Earth-Science Reviews

Papers
(The TQCC of Earth-Science Reviews is 24. 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Plate tectonic modelling and the energy transition344
Lithospheric weakspots, not hotspots: New England-Quebec and Shenandoah anorogenic magmatism in the context of global plate tectonics, intraplate stress and LIPs335
Multi-train roll waves, antidunes and bars in inclined flumes259
Mechanics of methane bubbles in consolidated aquatic muds175
Fringed Patagonian tableland: One of Earth's largest and oldest landslide terrains168
Magnetostratigraphic dating of earliest hominin sites in Europe156
Nitrogen cycling during the Mesoproterozoic as informed by the 1400 million year old Xiamaling Formation151
Tectonic imprints in Permian paleomagnetic data of Morocco146
Geotectonic settings of Variscan explosive volcanism in the light of Famennian tuffites provenance from southern Poland144
Nickel: Geochemistry, biochemistry and its role in chemical and biological evolutions143
Understanding how fire impacts soil carbon and nutrient cycling: Toward standardized reporting of fire metrics for the integrated plant-soil system141
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 histories138
A systematic review of carbon sink pathways and deployment strategies135
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 132
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 130
Sardinia and the Alpine cycle: A tectono-sedimentary history at the Western Tethys edge126
Grain size from source to sink – modern and ancient fining rates122
A systematic review of predictor screening methods for downscaling of numerical climate models118
Valley incision chronologies from alluvium-filled cave systems116
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)110
Innovations in underground hydrogen storage with multiphysics simulations, optimization, and monitoring: A review106
A review of Paleozoic phytoplankton biodiversity: Driver for major evolutionary events?106
The closure of a marginal sea: from subduction to collision in the southern South China Sea99
Long-period astronomical forcing of climatic and biological evolution during the late Paleozoic icehouse-to-greenhouse transition99
Geologic, geomorphic, tectonic, and paleoclimatic controls on the distribution and preservation of Chicxulub distal ejecta: A global perspective94
Research status and prospects of CO2 geological sequestration technology from onshore to offshore: A review92
Remote sensing algorithms for particulate inorganic carbon (PIC) and the global cycle of PIC89
Thermally driven organic-inorganic interactions in sedimentary basins: A review from source rocks to reservoirs89
New Maps of Global Geological Provinces and Tectonic Plates88
Bayesian back analysis of unsaturated hydraulic parameters for rainfall-induced slope failure: A review85
These legs were made for walking: 150 years of trilobite appendage morphology and evolution85
CO2 sequestration in geological formations: Insights into mineral reactions and reservoir dynamics84
Review of sediment connectivity: Conceptual connotations, characterization indicators, and their relationships with soil erosion and sediment yield83
Paleoproterozoic accretion and assembly of the Western Block of North China: A new model82
Contrasting characteristics, changes, and linkages of permafrost between the Arctic and the Third Pole81
Dynamics of Tethyan marine de‑oxygenation and relationship to S-N-P cycles during the Permian-Triassic boundary crisis80
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 Kranend76
Early paleozoic tectonics and paleogeography of the Eastern Arctic and Siberia: Review of paleomagnetic and geologic data for the De Long Islands75
Neoarchean SSZ and MOR ultra-/high-pressure ophiolitic mélanges of the Eastern Hebei Complex, North China Craton: Dynamics of an Archean paleo-subduction zone75
The supercontinent cycle seen from a hafnium isotope perspective in the Mongolian Accretionary Collage75
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 Province74
Planetary albedo and reflected shortwave flux: Basic characteristics, mechanisms of change and future projections73
Subduction initiation as recorded in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana forearc71
Petrogenetic interpretation of Archean low δ18O zircon: Implications for origin of continental crust on early Earth71
Quantitative paleogeographical reconstructions and basin evolution of South China during the Ordovician70
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 pat69
What water color parameters could be mapped using MODIS land reflectance products: A global evaluation over coastal and inland waters69
Multistage plate subduction controls intraplate volcanism and cratonic lithospheric thinning in Northeast Asia68
Antarctic mineral resources: Looking to the future of the Environmental Protocol68
Sulfuric acid caves of the world: A review68
