Geology

Papers
(The TQCC of Geology is 10. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
ERRATUM: Across-strike asymmetry of the Andes orogen linked to the age and geometry of the Nazca plate103
Geoelectric evidence for a wide spatial footprint of active extension in central Colorado92
Extreme erosion by submarine slides87
Did transit through the galactic spiral arms seed crust production on the early Earth?65
ERRATUM: Inception of ridge-ridge-ridge triple junctions: Morphostructural analysis and dynamics in the early back-arc extension of the northern Okinawa Trough55
Seafloor spreading and the delivery of sulfur and metals to Earth’s oceans53
Origin of Archean Pb isotope variability through open-system Paleoarchean crustal anatexis51
Clues on the Australasian impact crater site inferred from detailed mineralogical study of a monazite inclusion in a Muong Nong tektite: COMMENT49
Tonian true polar wander events recorded by paleolatitudinal variations of South China and its Southern Hemispheric position in Rodinia45
The mechanical genesis of “fairy circle” depressions44
Hydrological fluctuations in the Tarim Basin, northwest China, over the past millennium43
Tracing black shales in the source of a porphyry Mo deposit using molybdenum isotopes41
Generation of Archean TTGs via sluggish subduction41
Determining the age and origin of a Tertiary karstic system by in situ U-Pb geochronology on speleothems40
Unveiling “too-old” radiocarbon ages at Serapeo (Pozzuoli) enhances understanding of the present unrest crisis at Campi Flegrei caldera, Italy39
Paleoclimates inform on a weakening and amplitude-reduced East Asian winter monsoon in the warming future38
To rush into the secret house of death: The fate of a Tournaisian plant37
An invasion model for the start of Paleo-Pacific subduction37
Crustal architectural controls on critical metal ore systems in South China based on Hf isotopic mapping37
Forced Cenozoic continental subduction of Tarim craton-like lithosphere below the Tianshan revealed by ambient noise tomography36
Accumulation of windblown sand in impact craters on Mars36
Xenoliths reveal a hot Moho and thin lithosphere at the Cordillera-craton boundary of western Canada35
Past eruptions of a newly discovered active, shallow, silicic submarine volcano near Tokyo Bay, Japan34
Nd isotopic evidence for enhanced mafic weathering leading to Ordovician cooling34
Reconciling plate motion and faulting at a rift-rift-rift triple junction33
North America's Midcontinent Rift magma volume: A coincidental rendezvous of a plume with a rift33
Crystal plasticity enhances trace element mobility in garnet33
Molybdenum isotope signature of microbial nitrogen utilization in siboglinid tubeworms31
Magma mingling and ascent in the minutes to hours before an explosive eruption as recorded by banded pumice30
Three-dimensional glacial isostatic adjustment modeling reconciles conflicting geographic trends in North American marine isotope stage 5a relative sea level observations30
Orogen-scale inverted metamorphism during Cretaceous–Paleogene terminal suturing along the North American Cordillera, Alaska, USA30
In situ carbon storage potential in a buried volcano30
Limited sulfur degassing and muted environmental impact of Ontong Java Plateau lavas30
Shearing-enhanced deep fluid circulation induces seismic anisotropy in the lower crust at slow-spreading oceanic ridges29
Mid-Proterozoic geomagnetic field was more consistent with a dipole than a quadrupole29
Post-salt carbonates control salt-tectonic minibasin formation29
A water transport system across the mantle transition zone beneath western North America as imaged by electrical conductivity data29
Silicification of trilobites and biofilm from the Cambrian Weeks Formation, Utah: Evidence for microbial mediation of silicification28
Unusually fracture-free seafloor in the southern North Atlantic between Newfoundland and Iberia explained through compounding tectonic inheritance since the Paleoproterozoic28
Opening of the North Atlantic Ocean and the rise of Scandinavian mountains28
Disconformity-controlled hydrothermal dolomitization and cementation during basin evolution: Upper Triassic carbonates, UAE27
The Neoproterozoic glacial broom27
Mercury efficiently volatilized but not completely removed from sediments around igneous intrusions27
Fluid environment controls along-strike variation in slip style: Midcrustal geological signatures from the Red River fault, China26
Contribution of the oldest Paleoproterozoic marine sulfate evaporites to Bushveld Complex Lower Zone mineralization26
Ediacaran endlings from the Avalon Assemblage and the severity of the Kotlin Crisis: First documentation of the Inner Meadow Lagerstätte, Newfoundland, Canada25
Direct constraints on in situ stress state from deep drilling into the Nankai subduction zone, Japan25
Resilient tropical marine ecosystems during early Eocene global warming events25
Enhanced oceanic phosphorus recycling during the Cambrian SPICE event25
