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Detrital multi-mineral provenance constraints on the reconstruction of the South China Block within Gondwana Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Er-Kun Xue, David Chew, Foteini Drakou, Wei Wang
The late Neoproterozoic-early Paleozoic marked an important interval in Earth history, during which there was the transition from the breakup of Rodinia to the assembly of the Gondwana supercontinent. The South China Block (SCB) is a key part of Gondwana, and is an important component in its paleogeographic reconstructions. Sedimentary provenance analysis has been applied to constrain the SCB source-to-sink
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The problems of the Anthropocene in the Geologic Time Scale, and beyond Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Carles Soriano
The formalization of the Anthropocene in the Geologic Time Scale (GTS) is a matter of debate. An assessment of the two current options, one formalizing the Anthropocene as an Epoch and the other considering the Anthropocene as an informal event in the Earth's history that does not require formalization, are critically analyzed. The focus of the analysis is on the philosophical issues underlying these
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Maturation from oceanic arcs to continental crust: Insights from Paleozoic magmatism in West Junggar, NW China Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Jiyuan Yin, Wenjiao Xiao, Tao Wang, Mike Fowler, Andrew C. Kerr, Min Sun, Rob Strachan, He Huang, Ji'en Zhang, Wen Chen, Zaili Tao
Understanding the processes involved in the transformation of juvenile basaltic oceanic arc crust into mature continental crust remains a key challenge in Earth sciences. In this contribution, we present a comprehensive synthesis of in situ zircon UPb age and HfO isotope data for Paleozoic intrusions within the West Junggar oceanic arc, NW China. Our study reveals four distinct pulses of magmatic activity:
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CO2 sequestration in subsurface geological formations: A review of trapping mechanisms and monitoring techniques Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Osama Massarweh, Ahmad S. Abushaikha
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) in subsurface formations has emerged as a promising strategy to address global warming. In light of this, this review aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms involved in the geological trapping of CO. Additionally, it aims to identify the techniques used to evaluate the potential for CO sequestration before injecting CO into subsurface formations
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Modeling carbon burial along the land to ocean aquatic continuum: Current status, challenges and perspectives Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Daniela Henry, Núria Catalán, Biel Obrador, Rafael Marcé
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Oolitic ironstones, continental iron flux and reverse weathering in the Proterozoic Eon: Insights from the Tonian Katherine Group, Yukon Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Maxwell Lechte, Galen Halverson, Malcolm Wallace, Timothy Gibson, Ashleigh van Smeerdijk Hood, Changle Wang, Thi Hao Bui, Katie Maloney, Alexie Millikin
Oolitic ironstones are iron-rich and chert-poor sedimentary rocks containing concentrically coated grains composed of iron (oxyhydr)oxides and iron phyllosilicates that offer a unique window into iron cycling in ancient coastal environments. These enigmatic deposits are common in the Phanerozoic stratigraphic record yet lack clear modern analogues, and curiously are thought to be absent from Precambrian
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Deep-time alkaline lake enigma: Rare or undiscovered? Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Liuwen Xia, Jian Cao, Tingting Wang, Wenxuan Hu, Dongming Zhi, Yong Tang
Alkaline lakes are significant for exploring the evolution of life, reconstructions of environments, and exploration and exploitation of energy resources; however, despite modern alkaline lakes being widely distributed on Earth, deep-time (pre-Neogene) examples are scarce, in general, compared with other types of saline lake deposits (e.g., chloride and sulfate salts). This raises the question as to
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Desertification in karst areas: A review Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Umberto Samuele D'Ettorre, Isabella Serena Liso, Mario Parise
Desertification in karst is an effect of climate change and not sustainable anthropogenic activities, the combination of which, however, causes the gradual loss of karst natural resources, such as soil, vegetation, and groundwater. A considerable percentage of global karst areas is found in drylands, characterized by negative water balance and scarce presence of soils. High fragility of the karst environment
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A review and field guide for the standardized description and sampling of paleosols Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Theresa J. Orr, Eric M. Roberts
