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Human impact on long-term organic carbon export to rivers (2017)
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Noacco, V., Wagener, T., Worrall, F., Burt, T. P., & Howden, N. J. (2017). Human impact on long-term organic carbon export to rivers. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 122(4), 947-965. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016jg003614

Anthropogenic landscape alterations have increased global carbon transported by rivers to oceans since preindustrial times. Few suitable observational data sets exist to distinguish different drivers of carbon increase, given that alterations only re... Read More about Human impact on long-term organic carbon export to rivers.

Subduction-transition zone interaction: A review (2017)
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Goes, S., Agrusta, R., van Hunen, J., & Garel, F. (2017). Subduction-transition zone interaction: A review. Geosphere, 13(3), 644-664. https://doi.org/10.1130/ges01476.1

As subducting plates reach the base of the upper mantle, some appear to flatten and stagnate, while others seemingly go through unimpeded. This variable resistance to slab sinking has been proposed to affect long-term thermal and chemical mantle circ... Read More about Subduction-transition zone interaction: A review.

Mixing as a driver of temporal variations in river hydrochemistry: 2. Major and trace element concentration dynamics in the Andes‐Amazon transition (2017)
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Baronas, J. J., Torres, M. A., Clark, K. E., & West, A. J. (2017). Mixing as a driver of temporal variations in river hydrochemistry: 2. Major and trace element concentration dynamics in the Andes‐Amazon transition. Water Resources Research, 53(4), 3120-3145. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016wr019729

Variations in riverine solute chemistry with changing runoff are used to interrogate catchment hydrology and to investigate chemical reactions in Earth's critical zone. This approach requires some understanding of how spatial and temporal averaging o... Read More about Mixing as a driver of temporal variations in river hydrochemistry: 2. Major and trace element concentration dynamics in the Andes‐Amazon transition.

Methane hydrate recycling offshore of Mauritania probably after the last glacial maximum (2017)
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Li, A., Davies, R. J., & Mathias, S. (2017). Methane hydrate recycling offshore of Mauritania probably after the last glacial maximum. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 84, 323-331. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2017.04.007

To what extent methane liberated from marine hydrate will enter the ocean during a warmer world is unknown. Although methane release due to hydrate dissociation has been modelled, it is unclear whether or not methane will reach the seafloor during a... Read More about Methane hydrate recycling offshore of Mauritania probably after the last glacial maximum.

Igneous sills as a record of horizontal shortening: The San Rafael subvolcanic field, Utah (2017)
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Walker, R., Healy, T., Wright, K., England, R., McCaffrey, K., Bubeck, A., …Blenkinsop, T. (2017). Igneous sills as a record of horizontal shortening: The San Rafael subvolcanic field, Utah. GSA Bulletin, 129(9-10), 1052-1070. https://doi.org/10.1130/b31671.1

Igneous sills can facilitate significant lateral magma transport in the crust; therefore, it is important to constrain controls on their formation and propagation. Close spatial association between sills and dikes in layered (sedimentary) host rocks... Read More about Igneous sills as a record of horizontal shortening: The San Rafael subvolcanic field, Utah.

Wetting and Spreading of Molten Volcanic Ash in Jet Engines (2017)
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Song, W., Lavallée, Y., Wadsworth, F. B., Hess, K., & Dingwell, D. B. (2017). Wetting and Spreading of Molten Volcanic Ash in Jet Engines. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 8(8), 1878-1884. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b00417

A major hazard to jet engines posed by volcanic ash is linked to the wetting and spreading of molten ash droplets on engine component surfaces. Here, using the sessile drop method, we study the evolution of the wettability and spreading of volcanic a... Read More about Wetting and Spreading of Molten Volcanic Ash in Jet Engines.

Analysis of a Conductive Heat Flow Profile in the Ecuador Fracture Zone (2017)
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Kolandaivelu, K. P., Harris, R. N., Lowell, R. P., Alhamad, A., Gregory, E., & Hobbs, R. (2017). Analysis of a Conductive Heat Flow Profile in the Ecuador Fracture Zone. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 467, 120-127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.03.024

We report 18 new conductive heat flow measurements collected from a sediment pond located in the inactive part of the Ecuador Fracture Zone in the Panama Basin. The data were collected along an east–west transect coincident with a multi-channel seism... Read More about Analysis of a Conductive Heat Flow Profile in the Ecuador Fracture Zone.

