Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Papers
(The TQCC of Earth and Planetary Science Letters is 12. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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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 bacteria83
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Seismically-derived porosity of deep-sea sediments over the last 74 Ma in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean: Implications for paleo-climate77
Insights into the environment surrounding the subduction megathrust using teleseismic P-to-S and P-to-P scattered phases68
Unexpectedly narrower track diameter at site of fission event68
Garnet as a reliable timekeeper in Archean polymetamorphic terranes64
The fate of incipient carbonate melts in the genesis of intraplate basalts59
Wetted two-grain boundaries in olivine aggregates and seismic velocities in the oceanic upper mantle58
The extraterrestrial dust accretion rate on Earth at Dome C, Antarctica: a fresh look with 3He56
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 attractor56
The effect of salinity on water 17O/16O ratios in brines56
Continued continental weathering during snowball earth mitigated greenhouse gas buildup and prolonged global glaciation54
Garnet clinopyroxenite formation via amphibole-dehydration in continental arcs: Evidence from Fe isotopes54
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 mantle53
Contrasting Cu isotopes in mid-ocean ridge basalts and lower oceanic crust: Insights into the oceanic crustal magma plumbing systems52
Strengthened glacial biological pump revealed by 230Th-normalized biogenic flux in the northern South China Sea52
Exhumation of ultra-high pressure (UHP) rocks modulated by rifted margin-subduction feedback: Implications for their preservation in old collisional orogens52
Spatiotemporal dominance of afterslip and viscoelastic relaxation revealed by four decades of post-1973 Luhuo earthquake observations52
Pressure- and temperature-dependent anharmonicity of MgO: Implications for the thermal conductivity of planetary mantles52
Residence time of inertial particles in 3D thermal convection: Implications for magma reservoirs51
Miocene decoupling of surface uplift of the Central Anatolian Plateau interior (Türkiye) and its modern mountainous margins49
Frictional power dissipation in a seismic ancient fault49
A benthic source of isotopically heavy Ni from continental margins and implications for global ocean Ni isotope mass balance47
Interference of ocean and land mass changes in seasonal crustal deformation of coastal stations: A case study in northern Australia47
He, Ne, and Ar isotope systematics in Chang’e-5 plagioclase reveal diffusive loss and reirradiation processes46
The complexity of water freezing under reduced atmospheric pressure46
Uranium-series comminution ages constrain large catchment erosion and its response to climate change: A case study from the Changjiang45
Clumped isotopes constrain thermogenic and secondary microbial methane origins in coal bed methane45
Formation of the massive bedded chert and coupled Silicon and Iron cycles during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition45
Barium isotopes in stromatolites through deep-time: A novel tracer for metal cycling in the photic zone45
Chondrites as thermal and mechanical archives of accretion processes in the Solar protoplanetary disk44
Effect of the liquid-vacuum transition on the relative abundances of amino and fatty acids sought as biosignatures on icy ocean worlds44
Probing Cretaceous-Paleogene crustal thickness in southern Tibet using quartz-zircon chronobarometry43
Earth's longest lava flows erupted from its largest igneous province: The submarine Ontong Java Plateau43
Rapid pre-explosion increase in dome extrusion rate at La Soufrière, St. Vincent quantified from synthetic aperture radar backscatter43
Accessory mineral microstructure and chronology reveals no evidence for late heavy bombardment on the asteroid 4-Vesta42
Tropical mafic rock weathering, riverine lithium isotopes, and the evolution of Cenozoic seawater chemistry42
Inheritance of depleted mantle 186Os signatures in Tibetan ophiolitic chromitites42
MgO miscibility in liquid iron42
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 rocks41
High diversity did not prevent extinction of a major Paleozoic brachiopod clade40
