Earth-Science Reviews

Papers
(The median citation count of Earth-Science Reviews is 10. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Sardinia and the Alpine cycle: A tectono-sedimentary history at the Western Tethys edge319
Plate tectonic modelling and the energy transition308
A systematic review of predictor screening methods for downscaling of numerical climate models301
CO2 sequestration in geological formations: Insights into mineral reactions and reservoir dynamics267
Understanding how fire impacts soil carbon and nutrient cycling: Towards standardized reporting of fire metrics for the integrated plant-soil system223
Geotectonic settings of Variscan explosive volcanism in the light of Famennian tuffites provenance from southern Poland191
Lithospheric weakspots, not hotspots: New England-Quebec and Shenandoah anorogenic magmatism in the context of global plate tectonics, intraplate stress and LIPs175
Bayesian back analysis of unsaturated hydraulic parameters for rainfall-induced slope failure: A review169
Multi-train roll waves, antidunes and bars in inclined flumes154
Long-period astronomical forcing of climatic and biological evolution during the late Paleozoic icehouse-to-greenhouse transition152
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 histories142
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 139
Geologic, geomorphic, tectonic, and paleoclimatic controls on the distribution and preservation of Chicxulub distal ejecta: A global perspective138
Remote sensing algorithms for particulate inorganic carbon (PIC) and the global cycle of PIC135
Thermally driven organic-inorganic interactions in sedimentary basins: A review from source rocks to reservoirs131
Paleoproterozoic accretion and assembly of the Western Block of North China: A new model129
Nitrogen cycling during the Mesoproterozoic as informed by the 1400 million year old Xiamaling Formation127
Tectonic imprints in Permian paleomagnetic data of Morocco127
New Maps of Global Geological Provinces and Tectonic Plates126
Magnetostratigraphic dating of earliest hominin sites in Europe121
Valley incision chronologies from alluvium-filled cave systems119
A review of Paleozoic phytoplankton biodiversity: Driver for major evolutionary events?112
Nickel: Geochemistry, biochemistry and its role in chemical and biological evolutions109
Moraine-dammed glacial lakes and threat of glacial debris flows in South-East Kazakhstan109
Review of sediment connectivity: Conceptual connotations, characterization indicators, and their relationships with soil erosion and sediment yield105
Innovations in underground hydrogen storage with multiphysics simulations, optimization, and monitoring: A review104
Mechanics of methane bubbles in consolidated aquatic muds103
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 99
Representing the role of soil moisture on erosion resistance in sediment models: Challenges and opportunities92
Research status and prospects of CO2 geological sequestration technology from onshore to offshore: A review89
Grain size from source to sink – modern and ancient fining rates86
Contrasting characteristics, changes, and linkages of permafrost between the Arctic and the Third Pole84
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)84
Early–middle Permian ecosystems of equatorial Pangaea: Integrated multi-stratigraphic and palaeontological review of the Permian of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, western Mediterranean)82
Fringed Patagonian tableland: One of Earth's largest and oldest landslide terrains82
Neoarchean SSZ and MOR ultra-/high-pressure ophiolitic mélanges of the Eastern Hebei Complex, North China Craton: Dynamics of an Archean paleo-subduction zone79
A continental review of Australia's Cenozoic megafans and associated large accretionary fluvial systems79
What water color parameters could be mapped using MODIS land reflectance products: A global evaluation over coastal and inland waters78
Evolution mechanisms, impacts, and variations of the vortices originated from the Tibetan Plateau78
Petrogenetic interpretation of Archean low δ18O zircon: Implications for origin of continental crust on early Earth77
Detecting the impact of climate change on alpine mass movements in observational records from the European Alps77
Antarctic mineral resources: Looking to the future of the Environmental Protocol76
Multistage plate subduction controls intraplate volcanism and cratonic lithospheric thinning in Northeast Asia74
Source-to-sink reconstruction of early Paleozoic Western Gondwana mega-scale alluvial systems72
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 Kranend70
Sulfuric acid caves of the world: A review69
Research progress and current application of weak turbulence and turbulence intermittency in stable boundary layers69
The DC and AC global electric circuits and climate69
Early paleozoic tectonics and paleogeography of the Eastern Arctic and Siberia: Review of paleomagnetic and geologic data for the De Long Islands68
