Earth-Science Reviews

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Lithospheric weakspots, not hotspots: New England-Quebec and Shenandoah anorogenic magmatism in the context of global plate tectonics, intraplate stress and LIPs	350
Mechanics of methane bubbles in consolidated aquatic muds	342
Fringed Patagonian tableland: One of Earth's largest and oldest landslide terrains	272
Nitrogen cycling during the Mesoproterozoic as informed by the 1400 million year old Xiamaling Formation	178
Tectonic imprints in Permian paleomagnetic data of Morocco	173
Geotectonic settings of Variscan explosive volcanism in the light of Famennian tuffites provenance from southern Poland	163
A review of new detrital zircon U-Pb ages from the Mogok area of Myanmar: Implications for the stratigraphy and early tectonic evolution of the Mogok Metamorphic Belt (MMB)	159
Lower Palaeozoic-Paleogene geological development of a deep-water rift (Güzelsu Corridor) along the northern continental margin of the Southern Neotethys in the Eastern Mediterranean region: Evidence	152
Geologic, geomorphic, tectonic, and paleoclimatic controls on the distribution and preservation of Chicxulub distal ejecta: A global perspective	152
Plate tectonic modelling and the energy transition	145
Paleoproterozoic accretion and assembly of the Western Block of North China: A new model	141
Long-period astronomical forcing of climatic and biological evolution during the late Paleozoic icehouse-to-greenhouse transition	140
The closure of a marginal sea: from subduction to collision in the southern South China Sea	138
A systematic review of carbon sink pathways and deployment strategies	135
Understanding how fire impacts soil carbon and nutrient cycling: Toward standardized reporting of fire metrics for the integrated plant-soil system	131
Thermally driven organic-inorganic interactions in sedimentary basins: A review from source rocks to reservoirs	120
Nickel: Geochemistry, biochemistry and its role in chemical and biological evolutions	120
Magnetostratigraphic dating of earliest hominin sites in Europe	113
Grain size from source to sink – modern and ancient fining rates	110
Review of sediment connectivity: Conceptual connotations, characterization indicators, and their relationships with soil erosion and sediment yield	108
Cycles of ∼32.5 My and ∼26.2 My in correlated episodes of continental flood basalts (CFBs), hyper-thermal climate pulses, anoxic oceans, and mass extinctions over the last 260 My: Connections between	105
New Maps of Global Geological Provinces and Tectonic Plates	103
Innovations in underground hydrogen storage with multiphysics simulations, optimization, and monitoring: A review	97
A review of Paleozoic phytoplankton biodiversity: Driver for major evolutionary events?	96
Bayesian back analysis of unsaturated hydraulic parameters for rainfall-induced slope failure: A review	95

Research status and prospects of CO2 geological sequestration technology from onshore to offshore: A review	94
Sardinia and the Alpine cycle: A tectono-sedimentary history at the Western Tethys edge	89
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	88
Remote sensing algorithms for particulate inorganic carbon (PIC) and the global cycle of PIC	88
Valley incision chronologies from alluvium-filled cave systems	88
A systematic review of predictor screening methods for downscaling of numerical climate models	87
Multi-train roll waves, antidunes and bars in inclined flumes	87
CO2 sequestration in geological formations: Insights into mineral reactions and reservoir dynamics	83
Dynamics of Tethyan marine de‑oxygenation and relationship to S-N-P cycles during the Permian-Triassic boundary crisis	81
Early paleozoic tectonics and paleogeography of the Eastern Arctic and Siberia: Review of paleomagnetic and geologic data for the De Long Islands	80
The supercontinent cycle seen from a hafnium isotope perspective in the Mongolian Accretionary Collage	78
What water color parameters could be mapped using MODIS land reflectance products: A global evaluation over coastal and inland waters	77
The Egéré Paleo-Mesoproterozoic rifted passive margin of the LATEA metacraton (Central Hoggar, Tuareg Shield, Algeria) subducted and exhumed during the Pan-African orogeny: U-Pb zircon ages, P-T-t pat	77
The End-Devonian Hangenberg Event and its aftermath in South China: Stratigraphic and sedimentary records from shallow to deep water facies	76
Tectonic influence on the characteristics of contourite systems	76
