Earth-Science Reviews

Papers
(The TQCC of Earth-Science Reviews is 23. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
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)360
CO2 sequestration in geological formations: Insights into mineral reactions and reservoir dynamics268
Plate tectonic modelling and the energy transition268
Geologic, geomorphic, tectonic, and paleoclimatic controls on the distribution and preservation of Chicxulub distal ejecta: A global perspective266
Tectonic imprints in Permian paleomagnetic data of Morocco245
Lithospheric weakspots, not hotspots: New England-Quebec and Shenandoah anorogenic magmatism in the context of global plate tectonics, intraplate stress and LIPs235
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]229
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 229
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 histories222
Grain size from source to sink – modern and ancient fining rates172
Paleoproterozoic accretion and assembly of the Western Block of North China: A new model165
Mechanics of methane bubbles in consolidated aquatic muds149
Nitrogen cycling during the Mesoproterozoic as informed by the 1400 million year old Xiamaling Formation145
Early–middle Permian ecosystems of equatorial Pangaea: Integrated multi-stratigraphic and palaeontological review of the Permian of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, western Mediterranean)132
Valley incision chronologies from alluvium-filled cave systems130
A systematic review of predictor screening methods for downscaling of numerical climate models129
Geotectonic settings of Variscan explosive volcanism in the light of Famennian tuffites provenance from southern Poland127
Fringed Patagonian tableland: One of Earth's largest and oldest landslide terrains122
Multi-train roll waves, antidunes and bars in inclined flumes118
Remote sensing algorithms for particulate inorganic carbon (PIC) and the global cycle of PIC112
Long-period astronomical forcing of climatic and biological evolution during the late Paleozoic icehouse-to-greenhouse transition111
Thermally driven organic-inorganic interactions in sedimentary basins: A review from source rocks to reservoirs107
Review of sediment connectivity: Conceptual connotations, characterization indicators, and their relationships with soil erosion and sediment yield102
Bayesian back analysis of unsaturated hydraulic parameters for rainfall-induced slope failure: A review101
Moraine-dammed glacial lakes and threat of glacial debris flows in South-East Kazakhstan100
Sardinia and the Alpine cycle: A tectono-sedimentary history at the Western Tethys edge99
Research status and prospects of CO2 geological sequestration technology from onshore to offshore: A review98
A review of Paleozoic phytoplankton biodiversity: Driver for major evolutionary events?96
Magnetostratigraphic dating of earliest hominin sites in Europe94
Contrasting characteristics, changes, and linkages of permafrost between the Arctic and the Third Pole93
Representing the role of soil moisture on erosion resistance in sediment models: Challenges and opportunities93
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 93
New Maps of Global Geological Provinces and Tectonic Plates91
Source-to-sink reconstruction of early Paleozoic Western Gondwana mega-scale alluvial systems90
The DC and AC global electric circuits and climate90
Secular variability of the thermal regimes of continental flood basalts in large igneous provinces since the Late Paleozoic: Implications for the supercontinent cycle88
Influence of continental rifting on sedimentation and its provenance and geodynamic implications: An example from late Paleoproterozoic Chandil Formation, eastern India88
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 pat86
Dynamics of Tethyan marine de‑oxygenation and relationship to S-N-P cycles during the Permian-Triassic boundary crisis86
Early paleozoic tectonics and paleogeography of the Eastern Arctic and Siberia: Review of paleomagnetic and geologic data for the De Long Islands86
Quantitative paleogeographical reconstructions and basin evolution of South China during the Ordovician83
The End-Devonian Hangenberg Event and its aftermath in South China: Stratigraphic and sedimentary records from shallow to deep water facies82
Research progress and current application of weak turbulence and turbulence intermittency in stable boundary layers79
Subduction initiation as recorded in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana forearc78
Neoarchean SSZ and MOR ultra-/high-pressure ophiolitic mélanges of the Eastern Hebei Complex, North China Craton: Dynamics of an Archean paleo-subduction zone77
Sulfuric acid caves of the world: A review75
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 Kranend74
A continental review of Australia's Cenozoic megafans and associated large accretionary fluvial systems72
Evolution mechanisms, impacts, and variations of the vortices originated from the Tibetan Plateau71
