Earth-Science Reviews

Papers
(The TQCC of Earth-Science Reviews is 24. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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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 307
Plate tectonic modelling and the energy transition227
A systematic review of predictor screening methods for downscaling of numerical climate models227
Tectonic imprints in Permian paleomagnetic data of Morocco223
Fringed Patagonian tableland: One of Earth's largest and oldest landslide terrains221
Mechanics of methane bubbles in consolidated aquatic muds211
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 209
Lithospheric weakspots, not hotspots: New England-Quebec and Shenandoah anorogenic magmatism in the context of global plate tectonics, intraplate stress and LIPs208
Grain size from source to sink – modern and ancient fining rates204
Valley incision chronologies from alluvium-filled cave systems188
Review of sediment connectivity: Conceptual connotations, characterization indicators, and their relationships with soil erosion and sediment yield143
Sardinia and the Alpine cycle: A tectono-sedimentary history at the Western Tethys edge136
Magnetostratigraphic dating of earliest hominin sites in Europe136
Paleoproterozoic accretion and assembly of the Western Block of North China: A new model131
Nitrogen cycling during the Mesoproterozoic as informed by the 1400 million year old Xiamaling Formation123
Geologic, geomorphic, tectonic, and paleoclimatic controls on the distribution and preservation of Chicxulub distal ejecta: A global perspective120
Contrasting characteristics, changes, and linkages of permafrost between the Arctic and the Third Pole119
Thermally driven organic-inorganic interactions in sedimentary basins: A review from source rocks to reservoirs118
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]114
Bayesian back analysis of unsaturated hydraulic parameters for rainfall-induced slope failure: A review113
Jolts in the Jade factory: A route for subduction fluids and their implications for mantle wedge seismicity111
Research status and prospects of CO2 geological sequestration technology from onshore to offshore: A review110
Representing the role of soil moisture on erosion resistance in sediment models: Challenges and opportunities110
Moraine-dammed glacial lakes and threat of glacial debris flows in South-East Kazakhstan105
Remote sensing algorithms for particulate inorganic carbon (PIC) and the global cycle of PIC103
New Maps of Global Geological Provinces and Tectonic Plates102
Evolution of the East Gondwana convergent margin in Antarctica, southern Australia and New Zealand from the Neoproterozoic to latest Devonian101
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 histories97
Geotectonic settings of Variscan explosive volcanism in the light of Famennian tuffites provenance from southern Poland95
Crustal melting and suprasolidus phase equilibria: From first principles to the state-of-the-art95
Long-period astronomical forcing of climatic and biological evolution during the late Paleozoic icehouse-to-greenhouse transition94
Early–middle Permian ecosystems of equatorial Pangaea: Integrated multi-stratigraphic and palaeontological review of the Permian of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, western Mediterranean)92
A review of Paleozoic phytoplankton biodiversity: Driver for major evolutionary events?91
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)88
Dynamics of Tethyan marine de‑oxygenation and relationship to S-N-P cycles during the Permian-Triassic boundary crisis87
Influence of continental rifting on sedimentation and its provenance and geodynamic implications: An example from late Paleoproterozoic Chandil Formation, eastern India85
Comment on “Early Archean biogeochemical iron cycling and nutrient availability: New insights from a 3.5 Ga land-sea transition” by Clark M. Johnson, Xin-Yuan Zheng, Tara Djokic, Martin J. Van Kranend83
Secular variability of the thermal regimes of continental flood basalts in large igneous provinces since the Late Paleozoic: Implications for the supercontinent cycle83
Some notes on the interpretation and reliability of malacological proxies in paleotemperature reconstructions from loess- comments to Obreht et al.'s “A critical reevaluation of paleoclimate proxy rec83
