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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
ERRATUM: Across-strike asymmetry of the Andes orogen linked to the age and geometry of the Nazca plate104
ERRATUM: Inception of ridge-ridge-ridge triple junctions: Morphostructural analysis and dynamics in the early back-arc extension of the northern Okinawa Trough94
Seafloor spreading and the delivery of sulfur and metals to Earth’s oceans91
Tonian true polar wander events recorded by paleolatitudinal variations of South China and its Southern Hemispheric position in Rodinia67
Did transit through the galactic spiral arms seed crust production on the early Earth?58
Clues on the Australasian impact crater site inferred from detailed mineralogical study of a monazite inclusion in a Muong Nong tektite: COMMENT55
Paleoclimates inform on a weakening and amplitude-reduced East Asian winter monsoon in the warming future54
Determining the age and origin of a Tertiary karstic system by in situ U-Pb geochronology on speleothems50
Unveiling “too-old” radiocarbon ages at Serapeo (Pozzuoli) enhances understanding of the present unrest crisis at Campi Flegrei caldera, Italy46
The mechanical genesis of “fairy circle” depressions45
Origin of Archean Pb isotope variability through open-system Paleoarchean crustal anatexis43
Hydrothermal carbon export and CO2 evasion in the Yarlung Tsangpo River (Tibet): Implications for deep carbon cycling in collisional orogens43
Hydrological fluctuations in the Tarim Basin, northwest China, over the past millennium39
Crustal architectural controls on critical metal ore systems in South China based on Hf isotopic mapping39
Geoelectric evidence for a wide spatial footprint of active extension in central Colorado39
Tracing black shales in the source of a porphyry Mo deposit using molybdenum isotopes38
Forced Cenozoic continental subduction of Tarim craton-like lithosphere below the Tianshan revealed by ambient noise tomography38
To rush into the secret house of death: The fate of a Tournaisian plant37
An invasion model for the start of Paleo-Pacific subduction37
Extreme erosion by submarine slides36
Generation of Archean TTGs via sluggish subduction36
Xenoliths reveal a hot Moho and thin lithosphere at the Cordillera-craton boundary of western Canada34
Past eruptions of a newly discovered active, shallow, silicic submarine volcano near Tokyo Bay, Japan33
Reconciling plate motion and faulting at a rift-rift-rift triple junction31
Molybdenum isotope signature of microbial nitrogen utilization in siboglinid tubeworms30
North America's Midcontinent Rift magma volume: A coincidental rendezvous of a plume with a rift30
Three-dimensional glacial isostatic adjustment modeling reconciles conflicting geographic trends in North American marine isotope stage 5a relative sea level observations30
Crystal plasticity enhances trace element mobility in garnet30
In situ carbon storage potential in a buried volcano29
Magma mingling and ascent in the minutes to hours before an explosive eruption as recorded by banded pumice29
Enhanced oceanic phosphorus recycling during the Cambrian SPICE event28
Opening of the North Atlantic Ocean and the rise of Scandinavian mountains28
Contribution of the oldest Paleoproterozoic marine sulfate evaporites to Bushveld Complex Lower Zone mineralization28
Limited sulfur degassing and muted environmental impact of Ontong Java Plateau lavas28
Fate and rate of alluvial river captures28
Orogen-scale inverted metamorphism during Cretaceous–Paleogene terminal suturing along the North American Cordillera, Alaska, USA27
Resilient tropical marine ecosystems during early Eocene global warming events27
Disconformity-controlled hydrothermal dolomitization and cementation during basin evolution: Upper Triassic carbonates, UAE26
Unusually fracture-free seafloor in the southern North Atlantic between Newfoundland and Iberia explained through compounding tectonic inheritance since the Paleoproterozoic26
Fluid environment controls along-strike variation in slip style: Midcrustal geological signatures from the Red River fault, China25
Mid-Proterozoic geomagnetic field was more consistent with a dipole than a quadrupole25
Mercury efficiently volatilized but not completely removed from sediments around igneous intrusions25
Silicification of trilobites and biofilm from the Cambrian Weeks Formation, Utah: Evidence for microbial mediation of silicification25
The Neoproterozoic glacial broom25
A water transport system across the mantle transition zone beneath western North America as imaged by electrical conductivity data25
Ediacaran endlings from the Avalon Assemblage and the severity of the Kotlin Crisis: First documentation of the Inner Meadow Lagerstätte, Newfoundland, Canada24
Post-salt carbonates control salt-tectonic minibasin formation24
Comment: Late Triassic continental eclogite in the central Tibetan Plateau reveals 2500-km-long Paleo-Tethys continental subduction24
Eoarchean apatite uncovers felsic foundations of the Pilbara Craton24
