Earth-Science Reviews

Article	Citations
Phanerozoic paleotemperatures: The earth’s changing climate during the last 540 million years	327
Challenges for drought assessment in the Mediterranean region under future climate scenarios	286
Machine learning for digital soil mapping: Applications, challenges and suggested solutions	281
Extending full-plate tectonic models into deep time: Linking the Neoproterozoic and the Phanerozoic	227
Warming amplification over the Arctic Pole and Third Pole: Trends, mechanisms and consequences	208
Drought effects on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics in global natural ecosystems	196
Recent advances in carbon dioxide geological storage, experimental procedures, influencing parameters, and future outlook	170
Desiccation cracking of soils: A review of investigation approaches, underlying mechanisms, and influencing factors	170
Neoproterozoic plate tectonic process and Phanerozoic geodynamic evolution of the South China Block	166
A review of black carbon in snow and ice and its impact on the cryosphere	161
Tectonic evolution of the Sichuan Basin, Southwest China	159
Pollen-based climate reconstruction techniques for late Quaternary studies	154
Elevation dependent warming over the Tibetan Plateau: Patterns, mechanisms and perspectives	152
Modes of occurrence of elements in coal: A critical evaluation	149
Deep learning for geological hazards analysis: Data, models, applications, and opportunities	144
The status and stability of permafrost carbon on the Tibetan Plateau	142
Recent climate and hydrological changes in a mountain–basin system in Xinjiang, China	141
Exploring the multiple land degradation pathways across the planet	138
Landslide failures detection and mapping using Synthetic Aperture Radar: Past, present and future	135
Measuring, modelling and managing gully erosion at large scales: A state of the art	133
Fenton chemistry and reactive oxygen species in soil: Abiotic mechanisms of biotic processes, controls and consequences for carbon and nutrient cycling	132
Loess landscapes of Europe – Mapping, geomorphology, and zonal differentiation	131
Global impact of climate change on soil erosion and potential for adaptation through soil conservation	130
Movable oil content evaluation of lacustrine organic-rich shales: Methods and a novel quantitative evaluation model	129
A comprehensive review on deep learning based remote sensing image super-resolution methods	127

Leakage risk assessment of a CO2 storage site: A review	125
Tortuosity of porous media: Image analysis and physical simulation	123
Carbon mineralization and geological storage of CO2 in basalt: Mechanisms and technical challenges	118
Application of artificial intelligence in geotechnical engineering: A state-of-the-art review	115
Magmatic perspective on subduction of Paleo-Pacific plate and initiation of big mantle wedge in East Asia	114
Deep learning in pore scale imaging and modeling	113
Soil moisture retrieval from remote sensing measurements: Current knowledge and directions for the future	112
Increasing cryospheric hazards in a warming climate	107
Sulphate in freshwater ecosystems: A review of sources, biogeochemical cycles, ecotoxicological effects and bioremediation	101
Increasing glacial lake outburst flood hazard in response to surge glaciers in the Karakoram	98
An overview of monitoring methods for assessing the performance of nature-based solutions against natural hazards	95
Understanding interactions among climate, water, and vegetation with the Budyko framework	93
An orocline in the eastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt	89
Breaches of embankment and landslide dams - State of the art review	88
Effectiveness of post-fire soil erosion mitigation treatments: A systematic review and meta-analysis	87
Dam builders and their works: Beaver influences on the structure and function of river corridor hydrology, geomorphology, biogeochemistry and ecosystems	87
Multi-stage tectonics and metallogeny associated with Phanerozoic evolution of the South China Block: A holistic perspective from the Youjiang Basin	85
Cenozoic evolution of the Qaidam basin and implications for the growth of the northern Tibetan plateau: A review	85
Andean mountain building since the Late Cretaceous: A paleoelevation reconstruction	81
Learning from natural sediments to tackle microplastics challenges: A multidisciplinary perspective	81
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 perspectives	80
Schwertmannite: A review of its occurrence, formation, structure, stability and interactions with oxyanions	79
Sediment oxygen consumption: Role in the global marine carbon cycle	78
Strontium (87Sr/86Sr) mapping: A critical review of methods and approaches	77
Mapping paleocoastlines and continental flooding during the Phanerozoic	77
The Mid-Variscan Allochthon: Keys from correlation, partial retrodeformation and plate-tectonic reconstruction to unlock the geometry of a non-cylindrical belt	76
Radium isotopes as submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) tracers: Review and recommendations	76
Exploring a lost ocean in the Tibetan Plateau: Birth, growth, and demise of the Bangong-Nujiang Ocean	75
