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Published articles
156. Roy Thompson, 2011, The relationship of the phase and amplitude of the annual cycle of CO2 to phenological events, Plant Ecology & Diversity, Volume 4, Issue 2-3, pages 213-226. PDF
155. Robert M. Clark & Roy Thompson, 2011, Sampling bias in the determination of first and last occurrences, Plant Ecology & Diversity, Volume 4, Issue 2-3, pages 201-211. PDF
154. Robert M. Clark & Roy Thompson, 2011, Estimation and comparison of flowering curves, Plant Ecology & Diversity, Volume 4, Issue 2-3, pages 189-200. PDF
153. F Oldfield, R W. Battarbee, J F. Boyle, N G. Cameron, B Davis,R P. Evershed, A D. McGovern, V Jones, R Thompson, R Walker, 2010, Terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem responses to late Holocene climate change recorded in the sediments of Lochan Uaine, Cairngorms, Scotland, Quaternary Science Reviews PDF
152. R.M. Clark and Thompson R. (2010) Predicting the impact of global warming on the timing of spring flowering. International Journal of Climatology. Volume 30, Issue 11, 1599–1613,DOI 10.1002/JOC.2004 PDF
151. C. J. Curtis, S. Juggins, G. Clarke, R. W. Battarbee, M. Kernan, J. Catalan, R. Thompson and M. Posch, 2009. Regional influence of acid deposition and climate change in European mountain lakes assessed using diatom transfer functions. Freshwater Biology, 54, 12, 2555-2572. PDF
150. R Thompson, M. Ventura and L. Camarero, 2009, On the climate and weather of mountain and sub-arctic lakes in Europe and their susceptibility to future climate change, accepted for publication in the Special Issue on European high mountain lakes ("EMERGE") in Freshwater Biology, 54, PDF
149. Garcia-Pausas J., Casals P., Camarero L., Huguet C., Thompson R., Sebastià M.T., Romanyà, J. Factors regulating carbon mineralization in the surface and subsurface soils of Pyrenean mountain grasslands Soil Biology and Biochemistry 40:2803–2810 PDF
148. R Thompson, C Kamenik, R Schmidt, S Pla, M Rieradevall and J Catalan, 2008. Testing a new multigroup inference approach to reconstructing past environmental conditions J. Limnol., 67(2): 155-162, 2008. PDF
147. R.C. Chiverrell, F. Oldfield, P.G. Appleby, D. Barlow, E. Fisher, R. Thompson, G. Wolff, 2008. Evidence for changes in Holocene sediment flux in Semer Water and Raydale, North Yorkshire, UK, Geomorphology, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.04.035 PDF
146. Battarbee, Richard W., H. John B. Birks, Keith E. Barber, Roy Thompson, John A. Dearing, and John A. Matthews, 2008. Frank Oldfield and his contributions to environmental change research. The Holocene 2008 18: 3-17. PDF
145. Thompson R. and R.M. Clark. 2008. Is spring starting earlier? The Holocene 2008 18: 95-104. PDF
144. Kettle H, and R Thompson. 2007. 'Future Climate Predictions' in Lochnagar: The Natural History of a Mountain Lake. Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research (DPER) Volume 12. PDF
143. Thompson R, H Kettle, DT Monteith and NL Rose. 2007. 'Lochnagar water-temperatures, climate and weather' in Lochnagar: The Natural History of a Mountain Lake. Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research (DPER) Volume 12. PDF
142. Garcia-Pausas J., Casals P., Camarero L., Huguet C., Sebastià M. T., Thompson R., Romanyà J. 2007. Soil organic carbon storage in mountain grasslands of the Pyrenees: effects of climate and topography. Biogeochemistry, 82: 279-289. PDF
141.Thompson R. and Clark, R.M., 2006 Spatio-temporal modelling and assessment of within-species phenological variability using thermal time methods, International Journal of Biometeorology. 50(5) 312-322. PDF Corrigendum
140. R. Thompson, C. Kamenik and R. Schmidt 2005 Ultra-sensitive Alpine lakes and climate change. Journal of Limnology 64(2), 139-152. PDF
139. Kamenik. C., A. Agusti-Panareda, P. G. Appleby, J. A. Dearing, E. M. Shilland, F. Sporka, E. Stefkova & R. Thompson 2005. Paleolimnological evidence for atmospheric pollution, climate and catchment-related changes in alpine chrysophyte stomatocyst assemblages (Tatra, Slovakia), Nova Hedwigia, Beiheft 128, 275-294.
