Geology

Papers
(The median citation count of Geology is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
ERRATUM: Across-strike asymmetry of the Andes orogen linked to the age and geometry of the Nazca plate107
ERRATUM: Inception of ridge-ridge-ridge triple junctions: Morphostructural analysis and dynamics in the early back-arc extension of the northern Okinawa Trough104
Clues on the Australasian impact crater site inferred from detailed mineralogical study of a monazite inclusion in a Muong Nong tektite: COMMENT75
Determining the age and origin of a Tertiary karstic system by in situ U-Pb geochronology on speleothems70
To rush into the secret house of death: The fate of a Tournaisian plant58
The mechanical genesis of “fairy circle” depressions57
Origin of Archean Pb isotope variability through open-system Paleoarchean crustal anatexis54
Geoelectric evidence for a wide spatial footprint of active extension in central Colorado47
Hydrological fluctuations in the Tarim Basin, northwest China, over the past millennium47
Seafloor spreading and the delivery of sulfur and metals to Earth’s oceans46
Tonian true polar wander events recorded by paleolatitudinal variations of South China and its Southern Hemispheric position in Rodinia44
Unveiling “too-old” radiocarbon ages at Serapeo (Pozzuoli) enhances understanding of the present unrest crisis at Campi Flegrei caldera, Italy44
Did transit through the galactic spiral arms seed crust production on the early Earth?44
An invasion model for the start of Paleo-Pacific subduction43
Paleoclimates inform on a weakening and amplitude-reduced East Asian winter monsoon in the warming future42
Tracing black shales in the source of a porphyry Mo deposit using molybdenum isotopes42
How old is the North Pole Dome impact, Western Australia?40
Sequential serpentinization reactions revealed by boron isotope systematics of the Lost City vent fluids35
Greenlandic debris in Iceland likely tied to Bond event 1 ice rafting in the Dark Ages: COMMENT33
Generation of Archean TTGs via sluggish subduction32
Tectonic reactivation of the Pacific margin of the South Shetland Islands, Antarctic Peninsula32
Forced Cenozoic continental subduction of Tarim craton-like lithosphere below the Tianshan revealed by ambient noise tomography32
Hydrothermal carbon export and CO2 evasion in the Yarlung Tsangpo River (Tibet): Implications for deep carbon cycling in collisional orogens32
Reconciling plate motion and faulting at a rift-rift-rift triple junction31
Crustal architectural controls on critical metal ore systems in South China based on Hf isotopic mapping31
Magma mingling and ascent in the minutes to hours before an explosive eruption as recorded by banded pumice30
Crystal plasticity enhances trace element mobility in garnet30
Limited sulfur degassing and muted environmental impact of Ontong Java Plateau lavas30
Silicification of trilobites and biofilm from the Cambrian Weeks Formation, Utah: Evidence for microbial mediation of silicification29
Fluid environment controls along-strike variation in slip style: Midcrustal geological signatures from the Red River fault, China29
Unusually fracture-free seafloor in the southern North Atlantic between Newfoundland and Iberia explained through compounding tectonic inheritance since the Paleoproterozoic29
The Neoproterozoic glacial broom29
Resilient tropical marine ecosystems during early Eocene global warming events29
Tourmaline 40Ar/39Ar petrochronology as a timing constraint on ore formation28
Post-salt carbonates control salt-tectonic minibasin formation28
Enhanced oceanic phosphorus recycling during the Cambrian SPICE event28
Shearing-enhanced deep fluid circulation induces seismic anisotropy in the lower crust at slow-spreading oceanic ridges28
Opening of the North Atlantic Ocean and the rise of Scandinavian mountains27
Molybdenum isotope signature of microbial nitrogen utilization in siboglinid tubeworms27
Orogen-scale inverted metamorphism during Cretaceous–Paleogene terminal suturing along the North American Cordillera, Alaska, USA27
Mid-Proterozoic geomagnetic field was more consistent with a dipole than a quadrupole26
In situ carbon storage potential in a buried volcano26
Three-dimensional glacial isostatic adjustment modeling reconciles conflicting geographic trends in North American marine isotope stage 5a relative sea level observations26