Paleosols are unrivaled terrestrial archives of paleoclimatic, paleoecological, and paleoenvironmental conditions, yet their full utility and potential for unlocking critical information about past ecosystems, as well as their comparability with other records, is dependent upon the quality and thoroughness of such studies. To help standardize communication and compatibility in and between paleopedology
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Ice universality: perception of ice, its properties and connected processes on Earth and in the extraterrestrial environment. Earth sciences perspective Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Wojciech Dobiński
The article characterizes ice from the research perspective of Earth sciences applied in the natural environment of the Earth and in Cosmos. In each case, ice is defined as a mineral and monomineral rock occurring in sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic forms. It creates an icy lithosphere that completely covers icy planets and moons. Tectonic features and processes such as faults and folds, subduction
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Satellite gravimetry: Methods, products, applications, and future trends Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Mehdi Eshagh, Shuanggen Jin, Roland Pail, Riccardo Barzaghi, Dimitrios Tsoulis, Robert Tenzer, Pavel Novák
The gravitational field of the Earth reflects Earth's surface mass redistribution and its inner structure and dynamics. Satellite gravimetry techniques have been used to observe the Earth's external gravitational field and its temporal variations on a global scale. The global gravitational models from satellite gravimetry, typically in terms of spherical harmonic coefficients, are crucial in geodetic
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Tectono-sedimentary evolution of the Suriname margin in the cretaceous: A sequence-stratigraphic framework Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 V. Delhaye-Prat, Julien Bourget, Gwladys Gaillot, Jérémie Gaillot, François Sapin, Charlotte Fillon, Jing Ye, Tim Wright, Anne-Claire Chaboureau, Nicoletta Buratti, Benoit Magnier, Andrei Belopolsky, Martine Bez, Matthew J. Heumann, Michael Sullivan, Jean-Philippe Mathieu, Simon Cole, Bryan Ladner, Jennifer Bull, Jacques-Antoine Dal
The offshore margins of Guyana, Suriname, and French Guyana (the “Guyanas Equatorial Margin”) have become the focus of active hydrocarbon exploration over the last decade, with significant energy resources discovered since 2015 along both the Guyana and Suriname segments of the margin. Those discoveries are mainly associated with the Late Cretaceous series of the Guyana-Suriname Basin and they shed
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Flood modeling and fluvial dynamics: A scoping review on the role of sediment transport Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Hossein Hamidifar, Michael Nones, Pawel M. Rowinski
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Unveiling the history and nature of paleostorms in the Holocene Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Kenta Minamidate, Kazuhisa Goto
Tropical and extratropical cyclones have a profound impact on coastal morphology, ecosystems, and human lives. Given the ongoing global warming and the rising coastal populations, it is an urgent task to evaluate their impact on coastal regions ranging from low to high latitudes. Although the observation records show both significant and insignificant changes in tropical cyclone activity over recent
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A systematic review of predictor screening methods for downscaling of numerical climate models Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Aida Hosseini Baghanam, Vahid Nourani, Mohammad Bejani, Hadi Pourali, Sameh Ahmed Kantoush, Yongqiang Zhang
Effective selection of climate predictors is a fundamental aspect of climate modeling research. Predictor Screening (PS) plays a crucial role in identifying regional climate drivers, reducing noise, expediting convergence, and minimizing time consumption, ultimately leading to the development of robust models. This review delves into the complex landscape of PS techniques within the context of Numerical
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Paleogeography of the Gondwana passive margin fragments involved in the Variscan and Alpine collisions: Perspectives from metavolcanic-sedimentary basement of the Western Carpathians Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Igor Soejono, Stephen Collett, Milan Kohút, Vojtěch Janoušek, Karel Schulmann, Zita Bukovská, Nikol Novotná, Tereza Zelinková, Jitka Míková, John M. Hora, František Veselovský
The general configuration of the main continental blocks in the Gondwana supercontinent and the Ediacaran–early Paleozoic tectonic evolution of its northern margin are widely accepted. However, reconstruction of the original positions and the question of potential separation of the Gondwana-derived crustal segments that are now included in the Variscan and Alpine orogenic belts remain controversial
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Contemporaneous closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean in the Middle-Late Triassic: A synthesis of new evidence and tectonic implications for the final assembly of Pangea Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Dongfang Song, Wenjiao Xiao, Songjian Ao, Qigui Mao, Bo Wan, Hao Zeng
The closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean (PAO) is crucial for understanding the late Paleozoic–early Mesozoic paleogeography of Proto-Asia and the tectonic configuration of NE Pangea. However, the timing and mechanism for the PAO closure and final amalgamation of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) remain highly controversial. Available studies argue either for a pre-Carboniferous closure or eastward
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A time-calibrated ‘Tree of Life’ of aquatic insects for knitting historical patterns of evolution and measuring extant phylogenetic biodiversity across the world Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Jorge García-Girón, Cesc Múrria, Miquel A. Arnedo, Núria Bonada, Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles, Tomáš Derka, Jose María Fernández-Calero, Zhengfei Li, José Manuel Tierno de Figueroa, Zhicai Xie, Jani Heino
The extent to which the sequence and timing of important events on Earth have influenced biological evolution through geological time is a matter of ongoing debate. In this context, the phylogenetic history of aquatic insects remains largely elusive, and our understanding of their chronology is fragmentary and incomplete at best. Here, after gathering a comprehensive data matrix of 3125 targeted rRNA
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Artificial intelligence in paleontology Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Congyu Yu, Fangbo Qin, Akinobu Watanabe, Weiqi Yao, Ying Li, Zichuan Qin, Yuming Liu, Haibing Wang, Qigao Jiangzuo, Allison Y. Hsiang, Chao Ma, Emily Rayfield, Michael J. Benton, Xing Xu
The accumulation of large datasets and increasing data availability have led to the emergence of data-driven paleontological studies, which reveal an unprecedented picture of evolutionary history. However, the fast-growing quantity and complication of data modalities make data processing laborious and inconsistent, while also lacking clear benchmarks to evaluate data collection and generation, and
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Temporal-spatial patterns of Mesozoic Paleo-Pacific and Tethyan supra-subduction systems in SE Asia: Key observations and controversies in Borneo and its surroundings Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Yuejun Wang, Xin Qian, Peter A. Cawood, Chengshi Gan, Yuzhi Zhang, Feifei Zhang, J.-B. Asis, Yonggang Yan, Cheng Wang
The Mesozoic tectonic regime of the Indonesian Archipelago holds the key to decoding the development of the East Asia continental margin and unraveling the temporal-spatial pattern of the Paleo-Pacific and Tethyan supra-subduction systems in SE Asia. However, no consensus has been reached on the “intersected location (where), timing (when) and mechanism (why)” of the two supra-systems in the “narrow
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Tracing the subduction and accretion history of the trench-arc-basin system in the Chinese Eastern Tianshan: Insights from Paleozoic magmatic and crustal evolution Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Long Du, Xiaoping Long, Chao Yuan, Yunying Zhang, Zongying Huang, Hongli Zhu
Accretionary orogens function as crucial sites for the generation of arc igneous rocks and continental crust, but the spatial and temporal distribution of arc igneous rocks and the link between the arc magmatic processes and crust generation within individual orogens remains poorly constrained. To address this issue, we have summarized published geochemical and zircon isotopic data for Paleozoic (∼460–280 Ma)
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Gone with the tides? Reassessing possible eolian strata in the Paleoarchean Moodies Group in the context of the Archean eolian record Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 S. Reimann, A. Zametzer, C. Heubeck
It is unresolved when eolian processes began to significantly affect global mean sand composition and texture through abrasion and enhanced sorting. Reports of Proterozoic eolian textures and sedimentary structures are common, in particular from 1.8 Ga on, but the Archean (4.0–2.5 Ga) geologic record possesses only seven reported eolian occurrences which generally do not manifest more than a few diagnostic
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Residual trapping capacity of subsurface systems for geological storage of CO2: Measurement techniques, meta-analysis of influencing factors, and future outlook Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Haiyang Zhang, Muhammad Arif
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Interplay between early rifting, later folding, and sedimentary filling of a long-lived Tethys remnant: The Levant Basin Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Yael Sagy, Zohar Gvirtzman
Deep and long-lived rifted basins host valuable information about tectonic evolution and environmental changes occurring in their surroundings throughout hundreds of millions of years. These basins, however, are hard to infer, because their deep parts are commonly obscured in seismic images and their structure is affected by several deformation phases that occurred during their long history.