Rock-ice avalanche flume experiments reveal a non-linear hillslope erosion rule governed by ice-content40
Cold subduction recorded by the 1.9 Ga Salma eclogite in Belomorian Province (Russia)40
Evolutionary dynamics of redox-sensitive minerals reveal details and possible regulatory mechanisms of Earth's oxygenation events40
Cadmium isotopic evidence for reduced deep-water marine primary productivity during the end-Permian mass extinction40
What causes the spatiotemporal patterns of seismicity in the Three Gorges Reservoir area, central China?40
Strong potassium uptake in surface sediments of the Changjiang River Estuary and the East China Sea: Implications for authigenic processes and the marine potassium budget39
Thresholds in the controls of denudation rates: A global analysis of tectonic, climatic and biological factors based on machine learning39
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Decoupled oxygenation of the Ediacaran ocean and atmosphere during the rise of early animals38
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Thermodynamic modelling and chronometric dating of melting and refertilization in the subcontinental lithospheric mantle38
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Bridging the shocked monazite gap- deformation microstructures in natural and laser shock-loaded samples37
The evolution of a young ocean within Mimas37
Nitrogen isotopic insight into sediment recycling in the southern Lesser Antilles arc: Implication to subduction-zone nitrogen recycling37
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Periodic Bedrock Ridges at Oxia Planum and Chryse Planitia, Mars: Evidence for widespread aeolian erosion of an ancient surface by regional paleowinds37
Acceleration of Late Pleistocene activity of a Central European fault driven by ice loading36
A plume of volcanic 3He observed in the Shallow North Pacific36
3D transdimensional seismic tomography of the inner core36
Katabatic and foehn winds control the distribution of supraglacial lakes in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica36
Corrigendum to Gravity-driven fold-thrust belt at the Martian dichotomy Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 671 (2025) 11964536
Dense mantle flows periodically spaced below ocean basins36
Can impact-induced heating drive moderately volatile element loss?35
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]35
Oxygen vacancy diffusion in davemaoite (CaSiO3 perovskite): Implications for the redox equilibrium and the electrical conductivity of Earth’s lower mantle35
Magnesium and silicon isotopic evidence revealing a non-chondritic inner solar system origin for the ureilite parent body35
Climatic and lithological controls on the structure and thickness of granitic weathering zones35
Abrupt Northwest Atlantic deep-sea oxygenation decline preceded the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum35
Observation of rapid long-range seismic bursts in the Japan Trench subduction leading to the nucleation of the Tohoku earthquake34
Mantle deformation in the highly oblique indo-burma subduction system inferred from shear wave splitting measurements34
Tertiary creep behavior for various rate- and state-dependent friction laws34
Large burial flux of modern organic carbon in the St. Lawrence estuarine system indicates a substantial atmospheric carbon sink34
Satellite derived SO2 emissions from the relatively low-intensity, effusive 2021 eruption of Fagradalsfjall, Iceland34
Noble gas isotopic compositions and abundance ratios of mantle xenoliths from Honolulu series volcanism, Oahu, Hawaii34
Constraining marine anoxia under the extremely oxygenated Permian atmosphere using uranium isotopes in calcitic brachiopods and marine carbonates34
No detectable redox exchange between sulfur and iron during rapid cooling of basalts34
Tracing island arc petrogenesis using potassium isotopes33
Rapid along-strike variations of shallow crustal structure in response to Indo-Burma subduction: Constraints from multi-type passive seismic data33
Partitioning of Fe2+ and Fe3+ between bridgmanite and silicate melt: Implications for redox evolution of the Earth's mantle33
Syn-rift margin architecture influenced by surficial loads33
Molybdenum isotope evidence for subduction-modified mantle beneath mid-ocean ridges33
