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Our April issue is live! Check out a collection on enigmatic ultra low velocity zones. Highlights also include work on human impacts on mud, underestimated "forever" chemical concentrations, cyclic hazards from island arc eruptions, and much more.
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Introducing the new continent Zealandia
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Article: The composition of continental crust altered by the emergence of land plants some 430 million years ago
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Snowstorms on Mars - Introducing our first #GeoSketchUp by the amazing @jtuttlekeane on NGeo paper by Spiga et al.
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Article: Machine learning shows that differences between shallow and deep earthquakes are consistent with depth-dependent variation in Earth's rigidity
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NGeo: Subducted slab interfaces imaged within the mantle transition zone beneath the western Pacific
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NGeo: Half of global methane emissions come from highly variable natural, impacted, and human-made aquatic ecosystem sources @j_a_rosentreter @duarteoceans @carBenPoulter @DavidOlefeldt @pondscience @sber_epfl @BridgetDeemer @songchunlin
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NGeo: Transformation kinetics of olivine, which remains dry even under wet-slab conditions, may be a cause of deep focus earthquakes
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Enjoyed @jtuttlekeane 's sketches at #AGU17 ? He's back in NGeo: new #GeoSketchUp explores the drivers of intra-plate #volcanism in the western US . Read the full paper here:
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Article: Multidecadal oscillation of the Earth’s inner core, coinciding with length of day and magnetic field variations, is experiencing a pause and may be reversing @PKU1898
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Article: Upwellings from mobile structures at the base of the mantle may transport kimberlite magmas to the Earth’s surface @bodurofb @Geodynamic_Nico @UOW @GeoQuEST_UOW
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NGeo: Spatially-varying uplift rates strongly influence the concavity of river profiles worldwide, with smaller contributions from hydrological factors
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Review: Phosphorus availability on the early Earth and the impacts of life
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How impacts may have shaped Earth’s earliest tectonics- Our latest #GeoSketchUp by @jtuttlekeane . Full paper here:
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NGeo: European droughts in the past two decades have been anomalously severe compared to those of the prior 2000 years
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Article: Global patterns of water storage in the rooting zones of vegetation @JosephTumber @chrishainwx @StanfordDoerr @usys_ethzh
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NGeo: Fault geometry controls the rupture mode of earthquakes, according to simulations and a paleoearthquake record for the Alpine Fault, New Zealand
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New #geosketchup by @jtuttlekeane on magma draining from a subcrustal reservoir and ascending through the crust near Mayotte: Read the associated paper here:
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NGeo: Plume-induced plate rotation initiated subduction and rifting along a >12000 km plate boundary ~105 Myr ago @vanHinsbergen @Geoceanic @alexis_plunder @UUEarthSciences @CEEDOslo @GFZPotsdam
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NGeo: Physical conditions and frictional properties in a slow slip event source region @UTGeophysics @txgeosciences @gnsscience
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Article: The amount and composition of carbon compounds released from plant roots into soil influences soil carbon formation and loss @ncharisoil @bntecology
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Article: A ~5 km³ volcanic edifice offshore Mayotte formed between May 2018 and May 2019 by rapid magma intrusion through the entire lithosphere Free-to-read:
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NGeo: The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is currently distinctly weaker than it has been for the last millennium @NCahill_Stat @ger_the_sea @rahmstorf @a_ceathair
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Article: The Azores High over the North Atlantic has expanded due to anthropogenic climate change, disrupting precipitation patterns in western Europe @WHOI
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Perspective: Formation and fate of necromass-derived soil organic carbon is determined by microbial death pathways @t_camenzind @KyleMoJo @indimansour @mrillig @JLehmannCornell
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NGeo: Archean seafloor shallowing may have exposed landmasses and provided stable patches of land as suitable locations of the origins of life
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NGeo: From student and faculty perspectives, a pair of Correspondences propose approaches for opening up and navigating the hidden curriculum of geoscience graduate school Pensky et al. - Cooke et al. -
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The @NASAInSight mission aims to constrain the geological activity and interior evolution of Mars. This @naturegeosci and @naturecomms Collection presents the first results from the mission's first year on Mars: A summary thread of the NGeo content –
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Check our our June issue! (cover image shows a metamorphosed banded iron formation in the Hamersley Basin of Western Australia)
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NGeo Review: Poleward expansion of tropical cyclone latitudes in warming climates
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Article: Detections of ultra-low velocity zones in high-velocity lowermost mantle linked to subducted slabs
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Article: Most of the eastern Antarctic Peninsula’s coastline has undergone uninterrupted advance since the early 2000s @frazer_christie @WolfgangRack @DrCBatchelor @sasha_montelli @scottpolar @NCLPhysGeog @GatewayAntarct1 @WeddellSeaExped
