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Formation–exhumation history of the Carboniferous Axi epithermal gold deposit in the Chinese Western Tianshan based on zircon U–Pb and pyrite Re–Os geochronology and (U–Th)/He zircon–apatite thermochronometry (2023)
Journal Article
Li, N., Zhang, B., Danišík, M., Chen, Y.-J., Selby, D., & Xiao, W. (2023). Formation–exhumation history of the Carboniferous Axi epithermal gold deposit in the Chinese Western Tianshan based on zircon U–Pb and pyrite Re–Os geochronology and (U–Th)/He zircon–apatite thermochronometry. Journal of the Geological Society, 180(4), Article jgs2021–150. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2021-150

The Central Asian Orogenic Belt represents a Late Paleozoic archipelago, but crustal growth and the reworking and exhumation of the individual microcontinental massifs remain poorly constrained. Here, we use the Axi epithermal deposit to examine cont... Read More about Formation–exhumation history of the Carboniferous Axi epithermal gold deposit in the Chinese Western Tianshan based on zircon U–Pb and pyrite Re–Os geochronology and (U–Th)/He zircon–apatite thermochronometry.

Emerging Directions in Geophysical Inversion (2023)
Book Chapter
Valentine, A. P., & Sambridge, M. (2023). Emerging Directions in Geophysical Inversion. In A. Ismail-Zadeh, F. Castelli, D. Jones, & S. Sanchez (Eds.), Applications of Data Assimilation and Inverse Problems in the Earth Sciences (9-26). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009180412.003

In this chapter, we survey some recent developments in the field of geophysical inversion. We aim to provide an accessible general introduction to the breadth of current research, rather than focussing in depth on particular topics. In particular, we... Read More about Emerging Directions in Geophysical Inversion.

Evolution: Assembling the Deuterostome body plan (2023)
Journal Article
Smith, M. R. (2023). Evolution: Assembling the Deuterostome body plan. Current Biology, 33(12), R691-R694. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.05.015

Starfish, graptolites and humans look as different as can be, yet are more closely related to each other than to any other phylum. Disc-shaped Cambrian fossils join the dots between these disparate body plans to plot out their evolutionary origins.

Predicting turbidity current activity offshore from meltwater-fed river deltas (2023)
Journal Article
Bailey, L. P., Clare, M. A., Pope, E. L., Haigh, I. D., Cartigny, M. J., Talling, P. J., …Heijnen, M. (2023). Predicting turbidity current activity offshore from meltwater-fed river deltas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 604, Article 117977. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117977

Quantification of the controls on turbidity current recurrence is required to better constrain land to sea fluxes of sediment, carbon and pollutants, and design resilient infrastructure that is vulnerable to such flows. This is particularly important... Read More about Predicting turbidity current activity offshore from meltwater-fed river deltas.

Ash aggregate-rich pyroclastic density currents of the 431 CE Tierra Blanca Joven eruption, Ilopango caldera, El Salvador (2023)
Journal Article
Brown, R. J., Van Eaton, A. R., Hernández, W., Condren, P., Sweeney, C., Tournigand, P., & Vallance, J. W. (2023). Ash aggregate-rich pyroclastic density currents of the 431 CE Tierra Blanca Joven eruption, Ilopango caldera, El Salvador. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Article 107845. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2023.107845

The VEI 6, Tierra Blanca Joven pyroclastic sequence (30–90 km3 DRE volume), erupted from Ilopango caldera, El Salvador, in 431 CE, is the product of one of the largest eruptions of the last two millennia. The eruption devastated Central America's May... Read More about Ash aggregate-rich pyroclastic density currents of the 431 CE Tierra Blanca Joven eruption, Ilopango caldera, El Salvador.

The physics of dancing peanuts in beer (2023)
Journal Article
Pereira, L., Wadsworth, F. B., Vasseur, J., Schmid, M., Thivet, S., Nuernberg, R. B., & Dingwell, D. B. (2023). The physics of dancing peanuts in beer. Royal Society Open Science, 10(6), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230376

In Argentina, some people add peanuts to their beer. Once immersed, the peanuts initially sink part way down into the beer before bubbles nucleate and grow on the peanut surfaces and remain attached. The peanuts move up and down within the beer glass... Read More about The physics of dancing peanuts in beer.