Tectonic influence on the characteristics of contourite systems67
The DC and AC global electric circuits and climate67
Evolution mechanisms, impacts, and variations of the vortices originated from the Tibetan Plateau67
Research progress and current application of weak turbulence and turbulence intermittency in stable boundary layers66
A continental review of Australia's Cenozoic megafans and associated large accretionary fluvial systems66
Evolution of the Zagros sector of Neo-Tethys: Tectonic and magmatic events that shaped its rifting, seafloor spreading and subduction history66
The End-Devonian Hangenberg Event and its aftermath in South China: Stratigraphic and sedimentary records from shallow to deep water facies66
Source-to-sink reconstruction of early Paleozoic Western Gondwana mega-scale alluvial systems66
Detecting the impact of climate change on alpine mass movements in observational records from the European Alps65
Clay minerals on Mars: An up-to-date review with future perspectives65
Incorporating cross-scale insights into colloid-facilitated radionuclide transport in fractured rocks: A critical review65
Triassic terrestrial tetrapod faunas of the Central European Basin, their stratigraphical distribution, and their palaeoenvironments65
Diversification to extinction: oceanic and climatic context of the Ordovician64
Ecohydrological and geomorphological importance of glacial lakes64
Formation mechanism and geophysical properties of fracture-filling gas hydrate in the host sediments: A comprehensive review63
Comment on “Revisiting the Dom Feliciano Belt and surrounding areas – An integrated geophysical and isotope geology approach” by Teixeira et al62
Editorial Board62
Quantification and uncertainty of global upland soil methane sinks: Processes, controls, model limitations, and improvements62
Relation between sediment distribution and halokinetic geometries along salt structures: a review and new insights from field studies61
Sediment-transport rates from decadal to millennial timescales across the Indo-Gangetic Plain: Impacts of tectonics, climatic processes, and vegetation cover60
Global-scale constraints on the origins of aerosol iron using stable iron isotopes: A review60
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 Sa60
The Devonian System in northwestern Gondwana: Focus on Colombia60
Asian summer monsoon variability, global teleconnections, and dynamics during the last 1,000 years60
Long-term orbital forcing on Lower Jurassic black shale sedimentation: Basque-Cantabrian evidence60
Nature of the northern Indian plate margin during the assembly of supercontinent Columbia: was it a part of a double subduction?59
Advancing disaster risk communications59
Flat slab rollback as a trigger for large-scale skarn iron mineralization in the North China Craton59
A major Devonian phosphogenesis event associated with afforestation59
The Tertiary structuration of the Western Subalpine foreland deciphered by calcite-filled faults and veins59
Effects of plant types on terrestrial leaf wax long-chain n-alkane biomarkers: Implications and paleoapplications59
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 continent59
Massive Jurassic slab break-off revealed by a multidisciplinary reappraisal of the Chon Aike silicic large igneous province58
Understanding the resource potential of natural hydrogen on Earth: Scientific gaps, uncertainties and recommendations58
Production and significance of Reactive Oxygen Species in the subsurface58
Metallogeny of Late Paleozoic lode gold mineralization of western Tien Shan: From orogenic shortening to intracontinental strike-slip shearing57
Cenozoic tectonic evolution of offshore Chinese Basins and its response to geodynamic processes of the East Asian Continental Margin57
Editorial Board57
The uncertain role of rising atmospheric CO2 on global plant transpiration57
Editorial Board57
The Triassic–Jurassic transition – A review of environmental change at the dawn of modern life57
Lithium enrichment in geothermal systems of the Tibetan Plateau: A coupled machine learning–geochemistry framework for mechanism and prediction57
How benthic animals responded to the Paleozoic plant terrestrialization: Evidence from trace fossils and their ecosystem engineering reconstruction55
Spatial and temporal control of Archean tectonomagmatic regimes55
Corrigendum to “ Atmospheric aging effects on aerosol ice nucleation” [Earth-Science Reviews, 269 (2025), 105176]55
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.55
WITHDRAWN: Fast-eroding Taiwan and transfer of orogenic sediment to forearc basins and trenches in the Philippine and South China seas54
Why are readily soluble phytoliths more resilient?54
Surging glaciers in Svalbard: Observing their distribution, characteristics and evolution54
Glendonites throughout the Phanerozoic52
Are geological description practices and classification schemes fit for future use? Breccias as an example52
