Geology

Article	Citations
Reconstructing crustal thickness evolution from europium anomalies in detrital zircons	130
Recognition of a Middle–Late Jurassic arc-related porphyry copper belt along the southeast China coast: Geological characteristics and metallogenic implications	107
Early Holocene weakening and mid- to late Holocene strengthening of the East Asian winter monsoon	89
Fluid compositions reveal fluid nature, metal deposition mechanisms, and mineralization potential: An example at the Haobugao Zn-Pb skarn, China	78
Late Ordovician mass extinction caused by volcanism, warming, and anoxia, not cooling and glaciation	75
Differential crustal rotation and its control on giant ore clusters along the eastern margin of Tibet	67
Paleomagnetic constraints on the duration of the Australia-Laurentia connection in the core of the Nuna supercontinent	64
The role of megacontinents in the supercontinent cycle	61
The role of phyllosilicate partial melting in segregating tungsten and tin deposits in W-Sn metallogenic provinces	59
Mercury fluxes record regional volcanism in the South China craton prior to the end-Permian mass extinction	58
Toxic mercury pulses into late Permian terrestrial and marine environments	58
Redefining East African Rift System kinematics	57
A 23 m.y. record of low atmospheric CO2	56
Ocean acidification during the early Toarcian extinction event: Evidence from boron isotopes in brachiopods	52
Direct coupling between carbon release and weathering during the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event	51
Transport and accumulation of plastic litter in submarine canyons—The role of gravity flows	51
Fragmentation of South China from greater India during the Rodinia-Gondwana transition	49
Rapid eruption of silicic magmas from the Paraná magmatic province (Brazil) did not trigger the Valanginian event	47
High-precision U-Pb age constraints on the Permian floral turnovers, paleoclimate change, and tectonics of the North China block	47
The role of the westerlies and orography in Asian hydroclimate since the late Oligocene	47
Efficient preservation of young terrestrial organic carbon in sandy turbidity-current deposits	46
Late Miocene contourite channel system reveals intermittent overflow behavior	45
Pulsed volcanic combustion events coincident with the end-Permian terrestrial disturbance and the following global crisis	44
Can nanolites enhance eruption explosivity?	43
Formation of the First Bend in the late Eocene gave birth to the modern Yangtze River, China	41

Gold mobilization during metamorphic devolatilization of Archean and Paleoproterozoic metavolcanic rocks	41
Earth Matters: A tempo to our planet’s evolution	40
Recycling of mercury from the atmosphere-ocean system into volcanic-arc–associated epithermal gold systems	39
Spatially variable provenance of the Chinese Loess Plateau	38
Eruptive tempo of Emeishan large igneous province, southwestern China and northern Vietnam: Relations to biotic crises and paleoclimate changes around the Guadalupian-Lopingian boundary	38
What drives large-scale glacier detachments? Insights from Flat Creek glacier, St. Elias Mountains, Alaska	36
Hydrothermal alteration can result in pore pressurization and volcano instability	36
Magma recharging beneath the Weishan volcano of the intraplate Wudalianchi volcanic field, northeast China, implied from 3-D magnetotelluric imaging	36
Permian plume-strengthened Tarim lithosphere controls the Cenozoic deformation pattern of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen	36
Onset of permanent Taklimakan Desert linked to the mid-Pleistocene transition	35
Pace, magnitude, and nature of terrestrial climate change through the end-Permian extinction in southeastern Gondwana	34
Archean geodynamics: Ephemeral supercontinents or long-lived supercratons	34
Decoupling of Au and As during rapid pyrite crystallization	34
Longest continuously erupting large igneous province driven by plume-ridge interaction	34
Divide mobility controls knickpoint migration on the Roan Plateau (Colorado, USA)	34
New Ti-in-quartz diffusivities reconcile natural Ti zoning with time scales and temperatures of upper crustal magma reservoirs	33
