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Microbe-assisted phytoremediation of toxic elements in soils: Present knowledge and future prospects Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Guo Yu, Habib Ullah, Balal Yousaf, Krzysztof Pikoń, Vasileios Antoniadis, Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad, Nanthi Bolan, Jörg Rinklebe, Rao Zepeng, Sabry M. Shaheen, Liheng Liu
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Organic blue carbon sequestration in vegetated coastal wetlands: Processes and influencing factors Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Qian Hao, Zhaoliang Song, Xiaodong Zhang, Ding He, Laodong Guo, Lukas van Zwieten, Changxun Yu, Yidong Wang, Weiqi Wang, Yunying Fang, Yin Fang, Cong-Qiang Liu, Hailong Wang
Coastal wetlands play a vital role in carbon (C) sequestration, named ‘blue carbon’. The review aims to disentangle the processes and influencing factors, including elevated atmospheric CO, global climate warming, sea level rise and anthropogenic activities. Firstly, we provided an overview of C processes, including input, output, and deposition, in coastal wetlands. We then summarized the impacts
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Bringing ancient loess critical zones into a new era of sustainable development goals Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Xiaoxu Jia, Ping Zhu, Xiaorong Wei, Yuanjun Zhu, Mingbin Huang, Wei Hu, Yunqiang Wang, Tuvia Turkeltaub, Andrew Binley, Robert Horton, Ming'an Shao
Critical Zone Observatories (CZOs) have been established initially in natural environments to monitor CZ processes. A new generation of CZOs has been extended to human-modified landscapes to address the impacts of climate change and human-caused actions such as erosion, droughts, floods, and water resource pollution. This review focuses on numerous plot, field, and regional scale studies conducted
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Tracing oceanic plateau relics in the basement of mainland China: A synthesis of aeromagnetic and seismic refraction data Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Kai-Jun Zhang, Chen Ji, Yuan-Ze Zhou, Yong-Jun Zhang
Mainland China has the most complex continental tectonics on Earth, making it one of the ideal laboratories for probing the tectonics and evolution of the Earth. However, no consensus has been reached regarding the basement tectonic architectures and evolution of mainland China. This paper focuses on the interpretation of aeromagnetic and seismic refraction data, closely incorporating available surface
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Volcanism beyond Earth: Influence on Earth-centered causality models of volcano-tectonic associations Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Edgardo Cañón-Tapia
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Geo-hazards in the North Arabian Sea with special emphasis on Makran Subduction Zone Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Syed Ahsan Hussain Gardezi, Xiwu Luan, Zhen Sun, Rashid Haider, Yunying Zhang, Qiang Qiu, Thanuja D. Raveendrasinghe
The intricate convergence of tectonic plates and the interplay between landmasses and oceans in subduction zones give rise to marine geo-hazards, encompassing catastrophic events in marine environments, posing significant risks to ecosystems, coastal communities and infrastructure. The Makran Subduction Zone (MSZ), with its remarkable history of devastating earthquakes and tsunamis, is a subject of
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Review of non-isothermal processes in CCUS from a geomechanical perspective Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Shuaiyi Lu, Ziwang Yu, Yanjun Zhang, Tianfu Xu
Greenhouse gas emissions have led to severe global climate change, and countries around the world are taking measures to mitigate the greenhouse effect caused by carbon emissions. Carbon dioxide capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) is emerging as a large-scale greenhouse gas emission reduction technology and can potentially become an important means to mitigate the greenhouse effect in the future
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The upper mantle beneath Asia from seismic tomography, with inferences for the mechanisms of tectonics, seismicity, and magmatism Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Hui Dou, Yihe Xu, Sergei Lebedev, Bruna Chagas de Melo, Robert D. van der Hilst, Baoshan Wang, Weitao Wang
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Tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, Arctic Russia: Challenges, implications, and potential Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Gustavo Martins
