Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Papers
(The median citation count of Earth and Planetary Science Letters is 5. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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Pressure- and temperature-dependent anharmonicity of MgO: Implications for the thermal conductivity of planetary mantles98
Chondrites as thermal and mechanical archives of accretion processes in the Solar protoplanetary disk90
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Effect of the liquid-vacuum transition on the relative abundances of amino and fatty acids sought as biosignatures on icy ocean worlds70
Unexpectedly narrower track diameter at site of fission event69
Decadal change of the Apulia microplate motion preceding the M 6.4, 26 November 2019 Durrës (Albania) earthquake69
Strong effect of liquid Fe–S on elastic wave velocity of olivine aggregate: Implication for the low velocity anomaly at the base of the lunar mantle68
Insights into the environment surrounding the subduction megathrust using teleseismic P-to-S and P-to-P scattered phases66
Garnet as a reliable timekeeper in Archean polymetamorphic terranes62
Wetted two-grain boundaries in olivine aggregates and seismic velocities in the oceanic upper mantle59
The complexity of water freezing under reduced atmospheric pressure59
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Transitions in subduction zone properties align with long-term topographic growth (Cascadia, USA)55
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Large sulfur isotope fractionation during abiotic consumption of hydrogen sulfide after cessation of bacterial growth in batch culture experiments of sulfate reducing bacteria54
Rapid pre-explosion increase in dome extrusion rate at La Soufrière, St. Vincent quantified from synthetic aperture radar backscatter53
Garnet clinopyroxenite formation via amphibole-dehydration in continental arcs: Evidence from Fe isotopes53
MgO miscibility in liquid iron53
Cold subduction recorded by the 1.9 Ga Salma eclogite in Belomorian Province (Russia)51
Residence time of inertial particles in 3D thermal convection: Implications for magma reservoirs51
Earth's longest lava flows erupted from its largest igneous province: The submarine Ontong Java Plateau48
Frictional power dissipation in a seismic ancient fault48
Rock-ice avalanche flume experiments reveal a non-linear hillslope erosion rule governed by ice-content48
Cadmium isotopic evidence for reduced deep-water marine primary productivity during the end-Permian mass extinction47
Sedimentary and crustal structure of the US Gulf Coast revealed by Rayleigh wave and teleseismic P coda data with implications for continent rifting46
Exhumation of ultra-high pressure (UHP) rocks modulated by rifted margin-subduction feedback: Implications for their preservation in old collisional orogens46
He, Ne, and Ar isotope systematics in Chang’e-5 plagioclase reveal diffusive loss and reirradiation processes46
Formation of the massive bedded chert and coupled Silicon and Iron cycles during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition45
The effect of salinity on water 17O/16O ratios in brines45
Along-strike variations in the fossil subduction zone of the Western Alps revealed by the CIFALPS seismic experiments and their implications for exhumation of (ultra-) high-pressure rocks45
New evidence for a long Rhaetian from a Panthalassan succession (Wrangell Mountains, Alaska) and regional differences in carbon cycle perturbations at the Triassic-Jurassic transition45
The extraterrestrial dust accretion rate on Earth at Dome C, Antarctica: a fresh look with 3He45
Seismically-derived porosity of deep-sea sediments over the last 74 Ma in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean: Implications for paleo-climate45
Probing Cretaceous-Paleogene crustal thickness in southern Tibet using quartz-zircon chronobarometry44
Contrasting Cu isotopes in mid-ocean ridge basalts and lower oceanic crust: Insights into the oceanic crustal magma plumbing systems44
Spatiotemporal dominance of afterslip and viscoelastic relaxation revealed by four decades of post-1973 Luhuo earthquake observations43
Clumped isotopes constrain thermogenic and secondary microbial methane origins in coal bed methane43
A benthic source of isotopically heavy Ni from continental margins and implications for global ocean Ni isotope mass balance42
What causes the spatiotemporal patterns of seismicity in the Three Gorges Reservoir area, central China?41