Eoarchean apatite uncovers felsic foundations of the Pilbara Craton25
Comment: Late Triassic continental eclogite in the central Tibetan Plateau reveals 2500-km-long Paleo-Tethys continental subduction25
Clues on the Australasian impact crater site inferred from detailed mineralogical study of a monazite inclusion in a Muong Nong tektite: REPLY24
Dehydration of subducted slab gabbro in Lau Basin and its implications24
Apatite Lu–Hf dating of late Archean banded iron formations24
First dating of an early Chibanian (Middle Pleistocene) glacial overdeepening in the Alpine Foreland using the 4He/U-Th method24
Long-range lateral dyke propagation is independent of the level of neutral buoyancy24
Disparate crustal thicknesses beneath oceanic transform faults and adjacent fracture zones revealed by gravity anomalies24
Hydrous ultrapotassic melts and trans-lithospheric weakening of Himalayan-Tibetan orogenesis23
Early Earth zircons formed in residual granitic melts produced by tonalite differentiation: REPLY23
Preferential preservation of low-elevation biotas in the nonmarine fossil record23
Temporal linkages of explosive activity of Kolumbo and Santorini Volcanoes (Greece)23
Raman thermometry and (U-Th)/He thermochronometry reveal Neogene transpressional exhumation in the Nacimiento block of central California, USA23
A tropically hot mid-Cretaceous North American Western Interior Seaway23
Detachment-involved deformation in the Santa Bárbara system in NW Argentina revealed by seismicity and receiver functions23
What controlled the thickness of continental crust in the Archean?23
Small dip, big impact: How 1° strata inclination affects density-driven flow in anisotropic rocks22
Early Au-rich sulfide liquid saturation explains the low Au endowment of continental intraplate alkaline magmas22
Sediment routing in an incised valley during Hurricane Harvey (2017) in Houston, Texas, USA: Implications for modern sedimentation22
Traces of major collisional events in the asteroid belt in late Eocene marine sediments in Italy22
Upper Paleozoic komatiites near Mashhad, NE Iran22
Rethinking the “Grenville Flood” of Laurentian detrital zircon: Proximal sources, not continental rivers21
Bacterial magnetofossil evidence for enhanced Pacific Ocean respired carbon storage during buildup of Antarctic glaciation21
Small impact cratering processes produce distinctive charcoal assemblages21
3-D electromagnetic imaging of highly deformed fluid-rich weak zones and locked section of the North Anatolian fault beneath the Marmara Sea21
Pacing supercontinent rhythms from the metallogenic record21
Hikurangi megathrust slip behavior influenced by lateral variability in sediment subduction21
How micromechanical stratigraphy controls vertical primary oil migration in finely laminated shale21
Fossil Java Sea corals record Laurentide ice sheet disappearance21
The role of amorphous silica coating on apatite nanocrystals in the exceptional preservation of phosphatized embryo-like microfossils from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation21
Gold mobility in Archean metasedimentary belts: Implications for orogenic gold deposits21
Three-dimensional electrical resistivity structure reveals the cascade rupture process of the 1988 Lancang-Gengma earthquake doublet21
Anchoring the Swedish Time Scale to the radiocarbon time scale—An absolute age for De Geer’s zero varve20
Trends and rhythms in carbonatites and kimberlites reflect thermo-tectonic evolution of Earth20
Garnet versus amphibole: Implications for magmatic differentiation and slab melting20
Transient fault creep on the Xidatan (Tibet) fault driven by viscoelastic relaxation following the 2001 Kokoxili earthquake19
Hydrodynamic invalidation of synformal traps for dissolved CO219
Crustal transpressional fault geometry influenced by viscous lower crustal flow19
A sea of change: Tracing parasitic dynamics through the past millennia in the northern Adriatic, Italy19
ERRATUM: New estimates of the magnitude of the sea-level jump during the 8.2 ka event19
A translithospheric magmatic system revealed beneath Changbaishan volcano19
Climatic regulation of atmospheric mercury deposition: Evidence from mercury isotopes in an alpine peat core19
The funnel-shaped crustal architecture in central Tibet and its insights into the progression of lithospheric removal19
Correlating mantle cooling with tectonic transitions on early Earth18
Strength of the winter North Atlantic jet stream has deviated from its natural trend under anthropogenic warming18
Effects on global warming by microbial methanogenesis in alkaline lakes during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA)18
Evidence for nonlocal sediment transport on hillslopes from fault scarp morphology18
Resolving pressure differences within the Grand Canyon Precambrian basement: Implications for Proterozoic tectonics18
The Tibetan Plateau is covered in wind-blown sand: Implications for detrital provenance studies18