Direct constraints on in situ stress state from deep drilling into the Nankai subduction zone, Japan24
Shearing-enhanced deep fluid circulation induces seismic anisotropy in the lower crust at slow-spreading oceanic ridges24
Clues on the Australasian impact crater site inferred from detailed mineralogical study of a monazite inclusion in a Muong Nong tektite: REPLY23
What controlled the thickness of continental crust in the Archean?23
Dehydration of subducted slab gabbro in Lau Basin and its implications23
Detachment-involved deformation in the Santa Bárbara system in NW Argentina revealed by seismicity and receiver functions23
First dating of an early Chibanian (Middle Pleistocene) glacial overdeepening in the Alpine Foreland using the 4He/U-Th method23
Preferential preservation of low-elevation biotas in the nonmarine fossil record23
Hydrous ultrapotassic melts and trans-lithospheric weakening of Himalayan-Tibetan orogenesis22
Temporal linkages of explosive activity of Kolumbo and Santorini Volcanoes (Greece)22
Disparate crustal thicknesses beneath oceanic transform faults and adjacent fracture zones revealed by gravity anomalies22
Raman thermometry and (U-Th)/He thermochronometry reveal Neogene transpressional exhumation in the Nacimiento block of central California, USA21
Small dip, big impact: How 1° strata inclination affects density-driven flow in anisotropic rocks21
Traces of major collisional events in the asteroid belt in late Eocene marine sediments in Italy21
Long-range lateral dyke propagation is independent of the level of neutral buoyancy21
Early Au-rich sulfide liquid saturation explains the low Au endowment of continental intraplate alkaline magmas21
Rethinking the “Grenville Flood” of Laurentian detrital zircon: Proximal sources, not continental rivers21
Apatite Lu–Hf dating of late Archean banded iron formations21
Upper Paleozoic komatiites near Mashhad, NE Iran21
The role of amorphous silica coating on apatite nanocrystals in the exceptional preservation of phosphatized embryo-like microfossils from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation21
Gold mobility in Archean metasedimentary belts: Implications for orogenic gold deposits20
Bacterial magnetofossil evidence for enhanced Pacific Ocean respired carbon storage during buildup of Antarctic glaciation20
Fossil Java Sea corals record Laurentide ice sheet disappearance19
Anchoring the Swedish Time Scale to the radiocarbon time scale—An absolute age for De Geer’s zero varve19
A sea of change: Tracing parasitic dynamics through the past millennia in the northern Adriatic, Italy19
Hydrodynamic invalidation of synformal traps for dissolved CO219
Garnet versus amphibole: Implications for magmatic differentiation and slab melting19
Small impact cratering processes produce distinctive charcoal assemblages19
A translithospheric magmatic system revealed beneath Changbaishan volcano19
The funnel-shaped crustal architecture in central Tibet and its insights into the progression of lithospheric removal19
Hikurangi megathrust slip behavior influenced by lateral variability in sediment subduction19
Three-dimensional electrical resistivity structure reveals the cascade rupture process of the 1988 Lancang-Gengma earthquake doublet19
Climatic regulation of atmospheric mercury deposition: Evidence from mercury isotopes in an alpine peat core19
Transient fault creep on the Xidatan (Tibet) fault driven by viscoelastic relaxation following the 2001 Kokoxili earthquake19
Pacing supercontinent rhythms from the metallogenic record18
ERRATUM: New estimates of the magnitude of the sea-level jump during the 8.2 ka event18
Trends and rhythms in carbonatites and kimberlites reflect thermo-tectonic evolution of Earth18
How micromechanical stratigraphy controls vertical primary oil migration in finely laminated shale18
Crustal transpressional fault geometry influenced by viscous lower crustal flow18
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
3-D electromagnetic imaging of highly deformed fluid-rich weak zones and locked section of the North Anatolian fault beneath the Marmara Sea18
Evidence for nonlocal sediment transport on hillslopes from fault scarp morphology18
Correlating mantle cooling with tectonic transitions on early Earth17
Exploring the impact of deglaciation on fault slip in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado, USA17
Strength of the winter North Atlantic jet stream has deviated from its natural trend under anthropogenic warming17
Generation of Archean TTGs via sluggish subductions: COMMENT17
Intact stalked crinoids from the late Aptian of NE Spain offer insights into the Mesozoic Marine Revolution in the Tethys17
Extensional mountain building along convergent plate boundary: Insights from the active Taiwan mountain belt17
The Tibetan Plateau is covered in wind-blown sand: Implications for detrital provenance studies17
Mantle wedge olivine modifies slab-derived fluids: Implications for fluid transport from slab to arc magma source17