Clay minerals on Mars: An up-to-date review with future perspectives69
Planetary albedo and reflected shortwave flux: Basic characteristics, mechanisms of change and future projections68
Triassic terrestrial tetrapod faunas of the Central European Basin, their stratigraphical distribution, and their palaeoenvironments68
What water color parameters could be mapped using MODIS land reflectance products: A global evaluation over coastal and inland waters66
Hybrid volcanic rocks from Alech Hills, Saurasthra, western India- insight into the role of magma mixing in the evolution of Late Cretaceous Deccan Traps Volcanic Province66
Antarctic mineral resources: Looking to the future of the Environmental Protocol65
Detecting the impact of climate change on alpine mass movements in observational records from the European Alps65
Multistage plate subduction controls intraplate volcanism and cratonic lithospheric thinning in Northeast Asia65
Incorporating cross-scale insights into colloid-facilitated radionuclide transport in fractured rocks: A critical review64
Evolution of the Zagros sector of Neo-Tethys: Tectonic and magmatic events that shaped its rifting, seafloor spreading and subduction history64
Editorial Board63
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 continent62
Diversification to extinction: oceanic and climatic context of the Ordovician61
Relation between sediment distribution and halokinetic geometries along salt structures: a review and new insights from field studies61
Antarctica ice sheet basal melting enhanced by high mantle heat60
Sediment-transport rates from decadal to millennial timescales across the Indo-Gangetic Plain: Impacts of tectonics, climatic processes, and vegetation cover59
Massive Jurassic slab break-off revealed by a multidisciplinary reappraisal of the Chon Aike silicic large igneous province59
Cenozoic tectonic evolution of offshore Chinese Basins and its response to geodynamic processes of the East Asian Continental Margin59
Metallogeny of Late Paleozoic lode gold mineralization of western Tien Shan: From orogenic shortening to intracontinental strike-slip shearing59
Asian summer monsoon variability, global teleconnections, and dynamics during the last 1,000 years59
Formation mechanism and geophysical properties of fracture-filling gas hydrate in the host sediments: A comprehensive review58
Advancing disaster risk communications57
Global-scale constraints on the origins of aerosol iron using stable iron isotopes: A review57
Production and significance of Reactive Oxygen Species in the subsurface56
Effects of plant types on terrestrial leaf wax long-chain n-alkane biomarkers: Implications and paleoapplications56
Long-term orbital forcing on Lower Jurassic black shale sedimentation: Basque-Cantabrian evidence56
Quantification and uncertainty of global upland soil methane sinks: Processes, controls, model limitations, and improvements56
The uncertain role of rising atmospheric CO2 on global plant transpiration55
The Devonian System in northwestern Gondwana: Focus on Colombia55
Nature of the northern Indian plate margin during the assembly of supercontinent Columbia: was it a part of a double subduction?55
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 Sa55
Flat slab rollback as a trigger for large-scale skarn iron mineralization in the North China Craton54
Impacts of fungus-growing termites on surficial geology parameters: A review53
The Triassic–Jurassic transition – A review of environmental change at the dawn of modern life53
Rejection of Holliday et al.'s alleged refutation of the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis53
The Tertiary structuration of the Western Subalpine foreland deciphered by calcite-filled faults and veins53
Editorial Board53
Ultramafic-hosted volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits: an overlooked sub-class of VMS deposit forming in complex tectonic environments53
Editorial Board52
Systematic literature review on seismic diffraction imaging52
WITHDRAWN: Fast-eroding Taiwan and transfer of orogenic sediment to forearc basins and trenches in the Philippine and South China seas52
Effects of weathering and fluvial transport on detrital trace metals51
Vestiges of early Earth’s deep subduction and CHONSP cycle recorded in Archean ophiolitic podiform chromitites50
Establishing consistent equations of state for solid noble gases: Implication for partitioning behaviors of noble gases in the lower mantle50
Landform-regolith patterns of Northwestern Africa: Deciphering Cenozoic surface dynamics of the tropical cratonic geosystem50
Reassessing metamorphic core complexes in the North American Cordillera50
Are geological description practices and classification schemes fit for future use? Breccias as an example50
The Archean crust-mantle interaction in the Jiaoliao microblock, North China Craton: Constraints on the Neoarchean subduction regime50
The southeast Brazilian rifted continental margin is not a single, continuous upwarp: Variations in morphology and denudation patterns along the continental drainage divide50