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
Stromatoporoids and extinctions: A review52
The Palaeoproterozoic Hotazel BIF-Mn Formation as an archive of Earth's earliest oxygenation51
Multi-stage differential exhumation of the West Junggar and adjacent regions, NW China, revealed by regional low-temperature thermochronology51
Growth of a subduction orogen: Deformation styles and exhumation patterns in the Dinarides-Albanides-Hellenides51
Systematic literature review on seismic diffraction imaging51
The southeast Brazilian rifted continental margin is not a single, continuous upwarp: Variations in morphology and denudation patterns along the continental drainage divide51
Effects of weathering and fluvial transport on detrital trace metals50
The Archean crust-mantle interaction in the Jiaoliao microblock, North China Craton: Constraints on the Neoarchean subduction regime50
West European Variscan Belt dismantling and early fragmentation of Pangea: The key role of the Paleotethys subduction49
Crustal architecture and tectonic terranes of the Northern Appalachians: Insights from Nd isotope mapping49
Rejection of Holliday et al.'s alleged refutation of the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis49
Thallium in environmental compartments affected by acid mine drainage (AMD) from the Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB): From rocks to the ocean48
Geochemical constraints on the nature of Late Archean basaltic-andesitic magmatism in the North China Craton48
Massive carbon storage in the upper mantle via diapirism of subducted continental sediments48
Thrust and nappe tectonics in orogenic settings – A historical review48
Continental growth in eastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Evidence from Middle Permian–Middle Jurassic magmatism47
Climate change hotspots and implications for the global subsea telecommunications network47
Links of high velocity anomalies in the mantle to the Proto-South China Sea slabs: Tomography-based review and perspective47
Evolution of the Archean felsic crust of Singhbhum Craton, India: A reassessment47
The 79 CE eruption of Vesuvius: A lesson from the past and the need of a multidisciplinary approach for developments in volcanology46
Provenance and sediment dispersal in the Po-Adriatic source-to-sink system unraveled by bulk-sediment geochemistry and its linkage to catchment geology46
The Meso-Tethys Ocean: The nature, extension and spatial-temporal evolution46
Coastal changes in the low-latitude western North Pacific region46
Reassessing metamorphic core complexes in the North American Cordillera46
Vulnerability of buildings to landslides: The state of the art and future needs46
The origins and transformation of carbonate mud during early marine burial diagenesis and the fate of aragonite: A stratigraphic sedimentological perspective46
Paleogeography of the Gondwana passive margin fragments involved in the Variscan and Alpine collisions: Perspectives from metavolcanic-sedimentary basement of the Western Carpathians46
How many oceans closed during the Brasiliano Cycle in northeastern Brazil? Implications for the amalgamation of western Gondwana45
Evolution of the East African Rift System from trap-scale to plate-scale rifting45
Landform-regolith patterns of Northwestern Africa: Deciphering Cenozoic surface dynamics of the tropical cratonic geosystem45
Gone with the tides? Reassessing possible eolian strata in the Paleoarchean Moodies Group in the context of the Archean eolian record44
Desert ecosystems in China: Past, present, and future44
500 million years of foraminiferal calcification44
Machine learning applications in tight porous media: Challenges, advances, and future directions44
Transcurrent tectonic system and deep seismogenic mechanism in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau: A view from gravity and magnetic anomalies44
Shale oil migration across multiple scales: A review of characterization methods and different patterns44
Reorganization of antecedent rivers in response to the evolving landscape at the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau43
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-Wester43
Tethyan tectonics: Introduction to special article collection43
Editorial Board43
Editorial Board42
Revisiting the geodynamical history of the so-called uplifted atolls, north-west Tuamotu, French Polynesia, central South Pacific42
Editorial Board42
A guide to recognising slow-moving subaqueous landslides in seismic and bathymetry datasets42
Editorial Board41
Geological evolution of the North China Craton in the first billion years of Earth's history41
Paleoclimatic significance of water isotopes in speleothem fluid inclusions41
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.e41
Interplay between early rifting, later folding, and sedimentary filling of a long-lived Tethys remnant: The Levant Basin41