Multidecadal pre- and post-collapse dynamics of the northern Larsen Ice Shelf32
Assessing the preservation of orbital signals across different sedimentary environments: Insights from stochastic sedimentation modeling32
Calcium isotope constraints on the origin of eucrites and diogenites: The role of magma ocean and magmatism32
The fate of ultramafic-rich mélanges in cold to hot subduction zones: Implications for diapirism (or not) and chemical geodynamics32
Fluids and fault structures underlying the complex foreshock sequence of the 2021 Mw 6.1 Yangbi earthquake32
Permeability and seismicity rate changes at an inflating submarine volcano caused by dynamic stresses32
Global comparative basin hypsometric analysis of Earth and Mars: Implications for early Mars climate32
Impacts of an active Pacific Meridional Overturning Circulation on the Pliocene climate and hydrological cycle32
Unsteady slip pulses under spatially-varying prestress32
The tempo of back-arc basin evolution: Insights from the early Paleozoic Proto-Tethyan North Qilian orogenic belt, northeastern Tibet32
Rhenium isotope variations in Icelandic groundwaters and hydrothermal systems31
Enhanced earthquake hazard in the Lut Block Region, Iran due to the stress evolutions since 196831
Control of stepwise subduction and slab breakoff on volcanism and uplift in the Tibetan Plateau30
Zinc isotope evidence for dynamic nutrient cycling regulation of organic carbon burial in the mid-Proterozoic ocean30
The Rb isotope composition of modern seawater and outputs to deep-sea sediments30
Serpentinite fluids and slab-melting in the Aleutian arc: Evidence from molybdenum isotopes and boron systematics30
Shear-induced crystallization as a trigger for rapid solidification of basalts: implications for magma dynamics30
Dual origin of ferropericlase inclusions within super-deep diamonds30
Highly fractionated Hg isotope evidence for dynamic euxinia in shallow waters of the Mesoproterozoic ocean30
Rubidium isotopes reveal dehydration and melting of the subducting slab beneath the Mariana arc30
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Oligocene atmospheric CO2 drawdown linked to increased land surface weatherability29
Martian surface dating model refinement based on Chang'E-5 updated lunar chronology function29
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Effect of realistic heat flux patterns on geodynamo simulations29
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Correlating 300 million years of catastrophes28
Exhumation and incision of the eastern Central Andes, southern Peru: Low-temperature thermochronology observations28
Uplift initiation of the West Qinling Range: insight into a proto-Tibetan plateau before the India/Eurasia collision28
Indian margin methane hydrate dissociation recorded in the carbon isotopes of benthic (Miliolida) foraminifera28
Evidence for low Vp/Vs ratios along the eastern Romanche ridge-transform intersection in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean28
Geodynamic controls on the habitable basement of shallow coral reefs at rifted continental margins28
Lithium isotope stratigraphy and Ordovician weathering28
Stress-controlled reaction pattern in the layered lower crust: Field evidence28
Long-term evolution of the Sulzberger Ice Shelf, West Antarctica: Insights from 74-year observations and 2022 Hunga-Tonga volcanic tsunami-induced calving28
Point defects as a control on the viscosity jump in the lower mantle27
Copper and zinc isotope compositions of pristine eucrites as analogues for differentiated planetary feedstocks27
Abiotic origin of organics in the martian regolith27
Evidence for isotopically light Fe mobility under oxidising conditions in subduction zone fluids: A record of Monviso meta-serpentinites, Western Alps27
Isotopic constraints on the Barium subduction cycle27
Lithospheric strength and stress revisited: Pruning the Christmas tree27
Increased rainfall in southern Central America under glacial climate conditions27
Tracking quartz and zircon provenance in sedimentary rocks using Ti distributions: Unlocking the volcanic-plutonic connection in old igneous systems27
Comment on “A Bayesian age from dispersed plagioclase and zircon dates in the Los Chocoyos ash, Central America” by27
Variable oxidizing capacity of slab-derived fluids: Insights from Fe and S speciation in glasses from the Troodos Ophiolite27