Artificial Intelligence and Human-Induced Seismicity: Initial Observations of ChatGPT (2023)
Journal Article
Wilson, M. P., Foulger, G. R., Wilkinson, M. W., Gluyas, J. G., Mhana, N., & Tezel, T. (2023). Artificial Intelligence and Human-Induced Seismicity: Initial Observations of ChatGPT. Seismological Research Letters, 94(5), 2111-2118. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220230112

Freely available artificial intelligence (AI) tools, such as the Chat Generative Pre‐trained Transformer (ChatGPT), offer an alternative method to online search engines for scientific results and opinions to be automatically collated into concise sum... Read More about Artificial Intelligence and Human-Induced Seismicity: Initial Observations of ChatGPT.

Climate Projections Very Likely Underestimate Future Volcanic Forcing and Its Climatic Effects (2023)
Journal Article
Chim, M. M., Aubry, T. J., Abraham, N. L., Marshall, L., Mulcahy, J., Walton, J., & Schmidt, A. (2023). Climate Projections Very Likely Underestimate Future Volcanic Forcing and Its Climatic Effects. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(12), Article e2023GL103743. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023gl103743

Standard climate projections represent future volcanic eruptions by a constant forcing inferred from 1850 to 2014 volcanic forcing. Using the latest ice-core and satellite records to design stochastic eruption scenarios, we show that there is a 95% p... Read More about Climate Projections Very Likely Underestimate Future Volcanic Forcing and Its Climatic Effects.

Integrating petrophysical, geological and geomechanical modelling to assess stress states, overpressure development and compartmentalisation adjacent to a salt wall, gulf of Mexico (2023)
Journal Article
Obradors-Prats, J., Calderon Medina, E., Jones, S., Rouainia, M., Aplin, A., & Crook, A. (2023). Integrating petrophysical, geological and geomechanical modelling to assess stress states, overpressure development and compartmentalisation adjacent to a salt wall, gulf of Mexico. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 155, Article 106352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2023.106352

Multi-well pressure data from the Magnolia Field, located on a flank of the salt-bounded Titan passive mini-basin in the Garden Banks area of the continental slope of the Gulf of Mexico, indicate remarkably high overpressures that vary, at similar de... Read More about Integrating petrophysical, geological and geomechanical modelling to assess stress states, overpressure development and compartmentalisation adjacent to a salt wall, gulf of Mexico.

The Irish Ordovician brachiopod fauna: A taxonomic renaissance (2023)
Journal Article
Harper, D. A. (2023). The Irish Ordovician brachiopod fauna: A taxonomic renaissance. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences, 72(1), 38-41. https://doi.org/10.3176/earth.2023.35

Despite its small areal extent, the island of Ireland exposes eight Caledonian tectonic terranes; six of them contain Ordovician brachiopod assemblages. These terranes record the early phases and destruction of the Iapetus Ocean through the occurrenc... Read More about The Irish Ordovician brachiopod fauna: A taxonomic renaissance.

Valanginian climate cooling and environmental change driven by Paraná-Etendeka basalt erosion (2023)
Journal Article
Percival, L., Ownsworth, E., Robinson, S., Selby, D., Goderis, S., & Claeys, P. (2023). Valanginian climate cooling and environmental change driven by Paraná-Etendeka basalt erosion. Geology, 51(8), 753-757. https://doi.org/10.1130/g51202.1

The Valanginian Weissert Event (ca. 134 Ma) has long been linked to emplacement of the Paraná-Etendeka large igneous province (LIP). Although several Mesozoic crises were triggered by volcanic CO2 emissions and global warming, causing oceanic oxygen... Read More about Valanginian climate cooling and environmental change driven by Paraná-Etendeka basalt erosion.

A primary magmatic source of nitrogen to Earth’s crust (2023)
Journal Article
Boocock, T. J., Mikhail, S., Boyce, A. J., Prytulak, J., Savage, P. S., & Stüeken, E. E. (2023). A primary magmatic source of nitrogen to Earth’s crust. Nature Geoscience, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01194-3

The igneous portion of Earth’s continental crust represents a long-term sink of terrestrial nitrogen, but the origin of the nitrogen in this reservoir remains ambiguous. Possible sources include magmatic differentiation of mantle-derived melts (that... Read More about A primary magmatic source of nitrogen to Earth’s crust.

Bubble Formation in Magma (2023)
Journal Article
Gardner, J. E., Wadsworth, F. B., Carley, T. L., Llewellin, E. W., Kusumaatmaja, H., & Sahagian, D. (2023). Bubble Formation in Magma. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 51(1), 131-154. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-031621-080308

Volcanic eruptions are driven by bubbles that form when volatile species exsolve from magma. The conditions under which bubbles form depend mainly on magma composition, volatile concentration, presence of crystals, and magma decompression rate. These... Read More about Bubble Formation in Magma.

