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Novel insights about petroleum systems from source and reservoir rock characterization, Cretaceous Deposits, Babouri-Figuil Basin, Northern Cameroon Int. J. Coal Geol. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 W. Manga Owona Gaspard, J. Hatcherian Javin, C. Hackley Paul, Bessong Moise, L. Bapowa Carole, E. Pougue Henri, Meying Arsène
The Babouri-Figuil Basin (BFB) is a frontier basin for petroleum in Cameroon. It belongs to the series of Cretaceous rift basins of the West and Central Rift System (WCARS), the origin of which is related to the opening of the South Atlantic. Within the same rift system, commercial hydrocarbon accumulations have been discovered in Chad and Sudan and, more recently, in Nigeria (Gongola Basin). The study
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Study on mechanical properties and acoustic emission characteristics of mudstone-clay composites under uniaxial compression Eng. Geol. (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Huaidong Liu, Changyou Liu, Xin Yue, Jun Wang
In the western mining area of China, mudstone-clay composite roofs are commonly found in coal seam roadway. This kind of roadway surrounding rock has poor self-stabilization ability and is difficult to support. Therefore, through a series of uniaxial loading and acoustic emission (AE) experiment, this study explores the mechanical properties of mudstone-clay composites (MCCs) considering different
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Evaluating the impact of artificial maturation on the petrophysical and geochemical properties of unconventional shale formations by integrating dielectric and NMR measurements Int. J. Coal Geol. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Amjed Hassan, Mahmoud Elsayed, Ali Oshaish, Salah Al-Ofi, Ammar El-Husseiny, Israa S. Abu-Mahfouz, Mohamed Mahmoud, Mohamed Abouelresh, Hussein Attia
This paper addresses challenges in characterizing unconventional shale reservoirs. For the first time, the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and dielectric responses are integrated to characterize intact, saturated, and kerogen-rich subsurface shale samples at various maturation stages. The NMR and dielectric were measured separately using independent pieces of equipment, and all NMR and dielectric
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Multiple sulfur isotopes and stratigraphic constraints for the 34S enrichments in the late Ediacaran-Cambrian pyrite-sulfur record: A product of supercontinent assembly and restricted seas Gondwana Res. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Sergio Caetano-Filho, Pierre Sansjofre, Gustavo M. Paula-Santos, Magali Ader, Pierre Cartigny, Cristian Guacaneme, Marly Babinski, Matheus Kuchenbecker, Humberto L.S. Reis, Ricardo I.F. Trindade
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Detecting early winter open-water zones on Alaska rivers using dual-polarized C-band Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Melanie Engram, Franz J. Meyer, Dana R.N. Brown, Sarah Clement, Allen C. Bondurant, Katie V. Spellman, Laura E. Oxtoby, Christopher D. Arp
Northern high-latitude river ice provides critical natural infrastructure for winter travel, commerce, hunting, fishing, and recreation in rural areas with little or no road access. Open water zones (OWZs) in river ice are dangerous for such travel and are most common during early winter. Changes in the occurrence and duration of OWZs may also indicate more widespread shifts in ice regimes across Alaska
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Hydraulic properties of stressed granite fractures with heat-induced void alternation: An experimental and numerical study Eng. Geol. (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Fei Wang, Heping Xie, Cunbao Li, Minghui Li, Xiting Long, Ke Shan, Zhihe Wang
During the extraction of geothermal heat, the changes in temperature and pressure environments can alter the mechanical and hydraulic behavior of fractured rock masses, affecting the overall transmissivity and heat extraction efficiency accordingly. This study carried out a series of experiments, including X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM), uniaxial compression tests, and
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Prediction of liquefaction of gravelly soils based on a cost-sensitive Bayesian network combined with rough set weighting Gondwana Res. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Jilei Hu, Jing Wang
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Depositional conditions, wildfires, maturity, and hydrocarbon potential evaluation of Central Carpathian Paleogene Basin based on integrative approach from Orava Basin Int. J. Coal Geol. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Dorota Staneczek, Dariusz Więcław, Leszek Marynowski
Central Carpathian Paleogene Basin (CCPB, Central Western Carpathians) comprises mainly Oligocene clastic autochthonous age-equivalents of the widely known Menilite shale formation from the Outer Carpathians. However, little is known about the paleoenvironment and its subsequent changes during the basin's evolution. Furthermore, the available hydrocarbon potential data are based on anachronous methods
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Case study of a foundation failure induced by cyclic softening of clay during the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes Eng. Geol. (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 İ. Tonyalı, S.O. Akbas, T. Beyaz, K. Kayabalı, C. Gokceoglu
The Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes that occurred on 6 February 2023 resulted in extensive structural failures, including damages caused by soil liquefaction. This study focused on investigating the excessive settlements observed in buildings along Ataturk Boulevard in the Golbasi district, with a primary emphasis on the toppling failure of the Kayı Apartment. Field exploration, laboratory testing, and bearing
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The effect of cyclic loading parameters on the physical, mechanical, and microcracking behavior of granite Eng. Geol. (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Shahram Ghasemi, Mashalah Khamehchiyan, Abbas Taheri, Mohammad Reza Nikudel, Ahmad Zalooli, Erfan Sadeghi
Rocks endure diverse cyclic loadings from natural and anthropogenic sources, exhibiting varied magnitudes, frequencies, and amplitudes. Understanding microcracking behavior is essential for insights into rock damage and failure. This study investigate the impact of cyclic loading parameters—frequency, amplitude, waveform (sinusoidal, square, and linear), and loading cycles—on the physical, mechanical
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Refined landslide susceptibility mapping in township area using ensemble machine learning method under dataset replenishment strategy Gondwana Res. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Fancheng Zhao, Fasheng Miao, Yiping Wu, Chao Ke, Shunqi Gong, Yanming Ding
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Burial and thermal history modeling of basins in convergent oblique-slip mobile zones: A case study of the Ardmore Basin, Southern Oklahoma Int. J. Coal Geol. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Ian A. Cox, Jack C. Pashin
The burial and thermal history of sedimentary basins within oblique-slip mobile zones are unique and multifaceted, with irregular periods of subsidence that are intimately related to compressional and shear stress. Modern basin modeling techniques can constrain the timing of tectonic events and thermal history as well as determine rates and magnitudes of basin subsidence, which in turn, helps guide
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Enhanced observations from an optimized soil-canopy-photosynthesis and energy flux model revealed evapotranspiration-shading cooling dynamics of urban vegetation during extreme heat Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Zhaowu Yu, Jiaqi Chen, Jike Chen, Wenfeng Zhan, Chenghao Wang, Wenjuan Ma, Xihan Yao, Siqi Zhou, Kai Zhu, Ranhao Sun
Previousstudies on the cooling of urban vegetation mainly focused on its transpiration or shading effect separately, neglecting to explore the combined evapotranspiration-shading cooling. Further, accurate quantification of evapotranspiration-shading cooling remains challenging due to heterogeneity of urban landscapes, which limits understanding of its high-resolution spatiotemporal patterns. Here
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Immediate and lagged vegetation responses to dry spells revealed by continuous solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence observations in a tall-grass prairie Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Yao Zhang, Mengyang Cai, Xiangming Xiao, Xi Yang, Mirco Migliavacca, Jeffrey Basara, Sha Zhou, Yuanzhizi Deng
Monitoring plants' responses to water deficit using remote sensing still faces large uncertainty, mostly due to the inaccurate characterization of plants' physiological responses. Solar induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) contains information on plants' physiological processes which regulates the energy partitioning after solar radiation is absorbed by chlorophyll, providing new opportunities to
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Augmenting daily MODIS LST with AIRS surface temperature retrievals to estimate ground temperature and permafrost extent in High Mountain Asia Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Kyung Y. Kim, Ryan Haagenson, Prakrut Kansara, Harihar Rajaram, Venkataraman Lakshmi
Permafrost in High Mountain Asia (HMA) is becoming increasingly vulnerable to thaw due to climate change. However, the lack of either ground surface or borehole temperature data beyond the Tibetan Plateau prevents comprehensive assessments of its impact on the regional hydrologic cycle and local cascading hazards. Although past studies have generated estimates of permafrost extent in Central Asia,
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Inferring global terrestrial carbon fluxes from the synergy of Sentinel 3 & 5P with Gaussian process hybrid models Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Pablo Reyes-Muñoz, Dávid D.Kovács, Katja Berger, Luca Pipia, Santiago Belda, Juan Pablo Rivera-Caicedo, Jochem Verrelst
The ongoing monitoring of terrestrial carbon fluxes (TCF) goes hand in hand with progress in technical capacities, such as the next-generation Earth observation missions of the Copernicus initiative and advanced machine learning algorithms. Proceeding along this line, we present a physically-based data-driven workflow for quantifying gross primary productivity (GPP) and net primary productivity (NPP)
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National-scale assessment of railways exposure to rapid flow-like landslides Eng. Geol. (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Ivan Marchesini, Omar Althuwaynee, Michele Santangelo, Massimiliano Alvioli, Mauro Cardinali, Martin Mergili, Paola Reichenbach, Silvia Peruccacci, Vinicio Balducci, Ivan Agostino, Rosaria Esposito, Mauro Rossi
In landslide-prone regions, railway networks are vulnerable to rapid flow-like landslides, which can cause extensive damage, even at significant distances from the landslide's point of origin. The prioritization of protective measures on a national scale depends on the accurate assessment of each railway segment's exposure to landslides.
