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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Widespread glasses generated by cometary fireballs during the late Pleistocene in the Atacama Desert, Chile: REPLY97
Widespread glasses generated by cometary fireballs during the late Pleistocene in the Atacama Desert, Chile: COMMENT65
Eustatic change modulates exhumation in the Japanese Alps51
ERRATUM: Microbial sulfate reduction plays an important role at the initial stage of subseafloor sulfide mineralization50
Claspers in the mid-CambrianOlenoides serratusindicate horseshoe crab–like mating in trilobites47
Lithium isotopic composition of soil pore water: Responses to evapotranspiration47
Tunnel valley infill and genesis revealed by high-resolution 3-D seismic data46
The carbonate compensation depth in the South Atlantic Ocean since the Late Cretaceous46
Glacial isostatic adjustment shifted early Holocene river hydrology in Maine, USA45
Crustal versus mantle-level aggregation of heterogeneous melts at mid-ocean ridges45
Earth's K recycling: Perspective from K isotopes of intracontinental magmas44
Bilateral asthenospheric flow fed by the Caroline plume (western Pacific Ocean)43
The reconstruction of coastal carbonate sequence stratigraphy: A modern-systems approach43
13C-enriched carbonate precipitates reveal intense methanogenic oil degradation in the upper Wuerhe Formation, Northwest China43
Seafloor spreading and the delivery of sulfur and metals to Earth’s oceans42
Reassessment of ocean paleotemperatures during the Late Ordovician41
Monthly insolation linked to the time-transgressive nature of the Holocene East Asian monsoon precipitation maximum41
Breaking plates: Creation of the East Anatolian fault, the Anatolian plate, and a tectonic escape system41
Methane seeps as refugia during ash falls in the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway of North America37
Forced Cenozoic continental subduction of Tarim craton-like lithosphere below the Tianshan revealed by ambient noise tomography36
Anoxic depositional overprinting of 238U/235U in calcite: When do carbonates tell black shale tales?33
Subsurface heat and salts cause exceptionally limited methane hydrate stability in the Mediterranean Basin33
Phanerozoic variation in dolomite abundance linked to oceanic anoxia: COMMENT33
Hydrological fluctuations in the Tarim Basin, northwest China, over the past millennium33
Diverse marine fish assemblages inhabited the paleotropics during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum33
A new model for the growth of normal faults developed above pre-existing structures: COMMENT33
Tracking cycles of Phanerozoic opening and closing of ocean basins using detrital rutile and zircon geochronology and geochemistry32
Modern ocean island basalt–like 182W signature in Paleoarchean mafic rocks: Implications for the generation, preservation, and destruction of early mantle heterogeneities32
Annually resolved sediments in the classic Clarkia lacustrine deposits (Idaho, USA) during the middle Miocene Climate Optimum32
Holocene gigascale rock avalanches in Vaigat strait, West Greenland—Implications for geohazard32
An ongoing lithospheric dripping process beneath northeast China and its impact on intraplate volcanism32
An absolutely dated record of climate change over the last three glacial–interglacial cycles from Chinese loess deposits30
Excessive subsidence of oceanic basins caused by recycled oceanic crust in the mantle source: A new perspective on the oceanic topography within Southeast Asia30
Calcite U-Pb ages constrain petroleum migration pathways in tectonic complex basins29
100 k.y. pacing of the East Asian summer monsoon over the past five glacial cycles inferred from land snails29
Deformation and metasomatism recorded by single-grain apatite petrochronology29
ERRATUM: First U-Pb dating of fossilized soft tissue using a new approach to paleontological chronometry28
U-Pb dating reveals multiple Paleoproterozoic orogenic events (Hamersley orogenic cycle) along the southern Pilbara margin (Australia) spanning the onset of atmospheric oxygenation28
Subduction of the Izanagi-Pacific Ridge–transform intersection at the northeastern end of the Eurasian plate28
Appearance and disappearance rates of Phanerozoic marine animal paleocommunities28