Impact of the Jenkyns Event (early Toarcian) on dinosaurs: Comparison with the Triassic/Jurassic transition40
Early land plant evolution facilitated marine animal dispersal: Insights from the Late Ordovician–Early Devonian microconchids40
Refining the earthquake history of south-central Alaska through lake records40
Dominant control of precipitation on paleofire activity in the Asian Monsoon region over the past 20 ka40
Quantitative kinematic reconstruction of the Tibetan-Himalayan Orogen since 130 Ma40
Tectonic controls on lithium deposits in the Erzgebirge / Krušné hory region: Regional scale reconstruction of structural controls on late-Variscan mineralization39
Thaw-induced impacts on land and water in discontinuous permafrost: A review of the Taiga Plains and Taiga Shield, northwestern Canada39
Global tectonics and oxygenation events drove the Earth-scale phosphorus cycle39
Reconciling the Cretaceous breakup and demise of the Phoenix Plate with East Gondwana orogenesis in New Zealand39
Red sea evaporites: Formation, creep and dissolution39
Re-Os isotope system in organic-rich samples for dating and tracing: Methodology, principle, and application39
Trace elements in soils of the Antarctic ice-free areas: Insights on natural geochemical values, anthropogenic impact and possible remobilisation upon permafrost thaw39
First-principles investigation of equilibrium magnesium isotope fractionation among mantle minerals: Review and new data39
Cenozoic exhumation of the Tianshan as constrained by regional low-temperature thermochronology39
The trace-fossil record of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age39
The Caribbean mangroves: An Eocene innovation with no Cretaceous precursors38
Automated classification and mapping for alluvial geomorphic units: Current approaches and future directions38
A chemical framework for the preservation of fossil vertebrate cells and soft tissues38
Recent advancements in characterizing permeability and porosity distributions in bioturbated flow media38
Post-rift faulting controlled by different geodynamics in the Pearl River Mouth Basin, northern South China Sea margin37
Serpentinization-mediated H2-generation and its genesis link to supra-subduction zone ophiolites37
A persistent non-uniformitarian paleomagnetic field in the Devonian?37
Minerals: A missing role for enhanced biochar carbon sequestration from the thermal conversion of biomass to the application in soil36
A review on deformation structures of different terranes in the Precambrian Aravalli-Delhi Mobile Belt (ADMB), NW India: Tectonic implications and global correlation36
Connecting soils to life in conservation planning, nutrient cycling, and planetary science36
Dynamics of gravity currents under external and internal stratification in geophysical systems36
Unveiling the history and nature of paleostorms in the Holocene36
Recent advances made by reaction experiments on melting of heavily metasomatized hydrous mantle36
Stable zinc isotopes as tracers in environmental geochemistry36
A global apparent polar wander path for the last 320 Ma calculated from site-level paleomagnetic data35
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 exemplar35
Geology from aeromagnetic data35
Early plate tectonics and evolution of continental crust in the North China craton: Editorial preface35
Formation and evolution of Archean continental crust: A thermodynamic – geochemical perspective of granitoids from the Tarim Craton, NW China35
Estimating paleotemperature using stable isotopes of soil-formed phyllosilicates from paleosols: A review34
Freshwater mollusc sclerochronology: Trends, challenges, and future directions34
The precursor of apatite: Octacalcium phosphate (OCP) in the earth and environmental sciences - A review34
Ice universality: perception of ice, its properties and connected processes on Earth and in the extraterrestrial environment. Earth sciences perspective34
Morphology and controls of the mountain-front fan systems of the Hajar Mountains, south-east Arabia34
Mesoarchean terrestrial sedimentation in a continental rift setting and its provenance implications: An example from the Bisrampur Formation, Singhbhum craton, India34
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 Ocean34
Global patterns of shore platform evolution and cliff retreat: Insights from cosmogenic radionuclides34
Moisture migration, ice lenses and frost heave characteristics of soils under one-dimensional freezing action: A critical literature review34
A late Ediacaran ice age: The key node in the Earth system evolution34
Elusive Permian – Triassic Western Paleotethyan paleogeography: Towards the Early Cimmerian pre-Vardar configuration (Dinarides-Carpathian Balkan Belt)34
Reply to the discussion paper by R. Martin on Kroeck et al. “A review of Paleozoic phytoplankton biodiversity: Driver for major evolutionary events?”34
Editorial Board34
The tectonic significance of peri-Gondwanan Late Neoproterozoic-Early Palaeozoic felsic peraluminous magmatism33