Compressibility of ferropericlase at high-temperature: Evidence for the iron spin crossover in seismic tomography27
Eastern equatorial Pacific paleo-productivity and carbon cycling during the late Pleistocene26
Urea-mediated warm ponds: Prebiotic formation of carbamoyl amino acids on the primordial Earth26
Quantifying the influence of cooling and shear rate on the disequilibrium rheology of a trachybasaltic melt from Mt. Etna26
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 carbonates26
Hydrated komatiites as a source of water for TTG formation in the Archean26
Tracing the stepwise warming trend in the tropical Indian Ocean through a 40-year record of oxygen isotope composition in Maldives corals26
Sub-centennially resolved reconstruction of surface temperature on High Arctic Svalbard for the past 13,000 years26
Landscape modelling of the Yalong River catchment during the uplift of Southeast Tibet26
Isotopic evidence for two chondrule generations in CR chondrites and their relationships to other carbonaceous chondrites26
Constraints on the continental weathering intensity through the Permian using lithium isotopes of well-preserved brachiopod shells26
What is the present-day tectonic uplift rate of the Tibetan Plateau?26
Thermodynamic constraints on the fate of carbon mobilized from subducted sediments in the overlying mantle wedge26
Magnesium isotope behavior in oceanic magmatic systems: Constraints from mid-ocean ridge lavas from the East Pacific Rise26
Mapping the mantle transition zone discontinuities across South-Central Europe using body waves from seismic noise correlations26
Rapid removal and replacement of dissolved organic matter during circulation through ultramafic crust26
Bioavailability of molybdenite to support nitrogen fixation on early Earth by an anoxygenic phototroph25
Slab tearing in non-collisional settings: Insights from thermo-mechanical modelling of oblique subduction25
Insights into water mass change in the Yangtze River Basin from the spectral integration of GNSS and GRACE observations25
Insights into the last 100 ky of geomagnetic field variability using numerical dynamo simulations25
Decadal-scale dynamics of barchan dunes in the Taklamakan Desert25
Fast, furious, and gassy: Etna's explosive eruption from the mantle25
Seismic full-wavefield imaging of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet interior near the ice flow divide25
Quantifying Earth's radiogenic heat budget25
A failed search for concordancy across multiple isotopic systems in lunar impactites: Implications for testing the Late Heavy Bombardment hypothesis25
Mafic magmatism triggered the Mesoproterozoic oxygenation event: Re-Os-PGE evidence from the Xiamaling Formation in North China and Velkerri Formation in North Australia25
Carbon polymorphs in Frontier Mountain ureilitic meteorites: A correlation with increasing the degree of shock?24
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Volcano-tectonic controls on magma residence time in arc crusts: Insights from noble gas geochemistry in the Andean Southern Volcanic Zone.24
Reconciling biogeochemical redox proxies: Tracking variable bottom water oxygenation during OAE-2 using vanadium isotopes24
Spatiotemporal variations in formation conditions of cryogenic brines: Insights from aragonite cements in New Harbor, western Ross Sea, Antarctica24
Iron isotope evidence in continental intraplate basalts for mantle lithosphere imprint on heterogenous asthenospheric melts24
Lower mantle water distribution from ab initio proton diffusivity in bridgmanite24
Multi-pulse and crystal-laden emplacement of the Tunnel Dike: implications for flood basalt volcanism24
Fluid flow migration, rock stress and deformation due to a crustal fault slip in a geothermal system: A poro-elasto-plastic perspective24
Sulfur recycling in subduction zones and the oxygen fugacity of mafic arc magmas24
How old are lunar lobate scarps? 2. Distribution in space and time24
From birth to death: The role of upper-crustal thermal maturation and volcanism in porphyry ore formation revealed in the Yerington district24
Sulfidation of nano-magnetite to pyrite: Implications for interpreting paleoenvironmental proxies and biosignature records in hydrothermal sulfide deposits24
K- and Na-rich davemaoite inclusion in diamond is not inherited from deeply subducted oceanic crusts23