Tectono-thermal evolution of the Qilian orogenic system: Tracing the subduction, accretion and closure of the Proto-Tethys Ocean	74
The lower shoreface: Morphodynamics and sediment connectivity with the upper shoreface and beach	73
Towards a universal model for orogenic gold systems: A perspective based on Chinese examples with geodynamic, temporal, and deposit-scale structural and geochemical diversity	72
Cenozoic lithospheric architecture and metallogenesis in Southeastern Tibet	71
SEM petrography of dispersed organic matter in black shales: A review	71
A review of ocean-atmosphere interactions during tropical cyclones in the north Indian Ocean	71
Spatiotemporal forecasting in earth system science: Methods, uncertainties, predictability and future directions	70
Geochronology of the Paraná-Etendeka large igneous province	70
Interactions of Asian mineral dust with Indian summer monsoon: Recent advances and challenges	70
Timing and patterns of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event and Late Ordovician mass extinction: Perspectives from South China	69
Albedo reduction as an important driver for glacier melting in Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas	68
Fluids associated with carbonatitic magmatism: A critical review and implications for carbonatite magma ascent	66
A critical review on pore to continuum scale imaging techniques for enhanced shale gas recovery	66
Global marine redox evolution from the late Neoproterozoic to the early Paleozoic constrained by the integration of Mo and U isotope records	65
Subduction initiation from the earliest stages to self-sustained subduction: Insights from the analysis of 70 Cenozoic sites	64
Landslide monitoring using seismic ambient noise correlation: challenges and applications	63
New Maps of Global Geological Provinces and Tectonic Plates	62
Subduction of oceanic lithosphere in the Alps: Selective and archetypal from (slow-spreading) oceans	61
Compound droughts and hot extremes: Characteristics, drivers, changes, and impacts	60
Seasonal imprint of Holocene temperature reconstruction on the Tibetan Plateau	60
Contrasting characteristics, changes, and linkages of permafrost between the Arctic and the Third Pole	60
Geomorphometry and terrain analysis: data, methods, platforms and applications	60

Deep entrapment of buoyant magmas by orogenic tectonic stress: Its role in producing continental crust, adakites, and porphyry copper deposits	59
A comprehensive system of definitions of land surface (topographic) curvatures, with implications for their application in geoscience modelling and prediction	59
Progress towards an improved Precambrian seawater 87Sr/86Sr curve	58
Determining dominating control mechanisms of inland water carbon cycling processes and associated gross primary productivity on regional and global scales	58
Climate variability and floods in China - A review	58
Biogeochemical cycling of iron (hydr-)oxides and its impact on organic carbon turnover in coastal wetlands: A global synthesis and perspective	58
Smartphone assisted fieldwork: Towards the digital transition of geoscience fieldwork using LiDAR-equipped iPhones	57
Magmatic responses to Cretaceous subduction and tearing of the paleo-Pacific Plate in SE China: An overview	57
Mesozoic-Cenozoic basin inversion and geodynamics in East China: A review	57
Seismic imaging of Northwest Pacific and East Asia: New insight into volcanism, seismogenesis and geodynamics	56
Current status and future perspectives of microplastic pollution in typical cryospheric regions	55
Himalayan leucogranites: A review of geochemical and isotopic characteristics, timing of formation, genesis, and rare metal mineralization	55
Towards an actualistic view of the Crato Konservat-Lagerstätte paleoenvironment: A new hypothesis as an Early Cretaceous (Aptian) equatorial and semi-arid wetland	54
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 models	54
Oil content and resource quality evaluation methods for lacustrine shale: A review and a novel three-dimensional quality evaluation model	53
Calibrating the temporal and spatial dynamics of the Ediacaran - Cambrian radiation of animals	52
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 timescales	51
Aeolian dust transport, cycle and influences in high-elevation cryosphere of the Tibetan Plateau region: New evidences from alpine snow and ice	51
Recent technological and methodological advances for the investigation of landslide dams	51
Redox changes in the outer Yangtze Sea (South China) through the Hirnantian Glaciation and their implications for the end-Ordovician biocrisis	50
The 1986–2021 paroxysmal episodes at the summit craters of Mt. Etna: Insights into volcano dynamics and hazard	50
Laboratory hydraulic fracturing experiments on crystalline rock for geothermal purposes	50
The influence of ice sheet and solar insolation on Holocene moisture evolution in northern Central Asia	49
Abrupt ecological shifts of lakes during the Anthropocene	49
Tracing volcanic emissions from the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province in the sedimentary record	48
The trace fossil record of the Nama Group, Namibia: Exploring the terminal Ediacaran roots of the Cambrian explosion	48
