Geology

Papers
(The TQCC of Geology is 11. 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
ERRATUM: Across-strike asymmetry of the Andes orogen linked to the age and geometry of the Nazca plate143
Geoelectric evidence for a wide spatial footprint of active extension in central Colorado84
Unveiling "too-old" radiocarbon ages at Serapeo (Pozzuoli) enhances understanding of the present unrest crisis at Campi Flegrei caldera, Italy79
ERRATUM: Inception of ridge-ridge-ridge triple junctions: Morphostructural analysis and dynamics in the early back-arc extension of the northern Okinawa Trough73
Did transit through the galactic spiral arms seed crust production on the early Earth?63
Hydrological fluctuations in the Tarim Basin, northwest China, over the past millennium50
Clues on the Australasian impact crater site inferred from detailed mineralogical study of a monazite inclusion in a Muong Nong tektite: COMMENT50
To rush into the secret house of death: The fate of a Tournaisian plant49
The mechanical genesis of “fairy circle” depressions47
Origin of Archean Pb isotope variability through open-system Paleoarchean crustal anatexis45
Cenozoic sediment bypass versus Laramide exhumation and erosion of the Eagle Ford Group: Perspective from modelling of organic and inorganic proxy data (Maverick Basin, Texas, USA)44
Paleoclimates inform on a weakening and amplitude-reduced East Asian winter monsoon in the warming future42
Two-pronged kill mechanism at the end-Triassic mass extinction42
Determining the age and origin of a Tertiary karstic system by in situ U-Pb geochronology on speleothems40
Contemporary and future dust sources and emission fluxes from gypsum- and quartz-dominated eolian systems, New Mexico and Texas, USA39
Tonian true polar wander events recorded by paleolatitudinal variations of South China and its Southern Hemispheric position in Rodinia39
Forced Cenozoic continental subduction of Tarim craton-like lithosphere below the Tianshan revealed by ambient noise tomography39
An invasion model for the start of Paleo-Pacific subduction38
Generation of Archean TTGs via sluggish subduction38
Crustal architectural controls on critical metal ore systems in South China based on Hf isotopic mapping38
Seafloor spreading and the delivery of sulfur and metals to Earth’s oceans37
Tracing black shales in the source of a porphyry Mo deposit using molybdenum isotopes36
Magma mingling and ascent in the minutes to hours before an explosive eruption as recorded by banded pumice35
Extreme erosion by submarine slides35
Past eruptions of a newly discovered active, shallow, silicic submarine volcano near Tokyo Bay, Japan34
Silicification of trilobites and biofilm from the Cambrian Weeks Formation, Utah: Evidence for microbial mediation of silicification34
Mercury efficiently volatilized but not completely removed from sediments around igneous intrusions34
Opening of the North Atlantic Ocean and the rise of Scandinavian mountains34
The Neoproterozoic glacial broom34
Oxygen isotope evidence for progressively assimilating trans-crustal magma plumbing systems in Iceland34
Limited sulfur degassing and muted environmental impact of Ontong Java Plateau lavas33
Contribution of the oldest Paleoproterozoic marine sulfate evaporites to Bushveld Complex Lower Zone mineralization32
Reconciling plate motion and faulting at a rift-rift-rift triple junction32
Mid-Proterozoic geomagnetic field was more consistent with a dipole than a quadrupole32
Three-dimensional glacial isostatic adjustment modeling reconciles conflicting geographic trends in North American marine isotope stage 5a relative sea level observations32
Hot atmospheric formation of carbonate accretionary lapilli at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, Brazos River, Texas, from clumped isotope thermometry31
Crystal plasticity enhances trace element mobility in garnet31
Post-salt carbonates control salt-tectonic minibasin formation30
Molybdenum isotope signature of microbial nitrogen utilization in siboglinid tubeworms30
Unusually fracture-free seafloor in the southern North Atlantic between Newfoundland and Iberia explained through compounding tectonic inheritance since the Paleoproterozoic29
Unraveling the histories of Proterozoic shales through in situ Rb-Sr dating and trace element laser ablation analysis29
Disconformity-controlled hydrothermal dolomitization and cementation during basin evolution: Upper Triassic carbonates, UAE29
In situ carbon storage potential in a buried volcano29
Orogen-scale inverted metamorphism during Cretaceous–Paleogene terminal suturing along the North American Cordillera, Alaska, USA28
