Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Papers
(The TQCC of Earth and Planetary Science Letters 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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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 bacteria76
Decoupled oxygenation of the Ediacaran ocean and atmosphere during the rise of early animals71
Earth's longest lava flows erupted from its largest igneous province: The submarine Ontong Java Plateau65
Seismically-derived porosity of deep-sea sediments over the last 74 Ma in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean: Implications for paleo-climate63
Effect of the liquid-vacuum transition on the relative abundances of amino and fatty acids sought as biosignatures on icy ocean worlds58
Unexpectedly narrower track diameter at site of fission event57
Insights into the environment surrounding the subduction megathrust using teleseismic P-to-S and P-to-P scattered phases56
Garnet as a reliable timekeeper in Archean polymetamorphic terranes55
The complexity of water freezing under reduced atmospheric pressure55
The fate of incipient carbonate melts in the genesis of intraplate basalts52
Rapid pre-explosion increase in dome extrusion rate at La Soufrière, St. Vincent quantified from synthetic aperture radar backscatter52
Wetted two-grain boundaries in olivine aggregates and seismic velocities in the oceanic upper mantle51
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 attractor50
He, Ne, and Ar isotope systematics in Chang’e-5 plagioclase reveal diffusive loss and reirradiation processes50
The effect of salinity on water 17O/16O ratios in brines49
The extraterrestrial dust accretion rate on Earth at Dome C, Antarctica: a fresh look with 3He49
MgO miscibility in liquid iron49
Continued continental weathering during snowball earth mitigated greenhouse gas buildup and prolonged global glaciation48
Chondrites as thermal and mechanical archives of accretion processes in the Solar protoplanetary disk48
Thresholds in the controls of denudation rates: A global analysis of tectonic, climatic and biological factors based on machine learning47
Residence time of inertial particles in 3D thermal convection: Implications for magma reservoirs46
Accessory mineral microstructure and chronology reveals no evidence for late heavy bombardment on the asteroid 4-Vesta45
Frictional power dissipation in a seismic ancient fault45
Miocene decoupling of surface uplift of the Central Anatolian Plateau interior (Türkiye) and its modern mountainous margins44
Formation of the massive bedded chert and coupled Silicon and Iron cycles during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition44
Thermodynamic modelling and chronometric dating of melting and refertilization in the subcontinental lithospheric mantle44
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 rocks44
Uranium-series comminution ages constrain large catchment erosion and its response to climate change: A case study from the Changjiang43
Rock-ice avalanche flume experiments reveal a non-linear hillslope erosion rule governed by ice-content42
Inheritance of depleted mantle 186Os signatures in Tibetan ophiolitic chromitites42
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 mantle41
Cadmium isotopic evidence for reduced deep-water marine primary productivity during the end-Permian mass extinction41
What causes the spatiotemporal patterns of seismicity in the Three Gorges Reservoir area, central China?41
Garnet clinopyroxenite formation via amphibole-dehydration in continental arcs: Evidence from Fe isotopes41
Spatiotemporal dominance of afterslip and viscoelastic relaxation revealed by four decades of post-1973 Luhuo earthquake observations40
Clumped isotopes constrain thermogenic and secondary microbial methane origins in coal bed methane40
Cold subduction recorded by the 1.9 Ga Salma eclogite in Belomorian Province (Russia)40
Tropical mafic rock weathering, riverine lithium isotopes, and the evolution of Cenozoic seawater chemistry39
Strengthened glacial biological pump revealed by 230Th-normalized biogenic flux in the northern South China Sea39
Interference of ocean and land mass changes in seasonal crustal deformation of coastal stations: A case study in northern Australia38
Evolutionary dynamics of redox-sensitive minerals reveal details and possible regulatory mechanisms of Earth's oxygenation events38