Tectonic influence on the characteristics of contourite systems67
The supercontinent cycle seen from a hafnium isotope perspective in the Mongolian Accretionary Collage67
Evolution of the Zagros sector of Neo-Tethys: Tectonic and magmatic events that shaped its rifting, seafloor spreading and subduction history65
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 Province65
Planetary albedo and reflected shortwave flux: Basic characteristics, mechanisms of change and future projections65
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 pat64
Triassic terrestrial tetrapod faunas of the Central European Basin, their stratigraphical distribution, and their palaeoenvironments64
Clay minerals on Mars: An up-to-date review with future perspectives64
Subduction initiation as recorded in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana forearc64
Dynamics of Tethyan marine de‑oxygenation and relationship to S-N-P cycles during the Permian-Triassic boundary crisis64
Quantitative paleogeographical reconstructions and basin evolution of South China during the Ordovician64
Long-term orbital forcing on Lower Jurassic black shale sedimentation: Basque-Cantabrian evidence63
The End-Devonian Hangenberg Event and its aftermath in South China: Stratigraphic and sedimentary records from shallow to deep water facies63
Incorporating cross-scale insights into colloid-facilitated radionuclide transport in fractured rocks: A critical review63
Editorial Board63
Sediment-transport rates from decadal to millennial timescales across the Indo-Gangetic Plain: Impacts of tectonics, climatic processes, and vegetation cover62
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 continent62
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 Sa62
Flat slab rollback as a trigger for large-scale skarn iron mineralization in the North China Craton61
Metallogeny of Late Paleozoic lode gold mineralization of western Tien Shan: From orogenic shortening to intracontinental strike-slip shearing61
Understanding the resource potential of natural hydrogen on Earth: Scientific gaps, uncertainties and recommendations61
Nature of the northern Indian plate margin during the assembly of supercontinent Columbia: was it a part of a double subduction?61
Cenozoic tectonic evolution of offshore Chinese Basins and its response to geodynamic processes of the East Asian Continental Margin60
Relation between sediment distribution and halokinetic geometries along salt structures: a review and new insights from field studies59
Comment on “Revisiting the Dom Feliciano Belt and surrounding areas – An integrated geophysical and isotope geology approach” by Teixeira et al59
The Tertiary structuration of the Western Subalpine foreland deciphered by calcite-filled faults and veins59
Asian summer monsoon variability, global teleconnections, and dynamics during the last 1,000 years57
The Triassic–Jurassic transition – A review of environmental change at the dawn of modern life57
Formation mechanism and geophysical properties of fracture-filling gas hydrate in the host sediments: A comprehensive review56
Effects of plant types on terrestrial leaf wax long-chain n-alkane biomarkers: Implications and paleoapplications56
Massive Jurassic slab break-off revealed by a multidisciplinary reappraisal of the Chon Aike silicic large igneous province56
The uncertain role of rising atmospheric CO2 on global plant transpiration56
The Devonian System in northwestern Gondwana: Focus on Colombia56
Quantification and uncertainty of global upland soil methane sinks: Processes, controls, model limitations, and improvements56
Advancing disaster risk communications56
Production and significance of Reactive Oxygen Species in the subsurface55
Diversification to extinction: oceanic and climatic context of the Ordovician55
Ecohydrological and geomorphological importance of glacial lakes55
West European Variscan Belt dismantling and early fragmentation of Pangea: The key role of the Paleotethys subduction54
Editorial Board54
Editorial Board54
Global-scale constraints on the origins of aerosol iron using stable iron isotopes: A review54
Systematic literature review on seismic diffraction imaging54
WITHDRAWN: Fast-eroding Taiwan and transfer of orogenic sediment to forearc basins and trenches in the Philippine and South China seas53
Corrigendum to “ Atmospheric aging effects on aerosol ice nucleation” [Earth-Science Reviews, 269 (2025), 105176]53
Surging glaciers in Svalbard: Observing their distribution, characteristics and evolution53
Are geological description practices and classification schemes fit for future use? Breccias as an example52
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.52
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 Judi52
Growth of a subduction orogen: Deformation styles and exhumation patterns in the Dinarides-Albanides-Hellenides52
