Geology

Papers
(The TQCC of Geology is 11. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Anoxic depositional overprinting of 238U/235U in calcite: When do carbonates tell black shale tales?100
Crustal architectural controls on critical metal ore systems in South China based on Hf isotopic mapping69
ERRATUM: Across-strike asymmetry of the Andes orogen linked to the age and geometry of the Nazca plate53
Geoelectric evidence for a wide spatial footprint of active extension in central Colorado52
Determining the age and origin of a Tertiary karstic system by in situ U-Pb geochronology on speleothems50
Hydrological fluctuations in the Tarim Basin, northwest China, over the past millennium48
An invasion model for the start of Paleo-Pacific subduction48
Extreme erosion by submarine slides47
Did transit through the galactic spiral arms seed crust production on the early Earth?46
To rush into the secret house of death: The fate of a Tournaisian plant44
Cenozoic sediment bypass versus Laramide exhumation and erosion of the Eagle Ford Group: Perspective from modelling of organic and inorganic proxy data (Maverick Basin, Texas, USA)44
A new model for the growth of normal faults developed above pre-existing structures: COMMENT44
Generation of Archean TTGs via sluggish subduction44
Origin of Archean Pb isotope variability through open-system Paleoarchean crustal anatexis44
Forced Cenozoic continental subduction of Tarim craton-like lithosphere below the Tianshan revealed by ambient noise tomography42
Ice-crystal traces imply ephemeral freezing in early Permian equatorial Pangea41
Two-pronged kill mechanism at the end-Triassic mass extinction39
Volcanic origin of the mercury anomalies at the Cretaceous-Paleogene transition of Bidart, France39
Paleoclimates inform on a weakening and amplitude-reduced East Asian winter monsoon in the warming future37
Contemporary and future dust sources and emission fluxes from gypsum- and quartz-dominated eolian systems, New Mexico and Texas, USA35
Curved orogenic belts, back-arc basins, and obduction as consequences of collision at irregular continental margins34
Tracing black shales in the source of a porphyry Mo deposit using molybdenum isotopes34
Erratum34
Identifying crystal accumulation and melt extraction during formation of high-silica granite34
Seafloor spreading and the delivery of sulfur and metals to Earth’s oceans34
Hot atmospheric formation of carbonate accretionary lapilli at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, Brazos River, Texas, from clumped isotope thermometry33
Past eruptions of a newly discovered active, shallow, silicic submarine volcano near Tokyo Bay, Japan33
Crystal plasticity enhances trace element mobility in garnet33
Xenoliths reveal a hot Moho and thin lithosphere at the Cordillera-craton boundary of western Canada32
Morphologic signatures of autogenic waterfalls: A case study in the San Gabriel Mountains, California32
Silicification of trilobites and biofilm from the Cambrian Weeks Formation, Utah: Evidence for microbial mediation of silicification32
Accumulation of windblown sand in impact craters on Mars31
Near-constant retreat rate of a terrestrial margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet during the last deglaciation31
Magma mingling and ascent in the minutes to hours before an explosive eruption as recorded by banded pumice31
Permafrost thaw induced abrupt changes in hydrology and carbon cycling in Lake Wudalianchi, northeastern China30
Unraveling the histories of Proterozoic shales through in situ Rb-Sr dating and trace element laser ablation analysis30
Orbital control of Pleistocene euxinia in Lake Magadi, Kenya29
A water transport system across the mantle transition zone beneath western North America as imaged by electrical conductivity data29
Oxygen isotope evidence for progressively assimilating trans-crustal magma plumbing systems in Iceland29
Long-term Aptian marine osmium isotopic record of Ontong Java Nui activity28
Mercury efficiently volatilized but not completely removed from sediments around igneous intrusions28
Three-dimensional glacial isostatic adjustment modeling reconciles conflicting geographic trends in North American marine isotope stage 5a relative sea level observations27
North America's Midcontinent Rift magma volume: A coincidental rendezvous of a plume with a rift27
Shearing-enhanced deep fluid circulation induces seismic anisotropy in the lower crust at slow-spreading oceanic ridges27
A quantification of the effect of diagenesis on the paleoredox record in mid-Proterozoic sedimentary rocks27
In situ carbon storage potential in a buried volcano27
Mid-Proterozoic geomagnetic field was more consistent with a dipole than a quadrupole27
Multiple melt source origin of the Line Islands (Pacific Ocean)27