Depth profiles of dissolved and particulate lead indicate reversible scavenging in deep waters of the West Subtropical Pacific23
Intermittent terrane arrival induces pulses of inland tectonic cycles23
Aseismic ridge subduction focused late Cenozoic exhumation above the Peruvian flat slab23
Constraining the mechanisms of aeolian bedform formation on Mars through a global morphometric survey23
Late Triassic sedimentary records reveal the hydrological response to climate forcing and the history of the chaotic Solar System23
Stable silicon isotope fractionation reflects the routing of water through a mesoscale hillslope23
Evolution of iron formation to ore during Ediacaran to early Paleozoic tectonic stability23
The influence of crustal recycling on the zirconium isotope composition of ocean island lavas23
Crustal structure and subsidence mechanisms of the Williston Basin: New constraints from receiver function imaging23
Contrasting dynamics of marine bacterial-algal communities between the two main pulses of the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction23
Hydrothermal origin of heavy potassium isotope compositions in altered oceanic crust: Implications for tracing the elemental cycle23
Calcium isotope constraints on OIB and MORB petrogenesis: The importance of melt mixing23
Quantifying salt extrusion versus surface salt flow rates at Mt. Sedom to gain insights on its mechanics and potential external atmospheric forcing22
The Shuram carbon isotope excursion in the Wonoka Formation, South Australia, does not record open ocean conditions22
The ecology of modern and fossil vertebrates revisited by lithium isotopes22
Coral reef terrace age deduced from retreating knickpoints22
Fractionation of iron and chromium isotopes in hydrothermal plumes from the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge22
The age and early evolution of the Moon revealed by the Rb-Sr systematics of lunar ferroan anorthosites22
Unveiling Key factors governing seismogenic potential and seismogenic productivity of hydraulic fracturing pads: Insights from machine learning in the Southern Montney Play22
Coevolution of sedimentary and strongly peraluminous granite phosphorus records22
A machine learning-based V-in-olivine oxybarometer for characterizing oxygen fugacity in lunar and terrestrial basalts22
Origin and stabilization of off-craton continental lithosphere recorded by cratonic mantle relics in Pali-Aike (southern Patagonia)22
Recovery from persistent nutrient-N limitation following the Permian–Triassic mass extinction22
Carboniferous, not Paleoproterozoic, eclogite-facies metamorphism in the northern North China Craton as revealed by in situ garnet Lu-Hf and U-Pb geochronology22
P and S wave finite-frequency tomography reveals the impact of slab interference on mantle flow beneath the greater Alpine region22
Enhanced marine primary productivity during the long-term Ordovician cooling: A barium isotope perspective from South China22
Triple oxygen isotope signatures of cherts record pore-fluid composition and temperature across the opal-CT to quartz transition22
“Hot” subduction initiation and the origin of the Yarlung-Tsangbo ophiolites, southern Tibet: New insights from ultrahigh temperature metamorphic soles22
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Kilometer-wide crustal yielding associated with the 2021 Mw7.4 Maduo, Tibet, surface rupture22
Precursory patterns, evolution and physical interpretation of the 2025 Santorini-Amorgos seismic sequence22
Insights into the acquisition of kinetic iron isotope signatures of pyrite precipitated through the polysulfide pathway22
Sediment geochemistry reveals abundant off-axis hydrothermal fields on the ultraslow-spreading Southwest Indian Ridge22
Insight into climate and hydrology of the late cretaceous western interior basin from clumped isotope Paleothermometry and strontium isotopes21
Salt tectonics synchronous with salt deposition in the Santos Basin (Ariri Formation, Brazil)21
Thermal history of Earth’s mantle: Implications for Earth system evolution and lessons from recent studies21
Magmatic chlorine isotope fractionation recorded in apatite from Chang'e-5 basalts21
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]21
Reexamination and reidentification of ocean oxygenation event in the wake of the Marinoan glaciation21
