Earth-Science Reviews

Papers
(The TQCC of Earth-Science Reviews is 22. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Episodic kilometre-scale burial and exhumation and the importance of missing section418
Paradigm shift for controls on basalt magmatism: Discussion with Lustrino et al on the paper I recently published in Earth-Science Reviews262
Corrigendum to “Evolutionary paleoecology of macroscopic symbiotic endobionts in Phanerozoic corals” [Earth-Science Reviews, volume 263(2025), 105071]254
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Reply to: Comment on the paper by Barreca et al.: “The Strait of Messina: Seismotectonics and the source of the 1908 earthquake” by G. Barreca, F. Gross, L. Scarfì, M. Aloisi, C. Monaco, S. Krastel (E204
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Reply to the comment on “Ichnological analysis: A tool to characterize deep-marine processes and sediments” by Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar [Earth-Science Reviews, 228 (2022), 104014]186
Comment on “Ichnological analysis: A tool to characterize deep-marine processes and sediments” by Francisco J. Rodriguez-Tovar [Earth-Science Reviews, 228 (2022), 104014]186
Comment on “A new classification system for mixed (turbidite-contourite) depositional systems: Examples, conceptual models and diagnostic criteria for modern and ancient records” by S. Rodrigues, F.J.183
Tubarium construction in the Retiolitinae (Graptolithina, Axonophora)181
Comment on “Towards improved USLE-based soil erosion modelling in India: A review of prevalent pitfalls and implementation of exemplar methods” by Majhi et al. (2021), Earth-Science Reviews 221, 10378180
The concept of oligotrophy applied to the fossil record175
The conundrums of the postglacial tectonic response of the Fennoscandian and Canadian Shields173
Precambrian geology of India167
A review of new detrital zircon U-Pb ages from the Mogok area of Myanmar: Implications for the stratigraphy and early tectonic evolution of the Mogok Metamorphic Belt (MMB)166
(Paleo)oceanography of semi-enclosed seas with a focus on the Mediterranean region; Insights from basic theory157
Evidence of “Lake Nyos-type” behavior in the geological record: A review157
Comment on the paper by Barreca et al.: “The Strait of Messina: Seismotectonics and the source of the 1908 earthquake” [Earth-Science Reviews 218, 2021, 103685]150
An updated internet-based Global Paleomagnetic Database129
Kerogen-specific isotope variations during the end-Permian mass extinction in South China125
Experimental measurements and characterization models of caprock breakthrough pressure for CO2 geological storage118
The problems of the Anthropocene in the Geologic Time Scale, and beyond115
Evolution of the Eastern Red Sea Rifted margin: morphology, uplift processes and source-to-sink dynamics109
Hadean to early Mesoarchean rocks and zircons in the North China Craton: A review109
An early Precambrian “orogenic belt” exhumed by the Phanerozoic tectonic events: A case study of the eastern North China Craton107
Sediment routing systems of the eastern red sea rifted margin107
Nitrogen cycling during the Mesoproterozoic as informed by the 1400 million year old Xiamaling Formation102
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Complexities of regulating climate by promoting marine primary production with ocean iron fertilization100
Long-period astronomical forcing of climatic and biological evolution during the late Paleozoic icehouse-to-greenhouse transition99
Paleozoic collisional belt of the South Tien Shan: A review99
How does soil water status influence the fate of soil organic matter? A review of processes across scales99
The Orphan Basin: A review of basin evolution, structure, stratigraphy and petroleum systems98
Dispersal mechanism of fine-grained sediment in the modern mud belt of the East China Sea98
Trends and geographic variation in adverse impacts of nitrogen use in Europe on human health, climate, and ecosystems: A review96
Convergent margin metallogenic cycles: A window to secular changes in Earth's tectonic evolution96
Research status and prospects of CO2 geological sequestration technology from onshore to offshore: A review94
Comparison of thermodynamic data files for PHREEQC92
A systematic review of predictor screening methods for downscaling of numerical climate models91
Synthesis of the distribution of subsidence of the lower Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, Bangladesh91