The Novaya Zemlya archipelago is a structural province located between the hydrocarbon-rich Barents and Kara Sea shelves. The tectonostratigraphic and geodynamic evolution of the archipelago is very complex but critical to better understand the geologic development of the Norwegian and western Russian Arctic, as well as for refining tectonic models in these regions. Much of this complexity is related
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Contrasting hydrocarbon reservoirs in the North China Craton in relation to inhomogeneous craton destruction Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-15 Caineng Zou, Yong Li, Xiao-Fang He, M. Santosh, Kun Yu, Ross N. Mitchell
The North China Craton (NCC) provides a world-class example for how the destruction of a cratonic root can significantly influence metal and energy resources. The Bohai Bay Basin and Ordos Basin are two super basins that developed in the eastern and western NCC, respectively. Both basins witnessed the decratonization of NCC. However, their dominant energy-producing layers are vastly different, with
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The Meso-Tethys Ocean: The nature, extension and spatial-temporal evolution Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-15 Jian-Jun Fan, Bo-Chuan Zhang, Jian-Bo Zhou, Yaoling Niu, Si-Lin Sun, Jun-Pu Lv, Yang Wang, Yu-Jie Hao
The nature, extension, and evolution of the Meso-Tethys still remain unclear to researchers, and this has thereby hindered in-depth study of the Tethys tectonic domain. In this paper, we review the geology of the Tethys tectonic domain and suggest that the Meso-Tethys is a massive tectonic zone divided into three segments. The central segment includes the Bangong-Nujiang Suture Zone on the Tibetan
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Modelling of gully widening, a review. Implications for research on gully evolution and restoration Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Antonio Hayas, José Alfonso Gómez
Gully erosion is recognised as a major soil degradation process, with gully growth being a complex phenomenon that is controlled by different processes: incision, gully headcut retreat and gully widening, coupling at different spatial and temporal scales. While gully modelling research has paid considerable attention to headcut retreat processes and incision, our review of the available literature
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From peridotite to listvenite – perspectives on the processes, mechanisms and settings of ultramafic mineral carbonation to quartz-magnesite rocks Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Manuel D. Menzel, Melanie J. Sieber, Marguerite Godard
Listvenites form by metasomatic transformation of variably serpentinized peridotites to carbonate-quartz rocks due to extensive reaction with CO-bearing aqueous fluids. This transformation sequesters large amounts of carbon since listvenites commonly contain >30 wt% CO. Although volumetrically a rare rock type, they occur in many ophiolites throughout much of the geological record, with preserved examples
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Termination of Sturtian glaciation with protracted, multiple volcanic eruptions Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Lingang Xu, Andrey Bekker, Kevin Chamberlain, Bernd Lehmann, Shihong Zhang, Jingwen Mao, Hao Yan, Wen Pan
The Sturtian glaciation of the Cryogenian represents a unique, global, protracted icehouse climatic event in Earth's history. The Snowball Earth hypothesis predicts that the termination of the Sturtian glaciation was globally synchronous and rapid. Long-term, volcanic degassing has been suggested to trigger the end of the Sturtian glaciation, but whether intense volcanism bracketing the termination
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The Archean crust-mantle interaction in the Jiaoliao microblock, North China Craton: Constraints on the Neoarchean subduction regime Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Haitian Zhang, Yilong Li, Jianping Zheng, Limin Zhao, Ke Wang, Fraukje M. Brouwer
Whether plate subduction or mantle plume activity dominated the formation of the Archean crust is hotly debated. Neoarchean crust-mantle interaction and crustal evolution are instructive for researching continental crustal growth and reworking, and cratonic evolution processes. The Jiaoliao microblock contains abundant Archean rocks and is the largest and oldest microblock in the eastern part of the