Quantitative relationships between river and channel-belt planform patterns17
Resolving pressure differences within the Grand Canyon Precambrian basement: Implications for Proterozoic tectonics17
New constraints on phosphate concentration and temperature in shallow late Tonian seawater16
Alkali-carbonate melts in the cratonic mantle evidenced by a wehrlite xenolith from the Majuagaa kimberlite, West Greenland16
Distinctive source and hydration state of gold-ore–forming arc magmas16
Don’t mind the “charcoal gap”: A reassessment of Devonian wildfire16
Ediacaran large acanthomorphic acritarchs from the Zavkhan terrane of Mongolia reveal a close paleogeographic affinity with Yangtze block and Lesser Himalaya (India)16
Origin of the Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina: Flat-slab subduction and inherited structures16
Slab window–related magmatism as a probe for pyroxenite heterogeneities in the upper mantle16
Increase in magma supply to Sakurajima volcano’s (Japan) shallow magma chamber over the past 500 years16
Rising productivity drove marine euxinia during the Late Devonian mass extinctions16
Inclination and heterogeneity of layered geological sequences influence dike-induced ground deformation16
Fault permeability from stochastic modeling of clay smears16
Mantle serpentinization and associated hydrogen flux at North Atlantic magma-poor rifted margins16
Intensified bottom water formation in the southwest Pacific during the early Eocene greenhouse—Insights from neodymium isotopes16
Ultraslow cooling of an ultrahot orogen16
Melting the myth: Prograde garnet dissolves during early crustal melting16
Seismic evidence for a dunite-rich layer beneath mature South Atlantic Ocean crust16
Ridgeward flow of compositionally heterogeneous mantle produces near-ridge seamount chains in the South Pacific16
Physical transport of magmatic sulfides promotes copper enrichment in hydrothermal ore fluids16
Hydrothermal sulfate surges promote rare earth element transport and mineralization16
Effects on global warming by microbial methanogenesis in alkaline lakes during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA)16
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
Halogen ratios in crustal fluids through time—Proxies for the emergence of aerobic life?15
Fluid-fluxed melting of juvenile lower crust traced by molybdenum isotopes15
Frictional and microstructural evidence for a weak Wasatch fault zone15
The role of surface processes in basin inversion and breakup unconformity15
Oligocene melting of subducted mélange and its mantle dynamics in northeast Asia15
Calcitic shells in the aragonite sea of the earliest Cambrian15
Role of volatiles in intrusion emplacement and sulfide deposition in the supergiant Norilsk-Talnakh Ni-Cu-PGE ore deposits15
Seismic wide-angle constraints on crustal thickness and structure at Ocean Drilling Program Site 1256: How typical are its features for oceanic crust?15
Large domal stromatolites in the Paleoarchean ocean at 3.47 Ga15
Molybdenum isotopes in mafic igneous rocks record slabmantle interactions from subarc to postarc depths15
Impact of stream power gradients on storage of sediment and carbon on channel margins and floodplains15
Climate control on the relationship between erosion rate and fluvial topography14
Slab break-off and subduction polarity reversal after collision can be very fast14
Early accretion and prolonged carbonation of the Pacific Ocean's oldest crust14
Evolution of a microfracture network induced by hydrocarbon generation during experimental maturation of organic-rich lacustrine shale14
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 yr14
Timing of carbon uptake by oceanic crust determined by rock reactivity14
Intersection between tectonic faults and magmatic systems promotes swarms with large-magnitude earthquakes around the Tengchong volcanic field, southeastern Tibetan Plateau14
Continental levering explains up to ~30% variation in magnitude of Pennsylvanian sea-level cycles recorded in cyclic stratigraphy14
Contourite deposits reveal late Paleocene to early Eocene deepwater circulation in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea14
Cryophilic polychaetes at the subtropical Laurentian margin of the Iapetus Ocean: Evidence for cold-water ocean circulation and upwelling13
Post-subduction porphyry Cu magmas in the Sanjiang region of southwestern China formed by fractionation of lithospheric mantle–derived mafic magmas13
Rupture direction of paleoearthquakes on the Alpine Fault, New Zealand, as recorded by curved slickenlines13
Derivation of the nonlinear dependence of aeolian sand flux on wind speed13
The role of mantle melting and associated granitoid magmatism in the genesis of orogenic gold in the Laurentian Caledonides13
Extreme twin densities in calcite—A shock indicator13
Exceptional age constraint on a fossiliferous sedimentary succession preceding the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum13