Tropical rainfall over the last two millennia: evidence for a low-latitude hydrologic seesaw (2017)
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Lechleitner, F. A., Breitenbach, S. F., Rehfeld, K., Ridley, H. E., Asmerom, Y., Prufer, K. M., …Baldini, J. U. (2017). Tropical rainfall over the last two millennia: evidence for a low-latitude hydrologic seesaw. Scientific Reports, 7, Article 45809. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep45809

The presence of a low- to mid-latitude interhemispheric hydrologic seesaw is apparent over orbital and glacial-interglacial timescales, but its existence over the most recent past remains unclear. Here we investigate, based on climate proxy reconstru... Read More about Tropical rainfall over the last two millennia: evidence for a low-latitude hydrologic seesaw.

Predicting crystal growth via a unified kinetic three-dimensional partition model (2017)
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Anderson, M. W., Gebbie-Rayet, J. T., Hill, A. R., Farida, N., Attfield, M. P., Cubillas, P., …Gale, J. D. (2017). Predicting crystal growth via a unified kinetic three-dimensional partition model. Nature, 544(7651), 456-459. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature21684

Understanding and predicting crystal growth is fundamental to the control of functionality in modern materials. Despite investigations for more than one hundred years1, 2, 3, 4, 5, it is only recently that the molecular intricacies of these processes... Read More about Predicting crystal growth via a unified kinetic three-dimensional partition model.

An assessment of the footprint and carrying capacity of oil and gas well sites: The implications for limiting hydrocarbon reserves (2017)
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Clancy, S., Worrall, F., Davies, R., & Gluyas, J. (2018). An assessment of the footprint and carrying capacity of oil and gas well sites: The implications for limiting hydrocarbon reserves. Science of the Total Environment, 618, 586-594. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.02.160

We estimate the likely physical footprint of well pads if shale gas or oil developments were to go forward in Europe and used these estimates to understand their impact upon existing infrastructure (e.g. roads, buildings), the carrying capacity of th... Read More about An assessment of the footprint and carrying capacity of oil and gas well sites: The implications for limiting hydrocarbon reserves.

Ash aggregation enhanced by deposition and redistribution of salt on the surface of volcanic ash in eruption plumes (2017)
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Mueller, S. B., Ayris, P. M., Wadsworth, F. B., Kueppers, U., Casas, A. S., Delmelle, P., …Dingwell, D. B. (2017). Ash aggregation enhanced by deposition and redistribution of salt on the surface of volcanic ash in eruption plumes. Scientific Reports, 7, Article 45762. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep45762

Interactions with volcanic gases in eruption plumes produce soluble salt deposits on the surface of volcanic ash. While it has been postulated that saturation-driven precipitation of salts following the dissolution of ash surfaces by condensed acidic... Read More about Ash aggregation enhanced by deposition and redistribution of salt on the surface of volcanic ash in eruption plumes.

Size limits for rounding of volcanic ash particles heated by lightning (2017)
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Wadsworth, F. B., Vasseur, J., Llewellin, E. W., Genareau, K., Cimarelli, C., & Dingwell, D. B. (2017). Size limits for rounding of volcanic ash particles heated by lightning. Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth, 122(3), 1977-1989. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016jb013864

Volcanic ash particles can be remelted by the high temperatures induced in volcanic lightning discharges. The molten particles can round under surface tension then quench to produce glass spheres. Melting and rounding timescales for volcanic material... Read More about Size limits for rounding of volcanic ash particles heated by lightning.

Reactive transport modeling of coupled feldspar dissolution and secondary mineral precipitation and its implication for diagenetic interaction in sandstones (2017)
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Yuan, G., Cao, Y., Gluyas, J., & Jia, Z. (2017). Reactive transport modeling of coupled feldspar dissolution and secondary mineral precipitation and its implication for diagenetic interaction in sandstones. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 207, 232-255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.03.022

Dissolution of feldspars and precipitation of secondary minerals (kaolinite, illite and quartz) are significant diagenetic processes in arkosic sandstones. We examined moderately buried sandstones in the Eocene Shahejie Formation from two sags in the... Read More about Reactive transport modeling of coupled feldspar dissolution and secondary mineral precipitation and its implication for diagenetic interaction in sandstones.