High diversity did not prevent extinction of a major Paleozoic brachiopod clade38
Exhumation of ultra-high pressure (UHP) rocks modulated by rifted margin-subduction feedback: Implications for their preservation in old collisional orogens38
Barium isotopes in stromatolites through deep-time: A novel tracer for metal cycling in the photic zone38
Pressure- and temperature-dependent anharmonicity of MgO: Implications for the thermal conductivity of planetary mantles38
Probing Cretaceous-Paleogene crustal thickness in southern Tibet using quartz-zircon chronobarometry38
A benthic source of isotopically heavy Ni from continental margins and implications for global ocean Ni isotope mass balance37
Strong potassium uptake in surface sediments of the Changjiang River Estuary and the East China Sea: Implications for authigenic processes and the marine potassium budget37
Contrasting Cu isotopes in mid-ocean ridge basalts and lower oceanic crust: Insights into the oceanic crustal magma plumbing systems36
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The evolution of a young ocean within Mimas35
Enhanced earthquake hazard in the Lut Block Region, Iran due to the stress evolutions since 196835
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Bridging the shocked monazite gap- deformation microstructures in natural and laser shock-loaded samples34
The fate of ultramafic-rich mélanges in cold to hot subduction zones: Implications for diapirism (or not) and chemical geodynamics34
Rhenium isotope variations in Icelandic groundwaters and hydrothermal systems34
High precision noble gas measurements of hydrothermal quartz reveal variable loss rate of Xe from the Archean atmosphere34
Periodic Bedrock Ridges at Oxia Planum and Chryse Planitia, Mars: Evidence for widespread aeolian erosion of an ancient surface by regional paleowinds34
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Nitrogen isotopic insight into sediment recycling in the southern Lesser Antilles arc: Implication to subduction-zone nitrogen recycling34
Complex magmatic-tectonic interactions during the 2020 Makushin Volcano, Alaska, earthquake swarm34
A plume of volcanic 3He observed in the Shallow North Pacific33
Global comparative basin hypsometric analysis of Earth and Mars: Implications for early Mars climate33
Mantle deformation in the highly oblique indo-burma subduction system inferred from shear wave splitting measurements33
Katabatic and foehn winds control the distribution of supraglacial lakes in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica33
Martian surface dating model refinement based on Chang'E-5 updated lunar chronology function33
Constraining marine anoxia under the extremely oxygenated Permian atmosphere using uranium isotopes in calcitic brachiopods and marine carbonates33
The Rb isotope composition of modern seawater and outputs to deep-sea sediments33
Highly fractionated Hg isotope evidence for dynamic euxinia in shallow waters of the Mesoproterozoic ocean33
Calcium isotope constraints on the origin of eucrites and diogenites: The role of magma ocean and magmatism33
Acceleration of Late Pleistocene activity of a Central European fault driven by ice loading32
The tempo of back-arc basin evolution: Insights from the early Paleozoic Proto-Tethyan North Qilian orogenic belt, northeastern Tibet32
Dense mantle flows periodically spaced below ocean basins32
Permeability and seismicity rate changes at an inflating submarine volcano caused by dynamic stresses32
Syn-rift margin architecture influenced by surficial loads32
3D transdimensional seismic tomography of the inner core32
Climatic and lithological controls on the structure and thickness of granitic weathering zones32
Assessing the preservation of orbital signals across different sedimentary environments: Insights from stochastic sedimentation modeling31
Oxygen vacancy diffusion in davemaoite (CaSiO3 perovskite): Implications for the redox equilibrium and the electrical conductivity of Earth’s lower mantle31
Control of stepwise subduction and slab breakoff on volcanism and uplift in the Tibetan Plateau31
Rubidium isotopes reveal dehydration and melting of the subducting slab beneath the Mariana arc31
Abrupt Northwest Atlantic deep-sea oxygenation decline preceded the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum31