A metasedimentary source of gold in Archean orogenic gold deposits	33
Alternating wet and dry depositional environments recorded in the stratigraphy of Mount Sharp at Gale crater, Mars	33
Surface-wave tomography of the Emeishan large igneous province (China): Magma storage system, hidden hotspot track, and its impact on the Capitanian mass extinction	32
Apatite nanoparticles in 3.46–2.46 Ga iron formations: Evidence for phosphorus-rich hydrothermal plumes on early Earth	32
Seismic velocity precursors to the 2016 Mw 6.5 Norcia (Italy) earthquake	30
Paleomagnetic insights into the Cambrian biogeographic conundrum: Did the North China craton link Laurentia and East Gondwana?	30
Biologically mediated silicification of marine cyanobacteria and implications for the Proterozoic fossil record	30
North China craton: The conjugate margin for northwestern Laurentia in Rodinia	30
Gulf of Nuna: Astrochronologic correlation of a Mesoproterozoic oceanic euxinic event	30
A new kind of invisible gold in pyrite hosted in deformation-related dislocations	30
Long-lived seamount subduction in ancient orogens: Evidence from the Paleozoic South Tianshan	29
Monthly insolation linked to the time-transgressive nature of the Holocene East Asian monsoon precipitation maximum	29
Stagnant slab front within the mantle transition zone controls the formation of Cenozoic intracontinental high-Mg andesites in northeast Asia	29
Revisiting Ediacaran sulfur isotope chemostratigraphy with in situ nanoSIMS analysis of sedimentary pyrite	29
New Ediacara-type fossils and late Ediacaran stratigraphy from the northern Qaidam Basin (China): Paleogeographic implications	29
Iapetan Oceans: An analog of Tethys?	29
Geochronological constraints on Neoproterozoic rifting and onset of the Marinoan glaciation from the Kingston Peak Formation in Death Valley, California (USA)	29
Early onset and late acceleration of rapid exhumation in the Namche Barwa syntaxis, eastern Himalaya	28
Diverse rock types detected in the lunar South Pole–Aitken Basin by the Chang’E-4 lunar mission	28
Two-pronged kill mechanism at the end-Triassic mass extinction	28
Syncing fault rock clocks: Direct comparison of U-Pb carbonate and K-Ar illite fault dating methods	28
Reconstructing Neoproterozoic seawater chemistry from early diagenetic dolomite	27
Implications for Ediacaran biological evolution from the ca. 602 Ma Lantian biota in China	27
Mélange versus fluid and melt enrichment of subarc mantle: A novel test using barium isotopes in the Tonga-Kermadec arc	27
Five million years of high atmospheric CO2 in the aftermath of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction	27
Microbial sulfate reduction plays an important role at the initial stage of subseafloor sulfide mineralization	27
Early Neoproterozoic (870–820 Ma) amalgamation of the Tarim craton (northwestern China) and the final assembly of Rodinia	27
Stacked sills forming a deep melt-mush feeder conduit beneath Axial Seamount	26
Phanerozoic variation in dolomite abundance linked to oceanic anoxia	26
Origin of noble-metal nuggets in sulfide-saturated arc magmas: A case study of olivine-hosted sulfide melt inclusions from the Tolbachik volcano (Kamchatka, Russia)	26
Central eastern China hydrological changes and ENSO-like variability over the past 1800 yr	26
Redox state of southern Tibetan upper mantle and ultrapotassic magmas	26
Mercury isotopes track the cause of carbon perturbations in the Ediacaran ocean	25
Methanogen microfossils and methanogenesis in Permian lake deposits	25

Critical metal enrichment in crustal melts: The role of metamorphic mica	25
How Himalayan collision stems from subduction	25
Melt-present shear zones enable intracontinental orogenesis	25
Negligible surface uplift following foundering of thickened central Tibetan lower crust	25
Metal-induced stress in survivor plants following the end-Permian collapse of land ecosystems	25
Field evidence for coal combustion links the 252 Ma Siberian Traps with global carbon disruption	25
Quaternary sodic and potassic intraplate volcanism in northeast China controlled by the underlying heterogeneous lithospheric structures	25