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Article: Slow-slip at subduction zones could be supported by the fluid pressure in sediment lens behind subducting seamounts @UTGeophysics @TXgeosciences
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NGeo: About 50% of marine calcium carbonate is dissolved in the water column at depths of less than 300 meters while sinking to the seafloor @OlivierSulpis @sivlauvset @NESSCresearch @UUEarthSciences
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ICYMI NGeo 2022: Detailed underwater mapping revealed periods of rapid retreat for the Thwaites Glacier. @AGCGraham @a_wahlin @GlacierThwaites
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Article: Structures in the upper, overriding plate impact the geometry, hydration state, and seismogenic region of subduction zones Free to read:
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Article: Tsunamis generated by megathrust earthquakes are controlled by crustal stress and rigidity as well near-fault sediment strength @InSeismoland @TerraNotFirma
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Article: Formation of a subduction zone in the Neotethys ocean triggered a cascade of plate tectonic events @geoceanic @GranotRoi @vanHinsbergen @UUEarthSciences @UUGeo @bengurionu @anuearthscience
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NGeo: Mantle heterogeneity beneath subducting plates may influence giant megathrust earthquakes
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New #geosketchup from @jtuttlekeane : An explanation for the end-Permian extinctions? Volatiles from subducting slab infiltrated lithosphere and then released in Siberian trap eruptions. Read the full paper here
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NGeo: Marine turbidite paleoseismology tested using the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake
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NGeo: Managing the legacy of nitrogen in agricultural settings could help curb pollution that threatens human health, water quality and ecosystems @nanditabasu2 @VanmeterKVM @DanykaKByrnes @water_institute @Lake_Futures
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Article: Supershear earthquakes occur more frequently than previously thought @HanBao_UCLA @DocTerremoto
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Summary of our editors' top tips: 1) Seek advice if needed 2) Resist an angry response 3) Revise your paper accordingly 4) Organise your letter 5) Stand up for your science 6) Don’t ignore comments 7) Don’t guess reviewer identities; you’re usually wrong! Anything to add?
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NGeo June editorial: The art of responding to reviews (including our top tips)
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These 12 covers represent just some of the work that made Nature Geoscience volume 15. We look forward to what 2023 will bring.
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Article: Intraplate volcanoes erupt lower volumes of more diverse magma and have increasingly complex magmatic architectures as heat from the mantle plume wanes @teresaubide @UQ_SEES @UQscience
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New #GeoSketchUp : catastrophic glacier collapse in Tibet. Thanks again to @jtuttlekeane ! , Read the full paper here:
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New #geosketchup by @jtuttlekeane on the formation of raised-rim lakes on Titan by explosions analogous to terrestrial maars: Read the associated paper here:
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NGeo: Brittle fragmentation of low viscosity magma due to rapid cooling & gas separation in the 2018 eruption of Kilauea Volcano, Hawai’i
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Gravitational pulse of an earthquake revealed by GRACE - our latest fabulously earthshaking #GeoSketchUp from @jtuttlekeane Read the full paper here
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NGeo: A global picture of pollution risk associated with the use of pesticides shows two thirds of agricultural land to be at risk
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NGeo: Carbon loss from northern circumpolar permafrost soils amplified by rhizosphere priming
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NGeo: Frequent and dispersed small earthquakes may contribute substantially to uplift of subduction margins, according to an analysis of such seismicity in the Peru-Chile and Japan margins @geoMadella @toddehlers2 @esd_lab
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NGeo: Interaction of tectonic processes and the biosphere-geosphere may reduce carbon transfer to the mantle at the Costa Rica convergent margin #subductCR @d_giovannelli @archaearama @kfullzz @UninaIT @UTKMicrobiology
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NGeo: Permian–Triassic mass extinction pulses driven by major marine carbon cycle perturbations
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NGeo: Long-lived shallow slow-slip events on the Sunda megathrust @EOS_SG
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NGeo: Blue carbon ecosystems have experienced global environmental changes that alter soil carbon biogeochemical processes @SaltyMudology @sandersoil @BowenLab1 @ElizabethCanuel
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NGeo: Earthquakes in the lower crust may be facilitated by overpressure of frictional melts 10.1038/s41561-021-00760-x
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Article: Pulses of Saharan dust began entering the North Atlantic around 11 Ma, a result of astronomically-paced cycles between arid and humid conditions in northern Africa @OceanEarthUoS @sheffieldplants @rpancost @uk_iodp @UoBEarthScience @SheffieldAPS
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Article: Carbon sequestration by the marine biological pump is partially offset by nitrous oxide production
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NGeo: Water migration, from the slab to the surface, during subduction is highlighted as a key process in the formation of continental crust
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NGeo: Valley formation on early Mars by subglacial and fluvial erosion @agraugal @drcrater @SESEASU @UBCeoas @westernuSpace
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Article: Seafloor observations reveal Thwaites Glacier experienced periods of rapid retreat in the last two centuries @agcgraham @a_wahlin @GlacierThwaites @NERCscience @NSF