Source-to-sink reconstruction of early Paleozoic Western Gondwana mega-scale alluvial systems82
Antarctic mineral resources: Looking to the future of the Environmental Protocol82
Early paleozoic tectonics and paleogeography of the Eastern Arctic and Siberia: Review of paleomagnetic and geologic data for the De Long Islands81
The End-Devonian Hangenberg Event and its aftermath in South China: Stratigraphic and sedimentary records from shallow to deep water facies81
The Egéré Paleo-Mesoproterozoic rifted passive margin of the LATEA metacraton (Central Hoggar, Tuareg Shield, Algeria) subducted and exhumed during the Pan-African orogeny: U-Pb zircon ages, P-T-t pat80
The DC and AC global electric circuits and climate78
Evolution of the Zagros sector of Neo-Tethys: Tectonic and magmatic events that shaped its rifting, seafloor spreading and subduction history77
Sulfidic anoxia in the oceans during the Late Ordovician mass extinctions – insights from molybdenum and uranium isotopic global redox proxies76
Incorporating cross-scale insights into colloid-facilitated radionuclide transport in fractured rocks: A critical review76
A continental review of Australia's Cenozoic megafans and associated large accretionary fluvial systems76
What water color parameters could be mapped using MODIS land reflectance products: A global evaluation over coastal and inland waters75
Evolution mechanisms, impacts, and variations of the vortices originated from the Tibetan Plateau73
Research progress and current application of weak turbulence and turbulence intermittency in stable boundary layers71
Triassic terrestrial tetrapod faunas of the Central European Basin, their stratigraphical distribution, and their palaeoenvironments71
Multistage plate subduction controls intraplate volcanism and cratonic lithospheric thinning in Northeast Asia70
Sulfuric acid caves of the world: A review69
Detecting the impact of climate change on alpine mass movements in observational records from the European Alps69
Neoarchean SSZ and MOR ultra-/high-pressure ophiolitic mélanges of the Eastern Hebei Complex, North China Craton: Dynamics of an Archean paleo-subduction zone68
Clay minerals on Mars: An up-to-date review with future perspectives68
Schwertmannite: A review of its occurrence, formation, structure, stability and interactions with oxyanions67
Quantitative paleogeographical reconstructions and basin evolution of South China during the Ordovician67
Nitrogen contamination and bioremediation in groundwater and the environment: A review64
Paleogeographic evolution of a Carboniferous–Permian sea in the southernmost part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, NW China: Evidence from microfacies, provenance and paleobiogeography63
The geomorphology of monoclinal scarps associated with interstratal-dissolution fronts in evaporite formations, illustrated with the Upper Jurassic Arab and Hith formations in Ar Riyadh and Central Sa62
Subduction initiation as recorded in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana forearc62
The Devonian System in northwestern Gondwana: Focus on Colombia61
Editorial Board60
Ultramafic-hosted volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits: an overlooked sub-class of VMS deposit forming in complex tectonic environments59
Sediment-transport rates from decadal to millennial timescales across the Indo-Gangetic Plain: Impacts of tectonics, climatic processes, and vegetation cover59
Processes in mushes and their role in the differentiation of granitic rocks58
Antarctica ice sheet basal melting enhanced by high mantle heat58
The Tertiary structuration of the Western Subalpine foreland deciphered by calcite-filled faults and veins58
Impacts of fungus-growing termites on surficial geology parameters: A review57
Formation mechanism and geophysical properties of fracture-filling gas hydrate in the host sediments: A comprehensive review56
Global-scale constraints on the origins of aerosol iron using stable iron isotopes: A review56
Asian summer monsoon variability, global teleconnections, and dynamics during the last 1,000 years55
Massive Jurassic slab break-off revealed by a multidisciplinary reappraisal of the Chon Aike silicic large igneous province55
Nature of the northern Indian plate margin during the assembly of supercontinent Columbia: was it a part of a double subduction?55
