton, S.L. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Papanikolaou, Ioannis D. and Cowie, P.A. and van Calsteren, P. and Wigley, T. and Cooper, F.J. and McArthur, J.M. (2009) Localization of Quaternary slip rates in an active rift in 10(5) years: an example from central Greece constrained by U-234-Th-230 coral dates from uplifted paleoshorelines. Jourmal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth 114, ISSN 0148-0227.
- Tondi, E. and Chiaraluce, L. and Roberts, Gerald P. (2009) Ten years after the Umbria-Marche earthquake. Tectonophysics 476 (1-2), pp. 2-2. ISSN 0040-1951.
- Vetterlein, J. and Roberts, Gerald P. (2009) Postdating of flow in Athabasca Valles by faulting of the Cerberus Fossae, Elysium Planitia, Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets 114, ISSN 0148-0227.
- Walters, R.J. and Elliott, J.R. and d’Agostino, N. and England, P.C. and Hunstad, I.J. and Jackson, A. and Parsons, B. and Phillips, R.J. and Roberts, Gerald P. (2009) The 2009 L'Aquila earthquake (central Italy): a source mechanism and implications for seismic hazard. Geophysical Research Letters 36, ISSN 0094-8276.
- Podolsky, D.M.W. and Roberts, Gerald P. (2008) Growth of the volcano-flank Koa’e fault system, Hawaii. Journal of Structural Geology 301 (10), pp. 1254-1263. ISSN 0191-8141.
- Attal, M. and Tucker, G.E. and Whittaker, A.C. and Cowie, P.A. and Roberts, Gerald P. (2008) Modeling fluvial incision and transient landscape evolution: influence of dynamic channel adjustment. Journal of Geophysical research - Earth Surface 113, ISSN 0148-0227.
- Whittaker, A.C. and Attal, M. and Cowie, P.A. and Tucker, G.E. and Roberts, Gerald P. (2008) Decoding temporal and spatial patterns of fault uplift using transient river long profiles. Geomorphology 100 (3-4), pp. 506-526. ISSN 0169-555X.
- Cowie, P.A. and Whittaker, A.C. and Attal, M. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Tucker, G.E. and Ganas, A. (2008) New constraints on sediment-flux-dependent river incision: implications for extracting tectonic signals from river profiles. Geology 36 (7), pp. 535-538. ISSN 0091-7613.
- Roberts, Gerald P. (2008) Visualisation of active normal fault scarps in the Apennines, Italy: a key to assessment of tectonic strain release and earthquake rupture. Google Earth Science, Journal of the Virtual Explorer 29 (4), ISSN 1441-8142.
- Papanikolaou, Ioannis D. and Roberts, Gerald P. (2007) Geometry, kinematics and deformation rates along the active normal fault system in the southern Apennines: Implications for fault growth. Journal of Structural Geology 29 (1), pp. 166 - 188. ISSN 0191-8141.
Other
- Amoroso, S. and Bernardini, F. and Blumetti, A.M. and Civico, R. and Doglioni, C. and Galadini, F. and Galli, P. and Graziani, L. and Guerrieri, L. and Messina, P. and Michetti, A.M. and Potenza, F. and Pucci, S. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Serva, L. and Smedile, A. and Smeraglia, L. and Tertulliani, A. and Tironi, G. and Villani, F. and Vittori, E. (2016) Quaternary geology and paleoseismology in the Fucino and L’Aquila basins. Rome, Italy: ISPRA and the Italian Geological Society. ISBN ISSN:2038-4947 DOI: 10.3301/GFT.2016.02.