Lithium isotope composition of modern and fossilized Cenozoic brachiopods	25
Northern-sourced water dominated the Atlantic Ocean during the Last Glacial Maximum	24
Rapid expansion of meso-megathermal rain forests into the southern high latitudes at the onset of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum	24
Slab-derived sulfate generates oxidized basaltic magmas in the southern Cascade arc (California, USA)	24
A nonlinear relationship between marsh size and sediment trapping capacity compromises salt marshes’ stability	24
The global distribution of depositional rivers on early Mars	24
Archean lithospheric differentiation: Insights from Fe and Zn isotopes	23
Venus tesserae feature layered, folded, and eroded rocks	23
Isotopically “heavy” pyrite in marine sediments due to high sedimentation rates and non-steady-state deposition	23
Organic biomorphs may be better preserved than microorganisms in early Earth sediments	22
The role of flat slab subduction, ridge subduction, and tectonic inheritance in Andean deformation	22
Rapid assembly of high-Mg andesites and dacites by magma mixing at a continental arc stratovolcano	22
Inverted South China: A novel configuration for Rodinia and its breakup	22
Early formation and taphonomic significance of kaolinite associated with Burgess Shale fossils	22
Subduction erosion and crustal material recycling indicated by adakites in central Tibet	22
Evidence for iron-rich sulfate melt during magnetite(-apatite) mineralization at El Laco, Chile	22
New multicellular marine macroalgae from the early Tonian of northwestern Canada	22
Translithospheric magma plumbing system of intraplate volcanoes as revealed by electrical resistivity imaging	22
Rapid emplacement of massive Duluth Complex intrusions within the North American Midcontinent Rift	21
Halogens in hydrothermal sphalerite record origin of ore-forming fluids	21
Anatomy of a crustal-scale accretionary complex: Insights from deep seismic sounding of the onshore western Makran subduction zone, Iran	21
Identifying crystal accumulation and melt extraction during formation of high-silica granite	21
Across-arc variations in Mo isotopes and implications for subducted oceanic crust in the source of back-arc basin volcanic rocks	21
Out-of-phase Late Pleistocene glacial maxima in the Western Alps reflect past changes in North Atlantic atmospheric circulation	21
Boninitic blueschists record subduction initiation and subsequent accretion of an arc–forearc in the northeast Proto-Tethys Ocean	21
Diversification of Archean tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite suites in a mushy middle crust	21
Mechanical twinning of monazite expels radiogenic lead	21
Recognizing tide- and wave-dominated compound deltaic clinothems in the rock record	20
Precipitation and aridity constraints from paleolakes on early Mars	20
Fjord network in Namibia: A snapshot into the dynamics of the late Paleozoic glaciation	20
Propagating uplift controls on high-elevation, low-relief landscape formation in the southeast Tibetan Plateau	20
A detrital zircon test of large-scale terrane displacement along the Arctic margin of North America	20
The formation of continental roots	20
Sustainable densification of the deep crust	20
Calcite U-Pb ages constrain petroleum migration pathways in tectonic complex basins	20
Noble metal nanonugget insolubility in geological sulfide liquids	20
Implications of giant ooids for the carbonate chemistry of Early Triassic seawater	20
Transient Permian-Triassic euxinia in the southern Panthalassa deep ocean	20
Contribution of orbital forcing and Deccan volcanism to global climatic and biotic changes across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary at Zumaia, Spain	20
Anaerobic oxidation of methane by Mn oxides in sulfate-poor environments	19
Inside the volcano: Three-dimensional magmatic architecture of a buried shield volcano	19
Lithosphere–asthenosphere interactions beneath northeast China and the origin of its intraplate volcanism	19
Anthropogenic pollution in deep-marine sedimentary systems—A geological perspective on the plastic problem	19