Corrigendum to Gravity-driven fold-thrust belt at the Martian dichotomy Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 671 (2025) 11964531
Fluids and fault structures underlying the complex foreshock sequence of the 2021 Mw 6.1 Yangbi earthquake31
Partitioning of Fe2+ and Fe3+ between bridgmanite and silicate melt: Implications for redox evolution of the Earth's mantle30
Magnesium and silicon isotopic evidence revealing a non-chondritic inner solar system origin for the ureilite parent body30
Oligocene atmospheric CO2 drawdown linked to increased land surface weatherability30
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]30
Large burial flux of modern organic carbon in the St. Lawrence estuarine system indicates a substantial atmospheric carbon sink29
Observation of rapid long-range seismic bursts in the Japan Trench subduction leading to the nucleation of the Tohoku earthquake29
Rapid along-strike variations of shallow crustal structure in response to Indo-Burma subduction: Constraints from multi-type passive seismic data29
Unsteady slip pulses under spatially-varying prestress29
Multidecadal pre- and post-collapse dynamics of the northern Larsen Ice Shelf29
Noble gas isotopic compositions and abundance ratios of mantle xenoliths from Honolulu series volcanism, Oahu, Hawaii29
Zinc isotope evidence for dynamic nutrient cycling regulation of organic carbon burial in the mid-Proterozoic ocean28
Tracing island arc petrogenesis using potassium isotopes28
Tertiary creep behavior for various rate- and state-dependent friction laws28
No detectable redox exchange between sulfur and iron during rapid cooling of basalts28
Dual origin of ferropericlase inclusions within super-deep diamonds28
Serpentinite fluids and slab-melting in the Aleutian arc: Evidence from molybdenum isotopes and boron systematics27
Impacts of an active Pacific Meridional Overturning Circulation on the Pliocene climate and hydrological cycle27
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What is the present-day tectonic uplift rate of the Tibetan Plateau?27
Satellite derived SO2 emissions from the relatively low-intensity, effusive 2021 eruption of Fagradalsfjall, Iceland27
Molybdenum isotope evidence for subduction-modified mantle beneath mid-ocean ridges27
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Can impact-induced heating drive moderately volatile element loss?27
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Urea-mediated warm ponds: Prebiotic formation of carbamoyl amino acids on the primordial Earth26
Copper and zinc isotope compositions of pristine eucrites as analogues for differentiated planetary feedstocks26
Lithospheric strength and stress revisited: Pruning the Christmas tree26
Volcano-tectonic controls on magma residence time in arc crusts: Insights from noble gas geochemistry in the Andean Southern Volcanic Zone.26
Tracing the stepwise warming trend in the tropical Indian Ocean through a 40-year record of oxygen isotope composition in Maldives corals26
Insights into the last 100 ky of geomagnetic field variability using numerical dynamo simulations26
Comment on “A Bayesian age from dispersed plagioclase and zircon dates in the Los Chocoyos ash, Central America” by26
Tracking quartz and zircon provenance in sedimentary rocks using Ti distributions: Unlocking the volcanic-plutonic connection in old igneous systems26
Mafic magmatism triggered the Mesoproterozoic oxygenation event: Re-Os-PGE evidence from the Xiamaling Formation in North China and Velkerri Formation in North Australia26
Eastern equatorial Pacific paleo-productivity and carbon cycling during the late Pleistocene26
Stress-controlled reaction pattern in the layered lower crust: Field evidence26
Increased rainfall in southern Central America under glacial climate conditions26
Bioavailability of molybdenite to support nitrogen fixation on early Earth by an anoxygenic phototroph26
Abiotic origin of organics in the martian regolith25
Evidence for isotopically light Fe mobility under oxidising conditions in subduction zone fluids: A record of Monviso meta-serpentinites, Western Alps25
Evidence for low Vp/Vs ratios along the eastern Romanche ridge-transform intersection in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean25
Point defects as a control on the viscosity jump in the lower mantle25