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Quantification and uncertainty of global upland soil methane sinks: Processes, controls, model limitations, and improvements Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Hanxiong Song, Changhui Peng, Qiuan Zhu, Zhi Chen, Jean-Pierre Blanchet, Qiuyu Liu, Tong Li, Peng Li, Zelin Liu
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Subduction dynamics and overriding plate deformation Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 W.P. Schellart
The style of overriding plate deformation at subduction zones varies from backarc spreading and basin formation, as found in the Scotia Sea, to shortening and cordilleran orogeny, as observed in the Andes. Why this difference exists and why overriding plate extension occurs more frequently than shortening remains unexplained. In this contribution, various conceptual mechanisms of overriding plate deformation
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Inventory-based evaluation of 210Po-210Pb-226Ra disequilibria in deep oceans and new insights on their utility as biogeochemical tracers: A global data synthesis of research over six decades Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Denada Planaj, Mark Baskaran
Disequilibria between the long-lived parents and short-lived particle-reactive daughters have been extensively used over the past six decades as tracers and chronometers in aquatic systems. In particular, the particle-reactive progeny of Ra (Pb, half-life, T, = 22.3 years and Po, T = 138.4 days) have been widely utilized to quantify oceanic biogeochemical processes (e.g. elemental export fluxes, residence
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Glacial terminations or glacial interruptions? Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Lowell Stott
In the early 20th century, after contributing major advances in calculating radiation forcing on planetary bodies, Milutin Milankovitch the Serbian mathematician took up the challenge of explaining why Earth has experienced recurrent episodes of glaciation. Influenced by the ideas of his predecessors, Milankovitch developed a theory that centered on the notion that summertime temperature at high northern
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The interaction between geomorphology and man: The case of the Fars arc (southern Iran) Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Andrea Sembroni, Pierfrancesco Callieri, Alireza Askari Chaverdi
To settle in a given area, man has to deal with the surrounding environment and the geomorphological processes that shaped it. Landscape defines the available resources and landscape changes are related to tectonics, hydrography and variations in climate and biota. To cope with environmental limitations, man developed efficient techniques and capabilities to survive, making the best use of natural
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Organic compounds in geological hydrothermal systems: A critical review of molecular transformation and distribution Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Huiyuan Xu, Quanyou Liu, Zhijun Jin, Dongya Zhu, Qingqiang Meng, Xiaoqi Wu, Pengpeng Li, Biqing Zhu
There has been a surge in the number of studies on submarine hydrothermal vents and smokers, which has enhanced our understanding of the evolution of organic hydrocarbons and compounds with heat and various inorganics released from the inner earth. There is great variability in the organic compounds produced in these regions due to the complex and varied synthesis and alteration conditions. This invokes
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Hydrothermal alteration and physical and mechanical properties of rocks in a volcanic environment: A review Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Maria Luísa Pereira, Vittorio Zanon, Isabel Fernandes, Lucia Pappalardo, Fátima Viveiros
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On the prediction of the characteristics of sand ripples at the bottom of sea waves Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Giovanna Vittori, Paolo Blondeaux
In this review paper, the main geometrical characteristics of sea ripples (the smallest morphological patterns that are observed at the bottom of sea waves) are reviewed together with the physical mechanisms that give rise to their appearance and control their time development. Moreover, we provide a summary of both the mathematical tools (stability analyses) and empirical formulae that can be used
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Neoarchean lavas of the Ventersdorp Large Igneous Province, South Africa: Sr-Nd-Hf isotopic and trace element evidence for a long-lived plume beneath a stationary African continent Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Khulekani B. Khumalo, Lewis D. Ashwal, Ben Hayes, Linda M. Iaccheri, P. Gerhard Meintjes, Susan J. Webb
We review the properties of the Neoarchean Ventersdorp Supergroup and provide new trace element concentrations and the first combined Sr-Nd-Hf isotopic compositions for the mafic magmatic products. These sequences contain the remnants of some of the world's oldest Large Igneous Provinces (total preserved volume = 0.659 × 10 km). Ventersdorp rocks have been divided into three major units, separated
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A guide to recognising slow-moving subaqueous landslides in seismic and bathymetry datasets Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 B. Couvin, A. Georgiopoulou, L.A. Amy
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Magmatic-volcanic clusters and subclusters in Venus: Tectonic implications Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Edgardo Cañón-Tapia
The Surface of Venus is covered with thousands of small (< 20 km in diameter) and large volcanoes (> 100 km in diameter) as well as other structures of magmatic or tectonic origin. Based on a recent catalogue of volcanic centers of Venus, the spatial distribution of volcanic edifices is examined, as well as their relationship with magmatic and tectonic structures. The results indicate that the areas