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 Verk27
Outer forearc uplift and exhumation during high-flux magmatism: Evidence from detrital zircon geochemistry of the Nacimiento forearc basin, California, USA27
Silicification of trilobites and biofilm from the Cambrian Weeks Formation, Utah: Evidence for microbial mediation of silicification: COMMENT27
Silicification of trilobites and biofilm from the Cambrian Weeks Formation, Utah: Evidence for microbial mediation of silicification: REPLY27
Emergent simplicity despite local complexity in eroding fluvial landscapes26
Efficient release of bromine by super-eruptions26
Sponge-rich sediment recycling in a Paleozoic continental arc driven by mélange melting25
Contemporary and future dust sources and emission fluxes from gypsum- and quartz-dominated eolian systems, New Mexico and Texas, USA25
Mass balance controls on sediment scour and bedrock erosion in waterfall plunge pools25
Hematite accommodated shallow, transient Pleistocene slow slip in the exhumed southern San Andreas fault system, California, USA25
ERRATUM: Across-strike asymmetry of the Andes orogen linked to the age and geometry of the Nazca plate24
Detrital glass in a Bering Sea sediment core yields a ca. 160 ka Marine Isotope Stage 6 age for Old Crow tephra24
A mechanism for transient creep in crustal shear zones24
How old are the Jack Hills metasediments really?: The case for contamination of bedrock by zircon grains in transported regolith23
Identifying and characterizing missing source orogens for syn-orogenic basins based on detrital accessory mineral U-Pb geochronology and trace element geochemistry23
Prior oil and gas production can limit the occurrence of injection-induced seismicity: A case study in the Delaware Basin of western Texas and southeastern New Mexico, USA23
Critical metal enrichment in crustal melts: The role of metamorphic mica23
Paleoclimates inform on a weakening and amplitude-reduced East Asian winter monsoon in the warming future23
Explosive caldera-forming eruptions and debris-filled vents: Gargle dynamics23
Polychromatic polarization: Boosting the capabilities of the good old petrographic microscope23
Sediment waves control origins of submarine canyons22
An invasion model for the start of Paleo-Pacific subduction22
Construction of the Lesser Himalayan–Subhimalayan thrust belt: The primary driver of thickening, exhumation, and high elevations in the Himalayan orogen since the middle Miocene22
How Himalayan collision stems from subduction22
Identifying crystal accumulation and melt extraction during formation of high-silica granite22
Fingerprinting subduction margins using principal component analysis profiles: A data science approach to assessing earthquake hazard22
Spontaneous reheating of crystallizing lava22
Field calibration of 40Ar/39Ar K-feldspar multiple diffusion domain (MDD) thermal histories at the Grayback normal fault block, Arizona, USA21
Diapirism of carbonate platforms subducted into the upper mantle21
Cobalt mineralogy at the Iron Creek deposit, Idaho cobalt belt, USA: Implications for domestic critical mineral production21
The complex Rodrigues triple junction migration since ca. 8 Ma: A response to episodic Amsterdam–St. Paul hotspot tail capture by the Southeast Indian Ridge?21
Oceanic serpentinites: A potentially critical reservoir for deep nitrogen recycling21
Insights into initial continental rifting of marginal seas from seismic evidence for slab relics in the mid-mantle of the Woodlark rift, southwestern Pacific21
The Antler orogeny reconsidered and implications for late Paleozoic tectonics of western Laurentia21
Magma-carbonate interactions drive CO2 production and metal enrichment in shallow dikes and sills at volcanic arcs20
Vestiges of Earth’s earliest depleted mantle reservoir20
Constraining the elemental stoichiometry of early marine life20
Geoelectric evidence for a wide spatial footprint of active extension in central Colorado20
Age variability and decadal time-averaging in oyster reef death assemblages20
The source of tungsten-associated magmas in the northern Canadian Cordillera and implications for the basement20
Spatiotemporal distribution of giant magnetofossils holds clues to their biological origin20
Rehydrated glass embayments record the cooling of a Yellowstone ignimbrite20
