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Magma Flow Patterns in Dikes: Observations From Analogue Experiments (2023)
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Pansino, S., Emadzadeh, A., & Taisne, B. (2023). Magma Flow Patterns in Dikes: Observations From Analogue Experiments. Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth, 128(3), Article e2022JB025463. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022jb025463

We conducted analogue experiments to examine flux-driven and buoyancy-driven magma ascent, which included a series of isothermal experiments and thermal, solidification-prone experiments. We measured the internal flow using 2D particle image velocime... Read More about Magma Flow Patterns in Dikes: Observations From Analogue Experiments.

Protomelission is an early dasyclad alga and not a Cambrian bryozoan (2023)
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Yang, J., Lan, T., Zhang, X., & Smith, M. (2023). Protomelission is an early dasyclad alga and not a Cambrian bryozoan. Nature, 615(7952), 468-471. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05775-5

The animal phyla and their associated body plans originate from a singular burst of evolution occurring during the Cambrian period, over 500 million years ago1. The phylum Bryozoa, the colonial ‘moss animals’, have been the exception: convincing skel... Read More about Protomelission is an early dasyclad alga and not a Cambrian bryozoan.

Characterizing the evolution of mass flow properties and dynamics through analysis of seismic signals: insights from the 18 March 2007 Mt. Ruapehu lake-breakout lahar (2023)
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Walsh, B., Lormand, C., Procter, J., & Williams-Jones, G. (2023). Characterizing the evolution of mass flow properties and dynamics through analysis of seismic signals: insights from the 18 March 2007 Mt. Ruapehu lake-breakout lahar. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 23(3), https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-1029-2023

Monitoring for mass flows on volcanoes can be challenging due to the ever-changing landscape along the flow path, which can drastically transform the properties and dynamics of the flow. These changes to the flows require the need for detection strat... Read More about Characterizing the evolution of mass flow properties and dynamics through analysis of seismic signals: insights from the 18 March 2007 Mt. Ruapehu lake-breakout lahar.

Back‐Arc Tectonics and Plate Reconstruction of the Philippine Sea‐South China Sea Region Since the Eocene (2023)
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Liu, J., Li, S., Cao, X., Dong, H., Suo, Y., Jiang, Z., …Foulger, G. R. (2023). Back‐Arc Tectonics and Plate Reconstruction of the Philippine Sea‐South China Sea Region Since the Eocene. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(5), Article e2022GL102154. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022gl102154

Insight into the evolution of Philippine Sea-South China Sea (SCS) plate motions helps reveal the driving mechanisms of the long-term tectonic complexity in Southeast Asia. Here, based on the integration of the most recent geological and seismic data... Read More about Back‐Arc Tectonics and Plate Reconstruction of the Philippine Sea‐South China Sea Region Since the Eocene.

Syn- and post-collisional potassic to ultrapotassic alkaline and subalkaline volcanic rocks: Heterogeneous mantle metasomatism beneath the North Qaidam orogenic belt (2023)
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Qiao, J., Zhou, C., Dong, J., Allen, M. B., Yang, L., Su, L., & Song, S. (2023). Syn- and post-collisional potassic to ultrapotassic alkaline and subalkaline volcanic rocks: Heterogeneous mantle metasomatism beneath the North Qaidam orogenic belt. Lithos, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2023.107081

Potassic to ultrapotassic and bimodal volcanic rocks related to the collisional evolution of a continental orogen can provide valuable insights into the properties of the mantle and crust-mantle interactions. Here we report two distinct suites of vol... Read More about Syn- and post-collisional potassic to ultrapotassic alkaline and subalkaline volcanic rocks: Heterogeneous mantle metasomatism beneath the North Qaidam orogenic belt.

Long-term stability in the circumpolar foraging range of a Southern Ocean predator between the eras of whaling and rapid climate change (2023)
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Derville, S., Torres, L. G., Newsome, S. D., Somes, C. J., Valenzuela, L. O., Vander Zanden, H. B., …Carroll, E. L. (2023). Long-term stability in the circumpolar foraging range of a Southern Ocean predator between the eras of whaling and rapid climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(10), Article 2214035120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2214035120

Assessing environmental changes in Southern Ocean ecosystems is difficult due to its remoteness and data sparsity. Monitoring marine predators that respond rapidly to environmental variation may enable us to track anthropogenic effects on ecosystems.... Read More about Long-term stability in the circumpolar foraging range of a Southern Ocean predator between the eras of whaling and rapid climate change.