Interference of ocean and land mass changes in seasonal crustal deformation of coastal stations: A case study in northern Australia41
Evolutionary dynamics of redox-sensitive minerals reveal details and possible regulatory mechanisms of Earth's oxygenation events41
Hypocentral dependent shallow slip distribution and rupture extents along a strike-slip fault40
Miocene decoupling of surface uplift of the Central Anatolian Plateau interior (Türkiye) and its modern mountainous margins40
Thresholds in the controls of denudation rates: A global analysis of tectonic, climatic and biological factors based on machine learning40
Thermodynamic modelling and chronometric dating of melting and refertilization in the subcontinental lithospheric mantle40
Barium isotopes in stromatolites through deep-time: A novel tracer for metal cycling in the photic zone40
Accessory mineral microstructure and chronology reveals no evidence for late heavy bombardment on the asteroid 4-Vesta39
Zinc isotope evidence for carbonate alteration of oceanic crustal protoliths of cratonic eclogites39
Uranium-series comminution ages constrain large catchment erosion and its response to climate change: A case study from the Changjiang38
Strong potassium uptake in surface sediments of the Changjiang River Estuary and the East China Sea: Implications for authigenic processes and the marine potassium budget38
Decoupled oxygenation of the Ediacaran ocean and atmosphere during the rise of early animals38
3D transdimensional seismic tomography of the inner core37
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Unsteady slip pulses under spatially-varying prestress37
Reconstruction of the Virtual Geomagnetic Pole (VGP) path at high latitude for the last 22 kyr: The role of radial field flux patches as VGP attractor37
Global comparative basin hypsometric analysis of Earth and Mars: Implications for early Mars climate37
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Satellite derived SO2 emissions from the relatively low-intensity, effusive 2021 eruption of Fagradalsfjall, Iceland36
Enhanced earthquake hazard in the Lut Block Region, Iran due to the stress evolutions since 196836
Corrigendum to “Fractionation of rhenium isotopes in the Mackenzie River basin during oxidative weathering” [Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 573 (2021) 117131]36
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Tertiary creep behavior for various rate- and state-dependent friction laws36
Corrigendum to “Serpentinite fluids and slab-melting in the Aleutian arc: Evidence from molybdenum isotopes and boron systematics” [Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 603, 2023, 1-12/117970]36
Bridging the shocked monazite gap- deformation microstructures in natural and laser shock-loaded samples36
Rhenium isotope variations in Icelandic groundwaters and hydrothermal systems36
Large burial flux of modern organic carbon in the St. Lawrence estuarine system indicates a substantial atmospheric carbon sink35
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Katabatic and foehn winds control the distribution of supraglacial lakes in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica35
Multidecadal pre- and post-collapse dynamics of the northern Larsen Ice Shelf35
Rubidium isotopes reveal dehydration and melting of the subducting slab beneath the Mariana arc35
No detectable redox exchange between sulfur and iron during rapid cooling of basalts35
Calcium isotope constraints on the origin of eucrites and diogenites: The role of magma ocean and magmatism34
Ice age effects on the satellite-derived J<34
Constraining marine anoxia under the extremely oxygenated Permian atmosphere using uranium isotopes in calcitic brachiopods and marine carbonates34
Molybdenum isotope evidence for subduction-modified mantle beneath mid-ocean ridges34
Climatic and lithological controls on the structure and thickness of granitic weathering zones34
High pressure-temperature single-crystal elasticity of ringwoodite: Implications for detecting the 520 discontinuity and metastable ringwoodite at depths greater than 660 km34
Permeability and seismicity rate changes at an inflating submarine volcano caused by dynamic stresses34
A plume of volcanic 3He observed in the Shallow North Pacific33
Complex magmatic-tectonic interactions during the 2020 Makushin Volcano, Alaska, earthquake swarm33
Delayed 10Be dilution in detrital quartz following extensive coseismic landsliding: A 2016 Kaikōura earthquake case study33
Partitioning of Fe2+ and Fe3+ between bridgmanite and silicate melt: Implications for redox evolution of the Earth's mantle33