The southeast Brazilian rifted continental margin is not a single, continuous upwarp: Variations in morphology and denudation patterns along the continental drainage divide51
The 79 CE eruption of Vesuvius: A lesson from the past and the need of a multidisciplinary approach for developments in volcanology51
Stromatoporoids and extinctions: A review50
Continental growth in eastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Evidence from Middle Permian–Middle Jurassic magmatism50
Geochemical constraints on the nature of Late Archean basaltic-andesitic magmatism in the North China Craton50
The Palaeoproterozoic Hotazel BIF-Mn Formation as an archive of Earth's earliest oxygenation50
Thrust and nappe tectonics in orogenic settings – A historical review50
Thallium in environmental compartments affected by acid mine drainage (AMD) from the Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB): From rocks to the ocean50
The Meso-Tethys Ocean: The nature, extension and spatial-temporal evolution49
How benthic animals responded to the Paleozoic plant terrestrialization: Evidence from trace fossils and their ecosystem engineering reconstruction49
Massive carbon storage in the upper mantle via diapirism of subducted continental sediments49
Spatial and temporal control of Archean tectonomagmatic regimes48
Provenance and sediment dispersal in the Po-Adriatic source-to-sink system unraveled by bulk-sediment geochemistry and its linkage to catchment geology48
Effects of weathering and fluvial transport on detrital trace metals48
Glendonites throughout the Phanerozoic48
Multi-stage differential exhumation of the West Junggar and adjacent regions, NW China, revealed by regional low-temperature thermochronology48
Vulnerability of buildings to landslides: The state of the art and future needs47
Reassessing metamorphic core complexes in the North American Cordillera47
Machine learning applications in tight porous media: Challenges, advances, and future directions47
How many oceans closed during the Brasiliano Cycle in northeastern Brazil? Implications for the amalgamation of western Gondwana47
Why are readily soluble phytoliths more resilient?47
Landform-regolith patterns of Northwestern Africa: Deciphering Cenozoic surface dynamics of the tropical cratonic geosystem47
Evolution of the East African Rift System from trap-scale to plate-scale rifting47
Paleogeography of the Gondwana passive margin fragments involved in the Variscan and Alpine collisions: Perspectives from metavolcanic-sedimentary basement of the Western Carpathians46
Transcurrent tectonic system and deep seismogenic mechanism in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau: A view from gravity and magnetic anomalies46
Climate change hotspots and implications for the global subsea telecommunications network46
The origins and transformation of carbonate mud during early marine burial diagenesis and the fate of aragonite: A stratigraphic sedimentological perspective46
Desert ecosystems in China: Past, present, and future46
Shale oil migration across multiple scales: A review of characterization methods and different patterns46
Evolution of the Archean felsic crust of Singhbhum Craton, India: A reassessment46
The Archean crust-mantle interaction in the Jiaoliao microblock, North China Craton: Constraints on the Neoarchean subduction regime45
Rejection of Holliday et al.'s alleged refutation of the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis45
Links of high velocity anomalies in the mantle to the Proto-South China Sea slabs: Tomography-based review and perspective45
Global tectonics and oxygenation events drove the Earth-scale phosphorus cycle44
Geological evolution of the North China Craton in the first billion years of Earth's history44
Red sea evaporites: Formation, creep and dissolution44
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.e44
Coastal changes in the low-latitude western North Pacific region44
Reorganization of antecedent rivers in response to the evolving landscape at the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau44
Revisiting the geodynamical history of the so-called uplifted atolls, north-west Tuamotu, French Polynesia, central South Pacific43
Dynamics of gravity currents under external and internal stratification in geophysical systems43
Serpentinization-mediated H2-generation and its genesis link to supra-subduction zone ophiolites43
Automated classification and mapping for alluvial geomorphic units: Current approaches and future directions43
Editorial Board42
Editorial Board42
Editorial Board42
Editorial Board42
Interplay between early rifting, later folding, and sedimentary filling of a long-lived Tethys remnant: The Levant Basin41
Paleoclimatic significance of water isotopes in speleothem fluid inclusions41
Reconciling the Cretaceous breakup and demise of the Phoenix Plate with East Gondwana orogenesis in New Zealand41
A chemical framework for the preservation of fossil vertebrate cells and soft tissues40
Quantitative kinematic reconstruction of the Tibetan-Himalayan Orogen since 130 Ma40
