Earth-Science Reviews

Papers
(The TQCC of Earth-Science Reviews is 21. 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 2020-12-01 to 2024-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Phanerozoic paleotemperatures: The earth’s changing climate during the last 540 million years348
Extending full-plate tectonic models into deep time: Linking the Neoproterozoic and the Phanerozoic239
Warming amplification over the Arctic Pole and Third Pole: Trends, mechanisms and consequences221
Drought effects on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics in global natural ecosystems212
Recent advances in carbon dioxide geological storage, experimental procedures, influencing parameters, and future outlook196
Desiccation cracking of soils: A review of investigation approaches, underlying mechanisms, and influencing factors187
Neoproterozoic plate tectonic process and Phanerozoic geodynamic evolution of the South China Block177
Tectonic evolution of the Sichuan Basin, Southwest China175
Modes of occurrence of elements in coal: A critical evaluation160
Deep learning for geological hazards analysis: Data, models, applications, and opportunities156
Exploring the multiple land degradation pathways across the planet155
Recent climate and hydrological changes in a mountain–basin system in Xinjiang, China154
Global impact of climate change on soil erosion and potential for adaptation through soil conservation153
The status and stability of permafrost carbon on the Tibetan Plateau150
Leakage risk assessment of a CO2 storage site: A review144
A comprehensive review on deep learning based remote sensing image super-resolution methods140
Fenton chemistry and reactive oxygen species in soil: Abiotic mechanisms of biotic processes, controls and consequences for carbon and nutrient cycling137
Movable oil content evaluation of lacustrine organic-rich shales: Methods and a novel quantitative evaluation model136
Landslide failures detection and mapping using Synthetic Aperture Radar: Past, present and future135
Measuring, modelling and managing gully erosion at large scales: A state of the art133
Loess landscapes of Europe – Mapping, geomorphology, and zonal differentiation131
Application of artificial intelligence in geotechnical engineering: A state-of-the-art review130
Tortuosity of porous media: Image analysis and physical simulation130
Carbon mineralization and geological storage of CO2 in basalt: Mechanisms and technical challenges128
Soil moisture retrieval from remote sensing measurements: Current knowledge and directions for the future127
Deep learning in pore scale imaging and modeling121
Sulphate in freshwater ecosystems: A review of sources, biogeochemical cycles, ecotoxicological effects and bioremediation116
Increasing cryospheric hazards in a warming climate114
Magmatic perspective on subduction of Paleo-Pacific plate and initiation of big mantle wedge in East Asia114
An overview of monitoring methods for assessing the performance of nature-based solutions against natural hazards105
Increasing glacial lake outburst flood hazard in response to surge glaciers in the Karakoram105
Learning from natural sediments to tackle microplastics challenges: A multidisciplinary perspective98
Dam builders and their works: Beaver influences on the structure and function of river corridor hydrology, geomorphology, biogeochemistry and ecosystems95
Understanding interactions among climate, water, and vegetation with the Budyko framework93
Effectiveness of post-fire soil erosion mitigation treatments: A systematic review and meta-analysis92
Sediment oxygen consumption: Role in the global marine carbon cycle89
An orocline in the eastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt89
Cenozoic evolution of the Qaidam basin and implications for the growth of the northern Tibetan plateau: A review89
Breaches of embankment and landslide dams - State of the art review88
Lithosphere thickness controls the extent of mantle melting, depth of melt extraction and basalt compositions in all tectonic settings on Earth – A review and new perspectives86
Schwertmannite: A review of its occurrence, formation, structure, stability and interactions with oxyanions86
Multi-stage tectonics and metallogeny associated with Phanerozoic evolution of the South China Block: A holistic perspective from the Youjiang Basin85
Andean mountain building since the Late Cretaceous: A paleoelevation reconstruction84
Mapping paleocoastlines and continental flooding during the Phanerozoic82