Transcurrent tectonic system and deep seismogenic mechanism in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau: A view from gravity and magnetic anomalies49
The 79 CE eruption of Vesuvius: A lesson from the past and the need of a multidisciplinary approach for developments in volcanology49
Massive carbon storage in the upper mantle via diapirism of subducted continental sediments49
Links of high velocity anomalies in the mantle to the Proto-South China Sea slabs: Tomography-based review and perspective49
The Palaeoproterozoic Hotazel BIF-Mn Formation as an archive of Earth's earliest oxygenation49
How benthic animals responded to the Paleozoic plant terrestrialization: Evidence from trace fossils and their ecosystem engineering reconstruction49
Corrigendum to “ Atmospheric aging effects on aerosol ice nucleation” [Earth-Science Reviews, 269 (2025), 105176]49
Stromatoporoids and extinctions: A review49
Continental growth in eastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Evidence from Middle Permian–Middle Jurassic magmatism48
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 Judi47
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.47
Machine learning applications in tight porous media: Challenges, advances, and future directions46
Multi-stage differential exhumation of the West Junggar and adjacent regions, NW China, revealed by regional low-temperature thermochronology46
Why are readily soluble phytoliths more resilient?46
Thrust and nappe tectonics in orogenic settings – A historical review46
West European Variscan Belt dismantling and early fragmentation of Pangea: The key role of the Paleotethys subduction46
The origins and transformation of carbonate mud during early marine burial diagenesis and the fate of aragonite: A stratigraphic sedimentological perspective45
Geochemical constraints on the nature of Late Archean basaltic-andesitic magmatism in the North China Craton44
How many oceans closed during the Brasiliano Cycle in northeastern Brazil? Implications for the amalgamation of western Gondwana44
Provenance and sediment dispersal in the Po-Adriatic source-to-sink system unraveled by bulk-sediment geochemistry and its linkage to catchment geology44
Shale oil migration across multiple scales: A review of characterization methods and different patterns44
Paleogeography of the Gondwana passive margin fragments involved in the Variscan and Alpine collisions: Perspectives from metavolcanic-sedimentary basement of the Western Carpathians44
Progress towards an improved Precambrian seawater 87Sr/86Sr curve43
Evolution of the East African Rift System from trap-scale to plate-scale rifting43
Vulnerability of buildings to landslides: The state of the art and future needs43
Spatial and temporal control of Archean tectonomagmatic regimes43
Glendonites throughout the Phanerozoic43
Evolution of the Archean felsic crust of Singhbhum Craton, India: A reassessment42
Gone with the tides? Reassessing possible eolian strata in the Paleoarchean Moodies Group in the context of the Archean eolian record42
Thallium in environmental compartments affected by acid mine drainage (AMD) from the Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB): From rocks to the ocean42
Desert ecosystems in China: Past, present, and future42
Climate change hotspots and implications for the global subsea telecommunications network42
The Meso-Tethys Ocean: The nature, extension and spatial-temporal evolution42
Geological evolution of the North China Craton in the first billion years of Earth's history42
Red sea evaporites: Formation, creep and dissolution41
Global tectonics and oxygenation events drove the Earth-scale phosphorus cycle41
The Caribbean mangroves: An Eocene innovation with no Cretaceous precursors41
Reorganization of antecedent rivers in response to the evolving landscape at the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau41
Revisiting the geodynamical history of the so-called uplifted atolls, north-west Tuamotu, French Polynesia, central South Pacific41
Impact of the Jenkyns Event (early Toarcian) on dinosaurs: Comparison with the Triassic/Jurassic transition41
500 million years of foraminiferal calcification40
Formation and evolution of Archean continental crust: A thermodynamic – geochemical perspective of granitoids from the Tarim Craton, NW China40
Paleoclimatic significance of water isotopes in speleothem fluid inclusions40
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
Tethyan tectonics: Introduction to special article collection39
Trace elements in soils of the Antarctic ice-free areas: Insights on natural geochemical values, anthropogenic impact and possible remobilisation upon permafrost thaw39
Post-rift faulting controlled by different geodynamics in the Pearl River Mouth Basin, northern South China Sea margin39
Editorial Board39
The trace-fossil record of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age39