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Marginal snowpacks: The basis for a global definition and existing research needs Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 J.I. López-Moreno, N. Callow, H. McGowan, R. Webb, A. Schwartz, S. Bilish, J. Revuelto, S. Gascoin, C. Deschamps-Berger, E. Alonso-González
A marginal snowpack is a recent concept that refers to snow cover that is relatively shallow and transient but still has important environmental and socioeconomic functions. This class of snow cover influences environments over large areas of the world and is very common in the Mediterranean climates, but also in the transition zone between persistent seasonal and ephemeral snowpacks all over the world
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Lower Palaeozoic-Paleogene geological development of a deep-water rift (Güzelsu Corridor) along the northern continental margin of the Southern Neotethys in the Eastern Mediterranean region: Evidence from the Antalya Complex and the adjacent Tauride Carbonate Platform Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Alastair H.F. Robertson, Osman Parlak, Kemal Taslı, Cemile Solak, Paulian Dumitrica, Taniel Danelian
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Early plate tectonics and evolution of continental crust in the North China craton: Editorial preface Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Guochun Zhao, Xianhua Li, Peng Peng, Junpeng Wang
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Early Cretaceous evolution of the McMurray Formation: A review toward a better understanding of the paleo-depositional system Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Yang Peng, Paul R. Durkin, Harrison K. Martin, Dale A. Leckie, Sean C. Horner, Stephen M. Hubbard
The Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin has been the subject of numerous studies, with emphasis on its stratigraphic framework and sedimentological models. However, due to the stratigraphic complexity of the paleo-depositional system, which comprises fluvial and marginal-marine strata, it remains a challenging area of research. There is ongoing debate surrounding
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An oxygen isotope perspective on the break-up of the Rodinia supercontinent Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Hao Zou, Chang-Cheng Huang, Hua-Wen Cao, Chun-Mei Liu, Hui-Dong Yu, Franco Pirajno, Xian-Hua Li
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Crustal modification influenced by multiple convergent systems: Insights from Mesozoic magmatism in northeastern China Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 He Huang, Tao Wang, Lei Guo, Ying Tong, Zhen-Yu He, Jiyuan Yin, Huan-Huan Wu
Convergent continental margins are the major sites for the formation, differentiation, preservation, and destruction of continental crust. This article focuses on the Mesozoic crustal modification history of northeastern China from a magmatic perspective. During Mesozoic times, NE China was influenced by three convergent systems, namely the Paleo-Asian Ocean (PAO) regime to the south, the Mongol-Okhotsk
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Fossil resins – A chemotaxonomical overview Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 J. Pańczak, P. Kosakowski, P. Drzewicz, A. Zakrzewski
Fossil resins, also known under the name “ambers”, are formed from exudates of gymnosperm and angiosperm trees in Earth's sedimentary rocks. Up to day, more than 167 fossil resin occurrences and major deposits have been reported in literature. The scientists are mainly focused on fossiliferous ambers, which contain numerous fossil inclusions. However, the geochemical studies, especially those that
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Catchment characterization: Current descriptors, knowledge gaps and future opportunities Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Larisa Tarasova, Sebastian Gnann, Soohyun Yang, Andreas Hartmann, Thorsten Wagener
The ability to characterize hydrologically relevant differences between places is at the core of our science. A common way to quantitatively characterize hydrological catchments is through the use of descriptors that summarize relevant physical aspects of the system, typically by aggregating heterogeneous geospatial information into a single number. Such descriptors capture various facets of catchment
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Unlocking the potential of soil microbes for sustainable desertification management Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Waqar Islam, Fanjiang Zeng, Modhi O. Alotaibi, Khalid Ali Khan
Desertification, the process of land degradation in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas, poses significant environmental, social, and economic challenges worldwide. As desertification continues to threaten ecosystems and livelihoods, innovative strategies for its management are urgently needed. The article begins by elucidating the causes and consequences of desertification, emphasizing its complex
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Geophysical logs as proxies for cyclostratigraphy: Sensitivity evaluation, proxy selection, and paleoclimatic interpretation Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Cheng Peng, Changchun Zou, Shuxia Zhang, Jiangbo Shu, Chengshan Wang
Correct selection and interpretation of proxies are key to cyclostratigraphic research; however, the uncritical use of geophysical logs as proxies for cyclostratigraphy could be widespread. In most studies, paleoclimate changes are directly interpreted based on the spectra of single geophysical log curves, with little attention being paid to the sensitivity of geophysical logs to the paleoclimate.