Exploring a lost ocean in the Tibetan Plateau: Birth, growth, and demise of the Bangong-Nujiang Ocean82
The Mid-Variscan Allochthon: Keys from correlation, partial retrodeformation and plate-tectonic reconstruction to unlock the geometry of a non-cylindrical belt81
Strontium (87Sr/86Sr) mapping: A critical review of methods and approaches79
Tectono-thermal evolution of the Qilian orogenic system: Tracing the subduction, accretion and closure of the Proto-Tethys Ocean79
Towards a universal model for orogenic gold systems: A perspective based on Chinese examples with geodynamic, temporal, and deposit-scale structural and geochemical diversity78
Compound droughts and hot extremes: Characteristics, drivers, changes, and impacts78
Spatiotemporal forecasting in earth system science: Methods, uncertainties, predictability and future directions77
Radium isotopes as submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) tracers: Review and recommendations76
Geochronology of the Paraná-Etendeka large igneous province74
Interactions of Asian mineral dust with Indian summer monsoon: Recent advances and challenges73
Timing and patterns of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event and Late Ordovician mass extinction: Perspectives from South China72
SEM petrography of dispersed organic matter in black shales: A review71
A review of ocean-atmosphere interactions during tropical cyclones in the north Indian Ocean71
Cenozoic lithospheric architecture and metallogenesis in Southeastern Tibet71
Geomorphometry and terrain analysis: data, methods, platforms and applications69
Albedo reduction as an important driver for glacier melting in Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas68
A critical review on pore to continuum scale imaging techniques for enhanced shale gas recovery68
Global marine redox evolution from the late Neoproterozoic to the early Paleozoic constrained by the integration of Mo and U isotope records67
Smartphone assisted fieldwork: Towards the digital transition of geoscience fieldwork using LiDAR-equipped iPhones66
Fluids associated with carbonatitic magmatism: A critical review and implications for carbonatite magma ascent66
Contrasting characteristics, changes, and linkages of permafrost between the Arctic and the Third Pole66
Subduction initiation from the earliest stages to self-sustained subduction: Insights from the analysis of 70 Cenozoic sites65
Determining dominating control mechanisms of inland water carbon cycling processes and associated gross primary productivity on regional and global scales64
Landslide monitoring using seismic ambient noise correlation: challenges and applications63
Biogeochemical cycling of iron (hydr-)oxides and its impact on organic carbon turnover in coastal wetlands: A global synthesis and perspective63
Current status and future perspectives of microplastic pollution in typical cryospheric regions62
New Maps of Global Geological Provinces and Tectonic Plates62
Progress towards an improved Precambrian seawater 87Sr/86Sr curve61
Subduction of oceanic lithosphere in the Alps: Selective and archetypal from (slow-spreading) oceans61
Magmatic responses to Cretaceous subduction and tearing of the paleo-Pacific Plate in SE China: An overview61
Seasonal imprint of Holocene temperature reconstruction on the Tibetan Plateau60
Himalayan leucogranites: A review of geochemical and isotopic characteristics, timing of formation, genesis, and rare metal mineralization60
A comprehensive system of definitions of land surface (topographic) curvatures, with implications for their application in geoscience modelling and prediction59
Deep entrapment of buoyant magmas by orogenic tectonic stress: Its role in producing continental crust, adakites, and porphyry copper deposits59
Towards an actualistic view of the Crato Konservat-Lagerstätte paleoenvironment: A new hypothesis as an Early Cretaceous (Aptian) equatorial and semi-arid wetland58
Oil content and resource quality evaluation methods for lacustrine shale: A review and a novel three-dimensional quality evaluation model58
Climate variability and floods in China - A review58
Room for improvement: A review and evaluation of 24 soil thermal conductivity parameterization schemes commonly used in land-surface, hydrological, and soil-vegetation-atmosphere transfer models58
Abrupt ecological shifts of lakes during the Anthropocene58
The 1986–2021 paroxysmal episodes at the summit craters of Mt. Etna: Insights into volcano dynamics and hazard57