Iron isotope evidence in continental intraplate basalts for mantle lithosphere imprint on heterogenous asthenospheric melts25
Long-term evolution of the Sulzberger Ice Shelf, West Antarctica: Insights from 74-year observations and 2022 Hunga-Tonga volcanic tsunami-induced calving25
Isotopic constraints on the Barium subduction cycle25
A failed search for concordancy across multiple isotopic systems in lunar impactites: Implications for testing the Late Heavy Bombardment hypothesis25
Constraints on the continental weathering intensity through the Permian using lithium isotopes of well-preserved brachiopod shells25
Sulfur recycling in subduction zones and the oxygen fugacity of mafic arc magmas25
Hydrated komatiites as a source of water for TTG formation in the Archean24
Rapid removal and replacement of dissolved organic matter during circulation through ultramafic crust24
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 carbonates24
Landscape modelling of the Yalong River catchment during the uplift of Southeast Tibet24
Decadal-scale dynamics of barchan dunes in the Taklamakan Desert24
Correlating 300 million years of catastrophes24
Indian margin methane hydrate dissociation recorded in the carbon isotopes of benthic (Miliolida) foraminifera24
Compressibility of ferropericlase at high-temperature: Evidence for the iron spin crossover in seismic tomography24
Uplift initiation of the West Qinling Range: insight into a proto-Tibetan plateau before the India/Eurasia collision24
Fast, furious, and gassy: Etna's explosive eruption from the mantle24
Insights into water mass change in the Yangtze River Basin from the spectral integration of GNSS and GRACE observations24
Variable oxidizing capacity of slab-derived fluids: Insights from Fe and S speciation in glasses from the Troodos Ophiolite24
Lithium isotope stratigraphy and Ordovician weathering24
Seismic full-wavefield imaging of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet interior near the ice flow divide23
Exhumation and incision of the eastern Central Andes, southern Peru: Low-temperature thermochronology observations23
Quantifying the influence of cooling and shear rate on the disequilibrium rheology of a trachybasaltic melt from Mt. Etna23
P and S wave finite-frequency tomography reveals the impact of slab interference on mantle flow beneath the greater Alpine region23
Magnesium isotope behavior in oceanic magmatic systems: Constraints from mid-ocean ridge lavas from the East Pacific Rise23
Thermodynamic constraints on the fate of carbon mobilized from subducted sediments in the overlying mantle wedge23
Sub-centennially resolved reconstruction of surface temperature on High Arctic Svalbard for the past 13,000 years23
Quantifying Earth's radiogenic heat budget23
Slab tearing in non-collisional settings: Insights from thermo-mechanical modelling of oblique subduction23
Isotopic evidence for two chondrule generations in CR chondrites and their relationships to other carbonaceous chondrites23
Mapping the mantle transition zone discontinuities across South-Central Europe using body waves from seismic noise correlations23
Lower mantle water distribution from ab initio proton diffusivity in bridgmanite22
Thermal history of Earth’s mantle: Implications for Earth system evolution and lessons from recent studies22
The age and early evolution of the Moon revealed by the Rb-Sr systematics of lunar ferroan anorthosites22
Fluid flow migration, rock stress and deformation due to a crustal fault slip in a geothermal system: A poro-elasto-plastic perspective22
Aseismic ridge subduction focused late Cenozoic exhumation above the Peruvian flat slab22
Sulfidation of nano-magnetite to pyrite: Implications for interpreting paleoenvironmental proxies and biosignature records in hydrothermal sulfide deposits22
Carbon polymorphs in Frontier Mountain ureilitic meteorites: A correlation with increasing the degree of shock?22
How old are lunar lobate scarps? 2. Distribution in space and time22
Multiple hydrothermal events at martian surface revealed by H and Cl isotope systematics of melt inclusions and hydrous minerals from chassignite NWA 273722
Unveiling Key factors governing seismogenic potential and seismogenic productivity of hydraulic fracturing pads: Insights from machine learning in the Southern Montney Play22