Generation of Archean TTGs via sluggish subductions: COMMENT17
Slab window–related magmatism as a probe for pyroxenite heterogeneities in the upper mantle17
Ultraslow cooling of an ultrahot orogen17
New constraints on phosphate concentration and temperature in shallow late Tonian seawater17
Increase in magma supply to Sakurajima volcano’s (Japan) shallow magma chamber over the past 500 years17
Mantle wedge olivine modifies slab-derived fluids: Implications for fluid transport from slab to arc magma source17
Exploring the impact of deglaciation on fault slip in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado, USA17
Distinctive source and hydration state of gold-ore–forming arc magmas17
Extensional mountain building along convergent plate boundary: Insights from the active Taiwan mountain belt17
Rising productivity drove marine euxinia during the Late Devonian mass extinctions17
Quantitative relationships between river and channel-belt planform patterns17
Melting the myth: Prograde garnet dissolves during early crustal melting17
Don’t mind the “charcoal gap”: A reassessment of Devonian wildfire17
Intact stalked crinoids from the late Aptian of NE Spain offer insights into the Mesozoic Marine Revolution in the Tethys17
Impact of stream power gradients on storage of sediment and carbon on channel margins and floodplains16
Origin of the Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina: Flat-slab subduction and inherited structures16
Inclination and heterogeneity of layered geological sequences influence dike-induced ground deformation16
Physical transport of magmatic sulfides promotes copper enrichment in hydrothermal ore fluids16
The role of surface processes in basin inversion and breakup unconformity16
Frictional and microstructural evidence for a weak Wasatch fault zone16
Oligocene melting of subducted mélange and its mantle dynamics in northeast Asia16
Alkali-carbonate melts in the cratonic mantle evidenced by a wehrlite xenolith from the Majuagaa kimberlite, West Greenland16
Mantle serpentinization and associated hydrogen flux at North Atlantic magma-poor rifted margins16
Climate control on the relationship between erosion rate and fluvial topography16
Slab damage and the pulsating retreat of the Ionian-Apennines subduction16
Role of volatiles in intrusion emplacement and sulfide deposition in the supergiant Norilsk-Talnakh Ni-Cu-PGE ore deposits16
Extreme twin densities in calcite—A shock indicator16
Fault permeability from stochastic modeling of clay smears16
Hydrothermal sulfate surges promote rare earth element transport and mineralization16
Ridgeward flow of compositionally heterogeneous mantle produces near-ridge seamount chains in the South Pacific16
Intensified bottom water formation in the southwest Pacific during the early Eocene greenhouse—Insights from neodymium isotopes16
Molybdenum isotopes in mafic igneous rocks record slabmantle interactions from subarc to postarc depths15
Evolution of a microfracture network induced by hydrocarbon generation during experimental maturation of organic-rich lacustrine shale15
Contourite deposits reveal late Paleocene to early Eocene deepwater circulation in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea15
A new exceptionally preserved fauna from a lowest Silurian black shale: Insights into the recovery of deep-water ecosystems after the Late Ordovician mass extinction15
Exceptional age constraint on a fossiliferous sedimentary succession preceding the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum15
Slab break-off and subduction polarity reversal after collision can be very fast15
Intersection between tectonic faults and magmatic systems promotes swarms with large-magnitude earthquakes around the Tengchong volcanic field, southeastern Tibetan Plateau15
Continental levering explains up to ∼30% variation in magnitude of Pennsylvanian sea-level cycles recorded in cyclic stratigraphy15
Fluid-fluxed melting of juvenile lower crust traced by molybdenum isotopes15
Post-subduction porphyry Cu magmas in the Sanjiang region of southwestern China formed by fractionation of lithospheric mantle–derived mafic magmas15
Timing of carbon uptake by oceanic crust determined by rock reactivity15
Silicification of trilobites and biofilm from the Cambrian Weeks Formation, Utah: Evidence for microbial mediation of silicification: REPLY15
Deformed submarine terraces in Puget Sound, Pacific Northwest, indicate only one M >∼7.5 earthquake on the Seattle fault zone in the past 11,000 yr15
Seismic wide-angle constraints on crustal thickness and structure at Ocean Drilling Program Site 1256: How typical are its features for oceanic crust?15
Large domal stromatolites in the Paleoarchean ocean at 3.47 Ga15
Calcitic shells in the aragonite sea of the earliest Cambrian15
Early accretion and prolonged carbonation of the Pacific Ocean's oldest crust15
Halogen ratios in crustal fluids through time—Proxies for the emergence of aerobic life?15