Oligocene atmospheric CO2 drawdown linked to increased land surface weatherability33
Dense mantle flows periodically spaced below ocean basins33
Syn-rift margin architecture influenced by surficial loads33
Fluids and fault structures underlying the complex foreshock sequence of the 2021 Mw 6.1 Yangbi earthquake33
High precision noble gas measurements of hydrothermal quartz reveal variable loss rate of Xe from the Archean atmosphere33
Zinc isotope evidence for dynamic nutrient cycling regulation of organic carbon burial in the mid-Proterozoic ocean32
Dual origin of ferropericlase inclusions within super-deep diamonds32
Assessing the preservation of orbital signals across different sedimentary environments: Insights from stochastic sedimentation modeling32
Observation of rapid long-range seismic bursts in the Japan Trench subduction leading to the nucleation of the Tohoku earthquake32
Mantle deformation in the highly oblique indo-burma subduction system inferred from shear wave splitting measurements32
The evolution of a young ocean within Mimas32
Acceleration of Late Pleistocene activity of a Central European fault driven by ice loading31
Noble gas isotopic compositions and abundance ratios of mantle xenoliths from Honolulu series volcanism, Oahu, Hawaii31
Highly fractionated Hg isotope evidence for dynamic euxinia in shallow waters of the Mesoproterozoic ocean31
Magnesium and silicon isotopic evidence revealing a non-chondritic inner solar system origin for the ureilite parent body31
Serpentinite fluids and slab-melting in the Aleutian arc: Evidence from molybdenum isotopes and boron systematics31
Tracing island arc petrogenesis using potassium isotopes31
Abrupt Northwest Atlantic deep-sea oxygenation decline preceded the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum31
Periodic Bedrock Ridges at Oxia Planum and Chryse Planitia, Mars: Evidence for widespread aeolian erosion of an ancient surface by regional paleowinds30
The Rb isotope composition of modern seawater and outputs to deep-sea sediments30
Control of stepwise subduction and slab breakoff on volcanism and uplift in the Tibetan Plateau30
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Martian surface dating model refinement based on Chang'E-5 updated lunar chronology function30
Rapid along-strike variations of shallow crustal structure in response to Indo-Burma subduction: Constraints from multi-type passive seismic data30
Nitrogen isotopic insight into sediment recycling in the southern Lesser Antilles arc: Implication to subduction-zone nitrogen recycling30
Impacts of an active Pacific Meridional Overturning Circulation on the Pliocene climate and hydrological cycle30
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Can impact-induced heating drive moderately volatile element loss?30
The tempo of back-arc basin evolution: Insights from the early Paleozoic Proto-Tethyan North Qilian orogenic belt, northeastern Tibet30
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Correlating 300 million years of catastrophes30
The fate of ultramafic-rich mélanges in cold to hot subduction zones: Implications for diapirism (or not) and chemical geodynamics30
Mapping the mantle transition zone discontinuities across South-Central Europe using body waves from seismic noise correlations29
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Exhumation and incision of the eastern Central Andes, southern Peru: Low-temperature thermochronology observations29
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Comment on “A Bayesian age from dispersed plagioclase and zircon dates in the Los Chocoyos ash, Central America” by28
Variable oxidizing capacity of slab-derived fluids: Insights from Fe and S speciation in glasses from the Troodos Ophiolite28
Earth's earliest hydrosphere recorded by the oldest hydrothermally-altered oceanic crust: Triple oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in the 4.3-3.8 Ga Nuvvuagittuq belt, Canada28
Inverse methods for consistent quantification of seafloor anoxia using uranium isotope data from marine sediments28
The Late Miocene Carbon Isotope Shift driven by synergetic terrestrial processes: A box-model study28
Tracing the stepwise warming trend in the tropical Indian Ocean through a 40-year record of oxygen isotope composition in Maldives corals28
Copper and zinc isotope compositions of pristine eucrites as analogues for differentiated planetary feedstocks28
Volcano-tectonic controls on magma residence time in arc crusts: Insights from noble gas geochemistry in the Andean Southern Volcanic Zone.28