The importance of facies, grain size and clay content in controlling fluvial reservoir quality – an example from the Triassic Skagerrak Formation, Central North Sea, UK (2023)
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Aro, O. E., Jones, S. J., Meadows, N. S., Gluyas, J., & Charlaftis, D. (2023). The importance of facies, grain size and clay content in controlling fluvial reservoir quality – an example from the Triassic Skagerrak Formation, Central North Sea, UK. Petroleum Geoscience, 29(2), Article petgeo2022-043. https://doi.org/10.1144/petgeo2022-043

Clay-coated grains play an important role in preserving reservoir quality in high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) sandstone reservoirs. Previous studies have shown that the completeness of coverage of clay coats effectively inhibits quartz cementat... Read More about The importance of facies, grain size and clay content in controlling fluvial reservoir quality – an example from the Triassic Skagerrak Formation, Central North Sea, UK.

Mid-crustal reactivation processes linked to frictional melting and deep void development during seismogenic slip: examples from the Lewisian Complex, NW Scotland (2023)
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Hardman, K., Holdsworth, R., Scott, L., Dempsey, E., & McCaffrey, K. (2023). Mid-crustal reactivation processes linked to frictional melting and deep void development during seismogenic slip: examples from the Lewisian Complex, NW Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, 180(2), https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2022-037

Exhumed examples of ancient fault voids formed during seismic slip at depths >10 km are well preserved in the Assynt Terrane of the Lewisian Complex, NW Scotland. They are interpreted to have formed during regional Mesoproterozoic (c. 1.55 Ga; ‘Assyn... Read More about Mid-crustal reactivation processes linked to frictional melting and deep void development during seismogenic slip: examples from the Lewisian Complex, NW Scotland.

Combining Paleomagnetic and Re‐Os Isotope Data to Date Hydrocarbon Generation and Accumulation Processes (2023)
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Hu, J., Zhang, Y., Jia, D., Muxworthy, A., Selby, D., Li, Y., …Li, W. (2023). Combining Paleomagnetic and Re‐Os Isotope Data to Date Hydrocarbon Generation and Accumulation Processes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128(2), Article e2022JB025955. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022jb025955

Unraveling the complex relationship between orogenesis and hydrocarbon formation and accumulation is challenging and is often hampered by physical and chemical overprints of younger events. The Permian reservoir in the Longmen Shan orogen, South Chin... Read More about Combining Paleomagnetic and Re‐Os Isotope Data to Date Hydrocarbon Generation and Accumulation Processes.

Stranding continental crustal fragments during continent breakup: Mantle suture reactivation in the Nain Province of Eastern Canada (2023)
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Heron, P. J., Peace, A., McCaffrey, K., Sharif, A., Yu, A., & Pysklywec, R. (2023). Stranding continental crustal fragments during continent breakup: Mantle suture reactivation in the Nain Province of Eastern Canada. Geology, 51(4), 362-365. https://doi.org/10.1130/g50734.1

Earth’s continental crust has evolved through a series of supercontinent cycles, resulting in a patchwork of Archean cores surrounded by terranes, fragments, and slivers of younger crustal additions. However, the dispersal (and/or stranding) of conti... Read More about Stranding continental crustal fragments during continent breakup: Mantle suture reactivation in the Nain Province of Eastern Canada.

The Cambrian cirratuliform Iotuba denotes an early annelid radiation (2023)
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Zhang, Z., Smith, M., & Ren, X. (2023). The Cambrian cirratuliform Iotuba denotes an early annelid radiation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290(1992), Article 20222014. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.2014

The principal animal lineages (phyla) diverged in the Cambrian, but most diversity at lower taxonomic ranks arose more gradually over the subsequent 500 Myr. Annelid worms seem to exemplify this pattern, based on molecular analyses and the fossil rec... Read More about The Cambrian cirratuliform Iotuba denotes an early annelid radiation.

Slab to back-arc to arc: Fluid and melt pathways through the mantle wedge beneath the Lesser Antilles (2023)
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Hicks, S. P., Bie, L., Rychert, C. A., Harmon, N., Goes, S., Rietbrock, A., …Kendall, J. (2023). Slab to back-arc to arc: Fluid and melt pathways through the mantle wedge beneath the Lesser Antilles. Science Advances, 9(5), https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.add2143

Volatiles expelled from subducted plates promote melting of the overlying warm mantle, feeding arc volcanism. However, debates continue over the factors controlling melt generation and transport, and how these determine the placement of volcanoes. To... Read More about Slab to back-arc to arc: Fluid and melt pathways through the mantle wedge beneath the Lesser Antilles.