The Mediterranean Sea and the Gulf of Cadiz as a natural laboratory for paleotsunami research: Recent advancements90
Comment on “Discussion: Extracting thermal history from low temperature thermochronology/A comment on the recent exchanges between Vermeesch and Tian and Gallagher and Ketcham”, by Paul Green and Ian 89
Reply to the discussion paper by P. Sümegi and S. Gulyás: Some notes on the interpretation and reliability of malacological proxies in paleotemperature reconstructions from loess- comments to Obreht e86
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Cycles of ∼32.5 My and ∼26.2 My in correlated episodes of continental flood basalts (CFBs), hyper-thermal climate pulses, anoxic oceans, and mass extinctions over the last 260 My: Connections between 82
Evolution of eastern Asia river systems reconstructed by the mineralogy and detrital-zircon geochronology of modern Red River and coastal Vietnam river sand81
Matching mid-to-latest Carboniferous pole path segments for eastern Australia and northern Armorica indicate a late Carboniferous Pangea-B configuration and a mid Carboniferous inertial interchange tr81
Evaluating tomotectonic plate reconstructions using geodynamic models with data assimilation, the case for North America79
South Georgia microcontinent: Displaced fragment of the southernmost Andes78
Provenance and genesis of karstic bauxite deposits in China: Implications for the formation of super-large karstic bauxite deposits78
Urban evapotranspiration and its effects on water budget and energy balance: Review and perspectives77
Plate tectonic modelling and the energy transition77
Mercury contents and isotope ratios from diverse depositional environments across the Triassic–Jurassic Boundary: Towards a more robust mercury proxy for large igneous province magmatism75
Granitic record of the assembly of the Asian continent75
The Southern Granulite Terrane, India: The saga of over 2 billion years of Earth's history74
Valley incision chronologies from alluvium-filled cave systems73
Overland flow resistance: A review72
The Offset Dykes in the North and East Range of the Sudbury impact structure, Canada: A synthesis71
Rebuttal of Sweatman, Powell, and West's “Rejection of Holliday et al.'s alleged refutation of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis”71
The Hf and O isotope record of long-lasting accretionary orogens: The example of the Proterozoic and Paleozoic-Triassic central South America70
Thickness of the stratigraphic record of Britain: How the fidelity of geological and fossil data is unrelated to rock quantity70
Thermally driven organic-inorganic interactions in sedimentary basins: A review from source rocks to reservoirs69
Ice-marginal terrestrial landsystems: Sediment heterogeneity, architecture and hydrogeological implications69
Lithospheric weakspots, not hotspots: New England-Quebec and Shenandoah anorogenic magmatism in the context of global plate tectonics, intraplate stress and LIPs69
Early–middle Permian ecosystems of equatorial Pangaea: Integrated multi-stratigraphic and palaeontological review of the Permian of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, western Mediterranean)68
Conservation, preparation and imaging of diverse ambers and their inclusions66
Decoding the onset of ca. 3.8 Ga continental nuclei in Anshan, North China: A review integrated with 1:10,000 geological mapping, zircon U–Pb dating, and Si–O–Nd–Hf–W isotopes65
Tsunami excitation in the outer wedge of global subduction zones65
Biomarkers in fossil resins and their palaeoecological significance65
The Silurian–Devonian terrestrial revolution: Diversity patterns and sampling bias of the vascular plant macrofossil record64
Evolution of paleo-climate and seawater pH from the late Permian to postindustrial periods recorded by boron isotopes and B/Ca in biogenic carbonates63
Advancements in multi-rupture time-dependent seismic hazard modeling, including fault interaction63
Ichnological analysis: A tool to characterize deep-marine processes and sediments63
The trials and tribulations of the Hawaii hot spot model63
Volcanic history of the Derceto large igneous province, Astkhik Planum, Venus60
Vent distribution and sub-volcanic systems: Myths, fallacies, and some plausible facts59
A review of the non-avian theropod track record and the implications for the Ontogenetic Niche Shift model59
Miocene–Quaternary tectonic, kinematic and sedimentary evolution of the eastern Mediterranean Sea: A regional synthesis58