Magnesium isotope behavior in oceanic magmatic systems: Constraints from mid-ocean ridge lavas from the East Pacific Rise28
Iron isotope evidence in continental intraplate basalts for mantle lithosphere imprint on heterogenous asthenospheric melts27
Evidence for isotopically light Fe mobility under oxidising conditions in subduction zone fluids: A record of Monviso meta-serpentinites, Western Alps27
Bioavailability of molybdenite to support nitrogen fixation on early Earth by an anoxygenic phototroph27
Sub-centennially resolved reconstruction of surface temperature on High Arctic Svalbard for the past 13,000 years27
Mafic magmatism triggered the Mesoproterozoic oxygenation event: Re-Os-PGE evidence from the Xiamaling Formation in North China and Velkerri Formation in North Australia27
Constraining 200 million years of geodynamic evolution of the North Alpine foreland at million-year resolution using clumped isotopes and U-Pb dating of diagenetic carbonates27
Increased rainfall in southern Central America under glacial climate conditions27
Hydrothermal events in the Linzizong Group: Implications for Paleogene exhumation and paleoaltimetry of the southern Tibetan Plateau27
Isotopic evidence for two chondrule generations in CR chondrites and their relationships to other carbonaceous chondrites27
Tracking quartz and zircon provenance in sedimentary rocks using Ti distributions: Unlocking the volcanic-plutonic connection in old igneous systems26
Urea-mediated warm ponds: Prebiotic formation of carbamoyl amino acids on the primordial Earth26
Lithospheric strength and stress revisited: Pruning the Christmas tree26
Hydrated komatiites as a source of water for TTG formation in the Archean26
Compressibility of ferropericlase at high-temperature: Evidence for the iron spin crossover in seismic tomography26
Long-term evolution of the Sulzberger Ice Shelf, West Antarctica: Insights from 74-year observations and 2022 Hunga-Tonga volcanic tsunami-induced calving26
Rapid removal and replacement of dissolved organic matter during circulation through ultramafic crust26
Insights into the last 100 ky of geomagnetic field variability using numerical dynamo simulations26
Evidence for low Vp/Vs ratios along the eastern Romanche ridge-transform intersection in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean26
Stress-controlled reaction pattern in the layered lower crust: Field evidence26
The origin of early continental crust: New clues from coupling Ge/Si ratios with silicon isotopes25
Slab tearing in non-collisional settings: Insights from thermo-mechanical modelling of oblique subduction25
Thermodynamic constraints on the fate of carbon mobilized from subducted sediments in the overlying mantle wedge25
Insights into water mass change in the Yangtze River Basin from the spectral integration of GNSS and GRACE observations25
Quantifying the influence of cooling and shear rate on the disequilibrium rheology of a trachybasaltic melt from Mt. Etna25
Abiotic origin of organics in the martian regolith25
Eastern equatorial Pacific paleo-productivity and carbon cycling during the late Pleistocene25
A failed search for concordancy across multiple isotopic systems in lunar impactites: Implications for testing the Late Heavy Bombardment hypothesis25
What is the present-day tectonic uplift rate of the Tibetan Plateau?25
Seismic full-wavefield imaging of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet interior near the ice flow divide25
Equilibrium and kinetic controls on molecular hydrogen abundance and hydrogen isotope fractionation in hydrothermal fluids25
Sulfur recycling in subduction zones and the oxygen fugacity of mafic arc magmas25
Landscape modelling of the Yalong River catchment during the uplift of Southeast Tibet25
Quantifying Earth's radiogenic heat budget24
Multiple hydrothermal events at martian surface revealed by H and Cl isotope systematics of melt inclusions and hydrous minerals from chassignite NWA 273724
Quantifying salt extrusion versus surface salt flow rates at Mt. Sedom to gain insights on its mechanics and potential external atmospheric forcing24
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Lower mantle water distribution from ab initio proton diffusivity in bridgmanite24
Indian margin methane hydrate dissociation recorded in the carbon isotopes of benthic (Miliolida) foraminifera24
Lithium isotope stratigraphy and Ordovician weathering24
Sediment geochemistry reveals abundant off-axis hydrothermal fields on the ultraslow-spreading Southwest Indian Ridge24
Crustal structure and subsidence mechanisms of the Williston Basin: New constraints from receiver function imaging24