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Aulacogens of the Neoproterozoic to Ordovician Laurentian Iapetan Margin Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 D.G. Lowe
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Steep oceanic DIC δ13C depth gradient during the Hirnantian Glaciation Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Shengchao Yang, Junxuan Fan, Thomas J. Algeo, Graham A. Shields, Ying Zhou, Chao Li, Jitao Chen, Weiqiang Li, Na Li, Jian Cao, Linna Zhang, Zongyuan Sun, Shuzhong Shen
The Hirnantian carbon isotopic excursion (HICE) was characterized by a positive δC excursion (up to ∼ + 7‰) of oceanic dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC). However its mechanism remains controversial, impeding our understanding of this global event and its environmental significance. Here, we conducted a comprehensive analysis of global carbon-isotope records, based on 65 paleogeographically-widely distributed
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Revisiting Neoproterozoic tectono-magmatic evolution of the northern margin of the Yangtze Block, South China Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-08 Peng Wu, Yuan-Bao Wu, Shao-Bing Zhang, Yong-Fei Zheng, Long Li, Ying Gao, Hao Song, Zhengqi Xu, Zeming Shi
The Neoproterozoic tectonics of the Yangtze Block is crucial for understanding its evolution history over the assembly and disintegration of the supercontinent Rodinia. Herein, we integrate all the published geochemical and geological data for igneous rocks of 1.0–0.6 Ga from the northern margin of the Yangtze Block to investigate the secular tectonic evolution of the Yangtze Block. The results show
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Rock friction experiments and modeling under hydrothermal conditions Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Cheng Mei, Micaela Mercuri, John W. Rudnicki
Frictional instabilities along tectonic faults produce a full spectrum of slip behaviors including aseismic creep, slow earthquakes, and regular earthquakes. Thermally controlled rock friction provides new insights into the frictional properties of rock faults and associated seismic behaviors with increasing crustal depth. We first review the standard rate and state friction laws. Then we focus on
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A source-to-sink perspective of an anthropogenic marker: A first assessment of microplastics concentration, pathways, and accumulation across the environment Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Sébastien Rohais, John J. Armitage, Maria-Fernanda Romero-Sarmiento, Jean-Lou Pierson, Vanessa Teles, Daniela Bauer, Cyril Cassar, David Sebag, Marie-Hélène Klopffer, Maxime Pelerin
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Paleogeography of the Aves Ridge and its potential role as a bio-colonization pathway linking South America and the Greater Antilles in the mid-Cenozoic Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Jason R. Ali, S. Blair Hedges
The Aves Ridge in the eastern Caribbean Sea is thought by many to have operated as a short-lived, mid-Cenozoic, dry-land path that was used by the ancestors of a number of South America-derived faunal groups to colonize the Greater Antilles. The idea is, however, contentious and has triggered much debate. Here, we review the various models, notably , focusing on mechanisms to account for the emergence
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The quintessential s-shape in sedimentology: A review on the formation and controls of clinoform shape Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 I. Anell
Clinoforms are ubiquitous depositional surfaces in sedimentary systems. The quintessential shape, with a flat or gentle topset, sloping foreset, and gentle to flat bottomset, is recognizable in the smallest ripple to the kilometer high edges of the continents. Essentially the shape is one which develops with differential sedimentation away from a sedimentary source. Systematic decay of transport competence
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Seasonal dynamics of Arctic soils: Capturing year-round processes in measurements and soil biogeochemical models Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-19 Zhou Lyu, Pacifica Sommers, Steven K. Schmidt, Marta Magnani, Mihai Cimpoiasu, Oliver Kuras, Qianlai Zhuang, Youmi Oh, Maria De La Fuente, Margaret Cramm, James A. Bradley
The Arctic is undergoing rapid changes in climate, altering the status and functioning of high-latitude soils and permafrost. The vast majority of studies on Arctic soils and permafrost are conducted during the summer period due to ease of accessibility, sampling, instrument operation, and making measurements, in comparison to during winter and transition seasons. However, there is increasing evidence
