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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Recognition of a Middle–Late Jurassic arc-related porphyry copper belt along the southeast China coast: Geological characteristics and metallogenic implications124
Fluid compositions reveal fluid nature, metal deposition mechanisms, and mineralization potential: An example at the Haobugao Zn-Pb skarn, China95
The role of phyllosilicate partial melting in segregating tungsten and tin deposits in W-Sn metallogenic provinces77
Differential crustal rotation and its control on giant ore clusters along the eastern margin of Tibet73
The role of megacontinents in the supercontinent cycle72
Redefining East African Rift System kinematics70
Transport and accumulation of plastic litter in submarine canyons—The role of gravity flows61
Mercury fluxes record regional volcanism in the South China craton prior to the end-Permian mass extinction60
High-precision U-Pb age constraints on the Permian floral turnovers, paleoclimate change, and tectonics of the North China block57
Pulsed volcanic combustion events coincident with the end-Permian terrestrial disturbance and the following global crisis50
Eruptive tempo of Emeishan large igneous province, southwestern China and northern Vietnam: Relations to biotic crises and paleoclimate changes around the Guadalupian-Lopingian boundary50
Recycling of mercury from the atmosphere-ocean system into volcanic-arc–associated epithermal gold systems49
Hydrothermal alteration can result in pore pressurization and volcano instability45
Spatially variable provenance of the Chinese Loess Plateau43
Surface-wave tomography of the Emeishan large igneous province (China): Magma storage system, hidden hotspot track, and its impact on the Capitanian mass extinction43
Archean geodynamics: Ephemeral supercontinents or long-lived supercratons41
A metasedimentary source of gold in Archean orogenic gold deposits41
Decoupling of Au and As during rapid pyrite crystallization40
A new kind of invisible gold in pyrite hosted in deformation-related dislocations37
Apatite nanoparticles in 3.46–2.46 Ga iron formations: Evidence for phosphorus-rich hydrothermal plumes on early Earth37
Five million years of high atmospheric CO2 in the aftermath of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction37
Pace, magnitude, and nature of terrestrial climate change through the end-Permian extinction in southeastern Gondwana36
Slab-derived sulfate generates oxidized basaltic magmas in the southern Cascade arc (California, USA)36
Alternating wet and dry depositional environments recorded in the stratigraphy of Mount Sharp at Gale crater, Mars36
North China craton: The conjugate margin for northwestern Laurentia in Rodinia35
Revisiting Ediacaran sulfur isotope chemostratigraphy with in situ nanoSIMS analysis of sedimentary pyrite34
Implications for Ediacaran biological evolution from the ca. 602 Ma Lantian biota in China33
Long-lived seamount subduction in ancient orogens: Evidence from the Paleozoic South Tianshan33
Quaternary sodic and potassic intraplate volcanism in northeast China controlled by the underlying heterogeneous lithospheric structures33
Central eastern China hydrological changes and ENSO-like variability over the past 1800 yr33
Two-pronged kill mechanism at the end-Triassic mass extinction32
Calcite U-Pb ages constrain petroleum migration pathways in tectonic complex basins32
New Ediacara-type fossils and late Ediacaran stratigraphy from the northern Qaidam Basin (China): Paleogeographic implications32
Critical metal enrichment in crustal melts: The role of metamorphic mica32
Paleomagnetic insights into the Cambrian biogeographic conundrum: Did the North China craton link Laurentia and East Gondwana?32
Reconstructing Neoproterozoic seawater chemistry from early diagenetic dolomite32
Isotopically “heavy” pyrite in marine sediments due to high sedimentation rates and non-steady-state deposition31
Monthly insolation linked to the time-transgressive nature of the Holocene East Asian monsoon precipitation maximum31