Spatio-temporal evolution of the Christiana-Santorini-Kolumbo volcanic field, Aegean Sea28
Lateral variation in slab window viscosity inferred from global navigation satellite system (GNSS)–observed uplift due to recent mass loss at Patagonia ice fields27
Xenoliths reveal a hot Moho and thin lithosphere at the Cordillera-craton boundary of western Canada27
Accumulation of windblown sand in impact craters on Mars27
Fluid environment controls along-strike variation in slip style: Midcrustal geological signatures from the Red River fault, China27
Shearing-enhanced deep fluid circulation induces seismic anisotropy in the lower crust at slow-spreading oceanic ridges26
A water transport system across the mantle transition zone beneath western North America as imaged by electrical conductivity data26
North America's Midcontinent Rift magma volume: A coincidental rendezvous of a plume with a rift26
Clues on the Australasian impact crater site inferred from detailed mineralogical study of a monazite inclusion in a Muong Nong tektite: REPLY26
Nd isotopic evidence for enhanced mafic weathering leading to Ordovician cooling26
Dehydration of subducted slab gabbro in Lau Basin and its implications25
Apparent preservation of primary foraminiferal Mg/Ca ratios and Mg-banding in recrystallized foraminifera25
First dating of an early Chibanian (Middle Pleistocene) glacial overdeepening in the Alpine Foreland using the 4He/U-Th method25
What controlled the thickness of continental crust in the Archean?25
Comment: Late Triassic continental eclogite in the central Tibetan Plateau reveals 2500-km-long Paleo-Tethys continental subduction25
Eoarchean apatite uncovers felsic foundations of the Pilbara Craton25
Olivine in komatiite records origin and travel from the deep upper mantle24
A tropically hot mid-Cretaceous North American Western Interior Seaway24
Hydrodynamic invalidation of synformal traps for dissolved CO224
Direct constraints on in situ stress state from deep drilling into the Nankai subduction zone, Japan24
Eruption dynamics leading to a volcanic thunderstorm—The January 2020 eruption of Taal volcano, Philippines24
Preferential preservation of low-elevation biotas in the nonmarine fossil record24
Disparate crustal thicknesses beneath oceanic transform faults and adjacent fracture zones revealed by gravity anomalies24
Apatite Lu–Hf dating of late Archean banded iron formations24
Early Earth zircons formed in residual granitic melts produced by tonalite differentiation: REPLY24
Small dip, big impact: How 1° strata inclination affects density-driven flow in anisotropic rocks23
Upper Paleozoic komatiites near Mashhad, NE Iran23
Transient fault creep on the Xidatan (Tibet) fault driven by viscoelastic relaxation following the 2001 Kokoxili earthquake23
Sediment routing in an incised valley during Hurricane Harvey (2017) in Houston, Texas, USA: Implications for modern sedimentation23
Raman thermometry and (U-Th)/He thermochronometry reveal Neogene transpressional exhumation in the Nacimiento block of central California, USA23
Traces of major collisional events in the asteroid belt in late Eocene marine sediments in Italy23
Anchoring the Swedish Time Scale to the radiocarbon time scale—An absolute age for De Geer’s zero varve23
Reconstructing source-to-sink systems from detrital zircon core and rim ages22
Fossil Java Sea corals record Laurentide ice sheet disappearance22
A sea of change: Tracing parasitic dynamics through the past millennia in the northern Adriatic, Italy22
Groundwater seepage is a key driver of theater-headed valley formation in limestone22
Three-dimensional electrical resistivity structure reveals the cascade rupture process of the 1988 Lancang-Gengma earthquake doublet22
A translithospheric magmatic system revealed beneath Changbaishan volcano22
Garnet versus amphibole: Implications for magmatic differentiation and slab melting22
Hikurangi megathrust slip behavior influenced by lateral variability in sediment subduction22
Gold mobility in Archean metasedimentary belts: Implications for orogenic gold deposits22
Early Earth zircons formed in residual granitic melts produced by tonalite differentiation21
The funnel-shaped crustal architecture in central Tibet and its insights into the progression of lithospheric removal21
Early Au-rich sulfide liquid saturation explains the low Au endowment of continental intraplate alkaline magmas21
Small impact cratering processes produce distinctive charcoal assemblages21
Ultrahigh-temperature granites and a curious thermal eye in the post-collisional South Bohemian batholith of the Variscan orogenic belt (Europe)21