Laboratory hydraulic fracturing experiments on crystalline rock for geothermal purposes56
Seismic imaging of Northwest Pacific and East Asia: New insight into volcanism, seismogenesis and geodynamics56
A dynamic 2000—540 Ma Earth history: From cratonic amalgamation to the age of supercontinent cycle53
The trace fossil record of the Nama Group, Namibia: Exploring the terminal Ediacaran roots of the Cambrian explosion53
The genesis, development, and evolution of original vertical joints in loess53
Evolution of the Laurentide and Innuitian ice sheets prior to the Last Glacial Maximum (115 ka to 25 ka)53
Embracing the dynamic nature of soil structure: A paradigm illuminating the role of life in critical zones of the Anthropocene53
Redox changes in the outer Yangtze Sea (South China) through the Hirnantian Glaciation and their implications for the end-Ordovician biocrisis52
Calibrating the temporal and spatial dynamics of the Ediacaran - Cambrian radiation of animals52
Aeolian dust transport, cycle and influences in high-elevation cryosphere of the Tibetan Plateau region: New evidences from alpine snow and ice52
The influence of ice sheet and solar insolation on Holocene moisture evolution in northern Central Asia52
Landslide susceptibility maps of Italy: Lesson learnt from dealing with multiple landslide types and the uneven spatial distribution of the national inventory52
Recent technological and methodological advances for the investigation of landslide dams51
Glacier change in China over past decades: Spatiotemporal patterns and influencing factors51
Monsoon controls on sediment generation and transport: Mass budget and provenance constraints from the Indus River catchment, delta and submarine fan over tectonic and multimillennial timescales51
Sensing the ocean biological carbon pump from space: A review of capabilities, concepts, research gaps and future developments49
Impact Earth: A review of the terrestrial impact record49
East Asian lithospheric evolution dictated by multistage Mesozoic flat-slab subduction48
Tracing volcanic emissions from the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province in the sedimentary record48
Analyses from a validated global U Pb detrital zircon database: Enhanced methods for filtering discordant U Pb zircon analyses and optimizing crystallization age estimates48
Holocene climatic optimum in the East Asian monsoon region of China defined by climatic stability48
Mesozoic intraplate tectonism of East Asia due to flat subduction of a composite terrane slab47
Archean dome-and-basin style structures form during growth and death of intraoceanic and continental margin arcs in accretionary orogens47
Eastern China continental lithosphere thinning is a consequence of paleo-Pacific plate subduction: A review and new perspectives46
The biogeochemistry of ferruginous lakes and past ferruginous oceans46
Processes in mushes and their role in the differentiation of granitic rocks45
Investigations and new insights on earthquake mechanics from fault slip experiments45
Freshening of the Mediterranean Salt Giant: controversies and certainties around the terminal (Upper Gypsum and Lago-Mare) phases of the Messinian Salinity Crisis45
Sedimentary Ce anomalies: Secular change and implications for paleoenvironmental evolution45
The core of Rodinia formed by the juxtaposition of opposed retreating and advancing accretionary orogens45
The fate of subducting carbon tracked by Mg and Zn isotopes: A review and new perspectives44
Classification of ignimbrites and their eruptions44
Subduction initiation in the Scotia Sea region and opening of the Drake Passage: When and why?44
Geodynamic controls on magmatic arc migration and quiescence44
Challenges and enablers for large-scale CO2 storage in chalk formations44
On the origins of the Iapetus Ocean43
Coupling between uplift of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt-NE Tibetan Plateau and accumulation of aeolian Red Clay in the inner Asia began at ~7 Ma42
Mesozoic–Cenozoic tectonic evolution and dynamics of the Songliao Basin, NE Asia: Implications for the closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean and Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean and subduction of the Paleo-Pacific Oce42
Dynamic processes of the curved subduction system in Southeast Asia: A review and future perspective42
Fold geometry and folding – a review42
Pore-network modeling of flow in shale nanopores: Network structure, flow principles, and computational algorithms42