Early Neoproterozoic (870–820 Ma) amalgamation of the Tarim craton (northwestern China) and the final assembly of Rodinia30
Metal-induced stress in survivor plants following the end-Permian collapse of land ecosystems30
Phanerozoic variation in dolomite abundance linked to oceanic anoxia29
Diversification of Archean tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite suites in a mushy middle crust29
How Himalayan collision stems from subduction29
Geochronology of volcanically associated hydrocarbon charge in the pre-salt carbonates of the Namibe Basin, Angola28
Early formation and taphonomic significance of kaolinite associated with Burgess Shale fossils28
The global distribution of depositional rivers on early Mars28
Evidence for iron-rich sulfate melt during magnetite(-apatite) mineralization at El Laco, Chile28
Spatio-temporal evolution of the Christiana-Santorini-Kolumbo volcanic field, Aegean Sea28
Identifying crystal accumulation and melt extraction during formation of high-silica granite27
New multicellular marine macroalgae from the early Tonian of northwestern Canada26
Facies control on carbonate δ13C on the Great Bahama Bank26
The role of flat slab subduction, ridge subduction, and tectonic inheritance in Andean deformation26
Mechanical twinning of monazite expels radiogenic lead26
Inverted South China: A novel configuration for Rodinia and its breakup26
Across-arc variations in Mo isotopes and implications for subducted oceanic crust in the source of back-arc basin volcanic rocks26
Boninitic blueschists record subduction initiation and subsequent accretion of an arc–forearc in the northeast Proto-Tethys Ocean26
Global-scale emergence of continental crust during the Mesoarchean–early Neoarchean25
Subduction erosion and crustal material recycling indicated by adakites in central Tibet25
Role of sediment in generating contemporaneous, diverse “type” granitoid magmas25
Translithospheric magma plumbing system of intraplate volcanoes as revealed by electrical resistivity imaging25
Organic biomorphs may be better preserved than microorganisms in early Earth sediments25
Crustal thickness of the Grenville orogen: A Mesoproterozoic Tibet?25
Transient Permian-Triassic euxinia in the southern Panthalassa deep ocean24
New zircon radiometric U-Pb ages and Lu-Hf isotopic data from the ultramafic-mafic sequences of Ranau and Telupid (Sabah, eastern Malaysia): Time to reconsider the geological evolution of Southeast As24
Enhanced Quaternary exhumation in the Namche Barwa syntaxis, eastern Himalaya24
A new model for the optimal structural context for giant porphyry copper deposit formation24
Propagating uplift controls on high-elevation, low-relief landscape formation in the southeast Tibetan Plateau24
Major-element geochemistry of pelites23
Cenozoic mountain building in eastern China and its correlation with reorganization of the Asian climate regime23
Initiation and evolution of knickpoints and their role in cut-and-fill processes in active submarine channels23
Zinc isotope evidence for paleoenvironmental changes during Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 223
Latitudinal variability in the Quaternary development of the Eurasian ice sheets—Evidence from the marine domain23
Contribution of orbital forcing and Deccan volcanism to global climatic and biotic changes across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary at Zumaia, Spain23
Evaluating preservation bias in the continental growth record against the monazite archive23
Anaerobic oxidation of methane by Mn oxides in sulfate-poor environments23
Out-of-phase Late Pleistocene glacial maxima in the Western Alps reflect past changes in North Atlantic atmospheric circulation23
The impact of postdepositional alteration on iron- and molybdenum-based redox proxies22
Anthropogenic pollution in deep-marine sedimentary systems—A geological perspective on the plastic problem22
Precession-driven climate cycles and time scale prior to the Hirnantian glacial maximum22
Early Earth zircons formed in residual granitic melts produced by tonalite differentiation21
Lithosphere–asthenosphere interactions beneath northeast China and the origin of its intraplate volcanism21