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Paleovegetation and environment during deposition of the Late Oligocene sub-bituminous coal in the Bobov Dol Basin (SW Bulgaria) as deduced from petrographic and geochemical characteristics Int. J. Coal Geol. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Alexander Zdravkov, Achim Bechtel, Doris Groβ, Ivan Kojić, Ksenija Stojanović, Dragana Životić
Coal and carbonaceous shale samples were taken from the Late Oligocene Bobov Dol Basin, SW Bulgaria. Seams I, I, II, III, IV and V from the coal-bearing Bobov Dol Fm. were sampled to provide insights into the peat forming vegetation and depositional environment based on detailed organic petrological and geochemical study.
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Analyzing surface deformation throughout China's territory using multi-temporal InSAR processing of Sentinel-1 radar data Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Guo Zhang, Zixing Xu, Zhenwei Chen, Shunyao Wang, Yutao Liu, Xuhui Gong
The damage caused by surface deformation is substantial and far-reaching. Although multi-temporal interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technology is commonly used to monitor surface deformation, it remains challenging to rapidly extract surface deformation on a national scale, especially in China, which has an area of approximately 9.6 million km. We designed a set of robust parallel computing
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Comment on “Biostratinomy of the enigmatic tubular organism Aulozoon soliorum, the Rawnsley Quartzite, South Australia” by Surprenant et al. (2023) Gondwana Res. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Gregory J. Retallack
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Reply to “Comment on “Biostratinomy of the enigmatic tubular organism Aulozoon soliorum, the Rawnsley Quartzite, South Australia” by Surprenant et al. (2023)” Gondwana Res. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Rachel L. Surprenant, James G. Gehling, Emmy B. Hughes, Mary L. Droser
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Nighttime light in China's coastal zone: The type classification approach using SDGSAT-1 Glimmer Imager Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Mingming Jia, Haihang Zeng, Zuoqi Chen, Zongming Wang, Chunying Ren, Dehua Mao, Chuanpeng Zhao, Rong Zhang, Yeqiao Wang
Nighttime Light (NTL) is highly concentrated in China's coastal zone, leading to negative health impacts on both humans and wildlife. Particularly, in recent years, the widespread adoption of broad-spectrum Light-Emitting Diode (LED) light, a low-carbon technology providing substantial increases in luminosity, has led to certain ecological consequences. Thus, information regarding spatial distribution
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Uncovering the rapid expansion of photovoltaic power plants in China from 2010 to 2022 using satellite data and deep learning Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Yuehong Chen, Jiayue Zhou, Yong Ge, Jinwei Dong
China's rapid deployment of solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants has positioned it as the global leader in cumulative installed capacity. The expansion patterns of PV power plants in China play a crucial role in promoting PV diffusion in markets, shaping policies, and analyzing environmental and social impacts. However, the current geospatial datasets of PV power plants available for China cannot fully
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Geochemical fingerprinting of continental crust trapped in Cadomian volcanic arcs along northern Gondwana Gondwana Res. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Václav Santolík, Lukáš Ackerman, Václav Kachlík, Jiří Žák, Jiří Sláma, Ladislav Strnad, Jakub Trubač
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Evolution and fertility of magmas associated with iron oxide-apatite (IOA) deposits, Coastal Cordillera, Northern Chile: A zircon petrochronology perspective Gondwana Res. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Andrés Ojeda, Fernando Barra, Martin Reich, Rurik Romero, María José Tapia
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Tectonic evolution of Macquarie Island: Oceanic crust, metamorphism, new-type of core complex and transpression Gondwana Res. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Ben D. Goscombe, David A. Foster, Ben Wade, Joshua J. Schwartz, Charles R. Jeffcoat
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Mapping vegetation height and identifying the northern forest limit across Canada using ICESat-2, Landsat time series and topographic data Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 H. Travers-Smith, N.C. Coops, C. Mulverhill, M.A. Wulder, D. Ignace, T.C. Lantz
The northern forest-tundra ecotone is one of the fastest warming regions of the globe. Models of vegetation change generally predict a northward advance of boreal forests and corresponding retreat of the tundra. Previous satellite remote sensing analyses in this region have focused on mapping vegetation greenness and tree cover derived from optical multi-spectral sensors. Changes in vegetation structure