Toroidal flow around the Tonga slab moved the Samoan plume during the Pliocene13
Release of toxic-metal acid brines related to slumping of Cretaceous mudstones—Smoking Hills (Ingniryuat), Arctic Canada13
Identifying and characterizing missing source orogens for syn-orogenic basins based on detrital accessory mineral U-Pb geochronology and trace element geochemistry13
Slab damage and the pulsating retreat of the Ionian-Apennines subduction13
Silicification of trilobites and biofilm from the Cambrian Weeks Formation, Utah: Evidence for microbial mediation of silicification: REPLY13
Modern ocean island basalt–like 182W signature in Paleoarchean mafic rocks: Implications for the generation, preservation, and destruction of early mantle heterogeneities13
Detrital glass in a Bering Sea sediment core yields a ca. 160 ka Marine Isotope Stage 6 age for Old Crow tephra13
The reconstruction of coastal carbonate sequence stratigraphy: A modern-systems approach13
Eruptive tempo of Emeishan large igneous province, southwestern China and northern Vietnam: Relations to biotic crises and paleoclimate changes around the Guadalupian-Lopingian boundary12
The source of tungsten-associated magmas in the northern Canadian Cordillera and implications for the basement12
Protracted mantle heat conduction after lithospheric foundering beneath the Malagasy orogen12
A multidisciplinary approach to reconstructing the history of early animal life on Earth12
Sediment waves control origins of submarine canyons12
Phanerozoic emergence of global continental collision and onset of massive crustal eclogitization12
Ash deposits link Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 to High Arctic volcanism12
Coesite discovered in Australasian microtektites12
Recognizing big mantle wedges in deep time: Constraints from the Western Mongolia Collage in Central Asia12
Balancing Yellowstone's hydrothermal heat budget with a seismically constrained magma reservoir12
Clay-driven dolomitization at moderate to high temperatures: Evidence from hydrothermal experiments12
Sponge-rich sediment recycling in a Paleozoic continental arc driven by mélange melting12
Tracking cycles of Phanerozoic opening and closing of ocean basins using detrital rutile and zircon geochronology and geochemistry12
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
Seafloor weathering can explain the disparate durations of Snowball glaciations11
Active El Niño–Southern Oscillation–like interannual variability 120 million years ago11
The Rhodope Metamorphic Complex as a case for extreme vertical extrusion11
Carbon cycling during the India-Asia collision revealed by δ26Mg–δ66Zn–δ98Mo evidence from ultrapotassic volcanoes in NW Tibet11
Pre-vegetation fluvial sheet sands explained: Bedform and bar architecture evidence for 1.2 Ga rapidly migrating, meandering, and high-sinuosity wandering rivers11
Mid-Proterozoic geomagnetic field was more consistent with a dipole than a quadrupole: COMMENT11
Constraints of boron and oxygen stable isotopes on dehydration fluids, sediment-derived melts, and crustal assimilation of the Toba volcanic system (Indonesia)11
Heavy rains inflate Mount Fuji, central Japan11
Preserved intercratonic lithosphere reveals Proterozoic assembly of Australia11
High-precision U-Pb geochronology for the Miocene Climate Optimum and a novel approach for calibrating age models in deep-sea sediment cores11
Nanoscale mineralogical evidence confirms Cu transport as chloride complexes in brines in the Central European Kupferschiefer district11
Tracking the spatial extent of redox variability in the mid-Proterozoic ocean11
Latitudinal diversity gradient dynamics during Carboniferous to Triassic icehouse and greenhouse climates11
A unique record of prokaryote cell pyritization11
Formation of lower arc crust by magmatic underplating revealed by high-precision geochronology11
Large negative δ238U anomalies in endogenic-type travertine systems11
Not much to show for it: Late Pleistocene dynamics of migrating megadunes in the Rub’ al-Khali, Saudi Arabia, indicate minimal preservation of their deposits11
“Excess Ar” by laboratory alteration of biotite11
A power-based abrasion law for use in landscape evolution models11
Natural levees increase in prevalence in the backwater zone: Coastal Trinity River, Texas, USA: COMMENT11
Landscapes on the edge: River intermittency in a warming world11
Extreme isotopic heterogeneity in impact melt rocks: Implications for Martian meteorites11
Strongly peraluminous granites provide independent evidence for an increase in biomass burial across the Precambrian–Phanerozoic boundary11
Hyper-enrichment of gold via quartz fracturing and growth of polymetallic melt droplets11
Strain controls the electrical conductivity distribution in the lithosphere11
Hydrologically driven modulation of cutoff regime in meandering rivers11
Life in the Cambrian shallows: Exceptionally preserved arthropod and mollusk microfossils from the early Cambrian of Sweden11