138. R. Thompson, D. Price, N. Cameron, V. Jones, C. Bigler, P. Rosén, R.I. Hall, J. Catalan, J. Garcia, J. Weckstrom and A. Korhola, 2005. Quantitative Calibration of Remote Mountain-lake Sediments as Climatic Recorders of Air Temperature and Ice-cover duration. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research Vol. 37, No. 4,626�635. PDF
137. Thompson, R., Letter to the editor. 'Edinburgh - The New Reekie', The Scotsman newspaper, 11 February A
136. Dalton, C., R. Thompson et al., 2005. A multi-proxy study of lake-development in response to catchment changes during the Holocene at Lochnagar, north-east Scotland. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 221(3-4): 175-201. PDF
135. G.H. Harper, D.G. Mann and R.Thompson, 2005. Phenological monitoring at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Sibbaldia - No 2. 33-45. PDF
134. Thompson, R. and Green, D. N., 2004, Mediterranean precipitation and its relationship with sea level pressure patterns. Annals of Geophysics, Vol. 47 (5) 1617-1633. PDF
133. Crook, D.S., Siddle, D.J., Dearing, J.A. and Thompson, R. (2004) Human Impact on the Environment in the Annecy Petit Lac catchment, Haute-Savoie: A documentary approach. Environment and History, 10, 3, 247-284. PDF
132. F. Oldfield and R. Thompson. 2004. Archives and Proxies along the PEP III Transect; In 'Past Climate Variability through Europe and Africa' Series: Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research, Vol. 6 Battarbee, Richard W.; Gasse, Françoise; Stickley, Catherine E. (Eds.) Dordrecht, the Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers
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130. N Rose, D Monteith, H Kettle, R Thompson, D Muir, H Yang. 2004. A consideration of potential confounding factors limiting chemical and biologocal recovery at Lochnagar, a remote mountain loch in Scotland. Journal of Limnology. Vol. 63 (1) : p63-76. PDF
129. H Kettle and R Thompson. 2004. Statistical downscaling in European mountains: verification of air temperature reconstructions. Climate Research. Vol. 26 (2) : p97-112 PDF
128. Kettle, Helen, Roy Thompson, N. John Anderson, and David M. Livingstone. Empirical modeling of summer lake surface temperatures in southwest Greenland. Limnology and Oceanography. 49(1), 2004 PDF
127. GC Foster, JA Dearing, RT Jones, DS Crook, DJ Siddle, AM Harvey, PA James, PG Appleby, R Thompson, J Nicholson and J-L Loizeau 2003 Meteorological and land use controls on past and present hydro-geomorphic processes in the pre-alpine environment: an integrated lake-catchment study at the Petit Lac d'Annecy, France.Hydrological Processes 17, 3287-3305. PDF
126. Jones P.D. and Thompson R. Instrumental records. In Mackay, A.W., Battarbee, R.W., Birks, H.J.B. & Oldfield, F. (Eds.) (2003) Global Change in the Holocene. Publisher: Arnold, London
125. Sorvari, S. Korhola, A. & Thompson, R. (2002). Lake diatom response to recent Arctic warming in Finnish Lapland. Global Change Biology 8: 153-163. PDF
124. Crook, D.S., Siddle, D.J., Jones, R.T., Dearing, J.A., Foster, G.C. and Thompson, R., 2002. Forestry and flooding in the Annecy Petit Lac Basin, 1730-2000. Environment and History. 8, 403-422.