Stable zinc isotopes as tracers in environmental geochemistry39
Temporal changes in subduction- to collision-related magmatism in the Neotethyan orogen: The Southeast Iran example38
Re-Os isotope system in organic-rich samples for dating and tracing: Methodology, principle, and application38
A persistent non-uniformitarian paleomagnetic field in the Devonian?38
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.e38
Editorial Board38
Late Paleozoic–Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the northeastern Asian continental margin revealed by sedimentary formations and fossil accretionary complexes38
Editorial Board38
A chemical framework for the preservation of fossil vertebrate cells and soft tissues37
Refining the earthquake history of south-central Alaska through lake records37
Sedimentary pyrite proxy for atmospheric oxygen: evaluation of strengths and limitations37
A guide to recognising slow-moving subaqueous landslides in seismic and bathymetry datasets37
First-principles investigation of equilibrium magnesium isotope fractionation among mantle minerals: Review and new data37
Minerals: A missing role for enhanced biochar carbon sequestration from the thermal conversion of biomass to the application in soil37
Connecting soils to life in conservation planning, nutrient cycling, and planetary science37
Editorial Board36
Automated classification and mapping for alluvial geomorphic units: Current approaches and future directions36
A review on deformation structures of different terranes in the Precambrian Aravalli-Delhi Mobile Belt (ADMB), NW India: Tectonic implications and global correlation36
Cenozoic exhumation of the Tianshan as constrained by regional low-temperature thermochronology36
Reconciling the Cretaceous breakup and demise of the Phoenix Plate with East Gondwana orogenesis in New Zealand35
Challenges of mapping, modelling and quantifying sediment connectivity35
A global apparent polar wander path for the last 320 Ma calculated from site-level paleomagnetic data35
Interplay between early rifting, later folding, and sedimentary filling of a long-lived Tethys remnant: The Levant Basin35
Recent advancements in characterizing permeability and porosity distributions in bioturbated flow media35
Recent advances made by reaction experiments on melting of heavily metasomatized hydrous mantle35
Transport and deposition of immiscible sulfide liquid during lateral magma flow35
Applying astronomical solutions and Milanković forcing in the Earth sciences34
Editorial Board34
Thaw-induced impacts on land and water in discontinuous permafrost: A review of the Taiga Plains and Taiga Shield, northwestern Canada34
Reply to the discussion paper by R. Martin on Kroeck et al. “A review of Paleozoic phytoplankton biodiversity: Driver for major evolutionary events?”34
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 exemplar34
Dynamics of gravity currents under external and internal stratification in geophysical systems34
Geology from aeromagnetic data34
Early plate tectonics and evolution of continental crust in the North China craton: Editorial preface34
Assessing the impact of bioturbation on sedimentary isotopic records through numerical models34
Unveiling the history and nature of paleostorms in the Holocene34
Application of artificial intelligence in geotechnical engineering: A state-of-the-art review34
Ice universality: perception of ice, its properties and connected processes on Earth and in the extraterrestrial environment. Earth sciences perspective34
Glacier and terrestrial ecosystem evolution in the Chilotan archipelago sector of northwestern Patagonia since the Last Glacial Termination33
The tectonic significance of peri-Gondwanan Late Neoproterozoic-Early Palaeozoic felsic peraluminous magmatism33
Pedogenic ferromanganese nodules and their impacts on nutrient cycles and heavy metal sequestration33
Gaseous hydrocarbons cracking in shale: Mechanism, impact and resource significance33
Relative continent - mid-ocean ridge elevation: A reference case for isostasy in geodynamics33
The rise and fall of the Malvinoxhosan (Malvinokaffric) bioregion in South Africa: Evidence for Early-Middle Devonian biocrises at the South Pole33
Freshwater mollusc sclerochronology: Trends, challenges, and future directions33
Soil Taxonomy adapted to buried paleosols: First approximation33
Elusive Permian – Triassic Western Paleotethyan paleogeography: Towards the Early Cimmerian pre-Vardar configuration (Dinarides-Carpathian Balkan Belt)33
Pacific-Asian Tectonics: Preface32
The evolution of the fracture systems under progressive sinistral shear in the Bundelkhand Craton, Central India: A review and new insights32
Terminal Ediacaran–Terreneuvian revolutions in Siberia32
Fracture systems and fluid inclusions in Upper Devonian organic-rich shales in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin and Rocky Mountains Foreland Belt, West-Central Alberta, Canada32
Storage integrity during underground hydrogen storage in depleted gas reservoirs32