Impact of benthos on morphodynamics from a modeling perspective58
Evolution of the Laurentide and Innuitian ice sheets prior to the Last Glacial Maximum (115 ka to 25 ka)58
Mantle micro-block beneath the Indian Ocean and its implications on the continental rift-drift-collision of the Tethyan evolution58
Tetrapod turnover during the Permo-Triassic transition explained by temperature change57
Jolts in the Jade factory: A route for subduction fluids and their implications for mantle wedge seismicity56
Synthesis of chronostratigraphic data and methods in the Georgia Basin, Canada, with implications for convergent-margin basin chronology55
Radium-226 in the global ocean as a tracer of thermohaline circulation: Synthesizing half a century of observations55
Sardinia and the Alpine cycle: A tectono-sedimentary history at the Western Tethys edge55
Reply to comments by Thilo Rennert on “Biogeochemical cycling of iron (hydr-)oxides and its impact on organic carbon turnover in coastal wetlands: A global synthesis and perspective”. Earth-Science Re55
The Drake Passage asthenospheric and oceanic gateway54
Tectonic imprints in Permian paleomagnetic data of Morocco53
Marine chemical structure during the Cambrian explosion52
New perspectives on offshore groundwater exploration through integrated sequence-stratigraphy and source-to-sink analysis: Insights from the late Quaternary succession of the western Central Adriatic 52
The Samail subduction zone dilemma: Geochronology of high-pressure rocks from the Saih Hatat window, Oman, reveals juxtaposition of two subduction zones with contrasting thermal histories52
Episodes of post-Caledonian burial and exhumation in Greenland and Fennoscandia52
Application of different radiogenic isotope systems and cyclostratigraphy in the dating of sedimentary rocks52
Nutrient enrichment and climate warming drive carbon production of global lake ecosystems51
Is hyperaccumulation a viable hypothesis for organic associations of minor elements in coals?51
Termination of Sturtian glaciation with protracted, multiple volcanic eruptions51
Mechanics of methane bubbles in consolidated aquatic muds50
High-resolution Early Triassic ammonoid biostratigraphy of South Tibet, China and implications for global correlations50
Fringed Patagonian tableland: One of Earth's largest and oldest landslide terrains50
Detrital zircon geochronology and related evidence from clastic sediments in the Kyrenia Range, N Cyprus: Implications for the Mesozoic-Cenozoic erosional history and tectonics of southern Anatolia50
Natural records of supercritical fluids in subduction zones50
Exposing basement terranes of the North Australian Craton49
Environmental controls on very high δ238U values in reducing sediments: Implications for Neoproterozoic seawater records49
Forecasted weakening of Atlantic overturning circulation could amplify future relative sea-level rise in the Mediterranean: A review of climate and tide-gauge data links48
Grain-size variability and formation process of lowstand river sediments in the Japanese Islands: A review and outlook48
Tectonostratigraphic evolution and significance of the Afar Depression48
Atmospheric phosphorus and its geochemical cycling: Fundamentals, progress, and perspectives48
Fast-eroding Taiwan and transfer of orogenic sediment to forearc basins and trenches in the Philippine and South China seas48
The legacy of the Tethys Ocean: Anoxic seas, evaporitic basins, and megalakes in the Cenozoic of Central Europe47
Nature and development of the South Tianshan-Solonker suture zone47
Cycling and behavior of 230Th in the Arctic Ocean: Insights from sedimentary archives47
Opposite thrust systems under the Subei-South Yellow Sea Basin: A synthesis on the closure of the eastern Tethyan Ocean47
Volcanic phosphorus spikes associated with supercontinent assembly supported the evolution of land plants47
Review of volcanic reservoir geology in China46
Lower Palaeozoic-Paleogene geological development of a deep-water rift (Güzelsu Corridor) along the northern continental margin of the Southern Neotethys in the Eastern Mediterranean region: Evidence 46
The Mesozoic Iberia-Eurasia diffuse plate boundary: A wide domain of distributed transtensional deformation progressively focusing along the North Pyrenean Zone46
Asynchronous palaeosol development during the past 20 ka in response to climate change across the dune fields of the Asian summer monsoonal boundary, northern China46