Zn-, Mg- and O-isotope evidence for the origin of mantle eclogites from Roberts Victor kimberlite (Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa)21
Rethinking the “Grenville Flood” of Laurentian detrital zircon: Proximal sources, not continental rivers21
Climatic regulation of atmospheric mercury deposition: Evidence from mercury isotopes in an alpine peat core21
The role of amorphous silica coating on apatite nanocrystals in the exceptional preservation of phosphatized embryo-like microfossils from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation21
ERRATUM: New estimates of the magnitude of the sea-level jump during the 8.2 ka event20
Bacterial magnetofossil evidence for enhanced Pacific Ocean respired carbon storage during buildup of Antarctic glaciation20
Trends and rhythms in carbonatites and kimberlites reflect thermo-tectonic evolution of Earth20
Crustal transpressional fault geometry influenced by viscous lower crustal flow20
Strength of the winter North Atlantic jet stream has deviated from its natural trend under anthropogenic warming19
Evidence for nonlocal sediment transport on hillslopes from fault scarp morphology19
Ridgeward flow of compositionally heterogeneous mantle produces near-ridge seamount chains in the South Pacific19
Whole-lithosphere shear during oblique rifting19
Intact stalked crinoids from the late Aptian of NE Spain offer insights into the Mesozoic Marine Revolution in the Tethys19
Fault permeability from stochastic modeling of clay smears19
Oceanic isostasy as a trigger for the rift-to-drift transition19
Generation of Archean TTGs via sluggish subductions: COMMENT19
Effects on global warming by microbial methanogenesis in alkaline lakes during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA)19
Resolving pressure differences within the Grand Canyon Precambrian basement: Implications for Proterozoic tectonics18
Guttulatic calcite: A carbonate microtexture that reveals frigid formation conditions18
Inclination and heterogeneity of layered geological sequences influence dike-induced ground deformation18
Alkali-carbonate melts in the cratonic mantle evidenced by a wehrlite xenolith from the Majuagaa kimberlite, West Greenland18
New constraints on phosphate concentration and temperature in shallow late Tonian seawater18
Mantle wedge olivine modifies slab-derived fluids: Implications for fluid transport from slab to arc magma source18
The Tibetan Plateau is covered in wind-blown sand: Implications for detrital provenance studies18
Ultraslow cooling of an ultrahot orogen18
Don’t mind the “charcoal gap”: A reassessment of Devonian wildfire18
Exploring the impact of deglaciation on fault slip in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado, USA18
Increase in magma supply to Sakurajima volcano’s (Japan) shallow magma chamber over the past 500 years18
Extensional mountain building along convergent plate boundary: Insights from the active Taiwan mountain belt17
Quantitative relationships between river and channel-belt planform patterns17
A new exceptionally preserved fauna from a lowest Silurian black shale: Insights into the recovery of deep-water ecosystems after the Late Ordovician mass extinction17
Stagnation and tearing of the subducting northwest Pacific slab17
Hydrothermal sulfate surges promote rare earth element transport and mineralization17
Slab window–related magmatism as a probe for pyroxenite heterogeneities in the upper mantle17
Calcitic shells in the aragonite sea of the earliest Cambrian17
Distinctive source and hydration state of gold-ore–forming arc magmas17
Physical transport of magmatic sulfides promotes copper enrichment in hydrothermal ore fluids17
Correlating mantle cooling with tectonic transitions on early Earth17
Mantle serpentinization and associated hydrogen flux at North Atlantic magma-poor rifted margins17
Fluid-fluxed melting of juvenile lower crust traced by molybdenum isotopes17
Intensified bottom water formation in the southwest Pacific during the early Eocene greenhouse—Insights from neodymium isotopes16
Impact of stream power gradients on storage of sediment and carbon on channel margins and floodplains16
Moho carbonation at an ocean-continent transition16
Extreme twin densities in calcite—A shock indicator16
Evolution of a microfracture network induced by hydrocarbon generation during experimental maturation of organic-rich lacustrine shale16
Post-subduction porphyry Cu magmas in the Sanjiang region of southwestern China formed by fractionation of lithospheric mantle–derived mafic magmas16