Lateral variation in slab window viscosity inferred from global navigation satellite system (GNSS)–observed uplift due to recent mass loss at Patagonia ice fields27
Post-salt carbonates control salt-tectonic minibasin formation26
Limited sulfur degassing and muted environmental impact of Ontong Java Plateau lavas26
Unusually fracture-free seafloor in the southern North Atlantic between Newfoundland and Iberia explained through compounding tectonic inheritance since the Paleoproterozoic25
Disconformity-controlled hydrothermal dolomitization and cementation during basin evolution: Upper Triassic carbonates, UAE25
Reconciling plate motion and faulting at a rift-rift-rift triple junction24
Opening of the North Atlantic Ocean and the rise of Scandinavian mountains24
Contribution of the oldest Paleoproterozoic marine sulfate evaporites to Bushveld Complex Lower Zone mineralization24
Orogen-scale inverted metamorphism during Cretaceous–Paleogene terminal suturing along the North American Cordillera, Alaska, USA24
The interfacial energy penalty to crystal growth close to equilibrium24
Fluid environment controls along-strike variation in slip style: Midcrustal geological signatures from the Red River fault, China24
Spatio-temporal evolution of the Christiana-Santorini-Kolumbo volcanic field, Aegean Sea24
Molybdenum isotope signature of microbial nitrogen utilization in siboglinid tubeworms23
Disparate crustal thicknesses beneath oceanic transform faults and adjacent fracture zones revealed by gravity anomalies23
Eruption dynamics leading to a volcanic thunderstorm—The January 2020 eruption of Taal volcano, Philippines23
Olivine in komatiite records origin and travel from the deep upper mantle23
Preferential preservation of low-elevation biotas in the nonmarine fossil record23
Apparent preservation of primary foraminiferal Mg/Ca ratios and Mg-banding in recrystallized foraminifera23
The Neoproterozoic glacial broom23
Nd isotopic evidence for enhanced mafic weathering leading to Ordovician cooling23
Direct constraints on in situ stress state from deep drilling into the Nankai subduction zone, Japan23
A tropically hot mid-Cretaceous North American Western Interior Seaway23
What controlled the thickness of continental crust in the Archean?23
Crustal fluids cause strong Lu-Hf fractionation and Hf-Nd-Li isotopic provinciality in the mantle of continental subduction zones22
Pityusa Patera, Mars: Structural analyses suggest a mega-caldera above a magma chamber at the crust-mantle interface22
Apatite Lu–Hf dating of late Archean banded iron formations22
Small impact cratering processes produce distinctive charcoal assemblages22
First dating of an early Chibanian (Middle Pleistocene) glacial overdeepening in the Alpine Foreland using the 4He/U-Th method22
Groundwater seepage is a key driver of theater-headed valley formation in limestone21
Raman thermometry and (U-Th)/He thermochronometry reveal Neogene transpressional exhumation in the Nacimiento block of central California, USA21
A sea of change: Tracing parasitic dynamics through the past millennia in the northern Adriatic, Italy21
Hydrodynamic invalidation of synformal traps for dissolved CO221
Hikurangi megathrust slip behavior influenced by lateral variability in sediment subduction21
Bacterial magnetofossil evidence for enhanced Pacific Ocean respired carbon storage during buildup of Antarctic glaciation21
Fossil Java Sea corals record Laurentide ice sheet disappearance21
Sediment routing in an incised valley during Hurricane Harvey (2017) in Houston, Texas, USA: Implications for modern sedimentation21
Early Earth zircons formed in residual granitic melts produced by tonalite differentiation: REPLY21
Reconstructing source-to-sink systems from detrital zircon core and rim ages21
Early Au-rich sulfide liquid saturation explains the low Au endowment of continental intraplate alkaline magmas21
Skarn fluid sources as indicators of timing of Cordilleran arc emergence and paleogeography in the southwestern United States21
Traces of major collisional events in the asteroid belt in late Eocene marine sediments in Italy20
Anchoring the Swedish Time Scale to the radiocarbon time scale —An absolute age for De Geer’s zero varve20
Transient fault creep on the Xidatan (Tibet) fault driven by viscoelastic relaxation following the 2001 Kokoxili earthquake20
Climatic regulation of atmospheric mercury deposition: Evidence from mercury isotopes in an alpine peat core20
Hadean zircon formed due to hydrated ultramafic protocrust melting20
A translithospheric magmatic system revealed beneath Changbaishan volcano20
Formation of low-gradient bedrock chutes by dry rockfall on planetary surfaces20
Upper Paleozoic komatiites near Mashhad, NE Iran20
The funnel-shaped crustal architecture in central Tibet and its insights into the progression of lithospheric removal20
