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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
Oxygen isotopes are essential tracers of crustal evolution. Low-δO values of igneous rocks, which are significantly lower than the value of mantle-derived magma, are relative scarcity in the Earth. This scarcity is likely due to the special formation of low-δO rocks, which requires high-temperature interactions between meteoric water or seawater and protoliths with high water-to-rock ratios. Numerous
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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, >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 are aimed
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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
Caprock plays a critical role in the long-term safety of CO geological storage, and breakthrough pressure serves as a key indicator for evaluating caprock sealing. The purpose of this review is to discuss the latest research progress in experimental testing and characterization models of caprock breakthrough pressure. First, this review provides a summary of the definitions and classifications of caprock
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Multi-phase heat transfer in porous and fractured rock Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 T, h, o, m, a, s, , H, e, i, n, z, e
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 (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 has important implications for Earth-system science and petroleum/economic geology. However, there are many uncertainties regarding the spatiotemporal evolution structural model, and
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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. Griffis, J. 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
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Early Paleoproterozoic TTG gneisses and potassic granitoids in the southern Trans-North China Orogen: Key constraints on the tectonic setting during the tectono-magmatic lull and the initiation of plate tectonics Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Jingyu Wang, Xiaoping Long
Magmatic rocks in the North China Craton (NCC) are crucial to unraveling the tectonic background during the tectono-magmatic lull (TML, 2.45–2.20 Ga) and to constraining the initiation of plate tectonics. In this study, previously published zircon U–Pb–Hf–O data and whole-rock geochemistry are collected from the early Paleoproterozoic felsic intrusive rocks in the southern Trans-North China Orogen
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The Ediacaran palaeo-ocean environment in the northwest margin of South China Craton: Constraints of C–O–Mo isotopic and element geochemistry Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Bohao Dong, Yunpeng Dong, Xiaoping Long, Hong Hua, Jie Li, Bingshuang Zhao, Chao Cheng
The coevolution of the redox environment, productivity and Ediacaran fauna is crucial to understanding the trigger of Early Cambrian explosion of the Chengjiang Biota and Qingjiang Biota in the southwestern and northern margins of the South China Craton, respectively. Multiple element and isotope geochemical proxies are effective indicators for palaeo-ocean environment and productivity. In this study
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Interactions between vegetation and river morphodynamics. Part II: Why is a functional trait framework important? Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Dov Corenblit, Hervé Piégay, Florent Arrignon, Eduardo González-Sargas, Anne Bonis, Dav M. Ebengo, Virginia Garófano-Gómez, Angela M. Gurnell, Annie L. Henry, Borbála Hortobágyi, Francisco Martínez-Capel, Lucas Mazal, Johannes Steiger, Eric Tabacchi, Stephen Tooth, Franck Vautier, Romain Walcker
The structure and function of riparian ecosystems generally result from feedbacks between plant dynamics and fluvial processes and landforms, i.e., river morphodynamics. Taxonomic approaches do not allow to directly identify and quantify the mechanisms involved in the interaction between plant communities and the geomorphological environment. Although riparian ecosystems show enormous taxonomic variations
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Early Cambrian sedimentary rocks in South China: A link between oceanic oxygenation and biological explosion Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Bingshuang Zhao, Xiaoping Long, Chao Chang
Early Cambrian basin in South China has deposited successive sedimentary rocks, which not only recorded geochemical information of the variation of palaeo-ocean environment, but also preserved fossils of most phyla of modern animals, such as the large-body Chengjiang and Qingjiang biotas. Although the relation between gradually oxic Cambrian Ocean and biotic diversity is recognized, the temporal and
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Genesis of Archean to Paleoproterozoic banded iron formations in the North China Craton: Geological and paleoenvironmental implications Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Kang Jiang, Junpeng Wang, Timothy Kusky, Ali Polat, Bo Huang, Lu Wang, Shengli Li, Hao Deng, Yaying Peng