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Post glacial sediment partitioning on a tectonically controlled, narrow shelf (Calabro-Tyrrhenian margin, Italy): Issues in defining S2S budget Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-18 Daniele Casalbore, Eleonora Martorelli, Domenico Ridente, Romano Clementucci, Francesco Latino Chiocci
The re-analysis of high-resolution seismic profiles collected along the narrow (2–9 km) shelf facing ∼90 km of the Calabro-Tyrrhenian coastline has enabled the reconstruction of its sequence-stratigraphic architecture, along with the quantification of sediment volumes accommodated during the last post-glacial sea level rise and highstand. The shelf volumes are compared with the gross volumes supplied
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Assessing the impact of crustal architecture and along-strike rifting propagation on salt deposition and tectonics: Insights from the Moroccan Atlantic margin Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-18 Rodolfo M. Uranga, Gianreto Manatschal, Mark G. Rowan, Josep A. Muñoz, Oriol Ferrer, Leonardo M. Pichel, Gonzalo Zamora
The salt-bearing conjugate rifted margins of Morocco and Nova Scotia contain one of the oldest stratigraphic records documenting the opening history of the Central Atlantic Ocean, starting in Late Triassic times. Although there is certain consensus on the Middle Jurassic to Present evolution of this ocean basin, the Early Jurassic rift to drift transition stage is still under discussion. Through the
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Shale oil migration across multiple scales: A review of characterization methods and different patterns Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-18 Zhiye Gao, Lixun Bai, Qinhong Hu, Zhi Yang, Zhenxue Jiang, Zhiwei Wang, Haotian Xin, Lulu Zhang, Adou Yang, Lidan Jia, Zhaochen Liu, Guoming Ma
Oil migration in shale formations across multiple scales from nanometers to meters, a topic without receiving sufficient attention, is of great significance to the accumulation and production of shale oil. Compared with oil migration in conventional reservoirs usually with a long distance, shale oil migration is much shorter, which challenges the applicability of conventional characterization methods
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Interactions between vegetation and river morphodynamics. Part I: Research clarifications and challenges Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Dov Corenblit, Hervé Piégay, Florent Arrignon, Eduardo González-Sargas, Anne Bonis, Neil S. Davies, Dav M. Ebengo, Virginia Garófano-Gómez, Angela M. Gurnell, Annie L. Henry, Borbála Hortobágyi, Francisco Martínez-Capel, Johannes Steiger, Eric Tabacchi, Stephen Tooth, Franck Vautier, Romain Walcker
Rivers have an intricate relationship with the vegetation that colonizes them. Riparian plants, capable of thriving within river corridors, both respond to and influence geomorphology. Yet interactions between river morphodynamics and vegetation tend to be context specific, making it challenging to generalize findings between locations. The current comprehension of vegetation interaction with physical
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Cenozoic thermal-tectonic evolution of Sundaland: Constraints from low-temperature thermochronology Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Yan Gao, Yang Wang, Chris K. Morley, Yuyang Wang, Xin Qian, Yuejun Wang
Subduction of the Pacific and Indian-Australian Plates, regional transpression, lateral block extrusion, and structural inversion have all interacted to affect the crustal deformation and enhance local and regional exhumation across Sundaland during the Cenozoic. The Cenozoic tectonics of Sundaland has been studied using various thermochronometric techniques over the past three decades. In this study
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The Silurian–Devonian Boundary of China: Review and perspectives Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Jiayi Yin, Ladislav Slavík, Zhihong Wang, Zhen Shen, Xinsong Zhang, Yilong Liu, Juan Ma, Yiming Gong, Ruiwen Zong
The Silurian–Devonian Boundary (SDB) was the first Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) to be established. Extensive and well-preserved SDB strata are found in Western Europe and North America. Territory of China is composed of multiple plates and terranes, which were located in the equatorial and low-latitude regions of the northern hemisphere during the late Silurian to the Early Devonian.