Landslide susceptibility maps of Italy: Lesson learnt from dealing with multiple landslide types and the uneven spatial distribution of the national inventory	48
Glacier change in China over past decades: Spatiotemporal patterns and influencing factors	48
East Asian lithospheric evolution dictated by multistage Mesozoic flat-slab subduction	48
The genesis, development, and evolution of original vertical joints in loess	48
Holocene climatic optimum in the East Asian monsoon region of China defined by climatic stability	48
Evolution of the Laurentide and Innuitian ice sheets prior to the Last Glacial Maximum (115 ka to 25 ka)	48
Mesozoic intraplate tectonism of East Asia due to flat subduction of a composite terrane slab	47
Archean dome-and-basin style structures form during growth and death of intraoceanic and continental margin arcs in accretionary orogens	47
Eastern China continental lithosphere thinning is a consequence of paleo-Pacific plate subduction: A review and new perspectives	46
Embracing the dynamic nature of soil structure: A paradigm illuminating the role of life in critical zones of the Anthropocene	46
Drought effects on wet soils in inland wetlands and peatlands	46
Sensing the ocean biological carbon pump from space: A review of capabilities, concepts, research gaps and future developments	46
Analyses from a validated global U Pb detrital zircon database: Enhanced methods for filtering discordant U Pb zircon analyses and optimizing crystallization age estimates	46
The core of Rodinia formed by the juxtaposition of opposed retreating and advancing accretionary orogens	45
Sedimentary Ce anomalies: Secular change and implications for paleoenvironmental evolution	45
Investigations and new insights on earthquake mechanics from fault slip experiments	45
Freshening of the Mediterranean Salt Giant: controversies and certainties around the terminal (Upper Gypsum and Lago-Mare) phases of the Messinian Salinity Crisis	45
A dynamic 2000—540 Ma Earth history: From cratonic amalgamation to the age of supercontinent cycle	45
The biogeochemistry of ferruginous lakes and past ferruginous oceans	44
Subduction initiation in the Scotia Sea region and opening of the Drake Passage: When and why?	44
Classification of ignimbrites and their eruptions	44
Fold geometry and folding – a review	42
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 Oce	42
Impact Earth: A review of the terrestrial impact record	42
Two-stage mid-Brunhes climate transition and mid-Pleistocene human diversification	42
The fate of subducting carbon tracked by Mg and Zn isotopes: A review and new perspectives	41
Processes in mushes and their role in the differentiation of granitic rocks	41
Challenges and enablers for large-scale CO2 storage in chalk formations	41
Geodynamic controls on magmatic arc migration and quiescence	40
Cenozoic uplift and erosion of the Norwegian Barents Shelf – A review	40
Provenance and recycling of Sahara Desert sand	40
Correlation of the stratigraphic cover of the Pilbara and Kaapvaal cratons recording the lead up to Paleoproterozoic Icehouse and the GOE	40
What we talk about when we talk about seasonality – A transdisciplinary review	40
Structural and kinematic analysis of Cenozoic rift basins in South China Sea: A synthesis	40
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 Ma	40
Dynamic processes of the curved subduction system in Southeast Asia: A review and future perspective	40
The first large-scale bioavailable Sr isotope map of China and its implication for provenance studies	40
Laboratory experiments on fault behavior towards better understanding of injection-induced seismicity in geoenergy systems	39
On the origins of the Iapetus Ocean	39
Evaluation of physical and chemical proxies used to interpret past glaciations with a focus on the late Paleozoic Ice Age	39
Biological albedo reduction on ice sheets, glaciers, and snowfields	39
Comparison of thermodynamic data files for PHREEQC	38
Landscape changes and their hydrologic effects: Interactions and feedbacks across scales	38
Conservation, preparation and imaging of diverse ambers and their inclusions	38
Greater Avalonia—latest Ediacaran–Ordovician “peribaltic” terrane bounded by continental margin prisms (“Ganderia,” Harlech Dome, Meguma): Review, tectonic implications, and paleogeography	38
The relationships between tectonics, climate and exhumation in the Central Andes (18–36°S): Evidence from low-temperature thermochronology	37
Characterisation of weak layers, physical controls on their global distribution and their role in submarine landslide formation	37
Dynamic continuous hydrocarbon accumulation (DCHA): Existing theories and a new unified accumulation model	37
Pore-network modeling of flow in shale nanopores: Network structure, flow principles, and computational algorithms	37
Deep-water depositional systems supplied by shelf-incising submarine canyons: Recognition and significance in the geologic record	37
Early Cretaceous tectonics across the North Pacific: New insights from multiphase tectonic extension in Eastern Eurasia	37
Exploring machine learning potential for climate change risk assessment	37
The role of infrequently mobile boulders in modulating landscape evolution and geomorphic hazards	36