The source characteristics and depositional environments of banded iron formations (BIFs) can provide key information on the chemical composition, redox environment, and tectonic evolution of early Precambrian paleo-oceans. Large quantities of Neoarchean to Paleoproterozoic BIFs are exposed in the North China Craton (NCC). This study focuses on petrography, major and trace element geochemistry, zircon
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P-T-t evolution of mantle and associated crustal rocks in collisional orogens: Insight from numerical experiments Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Elena Sizova, Christoph A. Hauzenberger, Harald Fritz, Taras Gerya
During the last decades, the intrinsic association of ultrahigh-pressure crustal rocks with ultrabasic rocks has been recognised in modern and ancient collisional orogens worldwide but their tectonic origins remain intriguing and controversial. In this study, we performed a series of 2D petrological–thermomechanical numerical experiments of continent-continent collision in order to: (i) characterize
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Stratigraphy in space and time: A reproducible approach to analysis and visualization Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Zoltán Sylvester, Kyle M. Straub, Jacob A. Covault
Time-elevation plots and chronostratigraphic diagrams are valuable for understanding and analyzing stratigraphy when time-elevation data, or some approximation of them, are available, for example in flume experiments, numerical models, and three-dimensional seismic reflection surveys. We developed a Python module called ‘’, aimed at the reproducible analysis and visualization of stratigraphy, and we
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Granites and Granophyres of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa: A review Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Ole Skursch, Christian Tegner, Gry H. Barfod, Rasmus Andreasen, Charles E. Lesher
A major outstanding question concerning the Bushveld Complex of South Africa is the genetic relationship between the granites (Lebowa Granite Suite, LGS) and granophyres (Rashoop Granophyre Suite, RGS), and their relation to the underlying layered mafic-ultramafic intrusion (Rustenburg Layered Suite, RLS). Here, we present new bulk rock major and trace elements, as well as Nd and Hf isotopes for 35
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Grain size from source to sink – modern and ancient fining rates Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Tony Reynolds
A unique synthesis of grain size-distance data is presented, comparing, for the first time, grain size and fining trends in a wide range of modern and ancient axial sediment dispersal systems, and tracking grain-size from source to sink across several sedimentary basins. In general, grain-size decreases exponentially with distance down system, and modern and ancient examples fine at broadly comparable
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Snowmelt erosion: A review Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Zuoli Wu, Haiyan Fang
As a vital freshwater resource for one-sixth of the world's population, snowmelt provides great convenience for residents in terms of livelihood and production, agricultural irrigation, and hydroelectric power generation. However, snowmelt can also have an important impact on the formation of surface runoff and the process of soil erosion. In contrast to glacier melt, snowmelt erosion has received
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Severe droughts in North Africa: A review of drivers, impacts and management Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 M. Tanarhte, A.J. De Vries, G. Zittis, T. Chfadi
In the last 50 years, various parts of North Africa (NAF) have suffered devastating droughts, associated with high socio-economic impacts. This arid to semi-arid region is one of the most water-scarce areas in the world. In the context of water scarcity, many studies have focused on droughts approaching their impact from different disciplines and perspectives. However, more integrative studies covering
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Origin and early evolution of vertebrate burrowing behaviour Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Lorenzo Marchetti, Mark J. MacDougall, Michael Buchwitz, Aurore Canoville, Max Herde, Christian F. Kammerer, Jörg Fröbisch
The ability to live underground is widespread among continental vertebrates, so understanding the origin and early evolution of fossorial vertebrates and the architecture and function of the burrows they excavate is an important component of the history of Life on Earth. However, this topic has not been addressed in a synoptic manner; available information is scattered, hampering our understanding
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Modelling landslide susceptibility prediction: A review and construction of semi-supervised imbalanced theory Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Faming Huang, Haowen Xiong, Shui-Hua Jiang, Chi Yao, Xuanmei Fan, Filippo Catani, Zhilu Chang, Xiaoting Zhou, Jinsong Huang, Keji Liu