The Paleoproterozoic Francevillian succession of Gabon and the Lomagundi-Jatuli event	19
The impact of postdepositional alteration on iron- and molybdenum-based redox proxies	19
Confirmation of slow Ti diffusion in quartz by diffusion couple experiments and evidence from natural samples	19
Experimental formation of clay-coated sand grains using diatom biofilm exopolymers	19
Elevated magma fluxes deliver high-Cu magmas to the upper crust	19
Initiation and evolution of knickpoints and their role in cut-and-fill processes in active submarine channels	19
Persistence of Grenvillian dominance in Laurentian detrital zircon age systematics explained by sedimentary recycling: Evidence from detrital zircon double dating and detrital monazite textures and ge	19
Role of sediment in generating contemporaneous, diverse “type” granitoid magmas	19
Past hot fluid flows in limestones detected by Δ47–(U-Pb) and not recorded by other geothermometers	19
Geochronology of volcanically associated hydrocarbon charge in the pre-salt carbonates of the Namibe Basin, Angola	19
Wide-blocky veins explained by dependency of crystal growth rate on fracture surface type: Insights from phase-field modeling	19
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 As	19
A 1000-yr-old tsunami in the Indian Ocean points to greater risk for East Africa	19
Paleozoic evolution of crustal thickness and elevation in the northern Appalachian orogen, USA	18
U-Pb dating of overpressure veins in late Archean shales reveals six episodes of Paleoproterozoic deformation and fluid flow in the Pilbara craton	18
Modulation of zircon solubility by crystal–melt dynamics	18
River discharge variability as the link between climate and fluvial fan formation	18
Cenozoic mountain building in eastern China and its correlation with reorganization of the Asian climate regime	18
Experimental evidence for crustal control over seismic fault segmentation	18
Global-scale emergence of continental crust during the Mesoarchean–early Neoarchean	18
Crustal thickness of the Grenville orogen: A Mesoproterozoic Tibet?	18
Evaluating preservation bias in the continental growth record against the monazite archive	18
A new model for the optimal structural context for giant porphyry copper deposit formation	18
Latitudinal variability in the Quaternary development of the Eurasian ice sheets—Evidence from the marine domain	18
Structure of oceanic crust in back-arc basins modulated by mantle source heterogeneity	18
Thermal and compositional anomalies in a detailed xenolith-based lithospheric mantle profile of the Siberian craton and the origin of seismic midlithosphere discontinuities	18
Zinc isotope evidence for paleoenvironmental changes during Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2	17
Zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronology reveals pre-Great Unconformity paleotopography in the Grand Canyon region, USA	17
Enhanced Quaternary exhumation in the Namche Barwa syntaxis, eastern Himalaya	17
Stable Ca and Sr isotopes support volcanically triggered biocalcification crisis during Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a	17

Cyclophosphates, a new class of native phosphorus compounds, and some insights into prebiotic phosphorylation on early Earth	17
Geological alteration of organic macromolecules by irradiation: Implication for organic matter occurrence on Mars	17
Precession-driven climate cycles and time scale prior to the Hirnantian glacial maximum	17
Passive-margin magmatism caused by enhanced slab-pull forces in central Tibet	17
Co-evolution of trace elements and life in Precambrian oceans: The pyrite edition	17
Mesozoic juvenile crustal formation in the easternmost Tethys: Zircon Hf isotopic evidence from Sumatran granitoids, Indonesia	17
Evaporite weathering and deposition as a long-term climate forcing mechanism	17
An intensified East Asian winter monsoon in the Japan Sea between 7.9 and 6.6 Ma	17
Discovery of two new super-eruptions from the Yellowstone hotspot track (USA): Is the Yellowstone hotspot waning?	17
Pulsed volcanism and rapid oceanic deoxygenation during Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a	17
