Marla D. Clark

10.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
83 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Marla D. Clark is a scholar working on Geophysics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Marla D. Clark has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Geophysics, 26 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 23 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Marla D. Clark's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (37 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (36 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (26 papers). Marla D. Clark is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (37 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (36 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (26 papers). Marla D. Clark collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Nepal. Marla D. Clark's co-authors include L. H. Royden, Kenneth A. Farley, Alison R. Duvall, B. C. Burchfiel, K. X. Whipple, Dewen Zheng, Wenqing Tang, Dimitrios Zekkos, John W. M. Bush and Sean F. Gallen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Marla D. Clark

82 papers receiving 7.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Topographic ooze: Building the eastern margin of Tibet by lower crustal flow

2000 1.4k citations Marla D. Clark, L. H. Royden profile →
Surface uplift, tectonics, and erosion of eastern Tibet from large‐scale drainage patterns

2004 786 citations Marla D. Clark, L. H. Royden et al. Tectonics profile →
Late Cenozoic uplift of southeastern Tibet

2005 645 citations Marla D. Clark, M. A. House et al. profile →
Early Cenozoic faulting of the northern Tibetan Plateau margin from apatite (U–Th)/He ages

2010 445 citations Marla D. Clark, Kenneth A. Farley et al. profile →
The size, distribution, and mobility of landslides caused by the 2015 Mw7.8 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal

2017 364 citations Kevin Roback, Marla D. Clark et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marla D. Clark United States	37	5.7k	2.4k	1.2k	1.2k	1.1k	83	8.1k
M. T. Brandon United States	52	6.8k 1.2×	3.4k 1.4×	596 0.5×	877 0.7×	1.4k 1.3×	106	8.9k
Sean D. Willett Switzerland	49	5.9k 1.0×	4.6k 1.9×	768 0.6×	1.8k 1.5×	2.8k 2.6×	141	10.0k
Todd A. Ehlers Germany	48	5.0k 0.9×	3.8k 1.6×	282 0.2×	867 0.7×	1.3k 1.2×	205	7.7k
C. J. Ebinger United States	60	10.1k 1.8×	1.8k 0.8×	2.2k 1.8×	453 0.4×	2.0k 1.9×	183	12.0k
Edward R. Sobel Germany	46	6.1k 1.1×	2.1k 0.9×	618 0.5×	281 0.2×	1.1k 1.0×	136	7.2k
Rob Westaway United Kingdom	52	5.1k 0.9×	3.8k 1.6×	372 0.3×	590 0.5×	2.2k 2.1×	183	8.2k
Joseph Martinod France	41	6.1k 1.1×	1.9k 0.8×	351 0.3×	339 0.3×	881 0.8×	110	7.5k
Diane Seward Switzerland	40	4.6k 0.8×	1.7k 0.7×	705 0.6×	243 0.2×	668 0.6×	112	5.7k
G. E. Hilley United States	41	2.4k 0.4×	2.2k 0.9×	212 0.2×	1.0k 0.8×	973 0.9×	119	5.5k
Bryan L. Isacks United States	55	11.1k 1.9×	2.3k 0.9×	652 0.5×	453 0.4×	889 0.8×	140	13.3k

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Yanites, Brian J., Marla D. Clark, Joshua J. Roering, et al.. (2025). Cascading land surface hazards as a nexus in the Earth system. Science. 388(6754). eadp9559–eadp9559. 5 indexed citations

Hollingsworth, James, et al.. (2024). Erosional cascade during the 2021 Melamchi flood. Nature Geoscience. 18(1). 32–36. 1 indexed citations

Gong, Weibing, Dimitrios Zekkos, & Marla D. Clark. (2023). The influence of seismic displacement models on spatial prediction of regional earthquake-induced landslides. Engineering Geology. 325. 107288–107288. 12 indexed citations

Clark, Marla D., et al.. (2023). Importance of subsurface water for hydrological response during storms in a post-wildfire bedrock landscape. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3814–3814. 16 indexed citations

Gong, Weibing, Dimitrios Zekkos, & Marla D. Clark. (2023). A pseudo-3D methodology for regional-scale back-analysis of earthquake-induced landslides. Engineering Geology. 325. 107277–107277. 15 indexed citations

Clark, Marla D., et al.. (2021). Profiles of Near‐Surface Rock Mass Strength Across Gradients in Burial, Erosion, and Time. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 126(4). 13 indexed citations

Clark, Marla D., et al.. (2021). Reverse Faulting Within a Continental Plate Boundary Transform System. Tectonics. 40(11). 6 indexed citations

Gallen, Sean F., et al.. (2020). Quantifying Near‐Surface Rock Strength on a Regional Scale From Hillslope Stability Models. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 125(7). 20 indexed citations

Massey, Chris, Dougal Townsend, Katie Jones, et al.. (2020). Volume Characteristics of Landslides Triggered by the M_W 7.8 2016 Kaikōura Earthquake, New Zealand, Derived From Digital Surface Difference Modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 125(7). 38 indexed citations

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Staisch, Lydia, Nathan A. Niemi, Marla D. Clark, & Hong Chang. (2020). The Cenozoic Evolution of Crustal Shortening and Left‐Lateral Shear in the Central East Kunlun Shan: Implications for the Uplift History of the Tibetan Plateau. Tectonics. 39(9). 36 indexed citations

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Clark, Marla D., et al.. (2019). Seismic characterization of the Critical Zone in the Nepal Himalaya: a regional perspective. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Zekkos, Dimitrios, William R. Greenwood, Jerome P. Lynch, et al.. (2018). Lessons Learned from the Application of UAV-Enabled Structure-From-Motion Photogrammetry in Geotechnical Engineering. 4(4). 254–274. 42 indexed citations

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Zekkos, Dimitrios, Marla D. Clark, A. Joshua West, et al.. (2017). Observations of Landslides Caused by the April 2015 Gorkha, Nepal, Earthquake Based on Land, UAV, and Satellite Reconnaissance. Earthquake Spectra. 33(1S). 95–114. 12 indexed citations

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Stahl, Timothy, et al.. (2017). Earthquake science in resilient societies. Tectonics. 36(4). 749–753. 9 indexed citations

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Clark, Marla D., et al.. (2015). Oligocene termination of shortening and initiation of volcanism in the northern Tibetan Plateau: Early removal of Tibetan mantle lithosphere?. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2015. 1 indexed citations

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Clark, Marla D., Alison R. Duvall, Kenneth A. Farley, & Dewen Zheng. (2008). Erosion histories of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau from low-temperature thermochronometry: Evidence for collision-age faulting followed by a kinematic shift in middle Miocene time. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 1 indexed citations

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Clark, Marla D. & Kenneth A. Farley. (2007). Sierra Nevada river incision fromapatite ^4He/^3He thermochronometry. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2007. 6 indexed citations

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Mahéo, Gweltaz, Kenneth A. Farley, & Marla D. Clark. (2004). Cooling and Exhumation of the Sierra Nevada Batholith in the Mount Whitney Area (California) Based on (U-Th)/He Thermochronometry.. AGUFM. 2004. 10 indexed citations

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Niemi, Nathan A., et al.. (2003). Late Cenozoic extension and exhumation of mid-crustal rocks at Gonga Shan, eastern Tibet. EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly. 12918. 2 indexed citations

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Clark, Marla D., et al.. (2001). Sub-regional Dynamic Topography and Deformation of the Lower Crust by Decoupled Channel Flow in Tibet. AGUFM. 2001. 4 indexed citations

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