Constraints on the formation of basaltic magmas. Comment on “Lithosphere thickness controls the extent of mantle melting, depth of melt extraction and basalt compositions in all tectonic settings on E46
A review of geological evidence bearing on proposed Cenozoic land connections between Madagascar and Africa and its relevance to biogeography45
New geochemical identification fingerprints of volcanism during the Ordovician-Silurian transition and its implications for biological and environmental evolution44
Cross-propagation of the western Alpine orogen from early to late deformation stages: Evidence from the Internal Zones and implications for restoration44
Quantifying the pattern of organic carbon burial through Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 244
Magnetostratigraphic dating of earliest hominin sites in Europe44
Representing the role of soil moisture on erosion resistance in sediment models: Challenges and opportunities43
Analyses from a validated global U Pb detrital zircon database: Enhanced methods for filtering discordant U Pb zircon analyses and optimizing crystallization age estimates43
A comprehensive review of interwell interference in shale reservoirs43
Grain size from source to sink – modern and ancient fining rates42
Rill flow velocity and resistance law: A review42
Multi-phase heat transfer in porous and fractured rock42
Morphology and distribution of submerged palaeoshorelines: Insights from the North West Shelf of Australia42
Dense and long-term monitoring of earth surface processes with passive RFID — a review42
Earth’s surface oxygenation and the rise of eukaryotic life: Relationships to the Lomagundi positive carbon isotope excursion revisited42
Mercury stable isotopes revealing the atmospheric mercury circulation: A review of particulate bound mercury in China41
Corrigendum to “Arc magmatic evolution and porphyry copper deposit formation under compressional regime: A geochemical perspective from the Toquepala arc in Southern Peru” [Earth Science Reviews, 240 41
Geologic, geomorphic, tectonic, and paleoclimatic controls on the distribution and preservation of Chicxulub distal ejecta: A global perspective41
Wildfire Fuels Mapping through Artificial Intelligence-based Methods: A Review41
Deposition and termination of Neoproterozoic iron formations (NIFs): New insights from NIFs in China41
Recent technological and methodological advances for the investigation of landslide dams40
Devonian paleoclimate and its drivers: A reassessment based on a new conodont δ18O record from South China40
Gas hydrate characterization in sediments via x-ray microcomputed tomography40
Shale gas geochemistry in the Sichuan Basin, China39
Deep lithosphere of the North China Craton archives the fate of the Paleo-Asian Ocean39
A critical review on pore to continuum scale imaging techniques for enhanced shale gas recovery39
Envisioning faults beyond the framework of fracture mechanics39
Incipient ocean spreading beneath the Arabian shield39
Sediment oxygen consumption: Role in the global marine carbon cycle39
Mechanisms for biocrust-modulated runoff generation – A review38
Snowmelt erosion: A review38
Cenozoic evolution of the Qaidam basin and implications for the growth of the northern Tibetan plateau: A review38
Calibrating the temporal and spatial dynamics of the Ediacaran - Cambrian radiation of animals38
Post-collisional porphyry copper deposits in Tibet: An overview38
Paleoproterozoic accretion and assembly of the Western Block of North China: A new model38
Moraine-dammed glacial lakes and threat of glacial debris flows in South-East Kazakhstan37
The Ivrea-Verbano tectonic evolution: The role of the crust-mantle interactions in rifting localization37
Inorganic geochemistry of lake sediments: A review of analytical techniques and guidelines for data interpretation37
The Yanshanian Movement in Western Liaoning, northeastern North China Craton37
Degradation and local growth of “Xing'an-Baikal” permafrost responding to climate warming and the consequences36
Landslide susceptibility maps of Italy: Lesson learnt from dealing with multiple landslide types and the uneven spatial distribution of the national inventory36
Bayesian back analysis of unsaturated hydraulic parameters for rainfall-induced slope failure: A review36
Deep learning in pore scale imaging and modeling36
Crustal melting and suprasolidus phase equilibria: From first principles to the state-of-the-art36
Geotectonic settings of Variscan explosive volcanism in the light of Famennian tuffites provenance from southern Poland36