Immediate temperature response in northern Iberia to last deglacial changes in the North Atlantic	17
Facies control on carbonate δ13C on the Great Bahama Bank	17
Overpressure release: Fluid inclusion evidence for a new mechanism for the formation of heavy oil	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 Ma	17
Cenozoic delamination of the southwestern Yangtze craton owing to densification during subduction and collision	17
Experimental evidence supports early silica cementation of the Ediacara Biota	16
Tidal modulation of river-flood deposits: How low can you go?	16
Did accretion of the Caribbean oceanic plateau drive rapid crustal thickening in the northern Andes?	16
South Tarim tied to north India on the periphery of Rodinia and Gondwana and implications for the evolution of two supercontinents	16
Fossilized reproductive modes reveal a protistan affinity of Chitinozoa	16
Impact of fault damage on eastern Tibet topography	16
The geochemical and geochronological implications of nanoscale trace-element clusters in rutile	16
Time scales of syneruptive volatile loss in silicic magmas quantified by Li isotopes	16
Hooked on salt: Rethinking Alpine tectonics in Hallstatt (Eastern Alps, Austria)	16
Spatio-temporal evolution of the Christiana-Santorini-Kolumbo volcanic field, Aegean Sea	16
Tunnel valley infill and genesis revealed by high-resolution 3-D seismic data	16
Water transfer to the deep mantle through hydrous, Al-rich silicates in subduction zones	16
Early Earth zircons formed in residual granitic melts produced by tonalite differentiation	16
Doushantuo-Pertatataka–type acanthomorphs and Ediacaran ecosystem stability	16
Direct measurement of fungal contribution to silicate weathering rates in soil	16
No effect of thermal maturity on the Mo, U, Cd, and Zn isotope compositions of Lower Jurassic organic-rich sediments	16
Silurian wildfire proxies and atmospheric oxygen	15
830-million-year-old microorganisms in primary fluid inclusions in halite	15
Radioisotopic and biostratigraphic constraints on the classical Middle–Upper Permian succession and tetrapod fauna of the Moscow syneclise, Russia	15
Sabkha dolomite as an archive for the magnesium isotope composition of seawater	15
The spatial flux of Earth’s meteorite falls found via Antarctic data	15
New chronology of the Chinese loess-paleosol sequence by leaf wax δD records during the past 800 k.y.	15
Revisiting stepwise ocean oxygenation with authigenic barium enrichments in marine mudrocks	15
Serpentinized peridotite versus thick mafic crust at the Romanche oceanic transform fault	15
Redefining the age of the lower Colorado River, southwestern United States	15
Lithium isotopic composition of soil pore water: Responses to evapotranspiration	15
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, USA	15
A novel authigenic magnetite source for sedimentary magnetization	14
Evidence for enhanced fluvial channel mobility and fine sediment export due to precipitation seasonality during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum	14
Integrating zircon trace-element geochemistry and high-precision U-Pb zircon geochronology to resolve the timing and petrogenesis of the late Ediacaran–Cambrian Wichita igneous province, Southern Okla	14
Quaternary influx of proximal coarse-grained dust altered circum-Mediterranean soil productivity and impacted early human culture	14
Predictable patterns in stacking and distribution of channelized fluvial sand bodies linked to channel mobility and avulsion processes	14
The origin of neotectonics on the lunar nearside	14
Flank sliding: A valve and a sentinel for paroxysmal eruptions and magma ascent at Mount Etna, Italy	14
Final inversion of the Midcontinent Rift during the Rigolet Phase of the Grenvillian Orogeny	14
Thin crème brûlée rheological structure for the Eastern California Shear Zone	14
The nanogeochemistry of abiotic carbonaceous matter in serpentinites from the Yap Trench, western Pacific Ocean	14
Linking metamorphism and plate boundaries over the past 2 billion years	14
A record of syn-tectonic sedimentation revealed by perched alluvial fan deposits in Valles Marineris, Mars	14