Sintering of polydisperse viscous droplets (2017)
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Wadsworth, F. B., Vasseur, J., Llewellin, E. W., & Dingwell, D. B. (2017). Sintering of polydisperse viscous droplets. Physical Review E, 95(3), Article 033114. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.95.033114

Sintering—or coalescence—of compacts of viscous droplets is driven by the interfacial tension between the droplets and the interstitial gas phase. The process, which occurs in a range of industrial and natural settings, such as the manufacture of cer... Read More about Sintering of polydisperse viscous droplets.

Orogen-scale uplift in the central Italian Apennines drives episodic behaviour of earthquake faults (2017)
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Cowie, P., Phillips, R., Roberts, G., McCaffrey, K., Zijerveld, L., Gregory, L., …Wilkinson, M. (2017). Orogen-scale uplift in the central Italian Apennines drives episodic behaviour of earthquake faults. Scientific Reports, 7, Article 44858. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep44858

Many areas of the Earth’s crust deform by distributed extensional faulting and complex fault interactions are often observed. Geodetic data generally indicate a simpler picture of continuum deformation over decades but relating this behaviour to eart... Read More about Orogen-scale uplift in the central Italian Apennines drives episodic behaviour of earthquake faults.

Mixing as a driver of temporal variations in river hydrochemistry: 1. Insights from conservative tracers in the Andes‐Amazon transition (2017)
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Torres, M. A., Baronas, J. J., Clark, K. E., Feakins, S. J., & West, A. J. (2017). Mixing as a driver of temporal variations in river hydrochemistry: 1. Insights from conservative tracers in the Andes‐Amazon transition. Water Resources Research, 53(4), 3102-3119. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016wr019733

The response of hillslope processes to changes in precipitation may drive the observed changes in the solute geochemistry of rivers with discharge. This conjecture is most robust when variations in the key environmental factors that affect hillslope... Read More about Mixing as a driver of temporal variations in river hydrochemistry: 1. Insights from conservative tracers in the Andes‐Amazon transition.

Tracing weathering regimes using the lithium isotope composition of detrital sediments (2017)
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Dellinger, M., Bouchez, J., Gaillardet, J., Faure, L., & Moureau, J. (2017). Tracing weathering regimes using the lithium isotope composition of detrital sediments. Geology, 45(5), 411-414. https://doi.org/10.1130/g38671.1

Lithium (Li) isotopes are a promising tracer of chemical weathering processes for both modern and ancient times. In order to improve the use of Li isotopes in the sedimentary record, here we calibrate the relationship between weathering intensity and... Read More about Tracing weathering regimes using the lithium isotope composition of detrital sediments.

Petrogenesis of Triassic granitoids in the East Kunlun Orogenic Belt, northern Tibetan Plateau and their tectonic implications (2017)
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: Shao, F., Niu, Y., Chen, S., Kong, J., & Meng, D. (2017). Petrogenesis of Triassic granitoids in the East Kunlun Orogenic Belt, northern Tibetan Plateau and their tectonic implications. Lithos, 282-283, 33-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2017.03.002

The East Kunlun Orogenic Belt (EKOB), an important part of the Greater Tibetan Plateau, is an ideal region for understanding the tectonic evolution of the Anyemaqen Ocean. Here, we present zircon U–Pb ages, bulk-rock major and trace element analyses... Read More about Petrogenesis of Triassic granitoids in the East Kunlun Orogenic Belt, northern Tibetan Plateau and their tectonic implications.

Petrogenesis of Luchuba and Wuchaba granitoids in western Qinling: geochronological and geochemical evidence (2017)
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Kong, J., Niu, Y., Duan, M., Zhang, Y., Hu, Y., Li, J., & Chen, S. (2017). Petrogenesis of Luchuba and Wuchaba granitoids in western Qinling: geochronological and geochemical evidence. Mineralogy and Petrology, 111(6), 887-908. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00710-017-0501-7

The West Qinling Orogenic Belt (WQOB) is a major portion of the Qinling-Dabie-Sulu Orogen and holds essential information for understanding the prolonged evolution of the northeastern branch of the Paleo-Tethys in East Asia. This study focuses on the... Read More about Petrogenesis of Luchuba and Wuchaba granitoids in western Qinling: geochronological and geochemical evidence.