Refining the earthquake history of south-central Alaska through lake records40
A review on deformation structures of different terranes in the Precambrian Aravalli-Delhi Mobile Belt (ADMB), NW India: Tectonic implications and global correlation40
Early land plant evolution facilitated marine animal dispersal: Insights from the Late Ordovician–Early Devonian microconchids40
The Caribbean mangroves: An Eocene innovation with no Cretaceous precursors40
Tectonic controls on lithium deposits in the Erzgebirge / Krušné hory region: Regional scale reconstruction of structural controls on late-Variscan mineralization39
Formation and evolution of Archean continental crust: A thermodynamic – geochemical perspective of granitoids from the Tarim Craton, NW China39
A persistent non-uniformitarian paleomagnetic field in the Devonian?39
Minerals: A missing role for enhanced biochar carbon sequestration from the thermal conversion of biomass to the application in soil39
Re-Os isotope system in organic-rich samples for dating and tracing: Methodology, principle, and application39
The trace-fossil record of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age39
A guide to recognising slow-moving subaqueous landslides in seismic and bathymetry datasets39
Recent advancements in characterizing permeability and porosity distributions in bioturbated flow media39
Post-rift faulting controlled by different geodynamics in the Pearl River Mouth Basin, northern South China Sea margin39
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-Wester38
Connecting soils to life in conservation planning, nutrient cycling, and planetary science38
Application of artificial intelligence in geotechnical engineering: A state-of-the-art review38
Gone with the tides? Reassessing possible eolian strata in the Paleoarchean Moodies Group in the context of the Archean eolian record38
Stable zinc isotopes as tracers in environmental geochemistry38
Tethyan tectonics: Introduction to special article collection38
500 million years of foraminiferal calcification37
Recent advances made by reaction experiments on melting of heavily metasomatized hydrous mantle37
A global apparent polar wander path for the last 320 Ma calculated from site-level paleomagnetic data37
Impact of the Jenkyns Event (early Toarcian) on dinosaurs: Comparison with the Triassic/Jurassic transition37
Trace elements in soils of the Antarctic ice-free areas: Insights on natural geochemical values, anthropogenic impact and possible remobilisation upon permafrost thaw37
First-principles investigation of equilibrium magnesium isotope fractionation among mantle minerals: Review and new data37
Geology from aeromagnetic data37
Unveiling the history and nature of paleostorms in the Holocene36
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 exemplar36
Glacier and terrestrial ecosystem evolution in the Chilotan archipelago sector of northwestern Patagonia since the Last Glacial Termination36
Thaw-induced impacts on land and water in discontinuous permafrost: A review of the Taiga Plains and Taiga Shield, northwestern Canada36
Editorial Board36
Reply to the discussion paper by R. Martin on Kroeck et al. “A review of Paleozoic phytoplankton biodiversity: Driver for major evolutionary events?”36
Cenozoic exhumation of the Tianshan as constrained by regional low-temperature thermochronology36
Early plate tectonics and evolution of continental crust in the North China craton: Editorial preface36
The precursor of apatite: Octacalcium phosphate (OCP) in the earth and environmental sciences - A review36
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 Ocean35
Moisture migration, ice lenses and frost heave characteristics of soils under one-dimensional freezing action: A critical literature review35
The evolution of the fracture systems under progressive sinistral shear in the Bundelkhand Craton, Central India: A review and new insights35
Global patterns of shore platform evolution and cliff retreat: Insights from cosmogenic radionuclides35
The Altaids: A review of twenty-five years of knowledge accumulation35
Elusive Permian – Triassic Western Paleotethyan paleogeography: Towards the Early Cimmerian pre-Vardar configuration (Dinarides-Carpathian Balkan Belt)33
Mesoarchean terrestrial sedimentation in a continental rift setting and its provenance implications: An example from the Bisrampur Formation, Singhbhum craton, India33
Assessing the impact of bioturbation on sedimentary isotopic records through numerical models33
Relative continent - mid-ocean ridge elevation: A reference case for isostasy in geodynamics33
Deciphering the behavior and fate of microplastics in coastal aquatic environments: A comprehensive review illuminating coastal dynamics and driving mechanisms33
Pedogenic ferromanganese nodules and their impacts on nutrient cycles and heavy metal sequestration33
Ice universality: perception of ice, its properties and connected processes on Earth and in the extraterrestrial environment. Earth sciences perspective33