The influence of off-fault deformation zones on the near-fault distribution of coseismic landslides	14
Controls on the origin and evolution of deep-ocean trench-axial channels	14
Staged formation of the supergiant Olympic Dam uranium deposit, Australia	14
Stress in the tropics? Impact of a latitudinal seawater δ18O gradient on Middle Jurassic temperature reconstructions at low latitudes	14
How carbonate dissolution facilitates sediment-hosted Zn-Pb mineralization	14
Quantitative reconstruction of pore-pressure history in sedimentary basins using fluid escape pipes	14
Multiple phyla, one time resolution? Similar time averaging in benthic foraminifera, mollusk, echinoid, crustacean, and otolith fossil assemblages	14
Rapid macrobenthic diversification and stabilization after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event	13
Mantle heating at ca. 2 Ga by continental insulation: Evidence from granites and eclogites	13
A sub-centennial-scale optically stimulated luminescence chronostratigraphy and late Holocene flood history from a temperate river confluence	13
Anoxic depositional overprinting of 238U/235U in calcite: When do carbonates tell black shale tales?	13
Boron proxies record paleosalinity variation in the North American Midcontinent Sea in response to Carboniferous glacio-eustasy	13
Total organic carbon and the preservation of organic-walled microfossils in Precambrian shale	13
Silver isotope and volatile trace element systematics in galena samples from the Iberian Peninsula and the quest for silver sources of Roman coinage	13
A carbon-rich lithospheric mantle as a source for the large CO2 emissions of Etna volcano (Italy)	13
Volcanic plumbing filters on ocean-island basalt geochemistry	13
Tectonic pressure gradients during viscous creep drive fluid flow and brittle failure at the base of the seismogenic zone	13
Volcanic origin of the mercury anomalies at the Cretaceous-Paleogene transition of Bidart, France	13
Rapid retreat of the southwestern Laurentide Ice Sheet during the Bølling-Allerød interval	13
Temperature change in subtropical southeastern Africa during the past 790,000 yr	13
How do basin margins record long-term tectonic and climatic changes?	13
Regional-scale abrupt Mid-Holocene ice sheet thinning in the western Ross Sea, Antarctica	13
Jurassic Arc: Reconstructing the Lost World of eastern Gondwana	13
Unraveling the histories of Proterozoic shales through in situ Rb-Sr dating and trace element laser ablation analysis	13
Deformation and metasomatism recorded by single-grain apatite petrochronology	13
Molybdenum isotopes in mafic igneous rocks record slabmantle interactions from subarc to postarc depths	13
A link between rift-related volcanism and end-Ediacaran extinction? Integrated chemostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, and U-Pb geochronology from Sonora, Mexico	13
A hidden Rodinian lithospheric keel beneath Zealandia, Earth’s newly recognized continent	13
Thermodynamic limits for assimilation of silicate crust in primitive magmas	12
Preferential dissolution of uranium-rich zircon can bias the hafnium isotope compositions of granites	12
Long-term Aptian marine osmium isotopic record of Ontong Java Nui activity	12
Tibetan Plateau growth linked to crustal thermal transitions since the Miocene	12
Aridity-driven decoupling of δ13C between pedogenic carbonate and soil organic matter	12
Recalibrating Rodinian rifting in the northwestern United States	12
Time-evolving surface and subsurface signatures of Quaternary volcanism in the Cascades arc	12
Evidence for ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism discovered in the Appalachian orogen	12
Geothermal energy and ore-forming potential of 600 °C mid-ocean-ridge hydrothermal fluids	12
Ice-rafted dropstones in “postglacial” Cryogenian cap carbonates	12
Phanerozoic record of mantle-dominated arc magmatic surges in the Zealandia Cordillera	12
Isotope sclerochronology indicates enhanced seasonal precipitation in northern South America (Colombia) during the Mid-Miocene Climatic Optimum	12
Eruption risks from covert silicic magma bodies	12