Fully supervised machine learning models are widely applied for landslide susceptibility prediction (LSP), mainly using landslide and non-landslide samples as output variables and related conditioning factors as input variables. However, there are many uncertain issues in LSP modelling; for example, known landslide samples may have errors, non-landslide samples randomly selected from the whole study
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Evolution of the Eastern Red Sea Rifted margin: morphology, uplift processes and source-to-sink dynamics Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Antoine Delaunay, Guillaume Baby, Evelyn Garcia Paredes, Jakub Fedorik, Abdulkader M. Afifi
This paper explores the formation and evolution of high-elevation passive margins, focusing on the morphology and uplift processes of the eastern Red Sea region and its relationship to the stratigraphy of the Red Sea (source-to-sink approach). We address gaps in our understanding of the origin and persistence of erosional escarpments along rifted margins and their connection to continental rifting
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Sulfuric acid caves of the world: A review Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Jo De Waele, Ilenia M. D'Angeli, Philippe Audra, Lukas Plan, Arthur N. Palmer
In soluble rocks such as limestone and dolostone there are two main types of cave genesis (speleogenesis); (i) epigenic speleogenesis, in which the aggressiveness that forms caves is derived from the surface, and (ii) hypogenic speleogenesis where upwelling gases and fluids acquire their aggressiveness at depth dissolving carbonate rocks to form caves. Whereas epigenic (surface) waters can be undersaturated
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Sedimentary brGDGTs in China: An overview of modern observations and proposed land Holocene paleotemperature records Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Tianyan Lin, Zhiguo Rao, Yaoyao Zeng, Yunxia Li, Lin Zhao, Lidan Liu, Xiong Xiao, Cicheng Zhang, Zhongwei Shen, Jiantao Cao, Guodong Jia
Results from globally distributed surface soils and surface lake and peat sediments indicate that brGDGTs (branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers), derived from bacteria, have the potential to reconstruct the history of land temperature changes. Studies of brGDGTs in China have been conducted on a large spatial scale, but the proposed brGDGTs-based land Holocene temperature records show contrasting
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Backwater length estimates in modern and ancient fluvio-deltaic settings: Review and proposal of standardized workflows Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 A.E. Van Yperen, J.M. Holbrook, M. Poyatos-Moré, I. Midtkandal
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Potential radon risk in permafrost regions of the Northern Hemisphere under climate change: A review Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Shengrong Zhang, Doudou Jin, Huijun Jin, Chunhai Li, Hu Zhang, Xiaoyin Jin, Jian Cui
Radon can pose a serious risk on human health. At present, radon has been considered as the second leading cause of lung cancer after smoking. The potential risk of radon exposure in cold regions of Northern Hemisphere is increasing due to climate-induced permafrost degradation. In this paper, we took permafrost regions in the Northern Hemisphere as our study area. We performed an extensive literature
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Application of different radiogenic isotope systems and cyclostratigraphy in the dating of sedimentary rocks Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Zhongwu Lan, Huaichun Wu, Huaiyu He
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The increasing importance of satellite observations to assess the ocean carbon sink and ocean acidification Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Jamie D. Shutler, Nicolas Gruber, Helen S. Findlay, Peter E. Land, Luke Gregor, Thomas Holding, Richard Sims, Hannah Green, Jean-Francois Piolle, Bertrand Chapron, Shubha Sathyendranath, Cecile S. Rousseaux, Craig Donlon, Sarah Cooley, Jessie Turner, Alexis Valauri-Orton, Kaitlyn Lowder, Steve Widdicombe, Jan Newton, Roberto Sabia, Lucile Gaultier
The strong control that the emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) have over Earth's climate identifies the need for accurate quantification of the emitted CO2 and its redistribution within the Earth system. The ocean annually absorbs more than a quarter of all CO2 emissions and this absorption is fundamentally altering the ocean chemistry. The ocean thus provides a fundamental component and powerful constraint
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Felsic crust development in the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa: A reference sample collection to investigate a billion years of geological history Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 J.F. Moyen, A.J. McCoy-West, E. Bruand, M.A. Millet, O. Nebel, P.A. Cawood, N. Saji, A. Ladwig, Martijn Klaver, M. Elburg
The crust of the Kaapvaal craton accreted throughout the Archaean over nearly 1 billion years. It provides a unique example of the various geological processes that shape Earth's continental crust, and is illustrated by a reference collection of granitoids and mafic rocks (SWASA collection). This sample collection is fully characterised in term of age, major and trace elements, and documents the following