123. Peters, C., Thompson, R., Harrison, A. and Church, M., 2002. Low temperature magnetic characterisation of fire ash residues, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 27, 1355-1361. PDF
122. Schmidt, R., Koinig K.A., Thompson R. and Kamenik K., 2002. A multi proxy core study of the last 7,000 years of climate and alpine land-use on an Austrian mountain lake (Unterer Landschitzsee, Niedere Tauern). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 187 101-120. PDF
121. Battarbee, R. W., Grytnes, J.A., Thompson, R., Appleby, P.G., Catalan, J., Korhola, A., Birks, H.J.B., Heegaard, E. and Lami, A., 2002. Comparing paleolimnological and instrumental evidence of climate change for remote mountain lakes over the last 200 years. Journal of Paleolimnology, 28, 1; p.161-179. PDF
120. Koinig, K. A., Kamenik, C., Schmidt, R., Agusti-Panareda, A., Appleby, P., Lami, A., Prazakova, M., Rose, N., Schnell, X.A., Tessadri, R., Thompson, R. and Psenner, R., 2002. Environmental changes in an alpine lake (Gossenkvllesee, Austria) over the last two centuries- the influence of air temperature on biological parameters. Journal of Paleolimnology, 28, 1; p. 147-160. PDF
119. Catalan, J., Pla, S., Rieradevall, M., Felip, M., Buchaca, T., Camarero, L., Brancelj, S., Appleby, P.G., Lami, A., Grytnes, J.A., Agustm-Panareda, A. and Thompson, R., 2002. Lake Redo ecosystem response to an increasing warming in the Pyrenees during the twentieth century. Journal of Paleolimnology, 28, 1; p. 129-145. PDF
118. Sporka, F., Stefkova, E., Bitusik, P., Thompson, R., Agusti-Panareda, A., Appleby, P.G., Grytnes, J.A., Kamenik, C., Krno, I., Lami, A., Rose, N. and Shilland, N.E. The paleolimnological analysis of sediments from high mountain lake Nizne Terianske Pleso in the High Tatras (Slovakia). 2002. Journal of Paleolimnology, 28, 1; p. 95-109. PDF
117. Agusti-Panareda, A. and Thompson, R., 2002. Reconstructing air temperature at eleven remote alpine and arctic lakes in Europe from 1781 to 1997 AD. Journal of Paleolimnology, 28, 1; p. 7-23. PDF
116. Battarbee, R.W., Thompson, R., Catalan, J., Grytnes, J.A. and Birks, H.J.B., 2002. Climate variability and ecosystem dynamics of remote alpine arctic lakes: the MOLAR project. Journal of Paleolimnology, 28, 1; p. 1-6. PDF
115. Dalton, C.P.D., Battarbee. R.W., Birks, H.J.B., Brooks, S.J., Cameron, N.G., Derrick, S., Evershed, R.P., McGovern, A., Peglar, S.M., Scott, J.A. and Thompson, R., 2002. Climate history through the Holocene at Lochnager, Scotland. Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 1013, 159.
114. Battarbee, R.W., Cameron, N.G. Golding, P., Brooks, S.J., Switsur, R., Harkness, D., Appleby, P.G., Oldfield, F., Thompson, R., Monteith, D.T. & McGovern, A. 2001. Evidence for Holocene climate variability from the sediments of a Scottish remote mountain lake. Journal of Quaternary Science. 16, 339-346. PDF
113. Kamenik, C., Schmidt, R., Koinig, K.A., Agusti-Panareda, A., Thompson, R. and Psenner, R., 2001. The chrysophyte stomatocyst composition in a high alpine lake (Gossenkvllesee, Tyrol) in relation to seasonality, temperature and land-use. Beih. Nova Hedwigia 122: 1-22.
112. Maher, B.A., Hounslow, M.W. and Thompson, R., 2000. Introduction to Quaternary Climates and Magnetism, in Maher and Thompson (eds.) ' Quaternary Climates and Magnetism ' Cambridge University Press. 2000. P. 1-48.
111. Maher, B.A. and Thompson, R., 2000. Palaeomonsoons I: the magnetic record of palaeoclimate in the terrestrial loess and palaeosol sequences, in Maher and Thompson (eds.) ' Quaternary Climates and Magnetism ' Cambridge University Press. 2000. p. 81-125.