Subsidence-induced early doming at a large ignimbrite caldera20
The timing of Missoula floods: Implications for the age of Grand Coulee (eastern Washington, USA)19
Asymmetry and evolution of craton-influenced rifted margins19
Okanogan lobe tunnel channels and subglacial floods into Moses Coulee, Channeled Scabland, northwestern United States19
Exothermic reactions and 39Ar–40Ar thermochronology: Hydration leads to younger apparent ages19
Making sense of shear zone fabrics that record multiple episodes of deformation: Electron backscatter diffraction–derived and crystallographic vorticity axis–enhanced petrochronology19
Relationship between glacial CO2 drawdown and mercury cycling in the western South Atlantic: An isotopic insight19
Along-strike seismotectonic segmentation reflecting megathrust seismogenic behavior19
Scoria cone erosional degradation by incision: Different behaviors in three volcanic fields reflect environmental conditions19
The construction of the Giza pyramids chronicled by human copper contamination19
Ash deposits link Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 to High Arctic volcanism19
History of earthquakes along the creeping section of the San Andreas fault, California, USA18
Multiple phyla, one time resolution? Similar time averaging in benthic foraminifera, mollusk, echinoid, crustacean, and otolith fossil assemblages18
Cryophilic polychaetes at the subtropical Laurentian margin of the Iapetus Ocean: Evidence for cold-water ocean circulation and upwelling18
Eruption risks from covert silicic magma bodies18
Late Paleoproterozoic mafic magmatism and the Kalahari craton during Columbia assembly18
Late Weichselian ice-sheet flow directions in the Russian northern Barents Sea from high-resolution imagery of submarine glacial landforms18
Seismic discontinuity in the Martian crust possibly caused by water-filled cracks18
To rush into the secret house of death: The fate of a Tournaisian plant18
Tracing black shales in the source of a porphyry Mo deposit using molybdenum isotopes18
Determining the age and origin of a Tertiary karstic system by in situ U-Pb geochronology on speleothems18
Looking upstream with clumped and triple oxygen isotopes of estuarine oyster shells in the early Eocene of California, USA18
Protracted mantle heat conduction after lithospheric foundering beneath the Malagasy orogen17
Melting of fault gouge at shallow depth during the 2008 MW 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake, China17
Boiling-induced extreme Cu isotope fractionation in sulfide minerals forming by active hydrothermal diffusers at the Aegean Kolumbo volcano: Evidence from in situ isotope analysis17
Plate tectonic–like cycles since the Hadean: Initiated or inherited?17
Did transit through the galactic spiral arms seed crust production on the early Earth?17
Phanerozoic emergence of global continental collision and onset of massive crustal eclogitization17
Crustal architectural controls on critical metal ore systems in South China based on Hf isotopic mapping17
Plate tectonics, mixed heating convection, and the divergence of mantle and plume temperatures17
Quantifying large-scale continental shelf margin growth and dynamics across middle-Cretaceous Arctic Alaska with detrital zircon U-Pb dating17
Empirical constraints on progressive shock metamorphism of magnetite from the Siljan impact structure, Sweden17
Rupture direction of paleoearthquakes on the Alpine Fault, New Zealand, as recorded by curved slickenlines17
Toroidal flow around the Tonga slab moved the Samoan plume during the Pliocene17
Ancient structural inheritance explains gold deposit clustering in northern Perú17
Do microcontinents nucleate subduction initiation?17
Extreme erosion by submarine slides17
Boninitic melt percolation makes depleted mantle wedges rich in silica: COMMENT16
Balancing the oceanic Zn isotope budget: The key role of deep-sea pelagic sediments16
Propagating uplift controls on high-elevation, low-relief landscape formation in the southeast Tibetan Plateau16
Highly conductive diatreme aquifer beneath the Cerro Overo maar, Central Andean volcanic zone, Chile16
Shock-deformed zircon from the Chicxulub impact crater and implications for cratering process16
Revisiting stepwise ocean oxygenation with authigenic barium enrichments in marine mudrocks16