The Triassic–Jurassic transition – A review of environmental change at the dawn of modern life54
Advancing disaster risk communications54
Metallogeny of Late Paleozoic lode gold mineralization of western Tien Shan: From orogenic shortening to intracontinental strike-slip shearing54
The uncertain role of rising atmospheric CO2 on global plant transpiration54
Neoarchean lavas of the Ventersdorp Large Igneous Province, South Africa: Sr-Nd-Hf isotopic and trace element evidence for a long-lived plume beneath a stationary African continent54
Transfer and transformations of oxygen in rivers as catchment reflectors of continental landscapes: A review53
Cenozoic tectonic evolution of offshore Chinese Basins and its response to geodynamic processes of the East Asian Continental Margin53
Quantification and uncertainty of global upland soil methane sinks: Processes, controls, model limitations, and improvements53
Links of high velocity anomalies in the mantle to the Proto-South China Sea slabs: Tomography-based review and perspective52
Paleogeography of the Gondwana passive margin fragments involved in the Variscan and Alpine collisions: Perspectives from metavolcanic-sedimentary basement of the Western Carpathians52
Reply to “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)”52
Editorial Board52
Effects of plant types on terrestrial leaf wax long-chain n-alkane biomarkers: Implications and paleoapplications52
WITHDRAWN: Fast-eroding Taiwan and transfer of orogenic sediment to forearc basins and trenches in the Philippine and South China seas52
Provenance and sediment dispersal in the Po-Adriatic source-to-sink system unraveled by bulk-sediment geochemistry and its linkage to catchment geology51
Multi-stage differential exhumation of the West Junggar and adjacent regions, NW China, revealed by regional low-temperature thermochronology51
Landform-regolith patterns of Northwestern Africa: Deciphering Cenozoic surface dynamics of the tropical cratonic geosystem50
The postulation of intermittent land bridges as an explanation for reiterated colonization events of Madagascar by African vertebrates: An in-depth review and novel insights in honour of the late Judi50
Stromatoporoids and extinctions: A review50
Reply to Comment by Birger Rasmussen and Janet R. Muhling on “Early Archean biogeochemical iron cycling and nutrient availability: New insights from a 3.5 Ga land-sea transition” by Johnson et al.49
Transcurrent tectonic system and deep seismogenic mechanism in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau: A view from gravity and magnetic anomalies48
Are geological description practices and classification schemes fit for future use? Breccias as an example48
How many oceans closed during the Brasiliano Cycle in northeastern Brazil? Implications for the amalgamation of western Gondwana48
Establishing consistent equations of state for solid noble gases: Implication for partitioning behaviors of noble gases in the lower mantle48
Why are readily soluble phytoliths more resilient?48
Spatial and temporal control of Archean tectonomagmatic regimes47
Reassessing metamorphic core complexes in the North American Cordillera47
Evolution of the Archean felsic crust of Singhbhum Craton, India: A reassessment47
Effects of weathering and fluvial transport on detrital trace metals47
Geochemical constraints on the nature of Late Archean basaltic-andesitic magmatism in the North China Craton47
The Palaeoproterozoic Hotazel BIF-Mn Formation as an archive of Earth's earliest oxygenation47
Rejection of Holliday et al.'s alleged refutation of the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis47
The 79 CE eruption of Vesuvius: A lesson from the past and the need of a multidisciplinary approach for developments in volcanology46
Thallium in environmental compartments affected by acid mine drainage (AMD) from the Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB): From rocks to the ocean46
Editorial Board46
Distribution, style, amount of collisional shortening, and their link to Barrovian metamorphism in the European Alps46
Thrust and nappe tectonics in orogenic settings – A historical review45
Vulnerability of buildings to landslides: The state of the art and future needs45
The southeast Brazilian rifted continental margin is not a single, continuous upwarp: Variations in morphology and denudation patterns along the continental drainage divide45