110. Kamenik, C., Koinig, Ka., Schmidt, R., Appleby, P., Dearing, J., Lami, A,, Thompson, R., and Psenner, R., 2000. Eight hundred years of environmental changes in a high Alpine lake (Gossenkollesee, Tyrol) inferred from sediment records. J Limnol 59 (suppl): 43-52. PDF
109. D.N. Barlow and Thompson, R., 2000. Holocene sediment erosion in Britain as calculated from lake-basin studies in 'Tracers in Geomorphology' (Ed I.D. Foster) J Wiley & Sons: Chichester.
108. B. Ortega-Guerrero, Thompson, R. and J.U. Fucugauchi, 2000. Magnetic properties of lake sediments from Lake Chalco, central Mexico, and their environmental implications. J. Quaternary Science, 15, 127-140. PDF
107. Agusti-Panareda, A. Thompson, R. and D.M. Livingstone, 2000. Reconstructing temperature variations at high elevation lake sites in Europe during the instrumental period. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol., 27(1), 479-483. PDF
106. Barber, K.E., Maddy, D., Rose, N., Stevenson, A.C., Stoneman, R.E. and Thompson, R., 2000. Replicated proxy-climate signals over the last 2000 years from two distant UK peat bogs: new evidence for regional palaeoclimate teleconnections. Quaternary Science Reviews, 19, 481-487. PDF
105. Thompson, R. A time-series analysis of the changing seasonality of precipitation in the British Isles and neighbouring areas. J. Hydrology, 1999, 224, 169-183. PDF
104. Peters, C. and Thompson, R., 1999. Supermagnetic enhancement, superparamagnetism and archaeological soils, Geoarchaeology, 14, 5, 401-413. PDF
103. Barber, K.E., Battarbee, R.W., Brooks, S.J., Eglinton, G., Haworth, E.Y., Oldfield, F., Stevenson, A.C., Thompson, R., Appleby, P., Austin, W.N., Cameron, N., Ficken, K.J., Golding, P., Harkness, D.D., Holmes, J., Hutchinson, R., Lishman, J.P., Maddy, D., Pinder, L.C.V., Rose, N. and Stoneman, R., 1999. Proxy records of climate change in the UK over the last two millennia: documented change and sedimentary records from lakes and bogs. Journal of the Geological Society, 156, 369-380. PDF
102. Peters, C. and Thompson, R., 1998. Magnetic identification of selected natural iron oxides and sulphides, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 183, 365-374. PDF
101. Oldfield, F., Crooks, P.R.J., Gedye, S.J., Hall, V.A., Harkness, D.D., Housley, R.A., McCormac, F.G., Newton, A.J., Pilcher, J.R., Renberg, I., Richardson, N., and Thompson, R., 1997. Radiocarbon dating of a recent high-latitude peat profile: Stor Amyran, northern
100. Thompson, R., Letter to the editor. 'Evidence for real risk of global warming, The Scotsman newspaper,
99. Shankar, R. Thompson, R. and Pratash, T.A., 1996. Estimation of heavy and opaque mineral contents of beach and offshore placers using rock magnetic techniques. Geo-Marine Letters, 16, 313-318. PDF
98. Shankar, R., Thompson, R. and
97. Maher, B.A. and Thompson, R., 1995. Palaeorainfall reconstructions from pedogenic magnetic susceptibility variations in the Chinese loess and paleosols. Quaternary Research, 44, 383-391. PDF
96. Thompson, R. and Maher, B.A., 1995. Age models, sediment fluxes and palaeoclimatic reconstructions for the Chinese loess and palaeosol sequences. Geophysical J. International. 123, 611-622. PDF
95. Thompson, R. and Cameron, T.D.J., 1995. A palaeomagnetic study of Cenozoic sediments in
94. Thompson, R., 1995. Complex demodulation and the estimation of the changing continentality of
93. Maher, B.A. and Thompson, R., 1994. Pedogenesis and paleoclimate: interpretation of the magnetic susceptibility record of chinese loess-paleosol sequences: comments and reply, Geology, Sept, 857-856.