Ice-crystal traces imply ephemeral freezing in early Permian equatorial Pangea16
Nonlinear fault damage zone scaling revealed through analog modeling16
Contribution of orbital forcing and Deccan volcanism to global climatic and biotic changes across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary at Zumaia, Spain15
Dating rare earth element enrichment in deep-sea sediments using U-Pb geochronology of bioapatite15
Tibetan Plateau growth linked to crustal thermal transitions since the Miocene15
Contamination of the Bushveld Complex (South Africa) magmas by basinal brines: Stable isotopes in phlogopite from the UG2 chromitite15
A new kind of invisible gold in pyrite hosted in deformation-related dislocations15
A record of syn-tectonic sedimentation revealed by perched alluvial fan deposits in Valles Marineris, Mars15
Fingerprinting enhanced floodplain reworking during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Southern Pyrenees (Spain): Implications for channel dynamics and carbon burial15
A metasedimentary source of gold in Archean orogenic gold deposits15
Chemical and isotopic fractionation during melt inclusion formation15
No effect of thermal maturity on the Mo, U, Cd, and Zn isotope compositions of Lower Jurassic organic-rich sediments15
Quantifying bankfull flow width using preserved bar clinoforms from fluvial strata15
New 40Ar/39Ar eruption ages reveal an important temporal relationship between mafic and silicic volcanism in the Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field15
Recognizing big mantle wedges in deep time: Constraints from the Western Mongolia Collage in Central Asia15
Geological evidence for repeated slip-to-the-trench style megathrust earthquakes at the Japan Trench15
Carbon released by sill intrusion into young sediments measured through scientific drilling15
Contrasting provenance budgets for suspended load and bedload of the Yarlung Tsangpo, Tibet: Lhasa block or Himalaya?15
Detrital chromites reveal Slave craton's missing komatiite15
Interactions between megathrust behavior and forearc deformation in the Andreanof segment of the Aleutian Subduction Zone, offshore Alaska, USA15
Crucial role of water-present melting in metagranite: Implications for the instigation of crustal-scale shear zones15
Origin of Archean Pb isotope variability through open-system Paleoarchean crustal anatexis14
Climatic influence on the expression of strike-slip faulting14
Boninitic blueschists record subduction initiation and subsequent accretion of an arc–forearc in the northeast Proto-Tethys Ocean14
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)14
Mass wasting records the first stages of the Messinian Salinity Crisis in the eastern Mediterranean14
Orbital control of Pleistocene euxinia in Lake Magadi, Kenya14
Silicification of trilobites and biofilm from the Cambrian Weeks Formation, Utah: Evidence for microbial mediation of silicification14
Volcanic origin of the mercury anomalies at the Cretaceous-Paleogene transition of Bidart, France14
Metasomatized mantle sources for orogenic gold deposits hosted in high-grade metamorphic rocks: Evidence from Hg isotopes14
Thermal and compositional anomalies in a detailed xenolith-based lithospheric mantle profile of the Siberian craton and the origin of seismic midlithosphere discontinuities14
Two-pronged kill mechanism at the end-Triassic mass extinction14
Deep-sea hiatuses track the vigor of Cenozoic ocean bottom currents14
Comparative morphometric analysis suggests ice-cored pingo-shaped landforms on the dwarf planet Ceres14
Preserved intercratonic lithosphere reveals Proterozoic assembly of Australia14
The continent-to-ocean transition in the Iberia Abyssal Plain14
River sinuosity describes a continuum between randomness and ordered growth14
Eruptive tempo of Emeishan large igneous province, southwestern China and northern Vietnam: Relations to biotic crises and paleoclimate changes around the Guadalupian-Lopingian boundary14
Stranding continental crustal fragments during continent breakup: Mantle suture reactivation in the Nain Province of Eastern Canada14
Generation of Archean TTGs via sluggish subduction14
Labyrinth patterns in Magadi (Kenya) cherts: Evidence for early formation from siliceous gels14