Comparison of thermodynamic data files for PHREEQC41
A revised, late Palaeozoic glacial time-space framework for eastern Australia, and comparisons with other regions and events41
Progressive tectonic evolution from crustal shortening to mid-lower crustal expansion in the southeast Tibetan Plateau: A synthesis of structural and thermochronological insights41
Correlation of the stratigraphic cover of the Pilbara and Kaapvaal cratons recording the lead up to Paleoproterozoic Icehouse and the GOE41
Provenance and recycling of Sahara Desert sand41
Cenozoic uplift and erosion of the Norwegian Barents Shelf – A review41
What we talk about when we talk about seasonality – A transdisciplinary review40
Comprehensive review of CO2 geological storage: Exploring principles, mechanisms, and prospects40
Structural and kinematic analysis of Cenozoic rift basins in South China Sea: A synthesis40
Dynamic continuous hydrocarbon accumulation (DCHA): Existing theories and a new unified accumulation model40
Laboratory experiments on fault behavior towards better understanding of injection-induced seismicity in geoenergy systems39
Greater Avalonia—latest Ediacaran–Ordovician “peribaltic” terrane bounded by continental margin prisms (“Ganderia,” Harlech Dome, Meguma): Review, tectonic implications, and paleogeography39
Evaluation of physical and chemical proxies used to interpret past glaciations with a focus on the late Paleozoic Ice Age39
Biological albedo reduction on ice sheets, glaciers, and snowfields39
Arclogites and their role in continental evolution; part 1: Background, locations, petrography, geochemistry, chronology and thermobarometry39
Nitrogen contamination and bioremediation in groundwater and the environment: A review39
Early Cretaceous tectonics across the North Pacific: New insights from multiphase tectonic extension in Eastern Eurasia38
Molecular hydrogen in surface and subsurface natural gases: Abundance, origins and ideas for deliberate exploration38
Landscape changes and their hydrologic effects: Interactions and feedbacks across scales38
Conservation, preparation and imaging of diverse ambers and their inclusions38
Coupled redox cycling of Fe and Mn in the environment: The complex interplay of solution species with Fe- and Mn-(oxyhydr)oxide crystallization and transformation37
Exploring machine learning potential for climate change risk assessment37
Radon-222 as a groundwater discharge tracer to surface waters37
Deep-water depositional systems supplied by shelf-incising submarine canyons: Recognition and significance in the geologic record37
Characterisation of weak layers, physical controls on their global distribution and their role in submarine landslide formation37
Conjugate volcanic passive margins in the austral segment of the South Atlantic – Architecture and development37
Review of satellite radar interferometry for subsidence analysis36
How allogenic factors affect succession in glacier forefields36
Neoproterozoic postglacial paleoenvironment and hydrocarbon potential: A review and new insights from the Doushantuo Formation Sichuan Basin, China36
What can the GRACE seasonal cycle tell us about lake-aquifer interactions?36
Tibetan ore deposits: A conjunction of accretionary orogeny and continental collision36
Synthesis of the distribution of subsidence of the lower Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, Bangladesh36
The role of infrequently mobile boulders in modulating landscape evolution and geomorphic hazards36
Phosphorus mineral evolution and prebiotic chemistry: From minerals to microbes36
Sulfidic anoxia in the oceans during the Late Ordovician mass extinctions – insights from molybdenum and uranium isotopic global redox proxies36
Ants as geomorphological agents: A global assessment35
Crustal melting and suprasolidus phase equilibria: From first principles to the state-of-the-art35
Hydrological controls on marine chemistry in the Cryogenian Nanhua Basin (South China)35
Coupling of paleoenvironment and biogeochemistry of deep-time alkaline lakes: A lipid biomarker perspective35
Review of assimilating GRACE terrestrial water storage data into hydrological models: Advances, challenges and opportunities35
Provenance of Kalahari Sand: Paleoweathering and recycling in a linked fluvial-aeolian system35
Modelling landslide susceptibility prediction: A review and construction of semi-supervised imbalanced theory34