Arclogites and their role in continental evolution; part 1: Background, locations, petrography, geochemistry, chronology and thermobarometry	36

Progressive tectonic evolution from crustal shortening to mid-lower crustal expansion in the southeast Tibetan Plateau: A synthesis of structural and thermochronological insights	36
Early Triassic terrestrial tetrapod fauna: a review	36
High-resolution sequence stratigraphy applied to reservoir zonation and characterisation, and its impact on production performance - shallow marine, fluvial downstream, and lacustrine carbonate settin	36
Synthesis of the distribution of subsidence of the lower Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, Bangladesh	36
Tibetan ore deposits: A conjunction of accretionary orogeny and continental collision	36
Neoproterozoic postglacial paleoenvironment and hydrocarbon potential: A review and new insights from the Doushantuo Formation Sichuan Basin, China	36
A revised, late Palaeozoic glacial time-space framework for eastern Australia, and comparisons with other regions and events	35
Conjugate volcanic passive margins in the austral segment of the South Atlantic – Architecture and development	35
Catastrophic soil loss associated with end-Triassic deforestation	35
Review of assimilating GRACE terrestrial water storage data into hydrological models: Advances, challenges and opportunities	35
A synthesis of methane dynamics in thermokarst lake environments	35
Nitrogen contamination and bioremediation in groundwater and the environment: A review	35
The triple complexity of drought risk analysis and its visualisation via mapping: a review across scales and sectors	35
Time-dependent recurrence of strong earthquake shaking near plate boundaries: A lake sediment perspective	35
Dynamics of evolving magma chambers: textural and chemical evolution of cumulates at the arrival of new liquidus phases	35
Sulfidic anoxia in the oceans during the Late Ordovician mass extinctions – insights from molybdenum and uranium isotopic global redox proxies	35
Integrated detrital rutile and zircon provenance reveals multiple sources for Cambrian sandstones in North Gondwana	34
Paleo-Tethys subduction induced slab-drag opening the Neo-Tethys: Evidence from an Iranian segment of Gondwana	34
What can the GRACE seasonal cycle tell us about lake-aquifer interactions?	34
Coupling of paleoenvironment and biogeochemistry of deep-time alkaline lakes: A lipid biomarker perspective	34
Aerosol-cloud interactions over the Tibetan Plateau: An overview	34
Ocean-continent transition architecture and breakup mechanism at the mid-northern South China Sea	34
Ten years after the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake and tsunami: Geological and environmental effects and implications for disaster policy changes	34
Greenalite and its role in the genesis of early Precambrian iron formations – A review	34
How allogenic factors affect succession in glacier forefields	34
Hydrological controls on marine chemistry in the Cryogenian Nanhua Basin (South China)	33
Machine learning in microseismic monitoring	33
Seismic-fluid detection-a review	33
Snowballs in Africa: sectioning a long-lived Neoproterozoic carbonate platform and its bathyal foreslope (NW Namibia)	33
Late-Pleistocene catchment-wide denudation patterns across the European Alps	33
Molecular hydrogen in surface and subsurface natural gases: Abundance, origins and ideas for deliberate exploration	33
A meta-analysis of the Steptoean Positive Carbon Isotope Excursion: The SPICEraq database	33
Challenges of mapping, modelling and quantifying sediment connectivity	33
Provenance of Kalahari Sand: Paleoweathering and recycling in a linked fluvial-aeolian system	33
Crustal melting and suprasolidus phase equilibria: From first principles to the state-of-the-art	33
Seismic facies analysis: Past, present and future	32
Numerical modeling of tsunami: advances and future challenges after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami	32
A review of Devonian–Carboniferous magmatism in the central region of Argentina, pre-Andean margin of SW Gondwana	32
Phosphorus mineral evolution and prebiotic chemistry: From minerals to microbes	32
Land-surface parameters for spatial predictive mapping and modeling	32
Coupled redox cycling of Fe and Mn in the environment: The complex interplay of solution species with Fe- and Mn-(oxyhydr)oxide crystallization and transformation	32
Review of satellite radar interferometry for subsidence analysis	32
Progress, problems and prospects: An overview of the Guadalupian Series of South China and North America	32
Radon-222 as a groundwater discharge tracer to surface waters	31
Global organic carbon burial during the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event: Patterns and controls	31
Lost islands in the northern Lesser Antilles: possible milestones in the Cenozoic dispersal of terrestrial organisms between South-America and the Greater Antilles	31
High-sedimentation-rate loess records: A new window into understanding orbital- and millennial-scale monsoon variability	31
Towards an improved understanding of biogeochemical processes across surface-groundwater interactions in intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams	31