92. Maher, B.A., Li.Ping, Z., and Thompson, R., 1994. Reconstruction of palaeoprecipitation values for the Chinese loess plateau from proxy magnetic data, in Palaeoclimate of the last glacial/interglacial cycle ed. B.M. Funnell and R.L.F. Kay, Spec Pub. 94/2 ISBN 1 85531 123 2, 33-36. PDF
91. Thompson, R. with Oldfield and eight others, 1994. The geochronology of the last millennium, in Palaeoclimate of the last glacial/interglacial cycle ed. B.M. Funnell and R.L.F. Kay, Spec Pub. 94/2 ISBN 1 85531 123 2, 79-82. PDF
90. Shankar, R., Thompson, R. and
89. Maher, B.A., Zhou, L.P. and Thompson, R., 1994. Spatial and temporal reconstructions of changes in the Asian palaeomonsoon: A new mineral magnetic approach, Earth Planet. Sci. Letters, 125, 461-471. PDF
88. Alexander,
87. Thompson, R. and
86. Thompson, R., Cameron T.D.J., Schwarz, C., Jensen, K.A., Maenhaut van Lemberge, V. and Sha, L.P., 1992. The magnetic properties of Quaternary and Tertiary sediments in the southern
85. Snowball,
84. Maher, B.A. and Thompson, R., 1992. Reply to Letter to the Editor by Clemens and Prell, Quaternary Research, 38, 268.
83. Farquharson, C.G. and Thompson, R., 1992. The Blairgowrie magnetic anomaly and its interpretation using simplex optimization. Trans R. Soc. Edinburgh, 83, 509-518. PDF
82. Maher, B.A. and Thompson, R., 1992. Paleoclimatic significance of the mineral magnetic record of the Chinese loess and paleosols. Quaternary Research, 37, 155-170. PDF
81. Thompson, R., 1991. Palaeomagnetic dating in (Eds.Smart , P.D.,
80. Maher, B.A. and Thompson, R., 1991. Mineral magnetic record of the Chinese loess and paleosols. Geology, 19, 3-6. PDF
79. Sandgren, P. and Risberg, J. and Thompson, R., 1990. Magnetic susceptibility in sediment records of
78. Sandgren, P. and Thompson, R., 1990. Mineral magnetic characteristics of podzolic solids developed on sand dunes in the Late Gosciag catchement, central
77. Snowball,
76. Snowball,
75. Thompson R., 1989. Westward Drift in Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics, (D.E. James, Ed.) Van Nostrand:
74. Thompson R. and Clark, R.M., 1989. Sequence slotting for stratigraphic correlation between cores: theory and practice. J. Palaeolimnology, 2, 173-184. PDF
73. Gordon, A.D.,
72. Thompson, R., 1988. A progress report on a least squares regression mineral magnetic modelling programme. Environmental Magnetism Newsletter, 3, 1-7. PDF
71. Snowball,
70. Thompson, R. and Prentice, M.J., 1987. An alternative method of calculating finite plate rotations. Phys. Earth Planet. Ints., 48, 79-83. PDF
69. Thompson, R., Bradshaw, R.H.W. and Whitley, J.E., 1986. The distribution of ash in Icelandic lake sediments and the relative importance of mixing and erosion processes. J. Quat. Sci., 1, 3-11. PDF
68. Hirons, K.R. and Thompson, R., 1986. The palaeoenvironmental application of magnetic measurements from interdrumlin hollow lake sediments near Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, N. Ireland. Boreas, 15, 117-135. PDF
67. Thompson, R., 1986. Modelling magnetization data using SIMPLEX. Phys. Earth Planet. Ints., 42, 113-127. PDF
66. Thompson, R., Palaeomagnetic dating, 1986, in `Handbook of Palaeoecology and Palaeohydrology' Ed. B.E. Berglund, J. Wiley and Sons Ltd., 313-327.
65. Bradshaw, R. and Thompson, R., 1985. The use of magnetic measurements to investigate the mineralogy of Icelandic lake sediments and to study catchment processes, Boreas, 14, 203-215. PDF
64. Edwards, K.J., Baillie, M.G.L., Pilcher, R., Hirons, K. and Thompson, R, 1985. Chronology: Chapter 12 in `The Quaternary History of Ireland', 279-308.