Cryophilic polychaetes at the subtropical Laurentian margin of the Iapetus Ocean: Evidence for cold-water ocean circulation and upwelling14
Widespread glasses generated by cometary fireballs during the late Pleistocene in the Atacama Desert, Chile: REPLY14
Detrital glass in a Bering Sea sediment core yields a ca. 160 ka Marine Isotope Stage 6 age for Old Crow tephra14
Derivation of the nonlinear dependence of aeolian sand flux on wind speed14
Rupture direction of paleoearthquakes on the Alpine Fault, New Zealand, as recorded by curved slickenlines14
Protracted mantle heat conduction after lithospheric foundering beneath the Malagasy orogen14
The role of mantle melting and associated granitoid magmatism in the genesis of orogenic gold in the Laurentian Caledonides14
Coesite discovered in Australasian microtektites14
Widespread glasses generated by cometary fireballs during the late Pleistocene in the Atacama Desert, Chile: COMMENT14
Toroidal flow around the Tonga slab moved the Samoan plume during the Pliocene14
Modern ocean island basalt–like 182W signature in Paleoarchean mafic rocks: Implications for the generation, preservation, and destruction of early mantle heterogeneities14
Tracking cycles of Phanerozoic opening and closing of ocean basins using detrital rutile and zircon geochronology and geochemistry13
Ash deposits link Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 to High Arctic volcanism13
Clay-driven dolomitization at moderate to high temperatures: Evidence from hydrothermal experiments13
The source of tungsten-associated magmas in the northern Canadian Cordillera and implications for the basement13
Release of toxic-metal acid brines related to slumping of Cretaceous mudstones—Smoking Hills (Ingniryuat), Arctic Canada13
Sediment waves control origins of submarine canyons13
Recognizing big mantle wedges in deep time: Constraints from the Western Mongolia Collage in Central Asia13
Balancing Yellowstone’s hydrothermal heat budget with a seismically constrained magma reservoir13
Eruptive tempo of Emeishan large igneous province, southwestern China and northern Vietnam: Relations to biotic crises and paleoclimate changes around the Guadalupian-Lopingian boundary13
Identifying and characterizing missing source orogens for syn-orogenic basins based on detrital accessory mineral U-Pb geochronology and trace element geochemistry13
The reconstruction of coastal carbonate sequence stratigraphy: A modern-systems approach13
Sponge-rich sediment recycling in a Paleozoic continental arc driven by mélange melting13
Phanerozoic emergence of global continental collision and onset of massive crustal eclogitization13
A multidisciplinary approach to reconstructing the history of early animal life on Earth13
Strain controls the electrical conductivity distribution in the lithosphere12
Nanoscale mineralogical evidence confirms Cu transport as chloride complexes in brines in the Central European Kupferschiefer district12
No evidence for a volcanic trigger for late Cambrian carbon-cycle perturbations12
Heavy rains inflate Mount Fuji, central Japan12
Tesserae: Surface differences across Venus’s “continents”12
Not much to show for it: Late Pleistocene dynamics of migrating megadunes in the Rub’ al-Khali, Saudi Arabia, indicate minimal preservation of their deposits12
High-precision U-Pb geochronology for the Miocene Climate Optimum and a novel approach for calibrating age models in deep-sea sediment cores12
Preserved intercratonic lithosphere reveals Proterozoic assembly of Australia12
Downward continued ocean bottom seismometer data show continued hydrothermal evolution of mature oceanic upper crust12
Natural levees increase in prevalence in the backwater zone: Coastal Trinity River, Texas, USA: COMMENT12
Seafloor weathering can explain the disparate durations of Snowball glaciations12
“Excess Ar” by laboratory alteration of biotite12
The Rhodope Metamorphic Complex as a case for extreme vertical extrusion11
Decoupled monazite and garnet petrochronology reveals short-duration, high-temperature Acadian metamorphism in the Manhattan Schist, New York City, USA11
Mid-Proterozoic geomagnetic field was more consistent with a dipole than a quadrupole: COMMENT11
Active El Niño–Southern Oscillation–like interannual variability 120 million years ago11
Plow versus Ice Age: Erosion rate variability from glacial–interglacial climate change is an order of magnitude lower than agricultural erosion in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, USA11
Hyper-enrichment of gold via quartz fracturing and growth of polymetallic melt droplets11
Strongly peraluminous granites provide independent evidence for an increase in biomass burial across the Precambrian–Phanerozoic boundary11
Formation of lower arc crust by magmatic underplating revealed by high-precision geochronology11
Shale mobility: From salt-like shale flow to fluid mobilization in gravity-driven deformation, the late Albian–Turonian White Pointer Delta (Ceduna Subbasin, Great Bight, Australia)11