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NGeo: Formation and morphology of coronae on Venus explained by lithosphere-plume interactions @AnnaGeosc @LaurentMontesi @ETH_ERDW
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Article: Widespread shallow water hydrothermal venting in the North Atlantic, likely a source of methane, coincided with the onset of the Palaeocene Eocene Thermal Maximum
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NGeo: Two papers find that landslides triggered by the 2018 Palu earthquake occurred in irrigated areas, suggesting that irrigation enabled liquefaction Bradley et al.: Watkinson & Hall: N&V by Phil Cummins:
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May editorial: Phosphorus cycle in focus - on the need to better understand how natural and human-caused shifts in the phosphorus cycle disrupt the Earth system
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NGeo: Influence of biogenic emissions from boreal forests on aerosol-cloud interactions
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Article: Canal networks are a hotspot of peat carbon losses for disturbed tropical peatlands
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NGeo: Asymmetric rotation of faults in the Eastern California Shear Zone may result from simple shear @IGPP
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New #GeoSketchUp by @jtuttlekeane shows role of seafloor topography in southern ocean mixing #blueplanet #Antarctica
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NGeo: Global analysis shows reservoirs emit more carbon than they bury @phskeller @Rafa_Marce @BielObrador @UFZ_de @IcraWater @UniBarcelona
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ICYMI NGeo 2022: The role of the overriding plate in subduciton was explored and emphasized in articles on the Cascadia and Nankai subduction zones.
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NGeo Article: Thin ice sheets during the warm Early Jurassic were tightly coupled to atmospheric CO2 fluctuations
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NGeo: Continuum of earthquake rupture speeds enabled by oblique slip @huihui_weng @DocTerremoto
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NGeo: Bend in the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain some 50 million years ago near equally attributed to changes in Pacific plate motion and hotspot drift
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NGeo: Failing to account for emission differences between day and night will lead to a significant underestimate of CO2 emissions from rivers @GRocherRos @LlGomezGener
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Article: The variable intensity of Southern Ocean as well as North Atlantic deep-water ventilation explains differences in atmospheric CO2 trends and magnitudes during cold stadials over the last 150,000 years
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NGeo: Long-term Himalayan erosion rates were stable through the global climatic changes of the last six million years
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Article: Mapping of Antarctic subglacial geology suggests sedimentary basins increase vulnerability of ice streams to rapid retreat @fab_glaciers @EarthSci_UWA @UWAresearch @AntarcticSciAus @ARCDARECentre
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NGeo: Bedrock weathering contributes a substantial amount of reactive nitrogen to the subsurface and ultimately contributes to nitrous oxide emissions
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NGeo: In flat subduction the oceanic plate scrapes off the overriding continental mantle lithospheric base & can accumulate an advancing keel
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Article: Global mapping reveals increase in lacustrine algal blooms over the past decade
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Check out our February issue! Articles touch on Lunar basaltic melts, regional sea level change, soil organic carbon stability, Eocene monsoons, and much more!
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Once again @jtuttlekeane has created another fantastic @NatureGeosci #geosketchup This is about the @OSIRISREx mission to the asteroid #Bennu
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NGeo: Wind stress controls annual variations in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation at mid-latitudes, while surface buoyancy also matters at subpolar latitudes
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NGeo: Thunderstorm activity in the Southern Great Plains was closely coupled to abrupt climate shifts during the last glacial period @ChrisATX @holy_kau @junglecave
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NGeo: Scientists from historically excluded groups face a hostile obstacle course “Replacing the leaky pipeline metaphor with that of a hostile obstacle course demands that those with power take the lead.”
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NGeo: Pre-collisional extension of microcontinental terranes by a subduction pulley @ErkanGun @UofTEarthSci @UofT @itu_aybe
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Carbon released at continental rifts gets the #GeoSketchUp treatment by @jtuttlekeane (full papers: , )
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Hooray, a pretty new #GeoSketchUp from @jtuttlekeane ! Venus torqued by atmospheric gravity waves launched above mountains Read the full paper here
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NGeo: Indo-African mantle upwellings are arranged in a tree-like structure, which might reflect linear staggered detachment of proto-plumes from the lowermost mantle @MTsekhmistrenko @kasra_hosseini @OxUniEarthSci @IPGP_officiel
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NGeo: Particulate black carbon in rivers can have ages of up to 17,000 years before it is sequestered in the oceans.
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NGeo: Viscous deformation is a potentially prevalent mechanism of fault lubrication during earthquakes @DurUniEarthSci @GeoMontp
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Article: Formation of manganese oxides on early Mars due to active halogen cycling @KMical_Mindset @elliemoreland26 @Pb_ingham @jeff_catalano
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Article: The seismic anomaly beneath Africa is greater in height and less stable than its Pacific counterpart because of its lower density @qianyuan_geo @SESEASU @ASU
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