Early accretion and prolonged carbonation of the Pacific Ocean's oldest crust16
Oligocene melting of subducted mélange and its mantle dynamics in northeast Asia16
Origin of the Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina: Flat-slab subduction and inherited structures16
Slab break-off and subduction polarity reversal after collision can be very fast16
Timing of carbon uptake by oceanic crust determined by rock reactivity16
Exceptional age constraint on a fossiliferous sedimentary succession preceding the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum15
Molybdenum isotopes in mafic igneous rocks record slabmantle interactions from subarc to postarc depths15
Silicification of trilobites and biofilm from the Cambrian Weeks Formation, Utah: Evidence for microbial mediation of silicification: REPLY15
Tracking cycles of Phanerozoic opening and closing of ocean basins using detrital rutile and zircon geochronology and geochemistry15
Cryophilic polychaetes at the subtropical Laurentian margin of the Iapetus Ocean: Evidence for cold-water ocean circulation and upwelling15
Halogen ratios in crustal fluids through time—Proxies for the emergence of aerobic life?15
Role of volatiles in intrusion emplacement and sulfide deposition in the supergiant Norilsk-Talnakh Ni-Cu-PGE ore deposits15
Frictional and microstructural evidence for a weak Wasatch fault zone15
Slab damage and the pulsating retreat of the Ionian-Apennines subduction15
The source of tungsten-associated magmas in the northern Canadian Cordillera and implications for the basement15
Magma recharge patterns control eruption styles and magnitudes at Popocatépetl volcano (Mexico)15
Intersection between tectonic faults and magmatic systems promotes swarms with large-magnitude earthquakes around the Tengchong volcanic field, southeastern Tibetan Plateau15
Significance of U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology for mudstone provenance15
Climate control on the relationship between erosion rate and fluvial topography15
The role of surface processes in basin inversion and breakup unconformity15
Rupture direction of paleoearthquakes on the Alpine Fault, New Zealand, as recorded by curved slickenlines15
Protracted mantle heat conduction after lithospheric foundering beneath the Malagasy orogen14
Eruptive tempo of Emeishan large igneous province, southwestern China and northern Vietnam: Relations to biotic crises and paleoclimate changes around the Guadalupian-Lopingian boundary14
Widespread glasses generated by cometary fireballs during the late Pleistocene in the Atacama Desert, Chile: REPLY14
Sediment waves control origins of submarine canyons14
Toroidal flow around the Tonga slab moved the Samoan plume during the Pliocene14
Identifying and characterizing missing source orogens for syn-orogenic basins based on detrital accessory mineral U-Pb geochronology and trace element geochemistry14
The reconstruction of coastal carbonate sequence stratigraphy: A modern-systems approach14
Phanerozoic emergence of global continental collision and onset of massive crustal eclogitization14
Coesite discovered in Australasian microtektites14
Modern ocean island basalt–like 182W signature in Paleoarchean mafic rocks: Implications for the generation, preservation, and destruction of early mantle heterogeneities14
Widespread glasses generated by cometary fireballs during the late Pleistocene in the Atacama Desert, Chile: COMMENT14
Recognizing big mantle wedges in deep time: Constraints from the Western Mongolia Collage in Central Asia14
Boninitic blueschists record subduction initiation and subsequent accretion of an arc–forearc in the northeast Proto-Tethys Ocean14
Extreme isotopic heterogeneity in impact melt rocks: Implications for Martian meteorites13
Calcite U-Pb ages constrain petroleum migration pathways in tectonic complex basins13
“Excess Ar” by laboratory alteration of biotite13
High-precision U-Pb geochronology for the Miocene Climate Optimum and a novel approach for calibrating age models in deep-sea sediment cores13
Nanoscale mineralogical evidence confirms Cu transport as chloride complexes in brines in the Central European Kupferschiefer district13
Constraints of boron and oxygen stable isotopes on dehydration fluids, sediment-derived melts, and crustal assimilation of the Toba volcanic system (Indonesia)13
Downward continued ocean bottom seismometer data show continued hydrothermal evolution of mature oceanic upper crust13
Tracking the spatial extent of redox variability in the mid-Proterozoic ocean13
A multidisciplinary approach to reconstructing the history of early animal life on Earth13