Research progress and current application of weak turbulence and turbulence intermittency in stable boundary layers	75
A continental review of Australia's Cenozoic megafans and associated large accretionary fluvial systems	75
The DC and AC global electric circuits and climate	72
Petrogenetic interpretation of Archean low δ18O zircon: Implications for origin of continental crust on early Earth	72
Evolution of the Zagros sector of Neo-Tethys: Tectonic and magmatic events that shaped its rifting, seafloor spreading and subduction history	70
Antarctic mineral resources: Looking to the future of the Environmental Protocol	70
Multistage plate subduction controls intraplate volcanism and cratonic lithospheric thinning in Northeast Asia	69
Hybrid volcanic rocks from Alech Hills, Saurashtra, western India- insight into the role of magma mixing in the evolution of Late Cretaceous Deccan Traps Volcanic Province	69
Evolution mechanisms, impacts, and variations of the vortices originated from the Tibetan Plateau	69
Sulfuric acid caves of the world: A review	69
Comment on “Early Archean biogeochemical iron cycling and nutrient availability: New insights from a 3.5 Ga land-sea transition” by Clark M. Johnson, Xin-Yuan Zheng, Tara Djokic, Martin J. Van Kranend	68
Clay minerals on Mars: An up-to-date review with future perspectives	68
Quantitative paleogeographical reconstructions and basin evolution of South China during the Ordovician	68
Incorporating cross-scale insights into colloid-facilitated radionuclide transport in fractured rocks: A critical review	68
Subduction initiation as recorded in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana forearc	67
Triassic terrestrial tetrapod faunas of the Central European Basin, their stratigraphical distribution, and their palaeoenvironments	67
Source-to-sink reconstruction of early Paleozoic Western Gondwana mega-scale alluvial systems	67
Neoarchean SSZ and MOR ultra-/high-pressure ophiolitic mélanges of the Eastern Hebei Complex, North China Craton: Dynamics of an Archean paleo-subduction zone	67
Planetary albedo and reflected shortwave flux: Basic characteristics, mechanisms of change and future projections	67
Detecting the impact of climate change on alpine mass movements in observational records from the European Alps	67
Cenozoic tectonic evolution of offshore Chinese Basins and its response to geodynamic processes of the East Asian Continental Margin	66
Massive Jurassic slab break-off revealed by a multidisciplinary reappraisal of the Chon Aike silicic large igneous province	66
Review of paleoseismological records along the North Anatolian Fault (NW Türkiye), 1991–2025 CE	65
Global-scale constraints on the origins of aerosol iron using stable iron isotopes: A review	65
Editorial Board	63
Comment on , ‘The trace-fossil record of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age’	63
Comment on “Revisiting the Dom Feliciano Belt and surrounding areas – An integrated geophysical and isotope geology approach” by Teixeira et al	63
Metallogeny of Late Paleozoic lode gold mineralization of western Tien Shan: From orogenic shortening to intracontinental strike-slip shearing	63
Long-term orbital forcing on Lower Jurassic black shale sedimentation: Basque-Cantabrian evidence	62
Sediment-transport rates from decadal to millennial timescales across the Indo-Gangetic Plain: Impacts of tectonics, climatic processes, and vegetation cover	62
The Devonian System in northwestern Gondwana: Focus on Colombia	62
Relation between sediment distribution and halokinetic geometries along salt structures: a review and new insights from field studies	62
The geomorphology of monoclinal scarps associated with interstratal-dissolution fronts in evaporite formations, illustrated with the Upper Jurassic Arab and Hith formations in Ar Riyadh and Central Sa	62
Nature of the northern Indian plate margin during the assembly of supercontinent Columbia: was it a part of a double subduction?	61
Ecohydrological and geomorphological importance of glacial lakes	61

Diversification to extinction: oceanic and climatic context of the Ordovician	61
The Tertiary structuration of the Western Subalpine foreland deciphered by calcite-filled faults and veins	61
Flat slab rollback as a trigger for large-scale skarn iron mineralization in the North China Craton	61
Understanding the resource potential of natural hydrogen on Earth: Scientific gaps, uncertainties and recommendations	60
Production and significance of Reactive Oxygen Species in the subsurface	60