Contribution of the oldest Paleoproterozoic marine sulfate evaporites to Bushveld Complex Lower Zone mineralization25
When and how Fe-oxide nanocrystals form: Insights from in situ FE-SEM and implications for eruption dynamics25
Comment: Late Triassic continental eclogite in the central Tibetan Plateau reveals 2500-km-long Paleo-Tethys continental subduction25
Fate and rate of alluvial river captures25
Mercury efficiently volatilized but not completely removed from sediments around igneous intrusions25
First evidence of shallow crustal seismicity around the Cariño Botado fault system: Implications for diffuse deformation at the West Andean Front, southern Chilean flat-slab25
A water transport system across the mantle transition zone beneath western North America as imaged by electrical conductivity data25
Disconformity-controlled hydrothermal dolomitization and cementation during basin evolution: Upper Triassic carbonates, UAE25
First dating of an early Chibanian (Middle Pleistocene) glacial overdeepening in the Alpine Foreland using the 4He/U-Th method24
Preferential preservation of low-elevation biotas in the nonmarine fossil record24
Clues on the Australasian impact crater site inferred from detailed mineralogical study of a monazite inclusion in a Muong Nong tektite: REPLY24
Ediacaran endlings from the Avalon Assemblage and the severity of the Kotlin Crisis: First documentation of the Inner Meadow Lagerstätte, Newfoundland, Canada24
Eoarchean apatite uncovers felsic foundations of the Pilbara Craton24
Dehydration of subducted slab gabbro in Lau Basin and its implications24
Direct constraints on in situ stress state from deep drilling into the Nankai subduction zone, Japan24
Long-range lateral dyke propagation is independent of the level of neutral buoyancy23
Synchronous arc exhumation of the central and western Aleutian Islands at 7–5 Ma, Alaska, USA23
Temporal linkages of explosive activity of Kolumbo and Santorini Volcanoes (Greece)23
Hydrous ultrapotassic melts and trans-lithospheric weakening of Himalayan-Tibetan orogenesis23
Apatite Lu–Hf dating of late Archean banded iron formations22
Greenlandic debris in Iceland likely tied to Bond 1 ice-rafting in the Dark Ages: REPLY22
Magnesium isotopes reveal hydroclimatically amplified low-latitude weathering during the early Toarcian22
Raman thermometry and (U-Th)/He thermochronometry reveal Neogene transpressional exhumation in the Nacimiento block of central California, USA21
Early Au-rich sulfide liquid saturation explains the low Au endowment of continental intraplate alkaline magmas21
Traces of major collisional events in the asteroid belt in late Eocene marine sediments in Italy21
Detachment-involved deformation in the Santa Bárbara system in NW Argentina revealed by seismicity and receiver functions21
Upper Paleozoic komatiites near Mashhad, NE Iran21
Disparate crustal thicknesses beneath oceanic transform faults and adjacent fracture zones revealed by gravity anomalies21
Small dip, big impact: How 1° strata inclination affects density-driven flow in anisotropic rocks21
Bacterial magnetofossil evidence for enhanced Pacific Ocean respired carbon storage during buildup of Antarctic glaciation20
The role of amorphous silica coating on apatite nanocrystals in the exceptional preservation of phosphatized embryo-like microfossils from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation20
Fossil Java Sea corals record Laurentide ice sheet disappearance20
Rethinking the “Grenville Flood” of Laurentian detrital zircon: Proximal sources, not continental rivers20
Climatic regulation of atmospheric mercury deposition: Evidence from mercury isotopes in an alpine peat core19
Break-back deepwater folding and thrusting at the Romanche fracture-zone termination, NE Brazil19
Pacing supercontinent rhythms from the metallogenic record19
Anchoring the Swedish Time Scale to the radiocarbon time scale—An absolute age for De Geer’s zero varve19
Transient fault creep on the Xidatan (Tibet) fault driven by viscoelastic relaxation following the 2001 Kokoxili earthquake19
Garnet versus amphibole: Implications for magmatic differentiation and slab melting19
A sea of change: Tracing parasitic dynamics through the past millennia in the northern Adriatic, Italy19
Paleohydraulics of cyclonic storm deposits suggest that the equatorial climate of Earth in the Pennsylvanian was not cold: COMMENT19