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Feature adaptation for landslide susceptibility assessment in “no sample” areas Gondwana Res. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Yan Su, Yaoxin Chen, Xiaohe Lai, Shaoxiang Huang, Chuan Lin, Xiudong Xie
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Depositional environmental controls on mechanical stratigraphy of Barakar Shales in Rajmahal Basin, India Int. J. Coal Geol. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Chinmay Sethi, Bodhisatwa Hazra, Mehdi Ostadhassan, Hem Bahadur Motra, Arpan Dutta, J.K. Pandey, Santosh Kumar
Understanding mechanical behaviour of shale is essential for efficient shale gas extraction, which can vary in different depositional settings. The impact of sedimentary environment on shale characteristics, such as mineralogical composition, total organic carbon content (TOC), and petrophysical properties, has been extensively researched. However, its influence on shale mechanical properties, especially
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Changes in glacier surface temperature across the Third Pole from 2000 to 2021 Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Shaoting Ren, Tandong Yao, Wei Yang, Evan S. Miles, Huabiao Zhao, Meilin Zhu, Shenghai Li
Glacier surface temperature is not only an important indicator of climate change, but is also directly related to glacier physical processes and mass balance. Glaciers over the Third Pole have shown heterogeneous but accelerated mass loss over the past two decades. However, few studies have focused on changes of glacier surface temperature in this region. In this study, we investigate this change from
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Evaluation of light atmospheric plume inversion methods using synthetic XCO2 satellite images to compute Paris CO2 emissions Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Alexandre Danjou, Grégoire Broquet, Jinghui Lian, François-Marie Bréon, Thomas Lauvaux
There is a growing interest in estimating urban CO emission from space-borne imagery of XCO. Here, we evaluate computationally-light methods (mass-balance approaches and inversions of Gaussian plume models) for estimating urban emissions with Paris, France, as an example. This evaluation is based on the application of those methods to synthetic high-resolution images of the XCO field in the Paris area
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Ocean-wave suppression for synthetic aperture radar images by depth counteraction method Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Xiaopeng Chao, Qingsong Wang, Xiaoqing Wang, Jian Chen, Yuting Zhu
Surface waves are the most widely distributed texture in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images acquired over the oceans, and long ocean waves are generally imaged in SAR images with a spatial resolution of 5 m as wave-looking structures. If these ocean-wave textures cause interference when detecting or extracting small-scale ocean features on the ocean surface, it is necessary to suppress them. However
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Soil moisture profile estimation by combining P-band SAR polarimetry with hydrological and multi-layer scattering models Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Anke Fluhrer, Thomas Jagdhuber, Carsten Montzka, Maike Schumacher, Hamed Alemohammad, Alireza Tabatabaeenejad, Harald Kunstmann, Dara Entekhabi
An approach for estimating vertically continuous soil moisture profiles under varying vegetation covers by combining remote sensing with soil (hydrological) modeling is proposed. The approach uses decomposed soil scattering components, after the removal of the vegetation scattering components from fully polarimetric P-band SAR observations. By comparing these with hydrological simulations, soil moisture
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Quality and composition of Lower Cretaceous carbonate source rocks and seepage oils in the Belize Basin, southern Belize, Central America Int. J. Coal Geol. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 B. Holland, P. Alsen, H.P. Nytoft, A. Rudra, H. Sanei, H.I. Petersen
The Belize Basin in southern Belize, Central America, contains numerous seepage oils derived from marly and carbonate source rocks, but since no definitive source rocks have been identified the source remains uncertain. This study examines by pyrolysis and organic petrography the source rock quality and maturity of 66 samples collected from three newly exposed carbonate sections in the southeastern
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Constraints of boron and oxygen stable isotopes on dehydration fluids, sediment-derived melts, and crustal assimilation of the Toba volcanic system (Indonesia) Geology (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Ping-Ping Liu, Dian-Bing Wang, Mei-Fu Zhou, Xian-Hua Li, Qiu-Li Li, Glenn A. Gaetani, Brian Monteleone, Vadim Kamenetsky