Out-of-phase Late Pleistocene glacial maxima in the Western Alps reflect past changes in North Atlantic atmospheric circulation14
Late glacial–Holocene record of Southern Hemisphere westerly wind dynamics from the Falkland Islands, South Atlantic Ocean13
Joint earthquake ruptures of the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults, California, USA13
Ghost-dune hollows of the eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho: Their genesis, evolution, and relevance to Martian ghost-dune pits13
Widespread glacial erosion on the Scandinavian passive margin: COMMENT13
Diapiric relamination of the Orocopia Schist (southwestern U.S.) during low-angle subduction13
Geology's Most-Cited Papers13
In situRaman observations reveal that the gas fluxes of diffuse flow in hydrothermal systems are greatly underestimated13
Ancient roots of tungsten in western North America13
Joint inversion of surface wave and gravity data reveals subbasin architecture of the Congo Basin13
Unleashing alkali feldspar: Ra/Th ages and chemical and isotopic constraints on Holocene phonolite magmatism, Canary Islands13
ERRATUM: Phanerozoic cratonization by plume welding13
Fluid inclusion evidence for overpressure-induced shale oil accumulation13
Unusually fracture-free seafloor in the southern North Atlantic between Newfoundland and Iberia explained through compounding tectonic inheritance since the Paleoproterozoic13
Phanerozoic record of mantle-dominated arc magmatic surges in the Zealandia Cordillera13
Roadblocks and speed limits: Mantle-to-surface volatile flux through the lithospheric-scale Denali fault, Alaska13
Extreme isotopic heterogeneity in impact melt rocks: Implications for Martian meteorites13
Episodic fluid flow in an eclogite-facies shear zone: Insights from Li isotope zoning in garnet13
Translithospheric magma plumbing system of intraplate volcanoes as revealed by electrical resistivity imaging13
Pyroxenite melting at subduction zones13
A multidisciplinary approach to reconstructing the history of early animal life on Earth13
Can deepwater bottom currents generate clinothems? An example of a large, asymmetric mounded drift in Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous sediments from northwestern Australia13
North America's Midcontinent Rift magma volume: A coincidental rendezvous of a plume with a rift13
A water transport system across the mantle transition zone beneath western North America as imaged by electrical conductivity data13
Erratum13
South Tarim tied to north India on the periphery of Rodinia and Gondwana and implications for the evolution of two supercontinents13
First U-Pb dating of fossilized soft tissue using a new approach to paleontological chronometry12
Central nervous system of a 310-m.y.-old horseshoe crab: Expanding the taphonomic window for nervous system preservation12
Late Messinian submarine channel systems in the Levant Basin: Challenging the desiccation scenario12
Crustal thickness of the Grenville orogen: A Mesoproterozoic Tibet?12
Strongly peraluminous granites provide independent evidence for an increase in biomass burial across the Precambrian–Phanerozoic boundary12
Kill dates from re-exposed black mosses constrain past glacier advances in the northern Antarctic Peninsula12
Carbon isotope excursions during the late Miocene recorded by lipids of marine Thaumarchaeota, Piedmont Basin, Mediterranean Sea12
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The life cycle of subcontinental peridotites: From rifted continental margins to mountains via subduction processes: COMMENT12
Strong asperities nucleate earthquakes on laboratory faults12
Correlative tomography of an exceptionally preserved Jurassic ammonite implies hyponome-propelled swimming: COMMENT12
Spatio-temporal evolution of the Christiana-Santorini-Kolumbo volcanic field, Aegean Sea12
Lateral variation in slab window viscosity inferred from global navigation satellite system (GNSS)–observed uplift due to recent mass loss at Patagonia ice fields12
Curved orogenic belts, back-arc basins, and obduction as consequences of collision at irregular continental margins12
Xenoliths reveal a hot Moho and thin lithosphere at the Cordillera-craton boundary of western Canada12
Latitudinal diversity gradient dynamics during Carboniferous to Triassic icehouse and greenhouse climates12