Stable Ca and Sr isotopes support volcanically triggered biocalcification crisis during Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a21
The nanogeochemistry of abiotic carbonaceous matter in serpentinites from the Yap Trench, western Pacific Ocean21
Implications of giant ooids for the carbonate chemistry of Early Triassic seawater21
Thermal and compositional anomalies in a detailed xenolith-based lithospheric mantle profile of the Siberian craton and the origin of seismic midlithosphere discontinuities21
Pulsed volcanism and rapid oceanic deoxygenation during Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a21
Confirmation of slow Ti diffusion in quartz by diffusion couple experiments and evidence from natural samples21
A carbon-rich lithospheric mantle as a source for the large CO2 emissions of Etna volcano (Italy)21
Wide-blocky veins explained by dependency of crystal growth rate on fracture surface type: Insights from phase-field modeling21
Rapid retreat of the southwestern Laurentide Ice Sheet during the Bølling-Allerød interval20
Boron proxies record paleosalinity variation in the North American Midcontinent Sea in response to Carboniferous glacio-eustasy20
Fjord network in Namibia: A snapshot into the dynamics of the late Paleozoic glaciation20
Evaporite weathering and deposition as a long-term climate forcing mechanism20
A detrital zircon test of large-scale terrane displacement along the Arctic margin of North America20
Silurian wildfire proxies and atmospheric oxygen20
Prior oil and gas production can limit the occurrence of injection-induced seismicity: A case study in the Delaware Basin of western Texas and southeastern New Mexico, USA20
Molybdenum isotopes in mafic igneous rocks record slabmantle interactions from subarc to postarc depths20
Paleozoic evolution of crustal thickness and elevation in the northern Appalachian orogen, USA20
Revisiting stepwise ocean oxygenation with authigenic barium enrichments in marine mudrocks20
Zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronology reveals pre-Great Unconformity paleotopography in the Grand Canyon region, USA19
Structure of oceanic crust in back-arc basins modulated by mantle source heterogeneity19
Cenozoic delamination of the southwestern Yangtze craton owing to densification during subduction and collision19
Re-Os geochronology for the Cambrian SPICE event: Insights into euxinia and enhanced continental weathering from radiogenic isotopes19
A prolonged, two-step oxygenation of Earth's early atmosphere: Support from confidence intervals19
No effect of thermal maturity on the Mo, U, Cd, and Zn isotope compositions of Lower Jurassic organic-rich sediments19
Physical transport of magmatic sulfides promotes copper enrichment in hydrothermal ore fluids19
Immediate temperature response in northern Iberia to last deglacial changes in the North Atlantic19
How carbonate dissolution facilitates sediment-hosted Zn-Pb mineralization19
Cyclophosphates, a new class of native phosphorus compounds, and some insights into prebiotic phosphorylation on early Earth19
Evidence for enhanced fluvial channel mobility and fine sediment export due to precipitation seasonality during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum19
Fluid inclusion evidence for extreme overpressure induced by gas generation in sedimentary basins18
Episodic fluid flow in an eclogite-facies shear zone: Insights from Li isotope zoning in garnet18
An absolutely dated record of climate change over the last three glacial–interglacial cycles from Chinese loess deposits18
Staged formation of the supergiant Olympic Dam uranium deposit, Australia18
Ferric iron triggers greenalite formation in simulated Archean seawater18
South Tarim tied to north India on the periphery of Rodinia and Gondwana and implications for the evolution of two supercontinents18
Lithium isotopic composition of soil pore water: Responses to evapotranspiration18
Final inversion of the Midcontinent Rift during the Rigolet Phase of the Grenvillian Orogeny18
Thermodynamic limits for assimilation of silicate crust in primitive magmas18