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Monitoring of soil heavy metals based on hyperspectral remote sensing: A review Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Yulong Wang, Bin Zou, Liyuan Chai, Zhang Lin, Huihui Feng, Yuqi Tang, Rongcai Tian, Yulong Tu, Bo Zhang, Haijing Zou
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Knowledge gaps and research needs for modeling CO2 mineralization in the basalt-CO2-water system: A review of laboratory experiments Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Peng Lu, John Apps, Guanru Zhang, Alexander Gysi, Chen Zhu
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) in basalt is being actively investigated as a scalable climate change mitigation option. Accurate geochemical modeling prediction of the extent and rate of CO mineralization is a critical component in assessing the local and global feasibility and efficacy of this strategy. In this study, we review basalt-CO-water interaction experimental studies conducted during the
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Key processes and timescales of tropical earth formation Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Tobias Sprafke, Annette Kadereit, Felix Lauer, Fernanda Costa G. Rodrigues, André Oliveira Sawakuchi, Christine Thiel, John van Thuyne, Leonor Rodrigues, Taís Almeida Santos, Lars Zipf, Sönke Szidat, Philippe Tchomga, Paul-Desire Ndjigui, Umberto Lombardo, Pablo Vidal-Torrado, Heinz Veit
Understanding the formation of tropical yellow to red earth (TYRE) is essential for preserving soil multifunctionality in well-drained tropical landscapes. Weathering and bioturbation mutually interact in TYRE evolution, whereas allochthonous materials appear restricted to distinct (paleo)landscapes. A layered appearance of TYRE can result from quasi-constant deposition of invertebrate mound debris
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Is hyperaccumulation a viable hypothesis for organic associations of minor elements in coals? Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 James C. Hower, Maheteme Gebremedhin, Demetrio P. Zourarakis, Robert B. Finkelman, David French, Ian T. Graham, Harold H. Schobert, Lei Zhao, Shifeng Dai
Plant growth requires a complex network of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and bacteria to supply organic compounds and major (C, N, P, etc.) and trace nutrients to the roots. Hyperaccumulation by certain plant species is based on the threshold ‘maxima’ a plant can safely ingest/absorb an element from soils without tissue damage. The latter criteria for hyperaccumulation vary between elements. The
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Geochemistry of metasedimentary restitic rocks and implications for melting conditions and metal potential of crustal felsic magmas Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Aleksandr S. Stepanov, Charlotte M. Allen, Shao-Yong Jiang, Irina A. Zhukova, Deng-Fei Duan, Lu Wang
Partial melting of crustal rocks, also known as anatexis, is the major mechanism of the fractionation of the continental crust and generation of felsic melts. The segregation of melts leaves residual melt-depleted rocks called restites, which are major constituents of migmatite and granulite metamorphic complexes. Restites from over 20 complexes summarized in this work, formed over a wide range of
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Fossil chemical-physical (dis)equilibria between paleofluids and host rocks and their relationship to the seismic cycle and earthquakes Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 M. Curzi, L. Aldega, A. Billi, C. Boschi, E. Carminati, G. Vignaroli, G. Viola, S.M. Bernasconi
Understanding the behavior of fluids in seismically active faults and their chemical-physical (dis)equilibrium with the host rock is important to understand the role of fluids upon seismicity and their possible potential for forecasting earthquakes. The small number of case studies where seismic and geochemical data are available and the lack of accessibility to fault zones at seismogenic depth for
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The tectonic significance of peri-Gondwanan Late Neoproterozoic-Early Palaeozoic felsic peraluminous magmatism Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 M. García-Arias, M.M. Morales Cámera, J.A. Dahlquist, P. Gao, S. Couzinié, A. Díez-Montes
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An imperative for soil spectroscopic modelling is to think global but fit local with transfer learning Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel, Zefang Shen, Leonardo Ramirez Lopez, Thorsten Behrens, Zhou Shi, Johanna Wetterlind, Kenneth A. Sudduth, Bo Stenberg, Cesar Guerrero, Asa Gholizadeh, Eyal Ben-Dor, Mervin St Luce, Claudio Orellano
Soil spectroscopy with machine learning (ML) can estimate soil properties. Extensive soil spectral libraries (SSLs) have been developed for this purpose. However, general models built with those SSLs do not generalize well on new ‘unseen’ local data. The main reason is the different characteristics of the observations in the SSL and the local data, which cause their conditional and marginal distributions
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Systematic literature review on seismic diffraction imaging Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Guilherme Zakarewicz, Susanne Tainá Ramalho Maciel, Luciano Soares da Cunha
The diffractive component of the wavefield is often treated as noise during traditional preprocessing workflows. However, it possesses valuable information for imaging faults, fractures, wedges, and other small-scale structures, which have significant implications across diverse fields and industrial applications. Furthermore, seismic diffraction imaging methods have the potential to achieve the superresolution