Arc magmas are produced from the mantle wedge, with possible addition of fluids and melts derived from serpentinites and sediments in the subducting slab. Identification of various sources and their relevant contributions to such magmas is challenging; in particular, at continental arcs where crustal assimilation may overprint initial geochemical signatures. This study presents oxygen isotopic compositions
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An Eoarchean continental nucleus for the Fennoscandian Shield and a link to the North Atlantic craton Geology (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Andreas Petersson, Tod Waight, Anthony I.S. Kemp, Martin. J. Whitehouse, John W. Valley
Enabling the build-up of continental crust is a vital step in the stabilization of cratonic lithosphere. However, these initial crustal nuclei are commonly either destroyed by recycling or buried by younger rocks. In the Fennoscandian Shield, the oldest rocks are ca. 3.5 Ga, but ca. 3.7 Ga inherited and detrital zircons suggest the presence of an older, unexposed crustal substrate. We present U-Pb
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Discovery of Permian–Triassic eclogite in northern Tibet establishes coeval subduction erosion along an ~3000-km-long arc: COMMENT Geology (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Shuguang Song, Hafiz U. Rehman
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Boninitic melt percolation makes depleted mantle wedges rich in silica: COMMENT Geology (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Antoine Bénard, Dmitri A. Ionov, Oliver Nebel, Richard J. Arculus
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Boninitic melt percolation makes depleted mantle wedges rich in silica: REPLY Geology (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Ming Chen, Jianping Zheng, Hong-Kun Dai, Qing Xiong, Min Sun, Mikhail M. Buslov, Xiang Zhou, Jingao Liu
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Discovery of Permian–Triassic eclogite in northern Tibet establishes coeval subduction erosion along an ~3000-km-long arc: REPLY Geology (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Chen Wu, Andrew V. Zuza, Drew A. Levy, Jie Li, Lin Ding
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Spatiotemporal heterogeneity in global urban surface warming Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Shuang Ge, Wenfeng Zhan, Shasha Wang, Huilin Du, Zihan Liu, Chenguang Wang, Chunli Wang, Sida Jiang, Pan Dong
The rapid urban warming in recent decades has posed significant risks to the health and well-being of urban residents. Previous studies have predominantly examined urban surface warming from an annual-mean and whole-city perspective. Spatiotemporal heterogeneity in surface warming trends within cities and throughout different periods within a yearly cycle remains largely unclear across global cities
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Sea ice detection using concurrent multispectral and synthetic aperture radar imagery Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Martin S.J. Rogers, Maria Fox, Andrew Fleming, Louisa van Zeeland, Jeremy Wilkinson, J. Scott Hosking
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery is the primary data type used for sea ice mapping due to its spatiotemporal coverage and the ability to detect sea ice independent of cloud and lighting conditions. Automatic sea ice detection using SAR imagery remains problematic due to the presence of ambiguous signal and noise within the image. Conversely, ice and water are easily distinguishable using multispectral
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A river runs through it: Robust automated mapping of riparian woodlands and land surface phenology across dryland regions Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Conor A. McMahon, Dar A. Roberts, John C. Stella, Anna T. Trugman, Michael B. Singer, Kelly K. Caylor
Riparian woodlands in drylands are critically important to human society, global biodiversity, and regional water and energy budgets. These sensitive ecosystems have experienced substantial degradation over the last several decades from climatic change and direct human activity. Nevertheless, quantifying long-term change in dryland riparian woodlands remains a major challenge, and much uncertainty
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Automated retrieval of internal wave phase speed and direction from pairs of SAR images with different look directions Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Samantha Furtney, Roland Romeiser, Hans C. Graber
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is the premier instrument in satellite remote sensing for the detection of oceanic internal waves due to its sensitivity to changes in small-scale ocean surface roughness and relatively large spatial coverage. The satellite constellation COSMO-SkyMed offers the unique capability to acquire pairs of images of the same scene within 24 min, which is ideal for making internal