High-resolution mapping of the mantle transition zone and its interaction with subducted slabs in the Ibero-Maghrebian region22
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Salt tectonics synchronous with salt deposition in the Santos Basin (Ariri Formation, Brazil)22
Insights into the acquisition of kinetic iron isotope signatures of pyrite precipitated through the polysulfide pathway22
Multi-pulse and crystal-laden emplacement of the Tunnel Dike: implications for flood basalt volcanism22
Spatiotemporal variations in formation conditions of cryogenic brines: Insights from aragonite cements in New Harbor, western Ross Sea, Antarctica22
Precursory patterns, evolution and physical interpretation of the 2025 Santorini-Amorgos seismic sequence21
From birth to death: The role of upper-crustal thermal maturation and volcanism in porphyry ore formation revealed in the Yerington district21
Depth profiles of dissolved and particulate lead indicate reversible scavenging in deep waters of the West Subtropical Pacific21
Spatial scale dependence of fault physical parameters and its implications for the analysis of earthquake dynamics from the lab to fault systems21
Late Triassic sedimentary records reveal the hydrological response to climate forcing and the history of the chaotic Solar System21
Magmatic chlorine isotope fractionation recorded in apatite from Chang'e-5 basalts21
Late Cenozoic intensification of deoxygenation in the Pacific Ocean21
Hydrothermal origin of heavy potassium isotope compositions in altered oceanic crust: Implications for tracing the elemental cycle21
Coevolution of sedimentary and strongly peraluminous granite phosphorus records21
Triple oxygen isotope signatures of cherts record pore-fluid composition and temperature across the opal-CT to quartz transition21
Intermittent terrane arrival induces pulses of inland tectonic cycles21
Evolution of iron formation to ore during Ediacaran to early Paleozoic tectonic stability21
Crustal structure and subsidence mechanisms of the Williston Basin: New constraints from receiver function imaging21
Reexamination and reidentification of ocean oxygenation event in the wake of the Marinoan glaciation21
Sediment geochemistry reveals abundant off-axis hydrothermal fields on the ultraslow-spreading Southwest Indian Ridge21
Kilometer-wide crustal yielding associated with the 2021 Mw7.4 Maduo, Tibet, surface rupture20
Stable silicon isotope fractionation reflects the routing of water through a mesoscale hillslope20
Reconciling biogeochemical redox proxies: Tracking variable bottom water oxygenation during OAE-2 using vanadium isotopes20
The deep Earth oxygen cycle: Mass balance considerations on the origin and evolution of mantle and surface oxidative reservoirs20
A machine learning-based V-in-olivine oxybarometer for characterizing oxygen fugacity in lunar and terrestrial basalts20
The Shuram carbon isotope excursion in the Wonoka Formation, South Australia, does not record open ocean conditions20
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Recovery from persistent nutrient-N limitation following the Permian–Triassic mass extinction20
Calcium isotope constraints on OIB and MORB petrogenesis: The importance of melt mixing20
Insight into climate and hydrology of the late cretaceous western interior basin from clumped isotope Paleothermometry and strontium isotopes20
The ecology of modern and fossil vertebrates revisited by lithium isotopes20
Isotope velocimetry: Experimental and theoretical demonstration of the potential importance of gas flow for isotope fractionation during evaporation of protoplanetary material20
Coral reef terrace age deduced from retreating knickpoints20
Carboniferous, not Paleoproterozoic, eclogite-facies metamorphism in the northern North China Craton as revealed by in situ garnet Lu-Hf and U-Pb geochronology20
Enhanced marine primary productivity during the long-term Ordovician cooling: A barium isotope perspective from South China20
Thermal transient PDC behavior induced by topographic drops: A test case at Mt. St. Helens, USA20
Fractionation of iron and chromium isotopes in hydrothermal plumes from the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge20
Quantifying salt extrusion versus surface salt flow rates at Mt. Sedom to gain insights on its mechanics and potential external atmospheric forcing20