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Development of a database of historical liquefaction occurrences in the Philippines Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Daniel Jose L. Buhay, Crystel Jade M. Legaspi, Ronniel Paolo A. Dizon, Maria Isabel T. Abigania, Kathleen L. Papiona, Maria Leonila P. Bautista
Liquefaction is one of the earthquake-related hazards commonly experienced during earthquake occurrences in the Philippines. A database of liquefaction occurrences in the Philippines was developed through the analysis of historical documents, reports, catalogs, newspaper articles, and eyewitness interviews. A total of 808 liquefaction accounts were analyzed—798 of which were induced by 110 earthquakes
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Experimental measurements and characterization models of caprock breakthrough pressure for CO2 geological storage Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Bowen Chen, Qi Li, Yongsheng Tan, Tao Yu, Xiaying Li, Xiaochun Li
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Multi-phase heat transfer in porous and fractured rock Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Thomas Heinze
Various geoscientific processes in the shallow subsurface experience a temperature difference between the solid and the liquid or gaseous phase. Prominent examples include the injection of cold water into a hot host rock, the fast intrusion of supercritical CO2 from the mantle into shallower regions, or the rainwater infiltration into partially frozen soil. In such an absence of local thermal equilibrium
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Stromatoporoids and extinctions: A review Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Stephen Kershaw, Juwan Jeon
Stromatoporoids are common shallow marine hypercalcified sponges in two major episodes with distinctive skeletal architectures: 1) Palaeozoic: Ordovician to Late Devonian; and 2) Mesozoic: Late Triassic to Cretaceous and rare Cenozoic, but not confirmed in Permian and earlier Triassic strata. Stromatoporoids appeared in Early to Middle Ordovician strata, important in buildups from late Middle Ordovician
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Focus on the nonlinear infiltration process in deep vadose zone Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Yujiang He, Yanyan Wang, Ying Liu, Borui Peng, Guiling Wang
The vadose zone serves as a crucial link for the mutual transformation of atmospheric, surface, ecological, and groundwater systems. Infiltration recharge in the vadose zone is a key step in the Earth's water cycle and plays an extremely important role in the sustainable development of groundwater resources, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions. However, under the influence of extreme climatic
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The Drake Passage asthenospheric and oceanic gateway Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Yasmina M. Martos, Manuel Catalán
Through Earth's history, the evolution of both mantle and oceanic gateways entails a series of processes that culminate in global changes. This synthesis article focuses on the linkages among mantle, crustal, oceanographic and global change processes that are involved in the evolution of a gateway. These processes include the upper mantle dynamics, the thermal structure of the lithosphere, tectonic
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Scale issues in runoff and sediment delivery (SIRSD): A systematic review and bibliometric analysis Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Qihua Ke, Keli Zhang
Water erosion, a notorious major threat to food security and ecosystem sustainability, is strongly conditioned by spatial and temporal scale effects. This paper systematically reviews the scale issues in runoff and sediment delivery (SIRSD) as a research field by integrating the traditional review approach and bibliometric analysis. This review summarises SIRSD's roots and the scale effect on runoff
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Salinization mechanism of lakes and controls on organic matter enrichment: From present to deep-time records Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Chao Liang, Bo Yang, Yingchang Cao, Keyu Liu, Jing Wu, Fang Hao, Yu Han, Wanlu Han
Saline lakes have developed worldwide throughout geological history and continue to develop, is important for understanding deep-time climate evolution, lake evolution and extinction, terrestrial ecosystem evolution, and organic carbon burial processes. The basic conditions required for the formation of saline lakes are a sufficient source of salt, an arid or semi-arid climate, and a closed or semi-closed