How micromechanical stratigraphy controls vertical primary oil migration in finely laminated shale19
3-D electromagnetic imaging of highly deformed fluid-rich weak zones and locked section of the North Anatolian fault beneath the Marmara Sea18
Trends and rhythms in carbonatites and kimberlites reflect thermo-tectonic evolution of Earth18
Generation of Archean TTGs via sluggish subductions: COMMENT18
Contrasting behavior of platinum-group elements and Au-Cu during mantle melting and refertilization: Implications for lithospheric metal fertility18
Sediment routing in an incised valley during Hurricane Harvey (2017) in Houston, Texas, USA: Implications for modern sedimentation18
Strength of the winter North Atlantic jet stream has deviated from its natural trend under anthropogenic warming18
A translithospheric magmatic system revealed beneath Changbaishan volcano18
Small impact cratering processes produce distinctive charcoal assemblages18
The funnel-shaped crustal architecture in central Tibet and its insights into the progression of lithospheric removal18
ERRATUM: New estimates of the magnitude of the sea-level jump during the 8.2 ka event18
Gold mobility in Archean metasedimentary belts: Implications for orogenic gold deposits18
The Tibetan Plateau is covered in wind-blown sand: Implications for detrital provenance studies18
Three-dimensional electrical resistivity structure reveals the cascade rupture process of the 1988 Lancang-Gengma earthquake doublet18
Extensional mountain building along convergent plate boundary: Insights from the active Taiwan mountain belt17
Ridgeward flow of compositionally heterogeneous mantle produces near-ridge seamount chains in the South Pacific17
Melting the myth: Prograde garnet dissolves during early crustal melting17
Effects on global warming by microbial methanogenesis in alkaline lakes during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA)17
Alkali-carbonate melts in the cratonic mantle evidenced by a wehrlite xenolith from the Majuagaa kimberlite, West Greenland17
Increase in magma supply to Sakurajima volcano’s (Japan) shallow magma chamber over the past 500 years17
Resolving pressure differences within the Grand Canyon Precambrian basement: Implications for Proterozoic tectonics17
Distinctive source and hydration state of gold-ore–forming arc magmas17
New constraints on phosphate concentration and temperature in shallow late Tonian seawater17
Mantle wedge olivine modifies slab-derived fluids: Implications for fluid transport from slab to arc magma source17
Slab window–related magmatism as a probe for pyroxenite heterogeneities in the upper mantle17
Exploring the impact of deglaciation on fault slip in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado, USA17
Hydrothermal sulfate surges promote rare earth element transport and mineralization17
Correlating mantle cooling with tectonic transitions on early Earth17
Mantle serpentinization and associated hydrogen flux at North Atlantic magma-poor rifted margins16
Don’t mind the “charcoal gap”: A reassessment of Devonian wildfire16
Seismic evidence for a dunite-rich layer beneath mature South Atlantic Ocean crust16
Rising productivity drove marine euxinia during the Late Devonian mass extinctions16
Fault permeability from stochastic modeling of clay smears16
Evidence for nonlocal sediment transport on hillslopes from fault scarp morphology16
Intact stalked crinoids from the late Aptian of NE Spain offer insights into the Mesozoic Marine Revolution in the Tethys16
Inclination and heterogeneity of layered geological sequences influence dike-induced ground deformation16
Ultraslow cooling of an ultrahot orogen16
Exceptional age constraint on a fossiliferous sedimentary succession preceding the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum15
A new exceptionally preserved fauna from a lowest Silurian black shale: Insights into the recovery of deep-water ecosystems after the Late Ordovician mass extinction15
Intensified bottom water formation in the southwest Pacific during the early Eocene greenhouse—Insights from neodymium isotopes15
Continental levering explains up to ~30% variation in magnitude of Pennsylvanian sea-level cycles recorded in cyclic stratigraphy15
Frictional and microstructural evidence for a weak Wasatch fault zone15
Large domal stromatolites in the Paleoarchean ocean at 3.47 Ga15