A major Devonian phosphogenesis event associated with afforestation	60
The Triassic–Jurassic transition – A review of environmental change at the dawn of modern life	59
Effects of plant types on terrestrial leaf wax long-chain n-alkane biomarkers: Implications and paleoapplications	59
Formation mechanism and geophysical properties of fracture-filling gas hydrate in the host sediments: A comprehensive review	59
Quantification and uncertainty of global upland soil methane sinks: Processes, controls, model limitations, and improvements	59
Neoarchean lavas of the Ventersdorp Large Igneous Province, South Africa: Sr-Nd-Hf isotopic and trace element evidence for a long-lived plume beneath a stationary African continent	58
Advancing disaster risk communications	58
Editorial Board	58
Editorial Board	58
Corrigendum to “ Atmospheric aging effects on aerosol ice nucleation” [Earth-Science Reviews, 269 (2025), 105176]	57
How benthic animals responded to the Paleozoic plant terrestrialization: Evidence from trace fossils and their ecosystem engineering reconstruction	57
Why are readily soluble phytoliths more resilient?	56
The postulation of intermittent land bridges as an explanation for reiterated colonization events of Madagascar by African vertebrates: An in-depth review and novel insights in honour of the late Judi	56
WITHDRAWN: Fast-eroding Taiwan and transfer of orogenic sediment to forearc basins and trenches in the Philippine and South China seas	56
Are geological description practices and classification schemes fit for future use? Breccias as an example	56
The southeast Brazilian rifted continental margin is not a single, continuous upwarp: Variations in morphology and denudation patterns along the continental drainage divide	55
Stromatoporoids and extinctions: A review	55
Multi-stage differential exhumation of the West Junggar and adjacent regions, NW China, revealed by regional low-temperature thermochronology	55
The Archean crust-mantle interaction in the Jiaoliao microblock, North China Craton: Constraints on the Neoarchean subduction regime	54
Thallium in environmental compartments affected by acid mine drainage (AMD) from the Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB): From rocks to the ocean	53
Rejection of Holliday et al.'s alleged refutation of the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis	53
Climate change hotspots and implications for the global subsea telecommunications network	52
Paleogeography of the Gondwana passive margin fragments involved in the Variscan and Alpine collisions: Perspectives from metavolcanic-sedimentary basement of the Western Carpathians	52
Evolution of the Archean felsic crust of Singhbhum Craton, India: A reassessment	52
Thrust and nappe tectonics in orogenic settings – A historical review	52
Coastal changes in the low-latitude western North Pacific region	52
Geochemistry of CO2-rich gas emissions in the Carpathians: Multiscale geological sources and implications for orogenic degassing	51
Reassessing metamorphic core complexes in the North American Cordillera	51
Climatic-hydrological-geothermal coupled mechanism drives lake evolution and Li-B enrichment from mega-lakes to salt lakes on the Tibetan Plateau	50
Desert ecosystems in China: Past, present, and future	50
The origins and transformation of carbonate mud during early marine burial diagenesis and the fate of aragonite: A stratigraphic sedimentological perspective	49
Evolution of the East African Rift System from trap-scale to plate-scale rifting	49
Vulnerability of buildings to landslides: The state of the art and future needs	49
Provenance and sediment dispersal in the Po-Adriatic source-to-sink system unraveled by bulk-sediment geochemistry and its linkage to catchment geology	49
Transcurrent tectonic system and deep seismogenic mechanism in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau: A view from gravity and magnetic anomalies	48
How many oceans closed during the Brasiliano Cycle in northeastern Brazil? Implications for the amalgamation of western Gondwana	48
The Meso-Tethys Ocean: The nature, extension and spatial-temporal evolution	48
Crustal architecture and tectonic terranes of the Northern Appalachians: Insights from Nd isotope mapping	48
Growth of a subduction orogen: Deformation styles and exhumation patterns in the Dinarides-Albanides-Hellenides	48
The 79 CE eruption of Vesuvius: A lesson from the past and the need of a multidisciplinary approach for developments in volcanology	47