The social implications of Submarine Groundwater Discharge from an Ecosystem Services perspective: A systematic review34
Ocean-continent transition architecture and breakup mechanism at the mid-northern South China Sea34
Ten years after the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake and tsunami: Geological and environmental effects and implications for disaster policy changes34
A review of Devonian–Carboniferous magmatism in the central region of Argentina, pre-Andean margin of SW Gondwana34
Towards an improved understanding of biogeochemical processes across surface-groundwater interactions in intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams34
Integrated detrital rutile and zircon provenance reveals multiple sources for Cambrian sandstones in North Gondwana34
Paleo-Tethys subduction induced slab-drag opening the Neo-Tethys: Evidence from an Iranian segment of Gondwana34
Greenalite and its role in the genesis of early Precambrian iron formations – A review34
Numerical modeling of tsunami: advances and future challenges after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami34
What controls the duration and intensity of ocean anoxic events in the Paleozoic and the Mesozoic?34
Aerosol-cloud interactions over the Tibetan Plateau: An overview34
Snowballs in Africa: sectioning a long-lived Neoproterozoic carbonate platform and its bathyal foreslope (NW Namibia)33
Stereoscopic hyperspectral remote sensing of the atmospheric environment: Innovation and prospects33
Late-Pleistocene catchment-wide denudation patterns across the European Alps33
A meta-analysis of the Steptoean Positive Carbon Isotope Excursion: The SPICEraq database33
Miocene paleoceanographic evolution of the Mediterranean area and carbonate production changes: A review33
Challenges of mapping, modelling and quantifying sediment connectivity33
Machine learning in microseismic monitoring33
The geotectonic setting, age and mineral deposit inventory of global layered intrusions33
Tectonic evolution and global crustal architecture of the European Variscan belt constrained by geophysical data33
Mechanisms for biocrust-modulated runoff generation – A review33
Pre-Alpine tectonic evolution of the Eastern Alps: From Prototethys to Paleotethys32
Land-surface parameters for spatial predictive mapping and modeling32
Seismic facies analysis: Past, present and future32
Progress, problems and prospects: An overview of the Guadalupian Series of South China and North America32
Global organic carbon burial during the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event: Patterns and controls31
High-sedimentation-rate loess records: A new window into understanding orbital- and millennial-scale monsoon variability31
A critical review of molybdenum sequestration mechanisms under euxinic conditions: Implications for the precision of molybdenum paleoredox proxies31
Lost islands in the northern Lesser Antilles: possible milestones in the Cenozoic dispersal of terrestrial organisms between South-America and the Greater Antilles31
Locating the BACE of the Cambrian: Bayan Gol in southwestern Mongolia and global correlation of the Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary31
Earth system changes during the cooling greenhouse phase of the Late Cretaceous: Coniacian-Santonian OAE3 subevents and fundamental variations in organic carbon deposition31
Denudation history and palaeogeography of the Pyrenees and their peripheral basins: an 84-million-year geomorphological perspective31
Synthesis of a chrono- and biostratigraphical framework for the Lower Cretaceous of Jiuquan, NW China: Implications for major evolutionary events30
Desert ecosystems in China: Past, present, and future30
Neutron scattering: A subsurface application review30
Epochs, events and episodes: Marking the geological impact of humans30
Terrestrial climate in mid-latitude East Asia from the latest Cretaceous to the earliest Paleogene: A multiproxy record from the Songliao Basin in northeastern China30
Towards improved USLE-based soil erosion modelling in India: A review of prevalent pitfalls and implementation of exemplar methods30
Arclogites and their role in continental evolution; part 2: Relationship to batholiths and volcanoes, density and foundering, remelting and long-term storage in the mantle30
The West Burma Terrane, a review of recent paleo-latitude data, its geological implications and constraints30
Past, present, and future geo-biosphere interactions on the Tibetan Plateau and implications for permafrost29