“Hot” subduction initiation and the origin of the Yarlung-Tsangbo ophiolites, southern Tibet: New insights from ultrahigh temperature metamorphic soles20
Origin and stabilization of off-craton continental lithosphere recorded by cratonic mantle relics in Pali-Aike (southern Patagonia)20
Final differentiation of the lunar magma ocean: genesis of KREEP and the limited role of silicate liquid immiscibility19
Partial convective overturn basins: A qualitative model based on salt minibasins19
Constraining the mechanisms of aeolian bedform formation on Mars through a global morphometric survey19
The influence of crustal recycling on the zirconium isotope composition of ocean island lavas19
Hydrous melting of KLB-1 peridotite at 3–9 GPa: Implications for komatiite genesis and Archean mantle dynamics19
Climate oscillations and erosional processes in the Ordos tectonic block and implications for sediment supply to the Yellow River19
Re-healing cratonic mantle lithosphere after the world's largest igneous intrusion: Constraints from peridotites erupted by the Premier kimberlite, South Africa19
Mantle plume heat flux and surface motion periodicities and their implications for the growth of continental crust19
The composition and redox state of hydrous partial melts generated at the top of the lower mantle19
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]19
K- and Na-rich davemaoite inclusion in diamond is not inherited from deeply subducted oceanic crusts19
Global variability of the composition and temperature at the 410-km discontinuity from receiver function analysis of dense arrays19
Can spinodal decomposition occur during decompression-induced vesiculation of magma?19
The influence of erosion and vegetation on soil production and chemical weathering rates in the Southern Alps, New Zealand19
Modern-like seawater δ18O in the mesoproterozoic: Insights from triple oxygen isotopes of chert19
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The partitioning of selenium and tellurium between sulfide liquid and silicate melt and their abundances in the silicate Earth19
Contrasting dynamics of marine bacterial-algal communities between the two main pulses of the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction19
Mantle discontinuities and reflectors beneath the Arctic Ocean and Aleutian-Alaska subduction zone: Evidence for MORB crust at the top of the lower mantle19
Newly discovered shallow creep along the Gozha Co fault in northwestern Tibet: Spatial extent, rate and temporal evolution19
Methane sealed due to the formation of gas hydrate system in the South China Sea19
Detection of allophane by the Zhurong rover indicates water-limited alteration at Utopia Planitia, Mars19
H2O in nominally anhydrous mineral inclusions in diamonds and the volatile composition of diamond forming media18
A collective trigger for widespread planetesimal formation revealed by accretion ages18
Mimas: A middle-aged moon of Saturn?18
The fate of molybdenum in subducted oceanic crust: Dehydration-controlled fractionation and cycling18
How does inherited zircon survive in partially molten mantle: Insights on modes of magma transport in the mantle from nanoscale melt-crystal interaction experiments18
A recipe for making potassium-rich magmas in collisional orogens: New insights from K and Fe isotopes18
Multi-instrument observations of microseisms generated by typhoon Kalmaegi (2014) over the Northwestern Pacific18
Sound velocities in lunar mantle aggregates at simultaneous high pressures and temperatures: Implications for the presence of garnet in the deep lunar interior18
Surface evolution during the mid-Proterozoic stalled by mantle warming under Columbia–Rodinia18
XRF analysis of Laguna Pallcacocha sediments yields new insights into Holocene El Niño development18
Slab segmentation, anomalous arc volcanism, and giant porphyry copper deposits in Indonesia18
Early Jurassic massive release of terrestrial mercury linked to floral crisis18
Defining Earth's elusive thermal budget in the presence of a hidden reservoir18
Thermodynamics of Fe-S-O-C-H liquids: Implications for the Martian core18
Sediment mineralogy influences the rate of microbial sulfate reduction in marine sediments18
Differential mobilization and sequestration of sedimentary black carbon in the East China Sea18
Ghost plumes hidden beneath Earth’s continents18
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