Ediacaran large acanthomorphic acritarchs from the Zavkhan terrane of Mongolia reveal a close paleogeographic affinity with Yangtze block and Lesser Himalaya (India)15
Calcitic shells in the aragonite sea of the earliest Cambrian15
Slab damage and the pulsating retreat of the Ionian-Apennines subduction15
Seismic wide-angle constraints on crustal thickness and structure at Ocean Drilling Program Site 1256: How typical are its features for oceanic crust?15
Fluid-fluxed melting of juvenile lower crust traced by molybdenum isotopes15
Deformed submarine terraces in Puget Sound, Pacific Northwest, indicate only one M >~7.5 earthquake on the Seattle fault zone in the past 11,000 yr15
Extreme twin densities in calcite—A shock indicator14
Oligocene melting of subducted mélange and its mantle dynamics in northeast Asia14
Contourite deposits reveal late Paleocene to early Eocene deepwater circulation in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea14
Molybdenum isotopes in mafic igneous rocks record slabmantle interactions from subarc to postarc depths14
Intersection between tectonic faults and magmatic systems promotes swarms with large-magnitude earthquakes around the Tengchong volcanic field, southeastern Tibetan Plateau14
Slab break-off and subduction polarity reversal after collision can be very fast14
Origin of the Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina: Flat-slab subduction and inherited structures14
Impact of stream power gradients on storage of sediment and carbon on channel margins and floodplains14
Evolution of a microfracture network induced by hydrocarbon generation during experimental maturation of organic-rich lacustrine shale14
Post-subduction porphyry Cu magmas in the Sanjiang region of southwestern China formed by fractionation of lithospheric mantle–derived mafic magmas14
Role of volatiles in intrusion emplacement and sulfide deposition in the supergiant Norilsk-Talnakh Ni-Cu-PGE ore deposits14
The role of surface processes in basin inversion and breakup unconformity14
Climate control on the relationship between erosion rate and fluvial topography14
Early accretion and prolonged carbonation of the Pacific Ocean's oldest crust14
Phanerozoic emergence of global continental collision and onset of massive crustal eclogitization13
Recognizing big mantle wedges in deep time: Constraints from the Western Mongolia Collage in Central Asia13
Clay-driven dolomitization at moderate to high temperatures: Evidence from hydrothermal experiments13
Modern ocean island basalt–like 182W signature in Paleoarchean mafic rocks: Implications for the generation, preservation, and destruction of early mantle heterogeneities13
Rupture direction of paleoearthquakes on the Alpine Fault, New Zealand, as recorded by curved slickenlines13
Identifying and characterizing missing source orogens for syn-orogenic basins based on detrital accessory mineral U-Pb geochronology and trace element geochemistry13
The source of tungsten-associated magmas in the northern Canadian Cordillera and implications for the basement13
Ash deposits link Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 to High Arctic volcanism13
Sponge-rich sediment recycling in a Paleozoic continental arc driven by mélange melting13
Release of toxic-metal acid brines related to slumping of Cretaceous mudstones—Smoking Hills (Ingniryuat), Arctic Canada13
Toroidal flow around the Tonga slab moved the Samoan plume during the Pliocene13
Timing of carbon uptake by oceanic crust determined by rock reactivity13
Detrital glass in a Bering Sea sediment core yields a ca. 160 ka Marine Isotope Stage 6 age for Old Crow tephra13
Protracted mantle heat conduction after lithospheric foundering beneath the Malagasy orogen13
Balancing Yellowstone's hydrothermal heat budget with a seismically constrained magma reservoir13
Derivation of the nonlinear dependence of aeolian sand flux on wind speed13
Silicification of trilobites and biofilm from the Cambrian Weeks Formation, Utah: Evidence for microbial mediation of silicification: REPLY13
Cryophilic polychaetes at the subtropical Laurentian margin of the Iapetus Ocean: Evidence for cold-water ocean circulation and upwelling13
Natural levees increase in prevalence in the backwater zone: Coastal Trinity River, Texas, USA: COMMENT12
Sediment waves control origins of submarine canyons12