Spatial scale dependence of fault physical parameters and its implications for the analysis of earthquake dynamics from the lab to fault systems21
Multiple hydrothermal events at martian surface revealed by H and Cl isotope systematics of melt inclusions and hydrous minerals from chassignite NWA 273721
Thermal transient PDC behavior induced by topographic drops: A test case at Mt. St. Helens, USA21
XRF analysis of Laguna Pallcacocha sediments yields new insights into Holocene El Niño development21
Mantle discontinuities and reflectors beneath the Arctic Ocean and Aleutian-Alaska subduction zone: Evidence for MORB crust at the top of the lower mantle21
High-resolution mapping of the mantle transition zone and its interaction with subducted slabs in the Ibero-Maghrebian region21
Late Cenozoic intensification of deoxygenation in the Pacific Ocean21
The deep Earth oxygen cycle: Mass balance considerations on the origin and evolution of mantle and surface oxidative reservoirs21
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Hydrous melting of KLB-1 peridotite at 3–9 GPa: Implications for komatiite genesis and Archean mantle dynamics20
Partial convective overturn basins: A qualitative model based on salt minibasins20
Meteoritic and asteroidal amino acid heterogeneity: Implications for planetesimal alteration conditions and sample return missions20
Sediment mineralogy influences the rate of microbial sulfate reduction in marine sediments20
Sound velocities in lunar mantle aggregates at simultaneous high pressures and temperatures: Implications for the presence of garnet in the deep lunar interior20
Ghost plumes hidden beneath Earth’s continents20
The partitioning of selenium and tellurium between sulfide liquid and silicate melt and their abundances in the silicate Earth20
Modern-like seawater δ18O in the mesoproterozoic: Insights from triple oxygen isotopes of chert20
Defining Earth's elusive thermal budget in the presence of a hidden reservoir20
Mimas: A middle-aged moon of Saturn?20
A collective trigger for widespread planetesimal formation revealed by accretion ages20
Can spinodal decomposition occur during decompression-induced vesiculation of magma?20
Methane sealed due to the formation of gas hydrate system in the South China Sea20
Re-healing cratonic mantle lithosphere after the world's largest igneous intrusion: Constraints from peridotites erupted by the Premier kimberlite, South Africa20
Widespread magmatic provinces at the onset of the Sturtian snowball Earth20
Surface evolution during the mid-Proterozoic stalled by mantle warming under Columbia–Rodinia20
Using rate-and-state friction constitutive laws to predict seismicity rates for ice rifts on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica20
Thermodynamics of Fe-S-O-C-H liquids: Implications for the Martian core19
New paleomagnetic data from the central Tethyan Himalaya refine the size of Greater India during the Campanian19
The fate of molybdenum in subducted oceanic crust: Dehydration-controlled fractionation and cycling19
How does inherited zircon survive in partially molten mantle: Insights on modes of magma transport in the mantle from nanoscale melt-crystal interaction experiments19
Global variability of the composition and temperature at the 410-km discontinuity from receiver function analysis of dense arrays19
Newly discovered shallow creep along the Gozha Co fault in northwestern Tibet: Spatial extent, rate and temporal evolution19
Early Jurassic massive release of terrestrial mercury linked to floral crisis19
Evidence of shallow subsurface ice at Tianwen-1 landing site19
Multi-instrument observations of microseisms generated by typhoon Kalmaegi (2014) over the Northwestern Pacific19
A recipe for making potassium-rich magmas in collisional orogens: New insights from K and Fe isotopes19
Final differentiation of the lunar magma ocean: genesis of KREEP and the limited role of silicate liquid immiscibility19
Monitoring crack opening via seismic velocity variation to assess that fatal effect of precipitation for landslide motion19
The influence of erosion and vegetation on soil production and chemical weathering rates in the Southern Alps, New Zealand19
Differential mobilization and sequestration of sedimentary black carbon in the East China Sea19
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