A review of Paleozoic phytoplankton biodiversity: Driver for major evolutionary events?35
Abrupt climate change in arid central Asia during the Holocene: A review35
The Bangong-Nujiang Suture Zone, Tibet Plateau: Its role in the tectonic evolution of the eastern Tethys Ocean35
Radium isotopes as submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) tracers: Review and recommendations35
The effects of large-scale forest disturbances on hydrology – An overview with special emphasis on karst aquifer systems35
Progressive tectonic evolution from crustal shortening to mid-lower crustal expansion in the southeast Tibetan Plateau: A synthesis of structural and thermochronological insights35
Sedimentary brGDGTs in China: An overview of modern observations and proposed land Holocene paleotemperature records35
Geochemistry of metasedimentary restitic rocks and implications for melting conditions and metal potential of crustal felsic magmas35
Neoichnology of siliciclastic shallow-marine environments: Invertebrates, traces, and environmental conditions35
A review on the interfacial properties of caprock/CO2/brine system-implications for structural integrity of deep saline aquifers during geological carbon storage35
From peridotite to listvenite – perspectives on the processes, mechanisms and settings of ultramafic mineral carbonation to quartz-magnesite rocks35
Oil content and resource quality evaluation methods for lacustrine shale: A review and a novel three-dimensional quality evaluation model34
Synchrony of carbon cycle fluctuations, volcanism and orbital forcing during the Early Cretaceous34
Archean continental crustal growth and reworking of the North China Craton: Constraints from zircon U Pb age and Hf isotopic composition34
Array processing techniques for analyzing global geophysical observation networks: Comprehensive analysis and typical applications34
Zirconium and its stable isotopes in igneous systems34
Loess structure: Evolution and a scale-based classification34
Principles of seismic stratigraphy and seismic geomorphology I: Extracting geologic insights from seismic data34
Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, Northeast Brazil: A reference basin for studies on the early history of the South Atlantic Ocean34
Evolution of the East Gondwana convergent margin in Antarctica, southern Australia and New Zealand from the Neoproterozoic to latest Devonian33
An embryonic fold and thrust belt south of the Himalayan morphological front: Examples from the Central Nepal and Darjeeling piedmonts33
Balkanatolia: The insular mammalian biogeographic province that partly paved the way to the Grande Coupure33
Focus on the nonlinear infiltration process in deep vadose zone33
Behaviour of gold during partial melting of supra subduction zone mantle wedge33
Phanerozoic paleotemperatures: The earth’s changing climate during the last 540 million years32
Remote sensing algorithms for particulate inorganic carbon (PIC) and the global cycle of PIC32
Contrasting characteristics, changes, and linkages of permafrost between the Arctic and the Third Pole32
Desiccation cracking of soils: A review of investigation approaches, underlying mechanisms, and influencing factors32
Comprehensive review of CO2 geological storage: Exploring principles, mechanisms, and prospects32
New Maps of Global Geological Provinces and Tectonic Plates32
Sources, characteristics and climate impact of light-absorbing aerosols over the Tibetan Plateau32
Global vegetation zonation and terrestrial climate of the warm Early Eocene31
Arabia-Eurasia convergence and collision control on Cenozoic juvenile K-rich magmatism in the South Armenian block, Lesser Caucasus31
Multiscale lithospheric buckling dominates the Cenozoic subsidence and deformation of the Qaidam Basin: A new model for the growth of the northern Tibetan Plateau31
Defrosting northern catchments: Fluvial effects of permafrost degradation31
The Paleoproterozoic (c. 2.3 Ga) Gowganda Formation: Deep water, glacially-influenced debrites and related mass flow along a passive margin31
Research progress and current application of weak turbulence and turbulence intermittency in stable boundary layers31
An overview of monitoring methods for assessing the performance of nature-based solutions against natural hazards31
Rates of geological processes31
Hydrogeochemistry of the Indian thermal springs: Current status31