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Evidence of a bias-variance trade off when correcting for bias in Sentinel 2 forest LAI retrievals using radiative transfer models Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Richard Fernandes, Najib Djamai, Kate Harvey, Gang Hong, Camryn MacDougall, Hemit Shah, Lixin Sun
Forest canopies exhibit spatial heterogeneity that impacts the relationship between essential climate variables such as leaf area index (LAI) or the fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (fAPAR) and bi-directional surface reflectance, and subsequently the estimation of these variables from satellite measurements. The Simplified Level 2 Prototype Processor (SL2P) allows global LAI
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Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence sheds light on global evapotranspiration Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Quan Zhang, Xuanqi Liu, Kai Zhou, Yang Zhou, Pierre Gentine, Ming Pan, Gabriel G. Katul
The significance of large-scale evapotranspiration (ET) to climate science, water resources management, flood routing, irreversible desertification, and crop yield is not in dispute. Current large-scale ET models combine empirical formulations with a suite of remotely sensed data products that include meteorological variables, vegetation indices and/or soil moisture. In recent years, solar-induced
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Optimization of InSAR based coseismic slip modeling for moderate earthquakes accounting for fore–aftershock sequence Remote Sens. Environ. (IF 13.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Lejun Lu, Yu Zhou
Determination of coseismic slip distribution for moderate (moment magnitude, 6.5) earthquakes is challenging as the commonly-used interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technique is unable to separate mainshock and fore–aftershocks due to its limited temporal resolution. In this study, we propose a new method of optimizing coseismic slip modeling by removing fore–aftershock contributions
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Exploring debris flow deposit morphology in river valleys: Insights from physical modeling experiments Eng. Geol. (IF 7.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Cong-Jiang Li, Yu-Xiang Hu, Gang Fan, Qing-Yang Zhu, Da-Rui Liu, Jia-Wen Zhou
A comprehensive understanding of the deposit morphodynamics of debris flows in river valleys is crucial for disaster prevention and mitigation in mountainous areas. However, debris flows in river valleys are complex and variable, and the influence of the composition and terrain on deposit mechanisms and morphology remains unclear. In this study, a series of laboratory experiments were conducted to
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Energy transition, fossil fuels, and green innovations: Paving the way to achieving sustainable development goals in the United States Gondwana Res. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Kashif Raza Abbasi, Qingyu Zhang, Ilhan Ozturk, Rafael Alvarado, Majd Musa
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Landslide spatial prediction using cluster analysis Gondwana Res. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Zheng Zhao, Hengxing Lan, Langping Li, Alexander Strom
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Investigating the nexus between energy, socio-economic factors and environmental pollution: A geo-spatial multi regression approach Gondwana Res. (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Uzair Aslam Bhatti, Hao Tang, Asad Khan, Yazeed Yasin Ghadi, Mughair Aslam Bhatti, Khalid Ali Khan
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Elastic stresses can form metamorphic fabrics Geology (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 James Gilgannon, Damien Freitas, Roberto Emanuele Rizzo, John Wheeler, Ian B. Butler, Sohan Seth, Federica Marone, Christian M. Schlepütz, Gina McGill, Ian Watt, Oliver Plümper, Lisa Eberhard, Hamed Amiri, Alireza Chogani, Florian Fusseis
Detailing the relationship between stress and reactions in metamorphic rocks has been controversial, and much of the debate has centered on theory. Here, we add to this discussion and make a major advance by showing in time-resolved synchrotron microtomography experiments that a reacting and deforming sample experiencing an elastic differential stress produces a fabric orthogonal to the largest principal
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Toroidal flow around the Tonga slab moved the Samoan plume during the Pliocene Geology (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Kevin Konrad, Matthew Jackson, Bernhard Steinberger, Anthony Koppers, Andrea Balbas, Valerie Finlayson, Jasper Konter, Allison Price
Age-progressive seamount tracks generated by lithospheric motion over a stationary mantle plume have long been used to reconstruct absolute plate motion (APM) models. However, the basis of these models requires the plumes to move significantly slower than the overriding lithosphere. When a plume interacts with a convergent or divergent plate boundary, it is often deflected within the strong local mantle