Garnet versus amphibole: Implications for magmatic differentiation and slab melting20
Ultrahigh-temperature granites and a curious thermal eye in the post-collisional South Bohemian batholith of the Variscan orogenic belt (Europe)20
Early Earth zircons formed in residual granitic melts produced by tonalite differentiation20
Crustal transpressional fault geometry influenced by viscous lower crustal flow19
Zn-, Mg- and O-isotope evidence for the origin of mantle eclogites from Roberts Victor kimberlite (Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa)19
Trends and rhythms in carbonatites and kimberlites reflect thermo-tectonic evolution of Earth19
Don’t mind the “charcoal gap”: A reassessment of Devonian wildfire18
Alkali-carbonate melts in the cratonic mantle evidenced by a wehrlite xenolith from the Majuagaa kimberlite, West Greenland18
Inclination and heterogeneity of layered geological sequences influence dike-induced ground deformation18
Generation of Archean TTGs via sluggish subductions: COMMENT18
Ultraslow cooling of an ultrahot orogen18
Correlating mantle cooling with tectonic transitions on early Earth18
Exploring the impact of deglaciation on fault slip in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado, USA18
Mantle wedge olivine modifies slab-derived fluids: Implications for fluid transport from slab to arc magma source18
Extensional mountain building along convergent plate boundary: Insights from the active Taiwan mountain belt18
Resolving pressure differences within the Grand Canyon Precambrian basement: Implications for Proterozoic tectonics18
Intact stalked crinoids from the late Aptian of NE Spain offer insights into the Mesozoic Marine Revolution in the Tethys18
Evidence for nonlocal sediment transport on hillslopes from fault scarp morphology18
Hydrothermal sulfate surges promote rare earth element transport and mineralization18
ERRATUM: New estimates of the magnitude of the sea-level jump during the 8.2 ka event18
Guttulatic calcite: A carbonate microtexture that reveals frigid formation conditions17
Physical transport of magmatic sulfides promotes copper enrichment in hydrothermal ore fluids17
Strength of the winter North Atlantic jet stream has deviated from its natural trend under anthropogenic warming17
Increase in magma supply to Sakurajima volcano’s (Japan) shallow magma chamber over the past 500 years17
Rhabdophane Th-Pb ages indicate reactivation of Mesoarchean structures in west Pilbara Craton during breakup of Greater India and Australia-Antarctica17
Whole-lithosphere shear during oblique rifting17
Fault permeability from stochastic modeling of clay smears17
Effects on global warming by microbial methanogenesis in alkaline lakes during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA)17
Distinctive source and hydration state of gold-ore–forming arc magmas17
Oceanic isostasy as a trigger for the rift-to-drift transition17
Quantitative relationships between river and channel-belt planform patterns17
Mantle serpentinization and associated hydrogen flux at North Atlantic magma-poor rifted margins17
Ridgeward flow of compositionally heterogeneous mantle produces near-ridge seamount chains in the South Pacific16
Metamorphism obscures primary taphonomic pathways in the early Cambrian Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, North Greenland16
Phanerozoic variation in dolomite abundance linked to oceanic anoxia: COMMENT16
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
Extreme twin densities in calcite—A shock indicator16
Exceptional age constraint on a fossiliferous sedimentary succession preceding the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum16
Fluid-fluxed melting of juvenile lower crust traced by molybdenum isotopes16
Post-subduction porphyry Cu magmas in the Sanjiang region of southwestern China formed by fractionation of lithospheric mantle–derived mafic magmas16
Impact of stream power gradients on storage of sediment and carbon on channel margins and floodplains16
The role of surface processes in basin inversion and breakup unconformity16
Moho carbonation at an ocean-continent transition16
Oligocene melting of subducted mélange and its mantle dynamics in northeast Asia16
Calcitic shells in the aragonite sea of the earliest Cambrian15
Early Pleistocene climate-induced erosion of the Alaska Range formed the Nenana Gravel15
Solid as a rock: Tectonic control of graben extension and dike propagation15
Role of volatiles in intrusion emplacement and sulfide deposition in the supergiant Norilsk-Talnakh Ni-Cu-PGE ore deposits15
Frictional and microstructural evidence for a weak Wasatch fault zone15
Stagnation and tearing of the subducting northwest Pacific slab15
Halogen ratios in crustal fluids through time—Proxies for the emergence of aerobic life?15