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Mineral physics constraints on ultra-low velocity zones in the lowermost mantle Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Shanece S. Esdaille, Jiuhua Chen
Ultra-low velocity zones (ULVZs) at the base of Earth's lower mantle inferred from seismic inversions exhibit up to 50% lower shear velocity (Vs) and up to 25% lower compressional wave velocity (Vp) with respect to the average seismic velocities. Since the inversion procedure is not unique, the outcomes of the inversions remain inconclusive without a realistic cause supported by mineral physics data
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In-situ tracer test in fractured rocks for nuclear waste repository Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Zhihong Zhao, Sicong Chen, Jintong Zhang, Junyu Chen, Yang Wu
Due to sustained interest in underground nuclear waste repositories since the 1970s, numerous in-situ tracer tests have been extensively conducted in underground research laboratories or facilities over distances from centimeters to hundreds of meters to determine the key parameters of transport and retention of radioactive nuclides in fractured rocks. The most direct observation results in a tracer
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Mercury stable isotopes revealing the atmospheric mercury circulation: A review of particulate bound mercury in China Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Xuechao Qin, Qingjun Guo, Pim Martens, Thomas Krafft
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Quantification and classification of a giant fluvial-distributive system - the Triassic Mungaroo Formation, NWS, Australia Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 T.H.D. Payenberg, B.J. Willis, P. Sixsmith, S.D. Connell, A. Powell, K.T. Milliken, H.W. Posamentier, A. Allgoewer, E. Meyers, T. Marsh, M.D. Sullivan, S.C. Lang, J. Fowler, R. Welch, H. Howe, R.B. Ainsworth
When producing reservoirs in fluvial deposits, it is notoriously difficult to define pore volumes connected to completed well intervals from sparse subsurface data. It is equally difficult to forecast production behaviours like initial delivery rates and long-term drawdown curves. These prediction challenges reflect the wide variety of potential fluvial reservoir geometries, from isolated narrow shoestring
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Advancing disaster risk communications Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 I.S. Stewart
Effective communication of disaster threats to decision makers and at-risk communities is a growing challenge in a people-centred approach to disaster risk reduction. Traditional communication approaches tend to involve either top-down risk management practices or bottom-up community health and education practices. But an alternative blended approach emerges from the academic realm of science communication
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Sediment routing systems of the eastern red sea rifted margin Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Guillaume Baby, Antoine Delaunay, Delphine Rouby, Jing Ye, Tihana Pensa, Abdulkader M. Afifi
We investigate the sediment routing systems of the eastern Red Sea rifted margin by constraining the sediment accumulation history of the offshore depositional domain from regional seismic sections, wells, and outcrops observations and comparing it to the denudation history of the onshore erosional domain (Arabian Shield - Delaunay et al. (2024, submitted in this issue). We show that the rift (28–16 Ma)
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Investigations and new insights on the relation between the valid interval of the Kaiser effect and the characteristic stress Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Kui Zhao, Daoxue Yang, Zhen Huang, Cong Gong, Peng Zeng, Xing Wang, Congming Li, Yunge Zhao
Based on the systematic summary and analysis of a large number of relevant literatures, combined with the authors' related research findings, some new insights are presented on the relation between the valid interval of the Kaiser effect and the characteristic stresses of rocks. The acoustic emission activity of rocks exhibits a sudden increase when the largest previously experienced stress is exceeded
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Temperature controls on the C4 plants expansion in the mid-latitudes and its ecological implications for dryland paleoclimatic reconstruction: A stable carbon isotope perspective Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Peng Wu, Yuanyun Xie, Yunping Chi, Yehui Wang, Ruonan Liu
Knowledge of the dynamic evolution of vegetation and its forcing mechanisms in the mid-latitude zone is critical to understanding how climate change modulates ecosystems. However, the forcing mechanism of changes in the relative abundance of C3/C4 plants in terrestrial vegetation is unclear due to the lack of comprehensive data sets from the vast study area. Here, the organic carbon isotope (δ13Corg)