Links of high velocity anomalies in the mantle to the Proto-South China Sea slabs: Tomography-based review and perspective	47
Systematic literature review on seismic diffraction imaging	47
Effects of weathering and fluvial transport on detrital trace metals	47
Glendonites throughout the Phanerozoic	47
Shale oil migration across multiple scales: A review of characterization methods and different patterns	47
Surging glaciers in Svalbard: Observing their distribution, characteristics and evolution	47
Reply to Comment by Birger Rasmussen and Janet R. Muhling on “Early Archean biogeochemical iron cycling and nutrient availability: New insights from a 3.5 Ga land-sea transition” by Johnson et al.	47
Spatial and temporal control of Archean tectonomagmatic regimes	47
The Palaeoproterozoic Hotazel BIF-Mn Formation as an archive of Earth's earliest oxygenation	47
Landform-regolith patterns of Northwestern Africa: Deciphering Cenozoic surface dynamics of the tropical cratonic geosystem	47
Continental growth in eastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Evidence from Middle Permian–Middle Jurassic magmatism	47
Machine learning applications in tight porous media: Challenges, advances, and future directions	46
West European Variscan Belt dismantling and early fragmentation of Pangea: The key role of the Paleotethys subduction	46
Massive carbon storage in the upper mantle via diapirism of subducted continental sediments	45
Gone with the tides? Reassessing possible eolian strata in the Paleoarchean Moodies Group in the context of the Archean eolian record	44
Tethyan tectonics: Introduction to special article collection	44
500 million years of foraminiferal calcification	44
Evidence of a large igneous province at ca. 347–330 Ma along the northern Gondwana margin linked to the assembly of Pangea: Insights from U–Pb zircon geochronology and geochemistry of the South-Wester	44
Editorial Board	43
A guide to recognising slow-moving subaqueous landslides in seismic and bathymetry datasets	43
Editorial Board	43
Revisiting the geodynamical history of the so-called uplifted atolls, north-west Tuamotu, French Polynesia, central South Pacific	43
Geological evolution of the North China Craton in the first billion years of Earth's history	43
Editorial Board	43
Early land plant evolution facilitated marine animal dispersal: Insights from the Late Ordovician–Early Devonian microconchids	42
Impact of the Jenkyns Event (early Toarcian) on dinosaurs: Comparison with the Triassic/Jurassic transition	42
Re-Os isotope system in organic-rich samples for dating and tracing: Methodology, principle, and application	42
Quantitative kinematic reconstruction of the Tibetan-Himalayan Orogen since 130 Ma	42
Paleoclimatic significance of water isotopes in speleothem fluid inclusions	42
Tectonic controls on lithium deposits in the Erzgebirge / Krušné hory region: Regional scale reconstruction of structural controls on late-Variscan mineralization	42
Comment on Green, P., I. Duddy, I., and P. Japsen, P., 2022. Episodic kilometre-scale burial and exhumation and the importance of missing section. Earth-Science Reviews 234 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.e	42
Reconciling the Cretaceous breakup and demise of the Phoenix Plate with East Gondwana orogenesis in New Zealand	42
A chemical framework for the preservation of fossil vertebrate cells and soft tissues	41
Recent advancements in characterizing permeability and porosity distributions in bioturbated flow media	41
Formation and evolution of Archean continental crust: A thermodynamic – geochemical perspective of granitoids from the Tarim Craton, NW China	41

Trace elements in soils of the Antarctic ice-free areas: Insights on natural geochemical values, anthropogenic impact and possible remobilisation upon permafrost thaw	41
Recent advances made by reaction experiments on melting of heavily metasomatized hydrous mantle	41
Post-rift faulting controlled by different geodynamics in the Pearl River Mouth Basin, northern South China Sea margin	41
Global tectonics and oxygenation events drove the Earth-scale phosphorus cycle	41
Unveiling the history and nature of paleostorms in the Holocene	40
Connecting soils to life in conservation planning, nutrient cycling, and planetary science	40
Interplay between early rifting, later folding, and sedimentary filling of a long-lived Tethys remnant: The Levant Basin	40
Stable zinc isotopes as tracers in environmental geochemistry	40
Thaw-induced impacts on land and water in discontinuous permafrost: A review of the Taiga Plains and Taiga Shield, northwestern Canada	39