63. Thompson, R. and Turner, G.M., 1985. Icelandic Holocene palaeolimnomagnetism. Phys. Earth Planet. Ints., 38, 250-261. PDF
62. Thompson, R., Turner, G.M., Stiller, M. and Kaufman, A., 1985. Near East palaeomagnetic secular variation recorded in sediments from the Sea of Galilee (Lake Kinneret). Quat. Res., 23, 175-188. PDF
61. Thompson, R., 1984. Geomagnetic evolution: 400 years of change on planet Earth. Phys. Earth Planet. Ints., 36, 61-77. PDF
60. Clark, R.M. and Thompson, R., 1984. Statistical comparison of palaeomagnetic directional records from lake sediments. Geophys. J.R. astr. Soc., 76, 337-368. PDF
59. Thompson, R., 1984. A global review of palaeomagnetic results from wet lake sediments. In `Lake sediments and environmental history'. Eds. E.Y. Haworth and J.W.G. Lund, Leicester University Press: Leicester, 145-164.
58. Edwards, K.J. and Thompson, R., 1984. Magnetic, palynological and radiocarbon correlation and dating comparisons in long cores from a Northern Irish lake, Catena, 11, 83-89. PDF
57. Thompson, R., 1983. 14C dating and magnetostratigraphy. Radiocarbon, 25, 229-238. PDF
56. Thompson, R., 1983. Global Holocene magnetostratigraphy. Hydrobiologia, 103, 45-51. PDF
55. Thompson, R. and Edwards, K.J., 1982. A Holocene palaeomagnetic record and a geomagnetic master curve from Ireland. Boreas, 11, 335-349. PDF
54. Thompson, R. and Barraclough, D.R., 1982. Geomagnetic secular variation based on spherical harmonic and cross validation analyses of historical and archaeomagnetic data. J. Geomag. Geoelectr., 34, 245-263. PDF
53. Turner, G.M. and Thompson, R., 1982. Detransformation of the British geomagnetic secular variation record for Holocene times. Geophys. J.R. astr. Soc., 70, 789-792. PDF
52. Thompson, R., 1982. A comparison of geomagnetic secular variation as recorded by historical, archaeomagnetic and palaeomagnetic measurements. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond., A306, 103-112. PDF
51. Thompson, R. and Clark, R.M., 1982. A robust least squares Gondwanan apparent polar wander path and the question of palaeomagnetic assessment of Gondwanan reconstructions. Earth Planet. Sci. Letters, 57, 152-158. PDF
50. Thompson, R. and Clark, R.M., 1981. Fitting polar wander paths. Phys. Earth and Planet. Int., 27, 1-7. PDF
49. Oldfield, F., Thompson, R. and Dickson, D.P.E., 1981. Artificial magnetic enhancement of stream bedload: a hydrological application of superparamagnetism. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 26, 107-124. PDF
48. Oldfield, F., Thompson, R. and Tolonen, K., 1981. History of particulate atmospheric pollution from magnetic measurements in dated Finnish peat profiles. Ambio, 10, 4, 185-188. PDF
47. Turner, G.M. and Thompson, R., 1981. Lake sediment record of the geomagnetic secular variation in Britain during Holocene times. Geophys. J.R. astr. Soc., 65, 703-725. PDF
46. Clark, R.M. and Thompson, R.,1980. Authors' reply to a comment on `An objective method for smoothing palaeomagnetic data'. Geophys. J.R. astr. Soc., 60, 315-317.
45. Thompson, R., 1980. Letter to the Editor, Use of the word "Influx" in palaeolimnological studies. Quaternary Research, 14, 269-270. PDF
44. Oldfield, F. and Appleby, P.G. and Thompson, R., 1980. Palaeoecological studies of lakes in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. J. Ecol., 68, 457-477. PDF
43. Thompson, R., Bloemendal, J., Dearing, J.A., Oldfield, F., Rummery, T.A., Stober, J.C. and Turner, G.M., 1980. Environmental Applications of Magnetic Measurements. Science, 207, 481-486.