A window into development of a complex ice-marginal lake prior to the Late Glacial Maximum (LGM) in Austria11
Seismic evidence for lithospheric boudinage and its implications for continental rifting11
Landscapes on the edge: River intermittency in a warming world11
Tracking the spatial extent of redox variability in the mid-Proterozoic ocean11
Extreme isotopic heterogeneity in impact melt rocks: Implications for Martian meteorites11
Constraints of boron and oxygen stable isotopes on dehydration fluids, sediment-derived melts, and crustal assimilation of the Toba volcanic system (Indonesia)11
Large negative δ238U anomalies in endogenic-type travertine systems11
A power-based abrasion law for use in landscape evolution models11
A unique record of prokaryote cell pyritization11
Investigating the response of Glycymeris septentrionalis (Bivalvia) and Terebratalia transversa (Brachiopo11
Late Miocene to recent tectonic evolution of the Macquarie Triple Junction11
Post-subduction porphyry Cu magmas in the Sanjiang region of southwestern China formed by fractionation of lithospheric mantle–derived mafic magmas: REPLY11
Long-term and multi-stage ice accumulation in the martian mid-latitudes during the Amazonian11
Latitudinal diversity gradient dynamics during Carboniferous to Triassic icehouse and greenhouse climates11
Hydrologically driven modulation of cutoff regime in meandering rivers11
Pre-vegetation fluvial sheet sands explained: Bedform and bar architecture evidence for 1.2 Ga rapidly migrating, meandering, and high-sinuosity wandering rivers11
Life in the Cambrian shallows: Exceptionally preserved arthropod and mollusk microfossils from the early Cambrian of Sweden11
Carbon cycling during the India-Asia collision revealed by δ26Mg–δ66Zn–δ98Mo evidence from ultrapotassic volcanoes in NW Tibet11
Unique mercury isotopic signature of mercury-bearing hydrothermal systems in South China and its geological and environmental implications11
Laramide bulldozing of lithosphere beneath the Arizona transition zone, southwestern United States10
Bayesian tectonic subsidence modeling supports polyphase extension of the western continental margin of Laurentia10
Sustained deformation across the Sub-Himalayas since 200 ka10
A chlorine isotope transect across Sudbury Basin (Canada) impact deposits reveals systematic isotope fractionation10
The origin of platinum group minerals in oceanic crust10
Early Cretaceous uplift of the Hangay Mountains (central Mongolia): A consequence of lithospheric foundering following oroclinal bending10
Ocean oxygenation and ecological restructuring caused by the late Paleozoic evolution of land plants10
Nannofossil imprints across the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum10
Stable tungsten isotopic composition of seawater over the past 80 million years10
Persistent dysoxia in very shallow seas across the late Cambrian SPICE event, Durness Group, UK10
Marine redox and nutrient dynamics linked to the Cambrian radiation of animals10
Microstructural and geochemical response of muscovite to impact metamorphism10
Constraining the Baltic Sea sediment chronology using tephrochronology10
Late Oligocene–Miocene evolution of deep-water circulation in the abyssal South China Sea: Insights from Nd isotopes of fossil fish teeth10
Surface exposure constraints on the mantle water budget10
Rare earth element transport and mineralization linked to fluids from carbonatite systems10
Steady decline in mean annual air temperatures in the first 30 k.y. after the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary10
Tracking ancient unconformity development with martite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry10
Are Holocene coseismic marine terrace sequences complete paleoseismic records? Rapid erosion of a new marine terrace created during the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake suggests not!10
Asymmetric growth of strike-slip faults controlled by 3-D fault structure: Insights from the Mw 7.8 2023 Kahramanmaraş (Turkey) earthquake10
Dominant precessional forcing of the East Asian summer monsoon since 260 ka10
Surface uplift of the central Cascade Range, northwestern USA, via Oligocene to early Miocene crustal thickening10
Possible bipolar global expression of the P3 and P4 glacial events of eastern Australia in the Northern Hemisphere: Marine diamictites and glendonites from the middle to upper Permian in southern Verk10
Lithospheric-scale dynamics during continental subduction: Evidence from a frozen-in plate interface10
The early opening of the Equatorial Atlantic gateway and the evolution of Cretaceous peak warming10
Subduction polarity reversal facilitated by plate coupling during arc-continent collision: Evidence from the Western Kunlun orogenic belt, northwest Tibetan Plateau10
Ultrahigh-temperature laser melting replicates microstructures of natural pseudotachylytes10
Dating submarine landslides using the transient response of gas hydrate stability10
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