Corrigendum to “ Atmospheric aging effects on aerosol ice nucleation” [Earth-Science Reviews, 269 (2025), 105176]45
Climate change hotspots and implications for the global subsea telecommunications network45
The origins and transformation of carbonate mud during early marine burial diagenesis and the fate of aragonite: A stratigraphic sedimentological perspective45
Shale oil migration across multiple scales: A review of characterization methods and different patterns44
Desert ecosystems in China: Past, present, and future44
The Archean crust-mantle interaction in the Jiaoliao microblock, North China Craton: Constraints on the Neoarchean subduction regime43
Vestiges of early Earth’s deep subduction and CHONSP cycle recorded in Archean ophiolitic podiform chromitites43
Progress towards an improved Precambrian seawater 87Sr/86Sr curve43
The Meso-Tethys Ocean: The nature, extension and spatial-temporal evolution43
Systematic literature review on seismic diffraction imaging43
How benthic animals responded to the Paleozoic plant terrestrialization: Evidence from trace fossils and their ecosystem engineering reconstruction43
Evolution of the East African Rift System from trap-scale to plate-scale rifting42
Editorial Board42
Interplay between early rifting, later folding, and sedimentary filling of a long-lived Tethys remnant: The Levant Basin42
Comment on Green, P., I. Duddy, I., and P. Japsen, P., 2022. Episodic kilometre-scale burial and exhumation and the importance of missing section. Earth-Science Reviews 234 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.e42
Glendonites throughout the Phanerozoic42
Transport and deposition of immiscible sulfide liquid during lateral magma flow41
Editorial Board41
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Minerals: A missing role for enhanced biochar carbon sequestration from the thermal conversion of biomass to the application in soil40
Gone with the tides? Reassessing possible eolian strata in the Paleoarchean Moodies Group in the context of the Archean eolian record40
Thaw-induced impacts on land and water in discontinuous permafrost: A review of the Taiga Plains and Taiga Shield, northwestern Canada39
Paleoclimatic significance of water isotopes in speleothem fluid inclusions39
Revisiting the geodynamical history of the so-called uplifted atolls, north-west Tuamotu, French Polynesia, central South Pacific39
Challenges of mapping, modelling and quantifying sediment connectivity39
Spatial patterns of seismogenic faulting in northeastern Asia39
Late Paleozoic–Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the northeastern Asian continental margin revealed by sedimentary formations and fossil accretionary complexes39
Formation and evolution of Archean continental crust: A thermodynamic – geochemical perspective of granitoids from the Tarim Craton, NW China39
Evidence of a large igneous province at ca. 347–330 Ma along the northern Gondwana margin linked to the assembly of Pangea: Insights from U–Pb zircon geochronology and geochemistry of the South-Wester39
Connecting soils to life in conservation planning, nutrient cycling, and planetary science38
Post-rift faulting controlled by different geodynamics in the Pearl River Mouth Basin, northern South China Sea margin38
Global tectonics and oxygenation events drove the Earth-scale phosphorus cycle38
A chemical framework for the preservation of fossil vertebrate cells and soft tissues38
Tethyan tectonics: Introduction to special article collection38
Reorganization of antecedent rivers in response to the evolving landscape at the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau38
Impact of the Jenkyns Event (early Toarcian) on dinosaurs: Comparison with the Triassic/Jurassic transition38
Geological evolution of the North China Craton in the first billion years of Earth's history38
A persistent non-uniformitarian paleomagnetic field in the Devonian?38
The Caribbean mangroves: An Eocene innovation with no Cretaceous precursors38
Recent advancements in characterizing permeability and porosity distributions in bioturbated flow media38
Unveiling the history and nature of paleostorms in the Holocene37
A guide to recognising slow-moving subaqueous landslides in seismic and bathymetry datasets37
Sedimentary pyrite proxy for atmospheric oxygen: evaluation of strengths and limitations37