Fracture Energy and Breakdown Work During Earthquakes (2023)
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Cocco, M., Aretusini, S., Cornelio, C., Nielsen, S. B., Spagnuolo, E., Tinti, E., & Di Toro, G. (2023). Fracture Energy and Breakdown Work During Earthquakes. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 51(1), 217-252. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-071822-100304

Large seismogenic faults consist of approximately meter-thick fault cores surrounded by hundreds-of-meters-thick damage zones. Earthquakes are generated by rupture propagation and slip within fault cores and dissipate the stored elastic strain energy... Read More about Fracture Energy and Breakdown Work During Earthquakes.

First navigation with wireless muometric navigation system (MuWNS) in indoor and underground environments (2023)
Journal Article
Tanaka, H. K., Gallo, G., Gluyas, J., Kamoshida, O., Lo Presti, D., Shimizu, T., …Yokota, Y. (2023). First navigation with wireless muometric navigation system (MuWNS) in indoor and underground environments. iScience, 26(7), 107000. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.107000

Navigation in indoor and underground environments has been extensively studied to realize automation of home, hospital, office, factory and mining services, and various techniques have been proposed for its implementation. By utilizing the relativist... Read More about First navigation with wireless muometric navigation system (MuWNS) in indoor and underground environments.

Migration and mobility in Roman Beirut: The isotopic evidence (2023)
Journal Article
Kalenderian, V., Snoeck, C., Palstra, S. W., Nowell, G. M., & Seif, A. (2023). Migration and mobility in Roman Beirut: The isotopic evidence. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 49, Article 104044. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104044

Rescue excavations in Beirut, Lebanon, have uncovered large burial assemblages dating to the Roman period. As the first Roman colony in the Near East, the human skeletons from Beirut provide a unique opportunity to explore migration to the city using... Read More about Migration and mobility in Roman Beirut: The isotopic evidence.

The expendables: Bioarchaeological evidence for pauper apprentices in 19th century England and the health consequences of child labour (2023)
Journal Article
Gowland, R. L., Caffell, A. C., Quade, L., Levene, A., Millard, A. R., Holst, M., …Alexander, M. M. (2023). The expendables: Bioarchaeological evidence for pauper apprentices in 19th century England and the health consequences of child labour. PLoS ONE, 18(5), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284970

Child labour is the most common form of child abuse in the world today, with almost half of child workers employed in hazardous industries. The large-scale employment of children during the rapid industrialisation of the late 18th and early 19th cent... Read More about The expendables: Bioarchaeological evidence for pauper apprentices in 19th century England and the health consequences of child labour.

The effect of uncertainties in natural forcing records on simulated temperature during the last millennium (2023)
Journal Article
Lücke, L. J., Schurer, A. P., Toohey, M., Marshall, L. R., & Hegerl, G. C. (2023). The effect of uncertainties in natural forcing records on simulated temperature during the last millennium. Climate of the Past, 19(5), 959-978. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-959-2023

Here we investigate how uncertainties in the solar and volcanic forcing records of the past millennium affect the large-scale temperature response using a two-box impulse response model. We use different published solar forcing records and present a... Read More about The effect of uncertainties in natural forcing records on simulated temperature during the last millennium.

On the magnitude and sensitivity of the quasi-biennial oscillation response to a tropical volcanic eruption (2023)
Journal Article
Brown, F., Marshall, L., Haynes, P. H., Garcia, R. R., Birner, T., & Schmidt, A. (2023). On the magnitude and sensitivity of the quasi-biennial oscillation response to a tropical volcanic eruption. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 23(9), 5335-5353. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-5335-2023

Volcanic eruptions that inject sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere have the potential to alter large-scale circulation patterns, such as the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO), which can affect weather and transport of chemical species. Here, we condu... Read More about On the magnitude and sensitivity of the quasi-biennial oscillation response to a tropical volcanic eruption.

No (Cambrian) explosion and no (Ordovician) event: A single long-term radiation in the early Palaeozoic (2023)
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Servais, T., Cascales-Miñana, B., Harper, D. A., Lefebvre, B., Munnecke, A., Wang, W., & Zhang, Y. (2023). No (Cambrian) explosion and no (Ordovician) event: A single long-term radiation in the early Palaeozoic. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 623, Article 111592. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111592

The Cambrian ‘Explosion’, located by many authors between 540 and 520 million years ago (Ma), is considered to be an abrupt appearance in the fossil record of most animal phyla, with a sudden increase of complex morphologies across metazoan groups. I... Read More about No (Cambrian) explosion and no (Ordovician) event: A single long-term radiation in the early Palaeozoic.