Biomineralization of the Cambrian chancelloriids18
Deformation and metasomatism recorded by single-grain apatite petrochronology18
Water transfer to the deep mantle through hydrous, Al-rich silicates in subduction zones17
Cryogenian glaciostatic and eustatic fluctuations and massive Marinoan-related deposition of Fe and Mn in the Urucum District, Brazil17
Tibetan Plateau insights into >1100 °C crustal melting in the Quaternary17
Did accretion of the Caribbean oceanic plateau drive rapid crustal thickening in the northern Andes?17
Magnetostratigraphy of U-Pb–dated boreholes in Svalbard, Norway, implies that magnetochron M0r (a proposed Barremian-Aptian boundary marker) begins at 121.2 ± 0.4 Ma17
Claspers in the mid-CambrianOlenoides serratusindicate horseshoe crab–like mating in trilobites17
Serpentinized peridotite versus thick mafic crust at the Romanche oceanic transform fault17
New chronology of the Chinese loess-paleosol sequence by leaf wax δD records during the past 800 k.y.17
Linking metamorphism and plate boundaries over the past 2 billion years17
Direct measurement of fungal contribution to silicate weathering rates in soil17
Volcanic origin of the mercury anomalies at the Cretaceous-Paleogene transition of Bidart, France17
Orogenic belt resulting from ocean-continent collision17
Post-subduction porphyry Cu magmas in the Sanjiang region of southwestern China formed by fractionation of lithospheric mantle–derived mafic magmas17
Silver isotope and volatile trace element systematics in galena samples from the Iberian Peninsula and the quest for silver sources of Roman coinage17
Hooked on salt: Rethinking Alpine tectonics in Hallstatt (Eastern Alps, Austria)17
Multiple phyla, one time resolution? Similar time averaging in benthic foraminifera, mollusk, echinoid, crustacean, and otolith fossil assemblages17
Tunnel valley infill and genesis revealed by high-resolution 3-D seismic data17
Controls on the origin and evolution of deep-ocean trench-axial channels16
Extreme Quaternary plate boundary exhumation and strike slip localized along the southern Fairweather fault, Alaska, USA16
Preferential dissolution of uranium-rich zircon can bias the hafnium isotope compositions of granites16
Unraveling the histories of Proterozoic shales through in situ Rb-Sr dating and trace element laser ablation analysis16
Tibetan Plateau growth linked to crustal thermal transitions since the Miocene16
The influence of off-fault deformation zones on the near-fault distribution of coseismic landslides16
Abrasion regimes in fluvial bedrock incision16
The products of primary magma fragmentation finally revealed by pumice agglomerates16
Volcanic plumbing filters on ocean-island basalt geochemistry16
A novel authigenic magnetite source for sedimentary magnetization16
Mobilization of tin during continental subduction-accretion processes16
Mantle heating at ca. 2 Ga by continental insulation: Evidence from granites and eclogites16
Tectonic pressure gradients during viscous creep drive fluid flow and brittle failure at the base of the seismogenic zone16
Transient tin mineralization from cooling of magmatic fluids in a long-lived system16
Quantifying metasomatic high-field-strength and rare-earth element transport from alkaline magmas15
Hadean zircon formed due to hydrated ultramafic protocrust melting15
Long-term Aptian marine osmium isotopic record of Ontong Java Nui activity15
Ultrahigh-temperature granites and a curious thermal eye in the post-collisional South Bohemian batholith of the Variscan orogenic belt (Europe)15
Sulfide-associated hydrothermal dolomite and calcite reveal a shallow burial depth for Alpine-type Zn-(Pb) deposits15
Preserved intercratonic lithosphere reveals Proterozoic assembly of Australia15
Total organic carbon and the preservation of organic-walled microfossils in Precambrian shale15
Redefining the age of the lower Colorado River, southwestern United States15
Jurassic Arc: Reconstructing the Lost World of eastern Gondwana15
Ancient roots of tungsten in western North America14
Lateral variation in slab window viscosity inferred from global navigation satellite system (GNSS)–observed uplift due to recent mass loss at Patagonia ice fields14