ERRATUM: Uplift and exhumation in Haida Gwaii driven by terrane translation and transpression along the southern Queen Charlotte fault, Canada12
The Neoproterozoic glacial broom12
Anthropogenic pollution in deep-marine sedimentary systems—A geological perspective on the plastic problem12
Inorganic sulfate–based signatures of chemosymbiosis in modern infaunal lucinids12
Hot atmospheric formation of carbonate accretionary lapilli at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, Brazos River, Texas, from clumped isotope thermometry12
Shearing-enhanced deep fluid circulation induces seismic anisotropy in the lower crust at slow-spreading oceanic ridges12
Active faulting controls bedform development on a deep-water fan12
A power-based abrasion law for use in landscape evolution models11
Discovery of Holocene ooid shoals in a siliciclastic delta, De Grey River, North West Shelf, Australia11
Cumulate granites: A perspective from new apatite MgO partition coefficients11
Late Quaternary geochronologic record of soil formation and erosion: Effects of climate change on Mojave Desert hillslopes (Nevada, USA)11
Cryogenian glacial erosion of the central Canadian Shield: The “late” Great Unconformity on thin ice11
Natural levees increase in prevalence in the backwater zone: Coastal Trinity River, Texas, USA: COMMENT11
Biogeodynamics: Coupled evolution of the biosphere, atmosphere, and lithosphere11
Multiple melt source origin of the Line Islands (Pacific Ocean)11
Crystal plasticity enhances trace element mobility in garnet11
How cementation and fluid flow influence slip behavior at the subduction interface11
Near-constant retreat rate of a terrestrial margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet during the last deglaciation11
Rock surface luminescence dating of gravel determines the age of a glacial outburst megaflood, Glacial Lake Missoula, Montana, USA11
Advanced two- and three-dimensional insights into Earth's oldest stromatolites (ca. 3.5 Ga): Prospects for the search for life on Mars11
Laser-ablation Lu-Hf dating reveals Laurentian garnet in subducted rocks from southern Australia11
Early incubation and prolonged maturation of large ignimbrite magma bodies: Evidence from the Southern Rocky Mountain volcanic field, Colorado, USA11
Global-scale emergence of continental crust during the Mesoarchean–early Neoarchean11
Past eruptions of a newly discovered active, shallow, silicic submarine volcano near Tokyo Bay, Japan11
Unraveling the histories of Proterozoic shales through in situ Rb-Sr dating and trace element laser ablation analysis11
Morphologic signatures of autogenic waterfalls: A case study in the San Gabriel Mountains, California11
Diamonds reveal subducted slab harzburgite in the lower mantle11
“Excess Ar” by laboratory alteration of biotite11
Multi-proxy evidence of Caribbean-sourced marine incursions in the Neogene of Western Amazonia, Brazil11
Boron isotopes identify deep-slab serpentinite in the source of Aleutian arc magma10
Radiogenic heat production provides a thermal threshold for Archean cratonization process10
Three-dimensional glacial isostatic adjustment modeling reconciles conflicting geographic trends in North American marine isotope stage 5a relative sea level observations10
Nd isotopic evidence for enhanced mafic weathering leading to Ordovician cooling10
Wetland methane feedback during the early Eocene hyperthermals10
Sequential phreatomagmatic eruptions during the lateral propagation of giant dyke swarms10
Inception of ridge-ridge-ridge triple junctions: Morphostructural analysis and dynamics in the early back-arc extension of the northern Okinawa Trough10
Topography and mineralogy of clay deposits signify an epoch of warm and humid climate on early Mars10
Quaternary sodic and potassic intraplate volcanism in northeast China controlled by the underlying heterogeneous lithospheric structures10
Mercury efficiently volatilized but not completely removed from sediments around igneous intrusions10
Rapid pyrolysis of paleo-oil pools recorded by fluid inclusions in an Ediacaran carbonate reservoir, southern China: Implications for the end-Guadalupian mass extinction10
Older than they look: Cryptic recycled xenotime on detrital zircon10
Earthquake doublet revealed by multiple pulses in lacustrine seismo-turbidites10
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