42. Oldfield, F. and Thompson, R., 1979. Geomagnetic polarity measurements from Pleistocene deposits in Southwest France and their chronological implications. Geol. J., 14, Part 2, 117-126. PDF
41. Oldfield, F. and Brown, A. and Thompson, R., 1979. The effect of microtopography and vegetation on the catchment of airborne particles measured by remanent magnetism. Quaternary Research, 12, 326-332. PDF
40. Walling, D.E., Peart, M.R., Oldfield, F. and Thompson, R., 1979. Suspended sediment sources identified by magnetic measurements. Nature, 281, 110-113. PDF
39. Scoullos, M., Oldfield, F. and Thompson, R., 1979. Magnetic monitoring of marine particulate pollution in the Elefsis Gulf, Greece, Marine Pollution Bulletin, 10, 287-291. PDF
38. Thompson, R. and Morton, D.J., 1979. Magnetic susceptibility and particle-size distribution in recent sediments of the Loch Lomond drainage basin, Scotland. J. Sed. Pet., 49, 801-812. PDF
37. Thompson, R., 1979. Palaeomagnetic correlation and dating of palaeohydrological changes in the temperate zone in the last 15000 years ed. B.E. Berglund IGCP, 158B, part 2, 39-59.
36. Rummery, T.A., Bloemendal, J., Dearing, J., Oldfield, F. and Thompson, R., 1979. The persistence of fire induced magnetic oxides in soils and lake sediments. Annals de Geophysique, 35, 103-107.
35. Stober, J.C. and Thompson, R., 1979. An investigation into the source of magnetic minerals in some Finnish lake sediments. Earth Planet. Sci. Letters, 45, 464-474. PDF
34. Thompson, R. and Turner, G.M., 1979. British geomagnetic master curves 10,000-0 yr B.P. for dating European sediments. Geophysical Research Letters, 6, 249-252. PDF
33. Longworth, G., Becker, L.W., Thompson, R., Oldfield, F., Dearing, J.A. and Rummery, T.A., 1979. Mossbauer effect and magnetic studies of secondary iron oxides in soils. J. Soil Sci., 30, 93-110. PDF
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31. Stober, J.C. and Thompson, R., 1979. Magnetic remanence acquisition in Finnish lake sediments. Geophys. J.R. astr. Soc., 57, 727-739. PDF
30. Bloemendal, J. Oldfield, F. and Thompson, R., 1979. Magnetic measurements used to assess sediment influx at Llyn Goddionduon. Nature, 280, 50-53. PDF
29. Thompson, R. with Turner, G.M., 1979. Behaviour of the Earth's magnetic field as recorded in the sediment of
28. Thompson, R. and Wain-Hobson, T., 1979. Palaeomagnetic study of the Loch Shiel marine regression and overlying gyttja. J. Geol. Soc. Lond., 136, 383-388. PDF
27. Oldfield, F., Rummery, T.A., Thompson, R.and Walling, P.E., 1979. Identification of suspended sediment sources by means of magnetic measurements: some preliminary results. J. Water Resource Res., 15, 2, 211-218.
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25. Thompson, R. and Oldfield, F., 1978. Evidence for recent secular variation in lake sediments from the New Guinea Highlands. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 17, 300-306. PDF
24. Oldfield, F., Thompson, R. and Barber, K.E., 1978. The changing atmospheric fall-out of magnetic particles recorded in recent ombrotrophic peat sections. Science, 199, 679-680.
23. Thompson, R., 1978. Resistivity investigation of an infilled kettle hole. Quaternary Research, 9, 231-237. PDF
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21. Oldfield, F., Dearing, J., Thompson, R. and Garrett-Jones, S.E., 1978. Some magnetic properties of lake sediments and their links with erosion rates. Spec. Issue Pol. Arch. Hydrobiol., XXV, No.1/2, 321-331.