Temporal changes in subduction- to collision-related magmatism in the Neotethyan orogen: The Southeast Iran example37
A review on deformation structures of different terranes in the Precambrian Aravalli-Delhi Mobile Belt (ADMB), NW India: Tectonic implications and global correlation37
Re-Os isotope system in organic-rich samples for dating and tracing: Methodology, principle, and application37
Red sea evaporites: Formation, creep and dissolution37
Phosphorus mineral evolution and prebiotic chemistry: From minerals to microbes37
500 million years of foraminiferal calcification37
First-principles investigation of equilibrium magnesium isotope fractionation among mantle minerals: Review and new data37
Geology from aeromagnetic data36
Early plate tectonics and evolution of continental crust in the North China craton: Editorial preface36
A global apparent polar wander path for the last 320 Ma calculated from site-level paleomagnetic data36
Evaluation of physical and chemical proxies used to interpret past glaciations with a focus on the late Paleozoic Ice Age36
Application of artificial intelligence in geotechnical engineering: A state-of-the-art review36
Mesoarchean terrestrial sedimentation in a continental rift setting and its provenance implications: An example from the Bisrampur Formation, Singhbhum craton, India36
Reconciling the Cretaceous breakup and demise of the Phoenix Plate with East Gondwana orogenesis in New Zealand36
Spatiotemporal forecasting in earth system science: Methods, uncertainties, predictability and future directions36
Cenozoic exhumation of the Tianshan as constrained by regional low-temperature thermochronology36
R, you correct? The Curious Case of Arnoldus (1977). Response to “Comment on ‘Towards improved USLE-based soil erosion modelling in India: A review of prevalent pitfalls and implementation of exemplar36
Recent advances made by reaction experiments on melting of heavily metasomatized hydrous mantle36
Mineralogy, geochemistry and occurrences of fougerite in a modern hydrothermal system and its implications for the origin of life35
Editorial Board35
Reply to Li and Song's discussion of “Loess genesis and worldwide distribution”35
Freshwater mollusc sclerochronology: Trends, challenges, and future directions35
Reply to the discussion paper by R. Martin on Kroeck et al. “A review of Paleozoic phytoplankton biodiversity: Driver for major evolutionary events?”35
Peat fires and legacy toxic metal release: An integrative biogeochemical and ecohydrological conceptual framework34
The precursor of apatite: Octacalcium phosphate (OCP) in the earth and environmental sciences - A review34
Pacific-Asian Tectonics: Preface34
Assessing the impact of bioturbation on sedimentary isotopic records through numerical models34
Magmatic complexes of the Tekturmas Fold-and-Thrust Belt, Central Kazakhstan: An overview and new implications for the early Paleozoic evolution of the Paleo-Asian Ocean34
Terminal Ediacaran–Terreneuvian revolutions in Siberia34
Global synthesis of two decades of research on improving PM2.5 estimation models from remote sensing and data science perspectives33
The evolution of the fracture systems under progressive sinistral shear in the Bundelkhand Craton, Central India: A review and new insights33
A late Ediacaran ice age: The key node in the Earth system evolution33
The tectonic significance of peri-Gondwanan Late Neoproterozoic-Early Palaeozoic felsic peraluminous magmatism33
Relative continent - mid-ocean ridge elevation: A reference case for isostasy in geodynamics33
Glacier and terrestrial ecosystem evolution in the Chilotan archipelago sector of northwestern Patagonia since the Last Glacial Termination33
Ice universality: perception of ice, its properties and connected processes on Earth and in the extraterrestrial environment. Earth sciences perspective33
Pedogenic ferromanganese nodules and their impacts on nutrient cycles and heavy metal sequestration32
The Altaids: A review of twenty-five years of knowledge accumulation32
The social implications of Submarine Groundwater Discharge from an Ecosystem Services perspective: A systematic review32
Soil Taxonomy adapted to buried paleosols: First approximation32
An oxygen isotope perspective on the break-up of the Rodinia supercontinent32
The growth and evolution of continental crust contributed by multiple sources in the East Kunlun Orogen during Early Paleozoic32