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Fast, furious, and gassy: Etna's explosive eruption from the mantle24
Constraints on the continental weathering intensity through the Permian using lithium isotopes of well-preserved brachiopod shells24
Seismic tremor reveals slow fracture propagation prior to the 2018 eruption at Sierra Negra volcano, Galápagos24
Thermal transient PDC behavior induced by topographic drops: A test case at Mt. St. Helens, USA24
Magmatic chlorine isotope fractionation recorded in apatite from Chang'e-5 basalts23
Fluid flow migration, rock stress and deformation due to a crustal fault slip in a geothermal system: A poro-elasto-plastic perspective23
Stable silicon isotope fractionation reflects the routing of water through a mesoscale hillslope23
Late Cenozoic intensification of deoxygenation in the Pacific Ocean23
Unveiling Key factors governing seismogenic potential and seismogenic productivity of hydraulic fracturing pads: Insights from machine learning in the Southern Montney Play23
Salt tectonics synchronous with salt deposition in the Santos Basin (Ariri Formation, Brazil)23
Sulfidation of nano-magnetite to pyrite: Implications for interpreting paleoenvironmental proxies and biosignature records in hydrothermal sulfide deposits23
P and S wave finite-frequency tomography reveals the impact of slab interference on mantle flow beneath the greater Alpine region23
Carboniferous, not Paleoproterozoic, eclogite-facies metamorphism in the northern North China Craton as revealed by in situ garnet Lu-Hf and U-Pb geochronology23
Mantle discontinuities and reflectors beneath the Arctic Ocean and Aleutian-Alaska subduction zone: Evidence for MORB crust at the top of the lower mantle23
Carbon polymorphs in Frontier Mountain ureilitic meteorites: A correlation with increasing the degree of shock?23
Evolution of iron formation to ore during Ediacaran to early Paleozoic tectonic stability23
Calcium isotope constraints on OIB and MORB petrogenesis: The importance of melt mixing23
Intermittent terrane arrival induces pulses of inland tectonic cycles23
Precursory patterns, evolution and physical interpretation of the 2025 Santorini-Amorgos seismic sequence23
Insight into climate and hydrology of the late cretaceous western interior basin from clumped isotope Paleothermometry and strontium isotopes23
Aseismic ridge subduction focused late Cenozoic exhumation above the Peruvian flat slab23
From slab to surface: Earthquake evidence for fluid migration at Uturuncu volcano, Bolivia23
The ecology of modern and fossil vertebrates revisited by lithium isotopes23
Spatial scale dependence of fault physical parameters and its implications for the analysis of earthquake dynamics from the lab to fault systems23
Late Triassic sedimentary records reveal the hydrological response to climate forcing and the history of the chaotic Solar System23
Reexamination and reidentification of ocean oxygenation event in the wake of the Marinoan glaciation23
The age and early evolution of the Moon revealed by the Rb-Sr systematics of lunar ferroan anorthosites23
Reconciling biogeochemical redox proxies: Tracking variable bottom water oxygenation during OAE-2 using vanadium isotopes22
“Hot” subduction initiation and the origin of the Yarlung-Tsangbo ophiolites, southern Tibet: New insights from ultrahigh temperature metamorphic soles22
How hazardous are tsunamis triggered by small-scale mass-wasting events on volcanic islands? New insights from Madeira – NE Atlantic22
How old are lunar lobate scarps? 2. Distribution in space and time22
Coevolution of sedimentary and strongly peraluminous granite phosphorus records22
Constraining the mechanisms of aeolian bedform formation on Mars through a global morphometric survey22
Fractionation of iron and chromium isotopes in hydrothermal plumes from the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge22
Large iron isotope fractionation during mantle wedge serpentinization: Implications for iron isotopes of arc magmas22
Recovery from persistent nutrient-N limitation following the Permian–Triassic mass extinction22
K- and Na-rich davemaoite inclusion in diamond is not inherited from deeply subducted oceanic crusts22
[Ca2+] and [SO 22
Insights into the acquisition of kinetic iron isotope signatures of pyrite precipitated through the polysulfide pathway22
High-resolution mapping of the mantle transition zone and its interaction with subducted slabs in the Ibero-Maghrebian region22
The deep Earth oxygen cycle: Mass balance considerations on the origin and evolution of mantle and surface oxidative reservoirs22