Terminal Ediacaran–Terreneuvian revolutions in Siberia33
Applying astronomical solutions and Milanković forcing in the Earth sciences33
Estimating paleotemperature using stable isotopes of soil-formed phyllosilicates from paleosols: A review33
The rise and fall of the Malvinoxhosan (Malvinokaffric) bioregion in South Africa: Evidence for Early-Middle Devonian biocrises at the South Pole32
Freshwater mollusc sclerochronology: Trends, challenges, and future directions32
An oxygen isotope perspective on the break-up of the Rodinia supercontinent32
Magmatism and hydrocarbon accumulation in sedimentary basins: A review32
Global synthesis of two decades of research on improving PM2.5 estimation models from remote sensing and data science perspectives32
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, Canada32
Maturation from oceanic arcs to continental crust: Insights from Paleozoic magmatism in West Junggar, NW China32
The tectonic significance of peri-Gondwanan Late Neoproterozoic-Early Palaeozoic felsic peraluminous magmatism32
Geochemistry of low-temperature (<350 °C) metamorphic and hydrothermal monazite32
Morphology and controls of the mountain-front fan systems of the Hajar Mountains, south-east Arabia32
The growth and evolution of continental crust contributed by multiple sources in the East Kunlun Orogen during Early Paleozoic32
A late Ediacaran ice age: The key node in the Earth system evolution32
Gaseous hydrocarbons cracking in shale: Mechanism, impact and resource significance32
Storage integrity during underground hydrogen storage in depleted gas reservoirs32
Soil Taxonomy adapted to buried paleosols: First approximation32
Peat fires and legacy toxic metal release: An integrative biogeochemical and ecohydrological conceptual framework32
Rill flow velocity and resistance law: A review31
Editorial Board31
Convergent margin metallogenic cycles: A window to secular changes in Earth's tectonic evolution31
Evolution of the Eastern Red Sea Rifted margin: morphology, uplift processes and source-to-sink dynamics31
Editorial Board31
Precambrian geology of India31
The Offset Dykes in the North and East Range of the Sudbury impact structure, Canada: A synthesis31
Hierarchies of ecologic changes and their roles in the Phanerozoic taxonomic and ecologic diversification history of the Class Bivalvia31
The Hf and O isotope record of long-lasting accretionary orogens: The example of the Proterozoic and Paleozoic-Triassic central South America30
Comment on “Ichnological analysis: A tool to characterize deep-marine processes and sediments” by Francisco J. Rodriguez-Tovar [Earth-Science Reviews, 228 (2022), 104014]30
Reply to the comment on “Ichnological analysis: A tool to characterize deep-marine processes and sediments” by Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar [Earth-Science Reviews, 228 (2022), 104014]30
Evidence of “Lake Nyos-type” behavior in the geological record: A review30
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.30
The Ivrea-Verbano tectonic evolution: The role of the crust-mantle interactions in rifting localization30
Exposing basement terranes of the North Australian Craton30
The concept of oligotrophy applied to the fossil record30
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 Anatolia29
Cross-propagation of the western Alpine orogen from early to late deformation stages: Evidence from the Internal Zones and implications for restoration29
Degradation and local growth of “Xing'an-Baikal” permafrost responding to climate warming and the consequences29
A systematic review on rainfall patterns of Thailand: Insights into variability and its relationship with ENSO and IOD29
Experimental measurements and characterization models of caprock breakthrough pressure for CO2 geological storage29
Paleozoic collisional belt of the South Tien Shan: A review29
Potential strategic ore deposits on Mars: Implications for in situ resource utilization29
Fast-eroding Taiwan and transfer of orogenic sediment to forearc basins and trenches in the Philippine and South China seas29
Is hyperaccumulation a viable hypothesis for organic associations of minor elements in coals?29
Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, Northeast Brazil: A reference basin for studies on the early history of the South Atlantic Ocean28
Sediment oxygen consumption: Role in the global marine carbon cycle28
The Drake Passage asthenospheric and oceanic gateway28
Dispersal mechanism of fine-grained sediment in the modern mud belt of the East China Sea28
Focus on the nonlinear infiltration process in deep vadose zone28
The Silurian–Devonian terrestrial revolution: Diversity patterns and sampling bias of the vascular plant macrofossil record28
Physics-aware machine learning revolutionizes scientific paradigm for process-based modeling in hydrology28
Formation and fluxes of natural hydrogen in the crust and upper mantle28
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