Clay-driven dolomitization at moderate to high temperatures: Evidence from hydrothermal experiments13
Sponge-rich sediment recycling in a Paleozoic continental arc driven by mélange melting13
Active El Niño−Southern Oscillation−like interannual variability 120 million years ago13
Landscapes on the edge: River intermittency in a warming world13
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, USA13
Pre-vegetation fluvial sheet sands explained: Bedform and bar architecture evidence for 1.2 Ga rapidly migrating, meandering, and high-sinuosity wandering rivers13
Hydrologically driven modulation of cutoff regime in meandering rivers13
Ash deposits link Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 to High Arctic volcanism13
Detrital glass in a Bering Sea sediment core yields a ca. 160 ka Marine Isotope Stage 6 age for Old Crow tephra13
Tesserae: Surface differences across Venus’s “continents”13
Preserved intercratonic lithosphere reveals Proterozoic assembly of Australia13
Can deepwater bottom currents generate clinothems? An example of a large, asymmetric mounded drift in Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous sediments from northwestern Australia13
A power-based abrasion law for use in landscape evolution models13
Latitudinal diversity gradient dynamics during Carboniferous to Triassic icehouse and greenhouse climates12
Crustal thickness of the Grenville orogen: A Mesoproterozoic Tibet?12
Life in the Cambrian shallows: Exceptionally preserved arthropod and mollusk microfossils from the early Cambrian of Sweden12
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
Hyper-enrichment of gold via quartz fracturing and growth of polymetallic melt droplets12
Carbon cycling during the India-Asia collision revealed by δ26Mg–δ66Zn–δ98Mo evidence from ultrapotassic volcanoes in NW Tibet12
Strongly peraluminous granites provide independent evidence for an increase in biomass burial across the Precambrian–Phanerozoic boundary12
Large negative δ238U anomalies in endogenic-type travertine systems12
No evidence for a volcanic trigger for late Cambrian carbon-cycle perturbations12
Natural levees increase in prevalence in the backwater zone: Coastal Trinity River, Texas, USA: COMMENT12
Mid-Proterozoic geomagnetic field was more consistent with a dipole than a quadrupole: COMMENT12
Formation of lower arc crust by magmatic underplating revealed by high-precision geochronology12
Laser-ablation Lu-Hf dating reveals Laurentian garnet in subducted rocks from southern Australia12
A unique record of prokaryote cell pyritization12
Strain controls the electrical conductivity distribution in the lithosphere12
Lithospheric-scale dynamics during continental subduction: Evidence from a frozen-in plate interface11
Stable tungsten isotopic composition of seawater over the past 80 million years11
Ocean oxygenation and ecological restructuring caused by the late Paleozoic evolution of land plants11
Unique mercury isotopic signature of mercury-bearing hydrothermal systems in South China and its geological and environmental implications11
Subduction polarity reversal facilitated by plate coupling during arc-continent collision: Evidence from the Western Kunlun orogenic belt, northwest Tibetan Plateau11
Surface exposure constraints on the mantle water budget11
Persistent dysoxia in very shallow seas across the late Cambrian SPICE event, Durness Group, UK11
Linking metamorphism and plate boundaries over the past 2 billion years11
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!11
Late Miocene to recent tectonic evolution of the Macquarie Triple Junction11
Dating submarine landslides using the transient response of gas hydrate stability11
Nannofossil imprints across the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum11
The early opening of the Equatorial Atlantic gateway and the evolution of Cretaceous peak warming11
Post-subduction porphyry Cu magmas in the Sanjiang region of southwestern China formed by fractionation of lithospheric mantle–derived mafic magmas: REPLY11
Decrypting the polymetamorphic record of the Himalaya11
Long-term and multi-stage ice accumulation in the martian mid-latitudes during the Amazonian11
Seismic evidence for lithospheric boudinage and its implications for continental rifting11
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
Steady decline in mean annual air temperatures in the first 30 k.y. after the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary11
Tracking ancient unconformity development with martite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry11
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