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Marine chemical structure during the Cambrian explosion Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Wenyao Xiao, Jian Cao, Xiaomei Wang, Di Xiao, Chunhua Shi, Shuichang Zhang
The Early Cambrian Late Stage 2 to Stage 3 (ca. 526–514 Ma) was characterized by the peak of the Cambrian Explosion and a large-scale global transgression that resulted in the deposition of organic-rich black shales, which have important implications for Earth-system science and petroleum/economic geology. However, there are many uncertainties regarding the spatiotemporal evolution of structural model
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Tracing the source areas of detrital zircon and K-feldspar in the Yellow River Basin Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Xu Lin, Qinmian Xu, Milo Barham, Jing Liu-Zeng, Haijin Liu, Maximilian Dröllner, Zhonghai Wu, Zhaoning Li, Chengwei Hu, Xiaokang Chen
Sedimentary provenance studies, which aim to identify the original source of sedimentary material, can offer valuable insights into transportation processes that occur within a given basin. Zircon and K-feldspar are complimentary and commonly used minerals in provenance tracing studies, given their representation of both stable and labile mineral components of different density. However, integration
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Carbon dynamics shift in changing cryosphere and hydrosphere of the Third Pole Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Tanguang Gao, Shichang Kang, Tandong Yao, Yanlong Zhao, Xuexue Shang, Yong Nie, Rensheng Chen, Igor Semiletov, Taigang Zhang, Xi Luo, Da Wei, Yulan Zhang
The Third Pole (TP) is the largest alpine mountains on the Earth. Its cryosphere is shrinking and collapsing and the hydrosphere has subsequently changed under the warming climate in recent decades, potentially affecting the biogeochemical cycle. In particular, the carbon cycle has undergone dramatic changes, primarily because of the alterations between the cryosphere and hydrosphere. Carbon emissions
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Influence of inherited structure on flexural extension in foreland basin systems: Evidence from the northern Arkoma basin and southern Ozark dome, USA Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 B.M. Lutz, M.R. Hudson, T.M. Smith, M. Dechesne, L.R. Spangler, A.E. McCafferty, C.M. Amaral, N.P. Griffis, J.A. Hirtz
Extensional faults are key components of foreland basin systems. They form within the upper crust in response to flexure of the lithosphere and accommodate subsidence within the foredeep and forebulge depozones. Such faults are excellent proxies for orogenic system evolution and control the distribution of natural resources and hazards. However, the spatiotemporal evolution of flexural extension has
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Bayesian back analysis of unsaturated hydraulic parameters for rainfall-induced slope failure: A review Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Hao-Qing Yang, Lulu Zhang
Rainfall-induced soil slope failures are among the most frequent and widespread landslides in the world. The infiltration of water plays a critical role in the instability of slopes under rainfall conditions. By employing the physical models, field monitoring data becomes instrumental for the back analysis of soil parameters, providing critical insights into the mechanisms of slope instability. In
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Corrigendum to “Active layer and permafrost thermal regimes in the ice-free areas of Antarctica” [Earth Science Reviews 242C, July 2023, 104458] Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Filip Hrbáček, Marc Oliva, Christel Hansen, Megan Balks, Tanya Ann O’Neill, Miguel Angel de Pablo, Stefano Ponti, Miguel Ramos, Goncalo Vieira, Andrey Abramov, Lucia Kaplan Pastirikova, Mauro Guglielmin, Gabriel Goaynes, Marcio Rocha Francellino, Carlos Schaefer, Denis Lacelle
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The Samail subduction zone dilemma: Geochronology of high-pressure rocks from the Saih Hatat window, Oman, reveals juxtaposition of two subduction zones with contrasting thermal histories Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Uwe Ring, Johannes Glodny, Reuben Hansman, Andreas Scharf, Frank Mattern, Ivan Callegari, Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen, Arne Willner, Yangbaihe Hong
The Samail Ophiolite in the Oman Mountains formed at a Cretaceous subduction zone that was part of a wider Neo-Tethys plate-boundary system. The original configuration and evolution of this plate-boundary system is hidden in a structurally and metamorphically complex nappe stack below the Samail Ophiolite. Previous work provided evidence for high-temperature metamorphism high in the nappe pile (in