Downward continued ocean bottom seismometer data show continued hydrothermal evolution of mature oceanic upper crust11
No evidence for a volcanic trigger for late Cambrian carbon-cycle perturbations11
Tesserae: Surface differences across Venus’s “continents”11
Tracking ancient unconformity development with martite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry10
Late Miocene to recent tectonic evolution of the Macquarie Triple Junction10
Investigating the response of Glycymeris septentrionalis (Bivalvia) and Terebratalia transversa (Brachiopo10
Early Cretaceous uplift of the Hangay Mountains (central Mongolia): A consequence of lithospheric foundering following oroclinal bending10
Surface exposure constraints on the mantle water budget10
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!10
Post-subduction porphyry Cu magmas in the Sanjiang region of southwestern China formed by fractionation of lithospheric mantle–derived mafic magmas: REPLY10
Stable tungsten isotopic composition of seawater over the past 80 million years10
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
Steady decline in mean annual air temperatures in the first 30 k.y. after the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary10
Lithospheric-scale dynamics during continental subduction: Evidence from a frozen-in plate interface10
The early opening of the Equatorial Atlantic gateway and the evolution of Cretaceous peak warming10
Nannofossil imprints across the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum10
Decoupled monazite and garnet petrochronology reveals short-duration, high-temperature Acadian metamorphism in the Manhattan Schist, New York City, USA10
Marine redox and nutrient dynamics linked to the Cambrian radiation of animals10
Dating submarine landslides using the transient response of gas hydrate stability10
Long-term and multi-stage ice accumulation in the martian mid-latitudes during the Amazonian10
Persistent dysoxia in very shallow seas across the late Cambrian SPICE event, Durness Group, UK10
A window into development of a complex ice-marginal lake prior to the Late Glacial Maximum (LGM) in Austria10
Ocean oxygenation and ecological restructuring caused by the late Paleozoic evolution of land plants10
Unique mercury isotopic signature of mercury-bearing hydrothermal systems in South China and its geological and environmental implications10
Laramide bulldozing of lithosphere beneath the Arizona transition zone, southwestern United States10
Three-dimensional anatomy of a Cretaceous river avulsion9
Challenger Deep basalts reveal Indian-type Early Cretaceous oceanic crust subducting in the southernmost Mariana Trench9
Formation of rare-element pegmatites in the Chinese Altai: Contribution of two-stage melting9
Ultrahigh-temperature laser melting replicates microstructures of natural pseudotachylytes9
Sustained deformation across the Sub-Himalayas since 200 ka9
Intrusion tip velocity controls the emplacement mechanism of sheet intrusions9
Tropical forcing of midlatitude terrestrial hydroclimate during the Late Cretaceous9
Trench-parallel mid-ocean ridge subduction driven by along-strike transmission of slab pull9
Asymmetric growth of strike-slip faults controlled by 3-D fault structure: Insights from the Mw 7.8 2023 Kahramanmaraş (Turkey) earthquake9
Controls on topography and erosion of the north-central Andes9
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
Surface uplift of the central Cascade Range, northwestern USA, via Oligocene to early Miocene crustal thickening9
Orbitally paced global oceanic deoxygenation decoupled from volcanic CO2 emission during the middle Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 1b (Aptian-Albian transition)9
An ancient sandstorm recorded by supercritical climbing wind ripple strata in Gale crater, Mars9
Microstructural and geochemical response of muscovite to impact metamorphism9
Bedrock rivers are steep but not narrow: Hydrological and lithological controls on river geometry across the USA9
Early Pleistocene glacier ice preserved in permafrost in the eastern Canadian Arctic9
Subduction polarity reversal facilitated by plate coupling during arc-continent collision: Evidence from the Western Kunlun orogenic belt, northwest Tibetan Plateau9
Rare earth element transport and mineralization linked to fluids from carbonatite systems9
Dominant precessional forcing of the East Asian summer monsoon since 260 ka9
Formation and reorganization time scales of aeolian landscapes9
Late-Cenozoic tectonic versus glacial control on the topographic evolution of the Terskey Range, Kyrgyz Tian Shan9
Implications of unexpectedly young seafloor in the Challenger Deep9
A chlorine isotope transect across Sudbury Basin (Canada) impact deposits reveals systematic isotope fractionation9
Indian cratonic mantle beneath northern Qiangtang in eastern Tibet ca. 11 Ma: REPLY8
Interplay between sedimentation and volcanism at a young and highly segmented oceanic ridge8
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