Sediment waves control origins of submarine canyons14
Tiny, glassy, and rapidly trapped: The nano-sized planktic diatoms in Messinian (late Miocene) gypsum14
Hadean tectonics: Insights from machine learning14
Experimental evidence on the origin of Ca-rich carbonated melts formed by interaction between sedimentary limestones and mantle-derived ultrabasic magmas14
A tropically hot mid-Cretaceous North American Western Interior Seaway14
Laser-ablation Lu-Hf dating reveals Laurentian garnet in subducted rocks from southern Australia14
Pyroxenite melting at subduction zones14
Eruption risks from covert silicic magma bodies14
Diapirism of carbonate platforms subducted into the upper mantle14
Millennial pulses of ore formation and an extra-high Tibetan Plateau14
Biotite as a recorder of an exsolved Li-rich volatile phase in upper-crustal silicic magma reservoirs14
Can we relate the surface expression of dike-induced normal faults to subsurface dike geometry?14
Terrestrial methane cycle perturbations during the onset of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum14
Recalibrating Rodinian rifting in the northwestern United States14
What drives Fe depletion in calc-alkaline magma differentiation: Insights from Fe isotopes14
First U-Pb dating of fossilized soft tissue using a new approach to paleontological chronometry14
Subduction of the Izanagi-Pacific Ridge–transform intersection at the northeastern end of the Eurasian plate14
Mercury isotopic composition of igneous rocks from an accretionary orogen: Implications for lithospheric recycling14
A hidden Rodinian lithospheric keel beneath Zealandia, Earth’s newly recognized continent14
History of the Larsen C Ice Shelf reconstructed from sub–ice shelf and offshore sediments14
Copper- and cobalt-rich, ultrapotassic bittern brines responsible for the formation of the Nkana-Mindola deposits, Zambian Copperbelt14
Quantitative reconstruction of pore-pressure history in sedimentary basins using fluid escape pipes14
Carbon released by sill intrusion into young sediments measured through scientific drilling13
Paleoclimates inform on a weakening and amplitude-reduced East Asian winter monsoon in the warming future13
Magma recharge patterns control eruption styles and magnitudes at Popocatépetl volcano (Mexico)13
Resetting of zircon inclusions in garnet: Implications for elastic thermobarometry13
Magmatism at oceanic core complexes on the ultraslow Southwest Indian Ridge: Insights from near-seafloor magnetics13
Linking rivers to the rock record: Channel patterns and paleocurrent circular variance13
The formation of lithium-rich pegmatites through multi-stage melting13
Geochemical significance of lithium and boron isotopic heterogeneity evolving during the crystallization of granitic melts13
Permafrost thaw induced abrupt changes in hydrology and carbon cycling in Lake Wudalianchi, northeastern China13
Plate tectonic–like cycles since the Hadean: Initiated or inherited?13
Anoxic depositional overprinting of 238U/235U in calcite: When do carbonates tell black shale tales?13
Revealing the link between A-type granites and hottest melts from residual metasedimentary crust13
Sublithospheric melt input in cratonic lamproites13
Guttulatic calcite: A carbonate microtexture that reveals frigid formation conditions13
Europium anomalies in detrital zircons record major transitions in Earth geodynamics at 2.5 Ga and 0.9 Ga13
Uneven spatial sampling distorts reconstructions of Phanerozoic seawater temperature13
Advanced two- and three-dimensional insights into Earth's oldest stromatolites (ca. 3.5 Ga): Prospects for the search for life on Mars13
Origin of Tibetan post-collisional high-K adakitic granites: Anatexis of intermediate to felsic arc rocks13
A record of syn-tectonic sedimentation revealed by perched alluvial fan deposits in Valles Marineris, Mars13
The carbonate compensation depth in the South Atlantic Ocean since the Late Cretaceous13
Explosive-effusive-explosive: The role of magma ascent rates and paths in modulating caldera eruptions13