The anisotropy of permeability under simulated crustal stress conditions: Experimental evidence of flow enhancement parallel to the intermediate principal stress12
Strain controls the electrical conductivity distribution in the lithosphere12
Life in the Cambrian shallows: Exceptionally preserved arthropod and mollusk microfossils from the early Cambrian of Sweden12
Formation of lower arc crust by magmatic underplating revealed by high-precision geochronology12
Not much to show for it: Late Pleistocene dynamics of migrating megadunes in the Rub’ al-Khali, Saudi Arabia, indicate minimal preservation of their deposits12
Tesserae: Surface differences across Venus’s “continents”12
The role of mantle melting and associated granitoid magmatism in the genesis of orogenic gold in the Laurentian Caledonides12
Downward continued ocean bottom seismometer data show continued hydrothermal evolution of mature oceanic upper crust12
Pre-vegetation fluvial sheet sands explained: Bedform and bar architecture evidence for 1.2 Ga rapidly migrating, meandering, and high-sinuosity wandering rivers12
Large negative δ238U anomalies in endogenic-type travertine systems12
A power-based abrasion law for use in landscape evolution models12
Coesite discovered in Australasian microtektites12
Tracking cycles of Phanerozoic opening and closing of ocean basins using detrital rutile and zircon geochronology and geochemistry12
The reconstruction of coastal carbonate sequence stratigraphy: A modern-systems approach12
Constraints of boron and oxygen stable isotopes on dehydration fluids, sediment-derived melts, and crustal assimilation of the Toba volcanic system (Indonesia)12
A unique record of prokaryote cell pyritization12
Seafloor weathering can explain the disparate durations of Snowball glaciations12
Mid-Proterozoic geomagnetic field was more consistent with a dipole than a quadrupole: COMMENT11
Strongly peraluminous granites provide independent evidence for an increase in biomass burial across the Precambrian–Phanerozoic boundary11
A multidisciplinary approach to reconstructing the history of early animal life on Earth11
Active El Niño–Southern Oscillation–like interannual variability 120 million years ago11
Heavy rains inflate Mount Fuji, central Japan11
Plow versus Ice Age: Erosion rate variability from glacial–interglacial climate change is an order of magnitude lower than agricultural erosion in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, USA11
Post-subduction porphyry Cu magmas in the Sanjiang region of southwestern China formed by fractionation of lithospheric mantle–derived mafic magmas: REPLY11
Tracking the spatial extent of redox variability in the mid-Proterozoic ocean11
The Rhodope Metamorphic Complex as a case for extreme vertical extrusion11
Nanoscale mineralogical evidence confirms Cu transport as chloride complexes in brines in the Central European Kupferschiefer district11
Carbon cycling during the India-Asia collision revealed by δ26Mg–δ66Zn–δ98Mo evidence from ultrapotassic volcanoes in NW Tibet11
High-precision U-Pb geochronology for the Miocene Climate Optimum and a novel approach for calibrating age models in deep-sea sediment cores11
Hyper-enrichment of gold via quartz fracturing and growth of polymetallic melt droplets11
“Excess Ar” by laboratory alteration of biotite11
Extreme isotopic heterogeneity in impact melt rocks: Implications for Martian meteorites11
Landscapes on the edge: River intermittency in a warming world11
Hydrologically driven modulation of cutoff regime in meandering rivers11
Preserved intercratonic lithosphere reveals Proterozoic assembly of Australia11
No evidence for a volcanic trigger for late Cambrian carbon-cycle perturbations11
Long-term and multi-stage ice accumulation in the martian mid-latitudes during the Amazonian10
The early opening of the Equatorial Atlantic gateway and the evolution of Cretaceous peak warming10
Tracking ancient unconformity development with martite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry10
Subduction polarity reversal facilitated by plate coupling during arc-continent collision: Evidence from the Western Kunlun orogenic belt, northwest Tibetan Plateau10
Persistent dysoxia in very shallow seas across the late Cambrian SPICE event, Durness Group, UK10
Ultrahigh-temperature laser melting replicates microstructures of natural pseudotachylytes10