Insights for Estimating and Predicting Reservoir Sedimentation Using the RUSLE-SDR Approach: A Case of Darbandikhan Lake Basin, Iraq–Iran (2023)
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Othman, A. A., Ali, S. S., Salar, S. G., Obaid, A. K., Al-Kakey, O., & Liesenberg, V. (2023). Insights for Estimating and Predicting Reservoir Sedimentation Using the RUSLE-SDR Approach: A Case of Darbandikhan Lake Basin, Iraq–Iran. Remote Sensing, 15(3), Article 697. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15030697

Soil loss (SL) and its related sedimentation in mountainous areas affect the lifetime and functionality of dams. Darbandikhan Lake is one example of a dam lake in the Zagros region that was filled in late 1961. Since then, the lake has received a con... Read More about Insights for Estimating and Predicting Reservoir Sedimentation Using the RUSLE-SDR Approach: A Case of Darbandikhan Lake Basin, Iraq–Iran.

A short history of the Ordovician System: from overlapping unit stratotypes to global stratotype sections and points (2023)
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Harper, D. A., Meidla, T., & Servais, T. (2023). A short history of the Ordovician System: from overlapping unit stratotypes to global stratotype sections and points. Geological Society Special Publications, 532(1), https://doi.org/10.1144/sp532-2022-285

The Ordovician System was introduced by Charles Lapworth as a solution to the overlapping unit stratotypes loosely defined by Adam Sedgwick, for the Cambrian, and Roderick Murchison, for the Silurian. The Ordovician has emerged as one of the longest... Read More about A short history of the Ordovician System: from overlapping unit stratotypes to global stratotype sections and points.

Using UAV-Based Photogrammetry Coupled with In Situ Fieldwork and U-Pb Geochronology to Decipher Multi-Phase Deformation Processes: A Case Study from Sarclet, Inner Moray Firth Basin, UK (2023)
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Tamas, A., Holdsworth, R. E., Tamas, D. M., Dempsey, E. D., Hardman, K., Bird, A., …Selby, D. (2023). Using UAV-Based Photogrammetry Coupled with In Situ Fieldwork and U-Pb Geochronology to Decipher Multi-Phase Deformation Processes: A Case Study from Sarclet, Inner Moray Firth Basin, UK. Remote Sensing, 15(3), Article 695. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15030695

Constraining the age of formation and repeated movements along fault arrays in superimposed rift basins helps us to better unravel the kinematic history as well as the role of inherited structures in basin evolution. The Inner Moray Firth Basin (IMFB... Read More about Using UAV-Based Photogrammetry Coupled with In Situ Fieldwork and U-Pb Geochronology to Decipher Multi-Phase Deformation Processes: A Case Study from Sarclet, Inner Moray Firth Basin, UK.

Tectonostratigraphic controls on pore fluid pressure distribution across the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand (2023)
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O'Neill, S. R., Jones, S. J., & Kamp, P. J. (2023). Tectonostratigraphic controls on pore fluid pressure distribution across the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand. Basin Research, 35(3), 1128-1153. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12749

Significant variations in pore pressure across the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand, are attributed to changes in lithofacies and structure, usefully illustrated in terms of ten areas that we term geopressure provinces, each displaying individual pore pre... Read More about Tectonostratigraphic controls on pore fluid pressure distribution across the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand.

Abrupt episode of mid-Cretaceous ocean acidification triggered by massive volcanism (2023)
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Jones, M., Sageman, B., Selby, D., Jacobson, A., Batenburg, S., Riquier, L., …Hobbs, R. (2023). Abrupt episode of mid-Cretaceous ocean acidification triggered by massive volcanism. Nature Geoscience, 16(2), 169-174. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01115-w

Large igneous province volcanic activity during the mid-Cretaceous approximately 94.5 million years ago triggered a global-scale episode of reduced marine oxygen levels known as Oceanic Anoxic Event 2. It has been hypothesized that this geologically... Read More about Abrupt episode of mid-Cretaceous ocean acidification triggered by massive volcanism.

Overcomplete tomography: a novel approach to imaging (2023)
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Turunçtur, B., Valentine, A., & Sambridge, M. (2023). Overcomplete tomography: a novel approach to imaging. RAS Techniques and Instruments, 2(1), 207-215. https://doi.org/10.1093/rasti/rzad010

Regularized least-squares tomography offers a straightforward and efficient imaging method and has seen extensive application across various fields. However, it has a few drawbacks, such as (i) the regularization imposed during the inversion tends to... Read More about Overcomplete tomography: a novel approach to imaging.