Reorganization of antecedent rivers in response to the evolving landscape at the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau	39
Minerals: A missing role for enhanced biochar carbon sequestration from the thermal conversion of biomass to the application in soil	39
Serpentinization-mediated H2-generation and its genesis link to supra-subduction zone ophiolites	39
Dominant control of precipitation on paleofire activity in the Asian Monsoon region over the past 20 ka	38
Geology from aeromagnetic data	38
First-principles investigation of equilibrium magnesium isotope fractionation among mantle minerals: Review and new data	38
Red sea evaporites: Formation, creep and dissolution	38
Cenozoic exhumation of the Tianshan as constrained by regional low-temperature thermochronology	38
The trace-fossil record of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age	38
Dynamics of gravity currents under external and internal stratification in geophysical systems	37
The Caribbean mangroves: An Eocene innovation with no Cretaceous precursors	37
Automated classification and mapping for alluvial geomorphic units: Current approaches and future directions	37
Editorial Board	37
Early plate tectonics and evolution of continental crust in the North China craton: Editorial preface	36
Refining the earthquake history of south-central Alaska through lake records	36
The precursor of apatite: Octacalcium phosphate (OCP) in the earth and environmental sciences - A review	36
A global apparent polar wander path for the last 320 Ma calculated from site-level paleomagnetic data	36
R, you correct? The Curious Case of Arnoldus (1977). Response to “Comment on ‘Towards improved USLE-based soil erosion modelling in India: A review of prevalent pitfalls and implementation of exemplar	36
Moisture migration, ice lenses and frost heave characteristics of soils under one-dimensional freezing action: A critical literature review	36
A persistent non-uniformitarian paleomagnetic field in the Devonian?	36
Reply to the discussion paper by R. Martin on Kroeck et al. “A review of Paleozoic phytoplankton biodiversity: Driver for major evolutionary events?”	36
Editorial Board	36
Gaseous hydrocarbons cracking in shale: Mechanism, impact and resource significance	35
Estimating paleotemperature using stable isotopes of soil-formed phyllosilicates from paleosols: A review	35
Maturation from oceanic arcs to continental crust: Insights from Paleozoic magmatism in West Junggar, NW China	35
Ice universality: perception of ice, its properties and connected processes on Earth and in the extraterrestrial environment. Earth sciences perspective	35
Mesoarchean terrestrial sedimentation in a continental rift setting and its provenance implications: An example from the Bisrampur Formation, Singhbhum craton, India	35
Magmatic complexes of the Tekturmas Fold-and-Thrust Belt, Central Kazakhstan: An overview and new implications for the early Paleozoic evolution of the Paleo-Asian Ocean	35
Deciphering the behavior and fate of microplastics in coastal aquatic environments: A comprehensive review illuminating coastal dynamics and driving mechanisms	34
The evolution of the fracture systems under progressive sinistral shear in the Bundelkhand Craton, Central India: A review and new insights	34
Terminal Ediacaran–Terreneuvian revolutions in Siberia	34
Relative continent - mid-ocean ridge elevation: A reference case for isostasy in geodynamics	34
Soil Taxonomy adapted to buried paleosols: First approximation	34
Glacier and terrestrial ecosystem evolution in the Chilotan archipelago sector of northwestern Patagonia since the Last Glacial Termination	34
Pedogenic ferromanganese nodules and their impacts on nutrient cycles and heavy metal sequestration	34
Applying astronomical solutions and Milanković forcing in the Earth sciences	33
Challenges in using platform carbonates to trace global seawater δ13C variations: A review and insights from terminal Ediacaran carbonate platforms	33
A late Ediacaran ice age: The key node in the Earth system evolution	33
Magmatism and hydrocarbon accumulation in sedimentary basins: A review	33
An oxygen isotope perspective on the break-up of the Rodinia supercontinent	33
Global patterns of shore platform evolution and cliff retreat: Insights from cosmogenic radionuclides	33
The rise and fall of the Malvinoxhosan (Malvinokaffric) bioregion in South Africa: Evidence for Early-Middle Devonian biocrises at the South Pole	33