Ocean oxygenation and ecological restructuring caused by the late Paleozoic evolution of land plants10
Stable tungsten isotopic composition of seawater over the past 80 million years10
Lithospheric-scale dynamics during continental subduction: Evidence from a frozen-in plate interface10
Nannofossil imprints across the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum10
Unique mercury isotopic signature of mercury-bearing hydrothermal systems in South China and its geological and environmental implications10
Surface exposure constraints on the mantle water budget10
Shale mobility: From salt-like shale flow to fluid mobilization in gravity-driven deformation, the late Albian–Turonian White Pointer Delta (Ceduna Subbasin, Great Bight, Australia)10
Deciphering the stratigraphic record of rifting and dynamic topography10
Late Miocene to recent tectonic evolution of the Macquarie Triple Junction10
A window into development of a complex ice-marginal lake prior to the Late Glacial Maximum (LGM) in Austria10
Steady decline in mean annual air temperatures in the first 30 k.y. after the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary10
Decoupled monazite and garnet petrochronology reveals short-duration, high-temperature Acadian metamorphism in the Manhattan Schist, New York City, USA10
Dating submarine landslides using the transient response of gas hydrate stability10
Possible bipolar global expression of the P3 and P4 glacial events of eastern Australia in the Northern Hemisphere: Marine diamictites and glendonites from the middle to upper Permian in southern Verk9
Are Holocene coseismic marine terrace sequences complete paleoseismic records? Rapid erosion of a new marine terrace created during the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake suggests not!9
Presubduction heavy Mg isotope enrichment in the sub-arc mantle9
Laramide bulldozing of lithosphere beneath the Arizona transition zone, southwestern United States9
Three-dimensional anatomy of a Cretaceous river avulsion9
Late Oligocene–Miocene evolution of deep-water circulation in the abyssal South China Sea: Insights from Nd isotopes of fossil fish teeth9
The origin of platinum group minerals in oceanic crust9
Sustained deformation across the Sub-Himalayas since 200 ka9
Marine redox and nutrient dynamics linked to the Cambrian radiation of animals9
Early Cretaceous uplift of the Hangay Mountains (central Mongolia): A consequence of lithospheric foundering following oroclinal bending9
Rare earth element transport and mineralization linked to fluids from carbonatite systems9
Early Pleistocene glacier ice preserved in permafrost in the eastern Canadian Arctic9
Constraining the Baltic Sea sediment chronology using tephrochronology9
Bayesian tectonic subsidence modeling supports polyphase extension of the western continental margin of Laurentia9
Controls on topography and erosion of the north-central Andes9
Asymmetric growth of strike-slip faults controlled by 3-D fault structure: Insights from the Mw 7.8 2023 Kahramanmaraş (Turkey) earthquake9
Surface uplift of the central Cascade Range, northwestern USA, via Oligocene to early Miocene crustal thickening9
Precessionally paced advance and retreat of Northern Hemisphere ice sheets during marine isotope stage 6 indicated by NW Iberian speleothem records9
Investigating the response of Glycymeris septentrionalis (Bivalvia) and Terebratalia transversa (Brachiopo9
Challenger Deep basalts reveal Indian-type Early Cretaceous oceanic crust subducting in the southernmost Mariana Trench9
A chlorine isotope transect across Sudbury Basin (Canada) impact deposits reveals systematic isotope fractionation9
Comprehensive seismic evidence for the inducing mechanism of extremely shallow 2019 Changning Ms 6.0 earthquake by solution salt mining, Sichuan Basin, China9
Dominant precessional forcing of the East Asian summer monsoon since 260 ka9
Bedrock rivers are steep but not narrow: Hydrological and lithological controls on river geometry across the USA9
Heavy Mo isotope composition of northern Bataan adakites, Philippines: Evidence for fore-arc subduction erosion?8
Eclogites and eclogites: Implications for Archean tectonics8
Sediment waves control origins of submarine canyons: COMMENT8
The application of dual clumped isotope thermometer (Δ47 and Δ48) to the understanding of dolomite formation8
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