Intensified bottom water formation in the southwest Pacific during the early Eocene greenhouse—Insights from neodymium isotopes15
Timing of carbon uptake by oceanic crust determined by rock reactivity15
Serpentinized peridotite versus thick mafic crust at the Romanche oceanic transform fault15
Magma recharge patterns control eruption styles and magnitudes at Popocatépetl volcano (Mexico)15
Slab damage and the pulsating retreat of the Ionian-Apennines subduction15
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
Significance of U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology for mudstone provenance15
Evaluating preservation bias in the continental growth record against the monazite archive15
Early accretion and prolonged carbonation of the Pacific Ocean's oldest crust15
The reconstruction of coastal carbonate sequence stratigraphy: A modern-systems approach14
Rupture direction of paleoearthquakes on the Alpine Fault, New Zealand, as recorded by curved slickenlines14
Phanerozoic emergence of global continental collision and onset of massive crustal eclogitization14
Molybdenum isotopes in mafic igneous rocks record slabmantle interactions from subarc to postarc depths14
Cryophilic polychaetes at the subtropical Laurentian margin of the Iapetus Ocean: Evidence for cold-water ocean circulation and upwelling14
Widespread glasses generated by cometary fireballs during the late Pleistocene in the Atacama Desert, Chile: COMMENT14
Identifying and characterizing missing source orogens for syn-orogenic basins based on detrital accessory mineral U-Pb geochronology and trace element geochemistry14
Phanerozoic variation in dolomite abundance linked to oceanic anoxia: COMMENT14
Protracted mantle heat conduction after lithospheric foundering beneath the Malagasy orogen14
Climate control on the relationship between erosion rate and fluvial topography14
Silicification of trilobites and biofilm from the Cambrian Weeks Formation, Utah: Evidence for microbial mediation of silicification: REPLY14
Sediment waves control origins of submarine canyons14
Tracking cycles of Phanerozoic opening and closing of ocean basins using detrital rutile and zircon geochronology and geochemistry14
Detrital glass in a Bering Sea sediment core yields a ca. 160 ka Marine Isotope Stage 6 age for Old Crow tephra14
Ash deposits link Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 to High Arctic volcanism14
Intersection between tectonic faults and magmatic systems promotes swarms with large-magnitude earthquakes around the Tengchong volcanic field, southeastern Tibetan Plateau14
Spontaneous reheating of crystallizing lava14
Widespread glasses generated by cometary fireballs during the late Pleistocene in the Atacama Desert, Chile: REPLY14
Modern ocean island basalt–like 182W signature in Paleoarchean mafic rocks: Implications for the generation, preservation, and destruction of early mantle heterogeneities14
Polychromatic polarization: Boosting the capabilities of the good old petrographic microscope14
A power-based abrasion law for use in landscape evolution models13
Natural levees increase in prevalence in the backwater zone: Coastal Trinity River, Texas, USA: COMMENT13
Large negative δ238U anomalies in endogenic-type travertine systems13
No evidence for a volcanic trigger for late Cambrian carbon-cycle perturbations13
Toroidal flow around the Tonga slab moved the Samoan plume during the Pliocene13
Boninitic blueschists record subduction initiation and subsequent accretion of an arc–forearc in the northeast Proto-Tethys Ocean13
Calcite U-Pb ages constrain petroleum migration pathways in tectonic complex basins13
A multidisciplinary approach to reconstructing the history of early animal life on Earth13
Latitudinal diversity gradient dynamics during Carboniferous to Triassic icehouse and greenhouse climates13
Life in the Cambrian shallows: Exceptionally preserved arthropod and mollusk microfossils from the early Cambrian of Sweden13
Phanerozoic record of mantle-dominated arc magmatic surges in the Zealandia Cordillera13
Can deepwater bottom currents generate clinothems? An example of a large, asymmetric mounded drift in Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous sediments from northwestern Australia13
Sponge-rich sediment recycling in a Paleozoic continental arc driven by mélange melting13
Eruptive tempo of Emeishan large igneous province, southwestern China and northern Vietnam: Relations to biotic crises and paleoclimate changes around the Guadalupian-Lopingian boundary13
Extreme isotopic heterogeneity in impact melt rocks: Implications for Martian meteorites13
Laser-ablation Lu-Hf dating reveals Laurentian garnet in subducted rocks from southern Australia13
Carbon cycling during the India-Asia collision revealed by δ26Mg–δ66Zn–δ98Mo evidence from ultrapotassic volcanoes in NW Tibet13