Assessing the impact of bioturbation on sedimentary isotopic records through numerical models	33
The tectonic significance of peri-Gondwanan Late Neoproterozoic-Early Palaeozoic felsic peraluminous magmatism	33
Fracture systems and fluid inclusions in Upper Devonian organic-rich shales in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin and Rocky Mountains Foreland Belt, West-Central Alberta, Canada	32
Geochemistry of low-temperature (<350 °C) metamorphic and hydrothermal monazite	32
Peat fires and legacy toxic metal release: An integrative biogeochemical and ecohydrological conceptual framework	32
Storage integrity during underground hydrogen storage in depleted gas reservoirs	32
Elusive Permian – Triassic Western Paleotethyan paleogeography: Towards the Early Cimmerian pre-Vardar configuration (Dinarides-Carpathian Balkan Belt)	32
Morphology and controls of the mountain-front fan systems of the Hajar Mountains, south-east Arabia	32
Self-sustaining slab dynamics of the underthrusting Indian lithosphere shaping the giant Himalayan Orocline	32
Global synthesis of two decades of research on improving PM2.5 estimation models from remote sensing and data science perspectives	31
Editorial Board	31
Comment on “A new classification system for mixed (turbidite-contourite) depositional systems: Examples, conceptual models and diagnostic criteria for modern and ancient records” by S. Rodrigues, F.J.	31
Freshwater mollusc sclerochronology: Trends, challenges, and future directions	31
Precambrian geology of India	31
Exposing basement terranes of the North Australian Craton	31
The Offset Dykes in the North and East Range of the Sudbury impact structure, Canada: A synthesis	31
The growth and evolution of continental crust contributed by multiple sources in the East Kunlun Orogen during Early Paleozoic	31
The concept of oligotrophy applied to the fossil record	31
Cross-propagation of the western Alpine orogen from early to late deformation stages: Evidence from the Internal Zones and implications for restoration	31
The Hf and O isotope record of long-lasting accretionary orogens: The example of the Proterozoic and Paleozoic-Triassic central South America	30
Rill flow velocity and resistance law: A review	30
Degradation and local growth of “Xing'an-Baikal” permafrost responding to climate warming and the consequences	30
Focus on the nonlinear infiltration process in deep vadose zone	30
Evolution of the Eastern Red Sea Rifted margin: morphology, uplift processes and source-to-sink dynamics	30
Formation and fluxes of natural hydrogen in the crust and upper mantle	30
Convergent margin metallogenic cycles: A window to secular changes in Earth's tectonic evolution	30
Synchrony of carbon cycle fluctuations, volcanism and orbital forcing during the Early Cretaceous	30
Dispersal mechanism of fine-grained sediment in the modern mud belt of the East China Sea	30
Hierarchies of ecologic changes and their roles in the Phanerozoic taxonomic and ecologic diversification history of the Class Bivalvia	30
A review of early Paleozoic subduction-accretion tectonics in the North Qilian Orogenic Belt, Northeastern Tibet: Implications for the evolution of the Proto-Tethys Ocean	30
Paleozoic collisional belt of the South Tien Shan: A review	30
The Drake Passage asthenospheric and oceanic gateway	30
Is hyperaccumulation a viable hypothesis for organic associations of minor elements in coals?	30
A systematic review on rainfall patterns of Thailand: Insights into variability and its relationship with ENSO and IOD	30
Potential strategic ore deposits on Mars: Implications for in situ resource utilization	29
Detrital zircon geochronology and related evidence from clastic sediments in the Kyrenia Range, N Cyprus: Implications for the Mesozoic-Cenozoic erosional history and tectonics of southern Anatolia	29
Downhole logging data for time series analysis and cyclostratigraphy	29
Fast-eroding Taiwan and transfer of orogenic sediment to forearc basins and trenches in the Philippine and South China seas	29
Physics-aware machine learning revolutionizes scientific paradigm for process-based modeling in hydrology	29
Editorial Board	29
Two-stage exhumation, uplift, and basinward propagation of the Tian Shan during the late Cenozoic	29
Experimental measurements and characterization models of caprock breakthrough pressure for CO2 geological storage	29
Mineral physics constraints on ultra-low velocity zones in the lowermost mantle	29
The sediment routing systems of Northern South America since 250 Ma	29