20. Thompson, R., 1978. European palaeomagnetic secular variation 13,000-0 B.P. Spec. Issue Pol. Arch. Hydrobiol., XXV, No.l/2, 413-418 PDF
19. Stober, J.C. and Thompson, R., 1977. Palaeomagnetic secular variation studies of Finnish lake sediment and the carriers of remanence. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 37, 139-149. PDF
18. Thompson, R., 1977. Stratigraphic consequences of palaeomagnetic studies of Pleistocene and Recent sediments. J. Geol. Soc. Lond., 133, 51-59. PDF
17. Thompson, R. and Berglund, B., 1977. Reply to M. Noel. The Late Weichselian geomagnetic event. Nature, 267, 181-182.
16. Thompson, R., 1976. The palaeomagnetism of varved clays from Blekinge, southern
15. Thompson, R. and Berglund, B., 1976. Late Weichselian geomagnetic `reversal' as a possible example of the reinforcement syndrome. Nature, 263, 5577, 490-491. PDF
14. Tolonen, K., Siiriainen, A. and Thompson, R., 1975. Espoon Lojarven Pohjakerrostumien tulkinta ja palaeomagneet tinen ajoitus. Geologi, 27, 8, 97-102.
13. Tolonen, K., Siiriainen, A. and Thompson, R., 1975. Field erosion, associated effects caused by prehistoric man and their palaeomagnetic dating in Ann. Botanici Fennici, 12, 161-164.
12. Thompson, R., 1975. Long period European geomagnetic secular variation confirmed. Geophys. J.R. astr. Soc., 43, No.3, 847-859. PDF
11. Thompson, R., Battarbee, R.W., O'Sullivan, P.E. and Oldfield, F., 1975. Magnetic susceptibility of lake sediments. Limnol. Oceanog., 20, 687-698. PDF
10. Thompson, R. and Kelts, K., 1974. Holocene sediments and magnetic stratigraphy from Lake Zurich and Lake Zug, Switzerland. Sedimentology, 21, 577-596. PDF
9. Thompson, R., Aitken, M.J., Gibbard, P., Singer, R. and Wymer, J.J., 1974. Palaeomagnetic study of Hoxnian lacustrine sediments. Archaeometry, 16, 233-245. PDF
8. Thompson, R., 1974. Palaeomagnetism. Science Progress, 61, 349-373. PDF
7. Molyneux, L. and Thompson, R., 1973. Rapid measurement of the magnetic susceptibility of long cores of sediment. Geophys. J.R. astr. Soc., 32, 479-481. PDF
6. Thompson, R., 1973. South American palaeozoic palaeomagnetic results and the welding of Pangaea. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 18, 266-278. PDF
5. Thompson, R., 1973. Palaeolimnology and palaeomagnetism. Nature, 242, 182-184. PDF
4. Molyneux, L., Thompson, R., Oldfield, F. and McCallan, M.E., 1972. Rapid measurement of the remanent magnetization of long cores of sediment. Nature, 237, 42-43. PDF
3. Creer, K.M., Thompson, R., Molyneux, L. and Mackereth, F.J.H., 1972. Geomagnetic secular variation recorded in the stable magnetic remanence of recent sediments. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 14, 115-127. PDF
2. Thompson, R., 1972. Palaeomagnetic results from the Paganzo Basin of North-west Argentina. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 15, 145-156. PDF
1. Thompson, R. and Mitchell, J.G., 1972. Palaeomagnetic and radiometric evidence for the age of the Lower Boundary of the Kiaman Magnetic Interval in South America. Geophys. J.R. astr. Soc., 27, 2, 207-214. PDF
Books
Thompson, R. and Oldfield, F., 1986 `Environmental Magnetism'. Allen & Unwin: London, 227pp.
Maher, B.A. and Thompson, R. (Eds) 'Quaternary Climates and Magnetism' Cambridge University Press. 2000. pp390. ISBN 0-521-62417-7
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Text book chapters
Chapter 27 'Palaeomagnetism and continental drift' in 'Holmes' Principles of Physical Geology', 4th Edition, Chapman & Hall, 1993
Chapter 28 'Sea floor spreading and Plate Tectonics' in 'Holmes' Principles of Physical Geology', 4th Edition, Chapman & Hall, 1993.
Unpublished comments
1. Exposé of pseudo-phenological nonsense and closed science at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Exposé