Tectonic evolution and global crustal architecture of the European Variscan belt constrained by geophysical data	31
What controls the duration and intensity of ocean anoxic events in the Paleozoic and the Mesozoic?	31
Stereoscopic hyperspectral remote sensing of the atmospheric environment: Innovation and prospects	31
Earth system changes during the cooling greenhouse phase of the Late Cretaceous: Coniacian-Santonian OAE3 subevents and fundamental variations in organic carbon deposition	31
Denudation history and palaeogeography of the Pyrenees and their peripheral basins: an 84-million-year geomorphological perspective	31
Locating the BACE of the Cambrian: Bayan Gol in southwestern Mongolia and global correlation of the Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary	31
Towards improved USLE-based soil erosion modelling in India: A review of prevalent pitfalls and implementation of exemplar methods	30
Synthesis of a chrono- and biostratigraphical framework for the Lower Cretaceous of Jiuquan, NW China: Implications for major evolutionary events	30
Terrestrial climate in mid-latitude East Asia from the latest Cretaceous to the earliest Paleogene: A multiproxy record from the Songliao Basin in northeastern China	30
Pre-Alpine tectonic evolution of the Eastern Alps: From Prototethys to Paleotethys	30
Epochs, events and episodes: Marking the geological impact of humans	30
Neutron scattering: A subsurface application review	30
The social implications of Submarine Groundwater Discharge from an Ecosystem Services perspective: A systematic review	30
The West Burma Terrane, a review of recent paleo-latitude data, its geological implications and constraints	30
Arclogites and their role in continental evolution; part 2: Relationship to batholiths and volcanoes, density and foundering, remelting and long-term storage in the mantle	29
Past, present, and future geo-biosphere interactions on the Tibetan Plateau and implications for permafrost	29
The geotectonic setting, age and mineral deposit inventory of global layered intrusions	29
On the settling of marine carbonate grains: Review and challenges	29
Ants as geomorphological agents: A global assessment	29
Subsurface sedimentary structure identification using deep learning: A review	29
Origins of non-tectonic fractures in shale	29
Mechanisms for biocrust-modulated runoff generation – A review	29
Controls on the intrinsic flow properties of mudrock fractures: A review of their importance in subsurface storage	28
Principles of seismic stratigraphy and seismic geomorphology I: Extracting geologic insights from seismic data	28
From exploration to remediation: A microbial perspective for innovation in mining	28
Mechanisms of the Early 20th Century Warming in the Arctic	28
Desert ecosystems in China: Past, present, and future	28
Towards interactive global paleogeographic maps, new reconstructions at 60, 40 and 20 Ma	28
The odyssey of Tibetan Plateau accretion prior to Cenozoic India-Asia collision: Probing the Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the Bangong-Nujiang Suture	28
Atmospheric oxygen of the Paleozoic	28
The Artinskian Warming Event: an Euramerican change in climate and the terrestrial biota during the early Permian	28
Mercury contents and isotope ratios from diverse depositional environments across the Triassic–Jurassic Boundary: Towards a more robust mercury proxy for large igneous province magmatism	28
Miocene paleoceanographic evolution of the Mediterranean area and carbonate production changes: A review	28
A review on onshore tsunami deposits along the Atlantic coasts	28
A critical review of molybdenum sequestration mechanisms under euxinic conditions: Implications for the precision of molybdenum paleoredox proxies	28
Current developments and applications of micro-CT for the 3D analysis of multiphase mineral systems in geometallurgy	27
Spatio-temporal evolution and dynamic origin of Jurassic-Cretaceous magmatism in the South China Block	27
The uncertain role of rising atmospheric CO2 on global plant transpiration	27
Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic basin inversion and palaeostress fields in the North Atlantic-western Alpine-Tethys realm: Implications for intraplate tectonics	27
Storage integrity during underground hydrogen storage in depleted gas reservoirs	27
Glacier response to the Little Ice Age during the Neoglacial cooling in Greenland	27
Plio-Pleistocene sedimentation in West Turkana (Turkana Depression, Kenya, East African Rift System): Paleolake fluctuations, paleolandscapes and controlling factors	27
Role of Indian Summer Monsoon and Westerlies on glacier variability in the Himalaya and East Africa during Late Quaternary: Review and new data	27
Deglaciation controls on sediment yield: Towards capturing spatio-temporal variability	27
Insights into soft-part preservation from the Early Ordovician Fezouata Biota	27
Porphyry copper and skarn fertility of the northern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau collisional granitoids	27
Representing the role of soil moisture on erosion resistance in sediment models: Challenges and opportunities	26