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Mechanisms of nitrogen isotope fractionation at an ancient black smoker in the 2.7 Ga Abitibi greenstone belt, Canada Geology (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 A.N. Martin, E.E. Stüeken, J.A.-S. Michaud, C. Münker, S. Weyer, E.H.P. van Hees, M.M. Gehringer
The biological nitrogen (N) cycle on early Earth is enigmatic because of limited data from Archean (meta-)sediments and the potential alteration of primary biotic signatures. Here we further investigate unusual 15N enrichments reported in 2.7 Ga meta-sediments from the Abitibi greenstone belt, Canada, purportedly related to a 15N-enriched Archean atmosphere. Given that sediments from this region are
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Methane-carbon budget of a ferruginous meromictic lake and implications for marine methane dynamics on early Earth Geology (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Sajjad A. Akam, Pei-Chuan Chuang, Sergei Katsev, Chad Wittkop, Michelle Chamberlain, Andrew W. Dale, Klaus Wallmann, Adam J. Heathcote, Elizabeth D. Swanner
The greenhouse gas methane (CH4) contributed to a warm climate that maintained liquid water and sustained Earth’s habitability in the Precambrian despite the faint young sun. The viability of methanogenesis (ME) in ferruginous environments, however, is debated, as iron reduction can potentially outcompete ME as a pathway of organic carbon remineralization (OCR). Here, we document that ME is a dominant
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High-precision U-Pb geochronology links magmatism in the Southwestern Laurentia large igneous province and Midcontinent Rift Geology (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 M.T. Mohr, M.D. Schmitz, N.L. Swanson-Hysell, K.E. Karlstrom, F.A. Macdonald, M.E. Holland, Y. Zhang, N.S. Anderson
The Southwestern Laurentia large igneous province (SWLLIP) comprises voluminous, widespread ca 1.1 Ga magmatism in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The timing and tempo of SWLLIP magmatism and its relationship to other late Mesoproterozoic igneous provinces have been unclear due to difficulties in dating mafic rocks at high precision. New precise U-Pb zircon dates for comagmatic
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Crucial role of water-present melting in metagranite: Implications for the instigation of crustal-scale shear zones Geology (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Jonas Vanardois, Pierre Trap, Didier Marquer
Where, when, and why large-scale shear zones nucleate and propagate into the continental lithosphere are critical issues that challenge the research in tectonics. The East Variscan shear zone is one of the crustal-scale strike-slip faults that shaped the Variscan orogenic crust during late Carboniferous time. Field-based structural analysis and petrological observations demonstrate that suprasolidus
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A Bayesian astrochronology for the Cambrian first occurrence of trilobites in West Gondwana (Morocco) Geology (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Matthias Sinnesael, Andrew R. Millard, Martin R. Smith
The first occurrence of trilobites at ca. 520 Ma is an iconic feature of the Cambrian Explosion. Developing a robust evolutionary view on early Cambrian life is generally hindered by large uncertainties in the ages of fossil finds and their global stratigraphic correlation. We developed an astrochronological interpretation for the Tiout section in Morocco that features some of the oldest trilobite
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From dome to duplex: Convergent gravitational collapse explains coeval intracratonic doming and nappe tectonics, central Australia Geology (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Youseph Ibrahim, Patrice F. Rey, Donna L. Whitney, Christian Teyssier, Françoise Roger, Valérie Bosse, Bénédicte Cenki
In central Australia, an apparently coeval gneiss dome (Entia Dome) developed adjacent to a thrust belt (Arltunga Nappe Complex) within an intracratonic setting. Here we employ a combination of fieldwork, geochronology, and numerical modeling to investigate the structure and tectonic evolution of these features. We present a structural model linking an extensional domain comprising the Entia Dome,
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In situ U-Pb dating of Jurassic dinosaur bones from Sichuan Basin, South China Geology (IF 5.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Liang Qi, Mingcai Hou, Jacob A. Mulder, Peter A. Cawood, Yao Guo, Shitou Wu, Liangxuan Jiao, Xiaolin Zhang, Hui Ouyang
Direct dating of vertebrate fossils is difficult due to complex postburial diagenetic processes and the often low and heterogeneous concentration of radioisotopes (e.g., U) in fossilized bone material. Here, we demonstrate a novel approach to dating vertebrate fossils via laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry U-Pb dating of early diagenetic calcite cements precipitated within