Elusive Permian – Triassic Western Paleotethyan paleogeography: Towards the Early Cimmerian pre-Vardar configuration (Dinarides-Carpathian Balkan Belt)32
Storage integrity during underground hydrogen storage in depleted gas reservoirs32
Maturation from oceanic arcs to continental crust: Insights from Paleozoic magmatism in West Junggar, NW China32
Applying astronomical solutions and Milanković forcing in the Earth sciences32
Geochemistry of low-temperature (<350 °C) metamorphic and hydrothermal monazite32
Magmatism and hydrocarbon accumulation in sedimentary basins: A review32
Characterisation of weak layers, physical controls on their global distribution and their role in submarine landslide formation31
Unlocking information about fine magnetic particle assemblages from first-order reversal curve diagrams: Recent advances31
Comment on “Ichnological analysis: A tool to characterize deep-marine processes and sediments” by Francisco J. Rodriguez-Tovar [Earth-Science Reviews, 228 (2022), 104014]31
The rise and fall of the Malvinoxhosan (Malvinokaffric) bioregion in South Africa: Evidence for Early-Middle Devonian biocrises at the South Pole31
Morphology and controls of the mountain-front fan systems of the Hajar Mountains, south-east Arabia31
Editorial Board31
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.31
The gravel-sand transition and grain size gap in river bed sediments31
An orocline in the eastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt31
The Hf and O isotope record of long-lasting accretionary orogens: The example of the Proterozoic and Paleozoic-Triassic central South America31
Seismic facies analysis: Past, present and future31
The concept of oligotrophy applied to the fossil record30
The Offset Dykes in the North and East Range of the Sudbury impact structure, Canada: A synthesis30
Hierarchies of ecologic changes and their roles in the Phanerozoic taxonomic and ecologic diversification history of the Class Bivalvia30
Evidence of “Lake Nyos-type” behavior in the geological record: A review30
Exposing basement terranes of the North Australian Craton30
Synchrony of carbon cycle fluctuations, volcanism and orbital forcing during the Early Cretaceous30
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]30
The Drake Passage asthenospheric and oceanic gateway30
Editorial Board30
Paleozoic collisional belt of the South Tien Shan: A review29
Precambrian geology of India29
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 Anatolia29
Evolution of the Eastern Red Sea Rifted margin: morphology, uplift processes and source-to-sink dynamics29
A systematic review on rainfall patterns of Thailand: Insights into variability and its relationship with ENSO and IOD29
Array processing techniques for analyzing global geophysical observation networks: Comprehensive analysis and typical applications29
Experimental measurements and characterization models of caprock breakthrough pressure for CO2 geological storage28
Fast-eroding Taiwan and transfer of orogenic sediment to forearc basins and trenches in the Philippine and South China seas28
The Ivrea-Verbano tectonic evolution: The role of the crust-mantle interactions in rifting localization28
Focus on the nonlinear infiltration process in deep vadose zone28
Sediment oxygen consumption: Role in the global marine carbon cycle28
Morphology and distribution of submerged palaeoshorelines: Insights from the North West Shelf of Australia28
Cross-propagation of the western Alpine orogen from early to late deformation stages: Evidence from the Internal Zones and implications for restoration28
Comprehensive review of CO2 geological storage: Exploring principles, mechanisms, and prospects28
The Silurian–Devonian terrestrial revolution: Diversity patterns and sampling bias of the vascular plant macrofossil record28
Convergent margin metallogenic cycles: A window to secular changes in Earth's tectonic evolution28
Rill flow velocity and resistance law: A review28
Flared slopes: The work of water or fire?27
Mineral physics constraints on ultra-low velocity zones in the lowermost mantle27
Is hyperaccumulation a viable hypothesis for organic associations of minor elements in coals?27
Editorial Board27
Corrigendum to “The uplift of the East Africa – Arabia swell” [Earth Science Review, 257 (2024), 104901]27
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