The precursor of apatite: Octacalcium phosphate (OCP) in the earth and environmental sciences - A review32
An oxygen isotope perspective on the break-up of the Rodinia supercontinent32
A late Ediacaran ice age: The key node in the Earth system evolution32
Maturation from oceanic arcs to continental crust: Insights from Paleozoic magmatism in West Junggar, NW China32
Mesoarchean terrestrial sedimentation in a continental rift setting and its provenance implications: An example from the Bisrampur Formation, Singhbhum craton, India32
Deciphering the behavior and fate of microplastics in coastal aquatic environments: A comprehensive review illuminating coastal dynamics and driving mechanisms32
Peat fires and legacy toxic metal release: An integrative biogeochemical and ecohydrological conceptual framework32
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 Ocean32
Characterisation of weak layers, physical controls on their global distribution and their role in submarine landslide formation31
Geochemistry of low-temperature (<350 °C) metamorphic and hydrothermal monazite31
The Altaids: A review of twenty-five years of knowledge accumulation31
Global synthesis of two decades of research on improving PM2.5 estimation models from remote sensing and data science perspectives31
Morphology and controls of the mountain-front fan systems of the Hajar Mountains, south-east Arabia31
Mineralogy, geochemistry and occurrences of fougerite in a modern hydrothermal system and its implications for the origin of life31
Magmatism and hydrocarbon accumulation in sedimentary basins: A review31
Seismic facies analysis: Past, present and future30
Comment on “Ichnological analysis: A tool to characterize deep-marine processes and sediments” by Francisco J. Rodriguez-Tovar [Earth-Science Reviews, 228 (2022), 104014]30
Editorial Board30
Unlocking information about fine magnetic particle assemblages from first-order reversal curve diagrams: Recent advances30
Morphology and distribution of submerged palaeoshorelines: Insights from the North West Shelf of Australia30
The growth and evolution of continental crust contributed by multiple sources in the East Kunlun Orogen during Early Paleozoic30
The Drake Passage asthenospheric and oceanic gateway30
The Ivrea-Verbano tectonic evolution: The role of the crust-mantle interactions in rifting localization30
Hierarchies of ecologic changes and their roles in the Phanerozoic taxonomic and ecologic diversification history of the Class Bivalvia29
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]29
Precambrian geology of India29
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.29
Editorial Board29
Evidence of “Lake Nyos-type” behavior in the geological record: A review29
The concept of oligotrophy applied to the fossil record29
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 Anatolia28
The Offset Dykes in the North and East Range of the Sudbury impact structure, Canada: A synthesis28
Synchrony of carbon cycle fluctuations, volcanism and orbital forcing during the Early Cretaceous28
Rill flow velocity and resistance law: A review28
Exposing basement terranes of the North Australian Craton28
Fast-eroding Taiwan and transfer of orogenic sediment to forearc basins and trenches in the Philippine and South China seas28
A systematic review on rainfall patterns of Thailand: Insights into variability and its relationship with ENSO and IOD28
Evolution of the Eastern Red Sea Rifted margin: morphology, uplift processes and source-to-sink dynamics27
Cross-propagation of the western Alpine orogen from early to late deformation stages: Evidence from the Internal Zones and implications for restoration27
Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, Northeast Brazil: A reference basin for studies on the early history of the South Atlantic Ocean27
Potential strategic ore deposits on Mars: Implications for in situ resource utilization27
The Silurian–Devonian terrestrial revolution: Diversity patterns and sampling bias of the vascular plant macrofossil record27
Sediment oxygen consumption: Role in the global marine carbon cycle27
Dispersal mechanism of fine-grained sediment in the modern mud belt of the East China Sea27
Experimental measurements and characterization models of caprock breakthrough pressure for CO2 geological storage27
Physics-aware machine learning revolutionizes scientific paradigm for process-based modeling in hydrology27
Degradation and local growth of “Xing'an-Baikal” permafrost responding to climate warming and the consequences27
Convergent margin metallogenic cycles: A window to secular changes in Earth's tectonic evolution27
Focus on the nonlinear infiltration process in deep vadose zone27
Is hyperaccumulation a viable hypothesis for organic associations of minor elements in coals?27
The Hf and O isotope record of long-lasting accretionary orogens: The example of the Proterozoic and Paleozoic-Triassic central South America27
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