Retraction notice to “Bridging the shocked monazite gap- Deformation microstructures in natural and laser shock-loaded samples” [Earth and Planetary Science Letters 595 (2022) 117727]22
A machine learning-based V-in-olivine oxybarometer for characterizing oxygen fugacity in lunar and terrestrial basalts22
Isotope velocimetry: Experimental and theoretical demonstration of the potential importance of gas flow for isotope fractionation during evaporation of protoplanetary material22
Contrasting dynamics of marine bacterial-algal communities between the two main pulses of the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction22
Spatiotemporal variations in formation conditions of cryogenic brines: Insights from aragonite cements in New Harbor, western Ross Sea, Antarctica22
Hydrothermal origin of heavy potassium isotope compositions in altered oceanic crust: Implications for tracing the elemental cycle22
From birth to death: The role of upper-crustal thermal maturation and volcanism in porphyry ore formation revealed in the Yerington district22
Quantifying the loss of continental crust into the mantle from volume/mass balance calculations in modern collisional mountains22
Sound velocities in lunar mantle aggregates at simultaneous high pressures and temperatures: Implications for the presence of garnet in the deep lunar interior21
Meteoritic and asteroidal amino acid heterogeneity: Implications for planetesimal alteration conditions and sample return missions21
Partial convective overturn basins: A qualitative model based on salt minibasins21
Multi-instrument observations of microseisms generated by typhoon Kalmaegi (2014) over the Northwestern Pacific21
The role of preexisting upper plate strike-slip faults during long-lived (ca. 30 Myr) oblique flat slab subduction, southern Alaska21
Methane sealed due to the formation of gas hydrate system in the South China Sea21
Sediment mineralogy influences the rate of microbial sulfate reduction in marine sediments21
Can spinodal decomposition occur during decompression-induced vesiculation of magma?21
Hydrous melting of KLB-1 peridotite at 3–9 GPa: Implications for komatiite genesis and Archean mantle dynamics21
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The exfoliation of cratonic Australia in earthquakes21
Differential mobilization and sequestration of sedimentary black carbon in the East China Sea21
Thermodynamics of Fe-S-O-C-H liquids: Implications for the Martian core21
The influence of erosion and vegetation on soil production and chemical weathering rates in the Southern Alps, New Zealand21
Ghost plumes hidden beneath Earth’s continents21
Mantle plume heat flux and surface motion periodicities and their implications for the growth of continental crust21
H2O in nominally anhydrous mineral inclusions in diamonds and the volatile composition of diamond forming media21
Solid-phase transfer into the forearc mantle wedge: Rutile and zircon xenocrysts fingerprint subducting sources21
Detection of allophane by the Zhurong rover indicates water-limited alteration at Utopia Planitia, Mars21
Modern-like seawater δ18O in the mesoproterozoic: Insights from triple oxygen isotopes of chert21
Defining Earth's elusive thermal budget in the presence of a hidden reservoir20
Marine anoxia as a trigger for the largest Phanerozoic positive carbon isotope excursion: Evidence from carbonate barium isotope record20
3D-simulation of lunar megaregolith evolution: Quantitative constraints on spatial variation and size of fragment20
Paleoenvironmental evolution during the Early Eocene Climate Optimum in the Chicxulub impact crater20
Global variability of the composition and temperature at the 410-km discontinuity from receiver function analysis of dense arrays20
Assessing the role of clay and salts on the origin of MARSIS basal bright reflections20
A recipe for making potassium-rich magmas in collisional orogens: New insights from K and Fe isotopes20
New paleomagnetic data from the central Tethyan Himalaya refine the size of Greater India during the Campanian20
The composition and redox state of hydrous partial melts generated at the top of the lower mantle20
Tungsten and molybdenum isotopic evidence for an impact origin of pallasites20
How does inherited zircon survive in partially molten mantle: Insights on modes of magma transport in the mantle from nanoscale melt-crystal interaction experiments20
Anomalous weathering trends indicate accelerated erosion of tropical basaltic landscapes during the Permo-Triassic warming20
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