Mesozoic–Cenozoic tectonic evolution and dynamics of the Songliao Basin, NE Asia: Implications for the closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean and Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean and subduction of the Paleo-Pacific Oce31
The forearc ophiolites of California formed during trench-parallel spreading: Kinematic reconstruction of the western USA Cordillera since the Jurassic30
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Magmatism within the northern margin of the South China Sea during the post-rift stage: An overview, and new insights into the geodynamics30
Early–Middle Triassic fluvial ecosystems of Mallorca (Balearic Islands): Biotic communities and environmental evolution in the equatorial western peri-Tethys30
Comment on Li et al. (2023): A dynamic 2000—540 Ma Earth history: From cratonic amalgamation to the age of supercontinent cycle30
Deeper underground: Cosmogenic burial dating of cave-deposited alluvium to reconstruct long-term fluvial landscape evolution30
Mineral physics constraints on ultra-low velocity zones in the lowermost mantle29
Evolution mechanisms, impacts, and variations of the vortices originated from the Tibetan Plateau29
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Multistage plate subduction controls intraplate volcanism and cratonic lithospheric thinning in Northeast Asia29
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Comment on “The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis: A review of the evidence”, by Martin B. Sweatman (2021), Earth-Science Reviews 218, 10367729
Comment on the paper by Buono et al. “Dynamics of degassing in evolved alkaline magmas: Petrological, experimental and theoretical insights” (Earth Science Reviews, 211 (2020), 103402)29
Amber and the Cretaceous Resinous Interval29
Geodynamics, geophysical and geochemical observations, and the role of CO2 degassing in the Apennines29
Flared slopes: The work of water or fire?29
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Influence of inherited structure on flexural extension in foreland basin systems: Evidence from the northern Arkoma basin and southern Ozark dome, USA28
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Cloud properties and dynamics over the Tibetan Plateau – A review28
A review of the genetic mechanisms generating igneous charnockite: CO2 flushing and crystal-melt segregation in mushy reservoirs28
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The origin of Pterosaurs28
The Not-So-Boring Billion: A metallogenic conundrum during the evolution from Columbia to Rodinia supercontinents28
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Ocean flux of salt, sulfate, and organic components to atmospheric aerosol28
The Ediacaran palaeo-ocean environment in the northwest margin of South China Craton: Constraints of C–O–Mo isotopic and element geochemistry27
Geophysical logs as proxies for cyclostratigraphy: Sensitivity evaluation, proxy selection, and paleoclimatic interpretation27
Age, formation mechanisms, spatial extent, and geodynamic effects of the eastern and northeastern Asian big mantle wedges27
High-resolution geochronology of sedimentary strata by U-Pb CA-ID-TIMS zircon geochronology: A review27
Backwater length estimates in modern and ancient fluvio-deltaic settings: Review and proposal of standardized workflows27
Cratonic strike-slip fault systems in the central Sichuan Basin, China27
Tectono-sedimentary evolution of the Suriname margin in the cretaceous: A sequence-stratigraphic framework27
The evolution of the marine Si cycle in the Archean-Palaeozoic - an overlooked Si source?27
Development of a database of historical liquefaction occurrences in the Philippines27
Glacial terminations or glacial interruptions?27
Advances in stress-strain constitutive models for rock failure: Review and new dynamic constitutive failure (DCF) model using core data from the Tarim Basin (China)27
Insights into the assessment and interpretation of earthquake-induced liquefaction in sands under different degrees of saturation26
Geological Evolution of the Karakoram Terrane since Neoproterozoic26
Fate of ‘forever chemicals’ in the global cryosphere26
Discussion of the paper “Loess genesis and worldwide distribution” by Yanrong Li, Wenhui Shi, Adnan Aydin, et al.26
Hydrological vs. mechanical impacts of soil water repellency on erosion26
Mapping the evolution of marine carbon during the last deglaciation: δ13C perspectives on the deglacial ocean carbon cycle26
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