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Neoproterozoic tectonic evolution and proto-basin of the Yangtze Block, China Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Yunpeng Dong, Bo Hui, Shengsi Sun, Dengfeng He, Jiaopeng Sun, Feifei Zhang, Chao Cheng, Zhao Yang, Xiaohui Shi, Rutao Zang, Xiaoping Long, Guowei Zhang
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Ediacaran Cordilleran-type mountain ice sheets and their erosion effects Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Ya-zhuo Niu, G.R. Shi, Qiao Zhang, Brian G. Jones, Xin Wang, Guo-chun Zhao
Glacial erosion has long been recognized as a significant factor contributing to continental denudation during the Ediacaran Period, consequently leading to geochemical perturbations and biotic evolution in marine environments. However, the role of Ediacaran glaciation in the oceanic geochemical perturbations remains controversial due to ambiguous geochronological correlations and unresolved paleogeographic
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Complexities of regulating climate by promoting marine primary production with ocean iron fertilization Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Hai-Bo Jiang, David A. Hutchins, Hao-Ran Zhang, Yuan-Yuan Feng, Rui-Feng Zhang, Wei-Wei Sun, Wentao Ma, Yan Bai, Mark Wells, Ding He, Nianzhi Jiao, Yuntao Wang, Fei Chai
In the context of global climate change, ocean iron fertilization (OIF) has been suggested as a potential geoengineering strategy to enhance the growth of marine phytoplankton, subsequently promote the ocean carbon sink, and ultimately regulate atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and mitigate climate change. However, in past artificial OIF experiments, the elevation of both net primary production and
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Climatic influence on sediment distribution and transport in the Thar Desert (Sindh and Cholistan, Pakistan) Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Muhammad Usman, Peter D. Clift, Guido Pastore, Giovanni Vezzoli, Sergio Andò, Marta Barbarano, Pieter Vermeesch, Eduardo Garzanti
The Thar Desert is a major sediment depocenter located in southwestern Asia and bordering the Indus drainage system to its east. It is unclear where the sediment that built the desert is coming from, and when the desert experienced phases of construction. In particular, we seek to establish the role of the South Asian monsoon in the initial formation and subsequent expansion of the desert. Here we
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Comprehensive review of CO2 geological storage: Exploring principles, mechanisms, and prospects Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Ahmed Bashir, Muhammad Ali, Shirish Patil, Murtada Saleh Aljawad, Mohamed Mahmoud, Dhafer Al-Shehri, Hussein Hoteit, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal
The earth's temperature and climate are being affected by human activities that involve burning of fossil fuels and the clearing of forests, which release the greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide (CO2). These fossil fuels, include coal and oil, are made of carbon that was first taken from the atmosphere by photosynthesis millions of years ago. The combustion of these fossil fuels is making up >75%
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Influence of quartz types on rock fabrics and bulk physical properties in organic-rich mudstone: A review Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Junwen Peng, Zongquan Hu, Dongjun Feng
Quartz is one of the most volumetric abundant minerals and can occur in a wide variety of forms, such as detrital grains and authigenic cements, in organic-rich mudstones. Despite the wide variation of quartz types, uncertainties remain regarding the detailed mechanism and manner through which the quartz types determine rock fabrics and bulk physical properties (i.e., porosity, permeability, and rock
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Geochemistry of low-temperature (<350 °C) metamorphic and hydrothermal monazite Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Jian-Wei Zi, Janet R. Muhling, Birger Rasmussen
Monazite is a light rare earth element (LREE)-rich phosphate mineral that occurs as a trace phase in a wide variety of rock types, where it forms in response to different geological processes from igneous crystallisation, very low- to high-temperature metamorphism, and hydrothermal mineralisation. Monazite is also an ore mineral in some REE-deposits. Owing to its physical and isotopic robustness, high
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The role of LIPs in Phanerozoic mass extinctions: An Hg perspective Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 12.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Yuping Zhou, Yong Li, Wang Zheng, Shunlin Tang, Songqi Pan, Jiubin Chen, Xiao-Fang He, Jun Shen, Thomas J. Algeo
All of the Big Five mass extinctions (BFMEs) of the Phanerozoic are postulated to have been associated with eruptions of large igneous provinces (LIPs), although the role of LIP magmatism in some of these biocrises remains contentious. Mercury (Hg)-system proxies are now widely used to identify volcanic fluxes to stratigraphic successions. Here, we review Hg proxies and isotopic records for the BFMEs