Dolomite recrystallization revealed by Δ47/U-Pb thermochronometry in the Upper Jurassic Arab Formation, United Arab Emirates13
The ubiquitous creeping segments on oceanic transform faults13
Dominant precessional forcing of the East Asian summer monsoon since 260 ka13
Near-constant retreat rate of a terrestrial margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet during the last deglaciation13
Phanerozoic record of mantle-dominated arc magmatic surges in the Zealandia Cordillera13
Hydrothermal recycling of sedimentary ammonium into oceanic crust and the Archean ocean at 3.24 Ga12
Olivine in komatiite records origin and travel from the deep upper mantle12
Nd isotopic evidence for enhanced mafic weathering leading to Ordovician cooling12
Extreme erosion by submarine slides12
Plumbing the depths of magma crystallization using 176Lu/177Hf in zircon as a pressure proxy12
Mantle serpentinization and associated hydrogen flux at North Atlantic magma-poor rifted margins12
The “earliest tabulate corals” are not tabulates12
Superhydrous hematite and goethite: A potential water reservoir in the red dust of Mars?12
Novel age constraints for the onset of the Steptoean Positive Isotopic Carbon Excursion (SPICE) and the late Cambrian time scale using high-precision U-Pb detrital zircon ages12
Crustal architectural controls on critical metal ore systems in South China based on Hf isotopic mapping12
Dating rare earth element enrichment in deep-sea sediments using U-Pb geochronology of bioapatite12
No plate tectonics necessary to explain Eoarchean rocks at Isua (Greenland)12
Narrow is normal: Exploring the extent and significance of flooded marine shelves in icehouse, transitional, and greenhouse climate settings12
Triple oxygen isotope evidence for a hot Archean ocean12
Protogenetic sulfide inclusions in diamonds date the diamond formation event using Re-Os isotopes12
Reconstructing source-to-sink systems from detrital zircon core and rim ages12
Experimental constraints on nonskeletal CaCO3 precipitation from Proterozoic seawater12
Detrital chromites reveal Slave craton's missing komatiite12
The continent-to-ocean transition in the Iberia Abyssal Plain12
Reorienting the West African craton in Paleoproterozoic–Mesoproterozoic supercontinent Nuna12
Seismicity trends and detachment fault structure at 13°N, Mid-Atlantic Ridge12
Permeability of subducted oceanic crust revealed by eclogite-facies vugs12
Periodic dike intrusions at Kı-lauea volcano, Hawai’i11
Quantifying volcanism and organic carbon burial across Oceanic Anoxic Event 211
Diverse gas composition controls the Moby-Dick gas hydrate system in the Gulf of Mexico11
A quantification of the effect of diagenesis on the paleoredox record in mid-Proterozoic sedimentary rocks11
Earthquake doublet revealed by multiple pulses in lacustrine seismo-turbidites11
Construction of the Lesser Himalayan–Subhimalayan thrust belt: The primary driver of thickening, exhumation, and high elevations in the Himalayan orogen since the middle Miocene11
Martian soil as revealed by ground-penetrating radar at the Tianwen-1 landing site11
Eruption dynamics leading to a volcanic thunderstorm—The January 2020 eruption of Taal volcano, Philippines11
New estimates of the magnitude of the sea-level jump during the 8.2 ka event11
How cementation and fluid flow influence slip behavior at the subduction interface11
Late Weichselian ice-sheet flow directions in the Russian northern Barents Sea from high-resolution imagery of submarine glacial landforms11
Extreme event-driven sediment aggradation and erosional buffering along a tectonic gradient in southern Taiwan11
First identification of a Cathaysian continental fragment beneath the Gagua Ridge, Philippine Sea, and its tectonic implications11
Anisovolumetric weathering in granitic saprolite controlled by climate and erosion rate11
Deep magma mobilization years before the 2021 CE Fagradalsfjall eruption, Iceland11
The interfacial energy penalty to crystal growth close to equilibrium11
Re-Os geochronology highlights widespread latest Mesoproterozoic (ca. 1090–1050 Ma) cratonic basin development on northern Laurentia11
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