The source of tungsten-associated magmas in the northern Canadian Cordillera and implications for the basement13
Recognizing big mantle wedges in deep time: Constraints from the Western Mongolia Collage in Central Asia13
“Excess Ar” by laboratory alteration of biotite12
Active faulting controls bedform development on a deep-water fan12
Crustal thickness of the Grenville orogen: A Mesoproterozoic Tibet?12
Downward continued ocean bottom seismometer data show continued hydrothermal evolution of mature oceanic upper crust12
Preserved intercratonic lithosphere reveals Proterozoic assembly of Australia12
Hyper-enrichment of gold via quartz fracturing and growth of polymetallic melt droplets12
Constraints of boron and oxygen stable isotopes on dehydration fluids, sediment-derived melts, and crustal assimilation of the Toba volcanic system (Indonesia)12
Formation of lower arc crust by magmatic underplating revealed by high-precision geochronology12
Hydrologically driven modulation of cutoff regime in meandering rivers12
Morphological selectivity of the Permian-Triassic ammonoid mass extinction12
Nanoscale mineralogical evidence confirms Cu transport as chloride complexes in brines in the Central European Kupferschiefer district12
Mid-Proterozoic geomagnetic field was more consistent with a dipole than a quadrupole: COMMENT12
South Tarim tied to north India on the periphery of Rodinia and Gondwana and implications for the evolution of two supercontinents12
Tesserae: Surface differences across Venus’s “continents”12
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, USA12
Landscapes on the edge: River intermittency in a warming world12
Strongly peraluminous granites provide independent evidence for an increase in biomass burial across the Precambrian–Phanerozoic boundary12
A unique record of prokaryote cell pyritization12
Spatially variable provenance of the Chinese Loess Plateau12
High-precision U-Pb geochronology for the Miocene Climate Optimum and a novel approach for calibrating age models in deep-sea sediment cores12
Lithosphere–asthenosphere interactions beneath northeast China and the origin of its intraplate volcanism11
The products of primary magma fragmentation finally revealed by pumice agglomerates11
Subduction polarity reversal facilitated by plate coupling during arc-continent collision: Evidence from the Western Kunlun orogenic belt, northwest Tibetan Plateau11
Lithospheric-scale dynamics during continental subduction: Evidence from a frozen-in plate interface11
Conservative transport of dissolved sulfate across the Rio Madre de Dios floodplain in Peru11
Portable optically stimulated luminescence age map of a paleoseismic exposure11
Jurassic Arc: Reconstructing the Lost World of eastern Gondwana11
Late Miocene to recent tectonic evolution of the Macquarie Triple Junction11
Fjord network in Namibia: A snapshot into the dynamics of the late Paleozoic glaciation11
Marine redox and nutrient dynamics linked to the Cambrian radiation of animals11
The early opening of the Equatorial Atlantic gateway and the evolution of Cretaceous peak warming11
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)11
A window into development of a complex ice-marginal lake prior to the Late Glacial Maximum (LGM) in Austria11
Time-evolving surface and subsurface signatures of Quaternary volcanism in the Cascades Arc: REPLY11
Seismic evidence for lithospheric boudinage and its implications for continental rifting11
Decrypting the polymetamorphic record of the Himalaya11
Linking metamorphism and plate boundaries over the past 2 billion years11
Tracking ancient unconformity development with martite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry11
Ocean oxygenation and ecological restructuring caused by the late Paleozoic evolution of land plants11
Stable tungsten isotopic composition of seawater over the past 80 million years11
Surface exposure constraints on the mantle water budget11
Post-subduction porphyry Cu magmas in the Sanjiang region of southwestern China formed by fractionation of lithospheric mantle–derived mafic magmas: REPLY11
Nannofossil imprints across the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum11
Erosion of the Himalaya-Karakoram recorded by Indus Fan deposits since the Oligocene11
Unique mercury isotopic signature of mercury-bearing hydrothermal systems in South China and its geological and environmental implications11
Rare earth element transport and mineralization linked to fluids from carbonatite systems11
Steady decline in mean annual air temperatures in the first 30 k.y. after the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary11
Dating submarine landslides using the transient response of gas hydrate stability11
Laramide bulldozing of lithosphere beneath the Arizona transition zone, southwestern United States11
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