Main controlling factors and movability evaluation of continental shale oil29
On the settling of marine carbonate grains: Review and challenges29
The uncertain role of rising atmospheric CO2 on global plant transpiration29
Representing the role of soil moisture on erosion resistance in sediment models: Challenges and opportunities29
A review on onshore tsunami deposits along the Atlantic coasts29
The Cycladic Blueschist Unit of the Hellenic subduction orogen: Protracted high-pressure metamorphism, decompression and reimbrication of a diachronous nappe stack29
The Artinskian Warming Event: an Euramerican change in climate and the terrestrial biota during the early Permian29
Subsurface sedimentary structure identification using deep learning: A review29
Origins of non-tectonic fractures in shale29
From exploration to remediation: A microbial perspective for innovation in mining28
The odyssey of Tibetan Plateau accretion prior to Cenozoic India-Asia collision: Probing the Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the Bangong-Nujiang Suture28
Mechanisms of the Early 20th Century Warming in the Arctic28
Insights into soft-part preservation from the Early Ordovician Fezouata Biota28
Mercury contents and isotope ratios from diverse depositional environments across the Triassic–Jurassic Boundary: Towards a more robust mercury proxy for large igneous province magmatism28
Late Palaeozoic cyclothems – A review of their stratigraphy and sedimentology28
Glacier response to the Little Ice Age during the Neoglacial cooling in Greenland28
Striving to translate shale physics across ten orders of magnitude: What have we learned?28
Ultramafic-hosted volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits: an overlooked sub-class of VMS deposit forming in complex tectonic environments28
Towards interactive global paleogeographic maps, new reconstructions at 60, 40 and 20 Ma28
The history of life at hydrothermal vents28
Atmospheric oxygen of the Paleozoic28
Controls on the intrinsic flow properties of mudrock fractures: A review of their importance in subsurface storage28
Plio-Pleistocene sedimentation in West Turkana (Turkana Depression, Kenya, East African Rift System): Paleolake fluctuations, paleolandscapes and controlling factors28
Principles of seismic stratigraphy and seismic geomorphology I: Extracting geologic insights from seismic data28
The Mid-Ludfordian (late Silurian) Glaciation: A link with global changes in ocean chemistry and ecosystem overturns27
Deglaciation controls on sediment yield: Towards capturing spatio-temporal variability27
Porphyry copper and skarn fertility of the northern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau collisional granitoids27
Current developments and applications of micro-CT for the 3D analysis of multiphase mineral systems in geometallurgy27
Spatio-temporal evolution and dynamic origin of Jurassic-Cretaceous magmatism in the South China Block27
Geological deformations in the Pannonian Basin during the neotectonic phase: New insights from the latest regional mapping in Hungary27
The Silurian–Devonian terrestrial revolution: Diversity patterns and sampling bias of the vascular plant macrofossil record27
Storage integrity during underground hydrogen storage in depleted gas reservoirs27
The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis: Review of the impact evidence27
When plateau meets subduction zone: A review of numerical models27
Role of Indian Summer Monsoon and Westerlies on glacier variability in the Himalaya and East Africa during Late Quaternary: Review and new data27
Global spatio-temporal variations and metallogenic diversity of karst bauxites and their tectonic, paleogeographic and paleoclimatic relationship with the Tethyan realm evolution26
An overview of debris-flow mathematical modelling26
A new classification system for mixed (turbidite-contourite) depositional systems: Examples, conceptual models and diagnostic criteria for modern and ancient records26
The Furongian to Lower Ordovician Alum Shale Formation in conventional and unconventional petroleum systems in the Baltic Basin – A review26
Denudation and geomorphic change in the Anthropocene; a global overview.26
Pore-scale simulation of multiphase flow and reactive transport processes involved in geologic carbon sequestration26
An Early Jurassic (Sinemurian–Toarcian) stratigraphic framework for the occurrence of Organic Matter Preservation Intervals (OMPIs)26
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