Glacier and terrestrial ecosystem evolution in the Chilotan archipelago sector of northwestern Patagonia since the Last Glacial Termination33
The growth and evolution of continental crust contributed by multiple sources in the East Kunlun Orogen during Early Paleozoic33
Maturation from oceanic arcs to continental crust: Insights from Paleozoic magmatism in West Junggar, NW China33
Geochemistry of low-temperature (<350 °C) metamorphic and hydrothermal monazite33
Soil Taxonomy adapted to buried paleosols: First approximation33
Gaseous hydrocarbons cracking in shale: Mechanism, impact and resource significance33
Self-sustaining slab dynamics of the underthrusting Indian lithosphere shaping the giant Himalayan Orocline33
Applying astronomical solutions and Milanković forcing in the Earth sciences33
The rise and fall of the Malvinoxhosan (Malvinokaffric) bioregion in South Africa: Evidence for Early-Middle Devonian biocrises at the South Pole32
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
Terminal Ediacaran–Terreneuvian revolutions in Siberia32
Relative continent - mid-ocean ridge elevation: A reference case for isostasy in geodynamics32
Magmatism and hydrocarbon accumulation in sedimentary basins: A review32
Assessing the impact of bioturbation on sedimentary isotopic records through numerical models32
Peat fires and legacy toxic metal release: An integrative biogeochemical and ecohydrological conceptual framework32
Deciphering the behavior and fate of microplastics in coastal aquatic environments: A comprehensive review illuminating coastal dynamics and driving mechanisms32
Challenges in using platform carbonates to trace global seawater δ13C variations: A review and insights from terminal Ediacaran carbonate platforms31
Podiform chromitites as multi-stage mantle archives: Integrating deep-mantle inheritance with shallow mantle processes31
The evolution of the fracture systems under progressive sinistral shear in the Bundelkhand Craton, Central India: A review and new insights31
Storage integrity during underground hydrogen storage in depleted gas reservoirs31
Global synthesis of two decades of research on improving PM2.5 estimation models from remote sensing and data science perspectives31
An oxygen isotope perspective on the break-up of the Rodinia supercontinent31
The Hf and O isotope record of long-lasting accretionary orogens: The example of the Proterozoic and Paleozoic-Triassic central South America30
The Offset Dykes in the North and East Range of the Sudbury impact structure, Canada: A synthesis30
Editorial Board30
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 Anatolia30
A review of early Paleozoic subduction-accretion tectonics in the North Qilian Orogenic Belt, Northeastern Tibet: Implications for the evolution of the Proto-Tethys Ocean30
Exposing basement terranes of the North Australian Craton30
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
Precambrian geology of India30
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
Pedogenic ferromanganese nodules and their impacts on nutrient cycles and heavy metal sequestration30
The Ivrea-Verbano tectonic evolution: The role of the crust-mantle interactions in rifting localization30
Cross-propagation of the western Alpine orogen from early to late deformation stages: Evidence from the Internal Zones and implications for restoration30
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
Hierarchies of ecologic changes and their roles in the Phanerozoic taxonomic and ecologic diversification history of the Class Bivalvia30
The concept of oligotrophy applied to the fossil record30
The Drake Passage asthenospheric and oceanic gateway30
Potential strategic ore deposits on Mars: Implications for in situ resource utilization30
Is hyperaccumulation a viable hypothesis for organic associations of minor elements in coals?29
Degradation and local growth of “Xing'an-Baikal” permafrost responding to climate warming and the consequences29
Rill flow velocity and resistance law: A review29
Comprehensive review of CO2 geological storage: Exploring principles, mechanisms, and prospects29
Evidence of “Lake Nyos-type” behavior in the geological record: A review29
Dispersal mechanism of fine-grained sediment in the modern mud belt of the East China Sea29
The Silurian–Devonian terrestrial revolution: Diversity patterns and sampling bias of the vascular plant macrofossil record29
Convergent margin metallogenic cycles: A window to secular changes in Earth's tectonic evolution29
Paleozoic collisional belt of the South Tien Shan: A review29
Formation and fluxes of natural hydrogen in the crust and upper mantle29
Fast-eroding Taiwan and transfer of orogenic sediment to forearc basins and trenches in the Philippine and South China seas29
Focus on the nonlinear infiltration process in deep vadose zone29
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