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Cratonic strike-slip fault systems in the central Sichuan Basin, China Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Shuwei Guan, Yiqiong Zhang, Hua Jiang, Xuesong Lu, Han Liang, Shipeng Huang, Guangyou Zhu, Rong Ren, Nan Su
Accurate definition of strike-slip fault systems is critically important for understanding the evolution of petroleum systems and the distribution of hydrocarbons in many basins. Our study characterizes the structure of cratonic strike-slip faults in the Sichuan Basin, China, and the role that they play in hydrocarbon systems. Using two- and three-dimensional seismic reflection surveys, well data and
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Nature and multi-stage evolution of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean: New insights from the sedimentary record in the Mohe Basin Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Long Chen, Chenyue Liang, Franz Neubauer, Yongjiang Liu, Junzhe Yin, Xinru Gao, Jiaqi Zhao
The Mongol-Okhotsk suture belt represents the result of the final closure of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean between the Siberian Craton and Erguna Block (also called Amuria), which played an essential role in the formation and tectonic evolution of eastern Eurasia during Mesozoic times. However, the timing of the final closure and subduction polarity of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean are still debated. In this
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Detrital multi-mineral provenance constraints on the reconstruction of the South China Block within Gondwana Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) 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 10.8) 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 10.8) 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 10.8) 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 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Daniela Henry, Núria Catalán, Biel Obrador, Rafael Marcé
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Trends and geographic variation in adverse impacts of nitrogen use in Europe on human health, climate, and ecosystems: A review Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-28 Wim de Vries, Maximillian Posch, Dave Simpson, Frank A.A.M. de Leeuw, Hans J.M. van Grinsven, Lena F. Schulte-Uebbing, Mark A. Sutton, Gerard H. Ros
This paper presents a review of the trends and geographic variation of impacts of reactive nitrogen (N) inputs on in Europe through impacts on air, soil and water quality. It illustrates those impacts, by assessing temporal and spatial variation in air, soil and water quality indicators and their exceedances of critical thresholds in view of impacts on human health, terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems
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The Northeast Pacific Ocean and Northwest Coast of North America within the global climate system, 29,000 to 11,700 years ago Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Daniel H. Mann, Benjamin V. Gaglioti
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Tectonic imprints in Permian paleomagnetic data of Morocco Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Vinzenz Weissbrodt, Valerian Bachtadse, Uwe Kirscher, Hafid Saber, Yebo Liu, Ausonio Ronchi
Although Pangea as Earth's youngest supercontinent has continuously served as a pivotal reference mark in paleogeographic reconstructions, its assembly is still a matter of debate. This is mainly due to poor paleomagnetic data coverage for Permian times for Africa, core element of Pangea. Paleomagnetic data from Adria, thought to be the African promontory in the Permian, yield paleolatitudes which
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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 10.8) 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 10.8) 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 10.8) 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 10.8) 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 10.8) 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 10.8) 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 10.8) 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 10.8) 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 10.8) 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 10.8) 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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Complementary classifications of aeolian dunes based on morphology, dynamics, and fluid mechanics Earth Sci. Rev. (IF 10.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Sylvain Courrech du Pont, David M. Rubin, Clément Narteau, Mathieu G.A. Lapôtre, Mackenzie Day, Philippe Claudin, Ian Livingstone, Matt W. Telfer, Jani Radebaugh, Cyril Gadal, Andrew Gunn, Patrick A. Hesp, Sabrina Carpy, Charles S. Bristow, Andreas C.W. Baas, Ryan C. Ewing, Giles F.S. Wiggs
Dunes form where winds blow over a bed of mobile sediment grains — conditions that are common in our solar system. On Earth, dunes abound in arid continental interiors and along sandy coastlines. Dune fields have also been recognized on Venus, Mars, Saturn’s moon Titan, and Pluto. In response to the different boundary conditions and other environmental forcings, dunes adopt a rich diversity of shapes
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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 10.8) 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