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Heterogeneity‐Driven Localization and Weakening in Scaly Clays From a Fossil Accretionary Prism (2023)
Journal Article
Aretusini, S., Mittempergher, S., Remitti, F., Arletti, R., Polisi, M., De Paola, N., & Tesei, T. (2023). Heterogeneity‐Driven Localization and Weakening in Scaly Clays From a Fossil Accretionary Prism. Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth, 128(9), Article e2023JB027332. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023jb027332

In accretionary prisms, scaly clays structure might be the result of strain localization and weakening or strain delocalization and hardening. Therefore, it is not clear how they influence the mechanical behavior of the accretionary prism. Here, we i... Read More about Heterogeneity‐Driven Localization and Weakening in Scaly Clays From a Fossil Accretionary Prism.

Structure and dynamics of the Ecuador Fracture Zone, Panama Basin (2023)
Journal Article
Peirce, C., Tedd, J., & Hobbs, R. (2023). Structure and dynamics of the Ecuador Fracture Zone, Panama Basin. Geophysical Journal International, 235(2), 1519-1540. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggad315

In this study, multiple geophysical data types are used to investigate the structure and dynamics of the Ecuador Fracture Zone – a complex multi-stranded strike-slip fault system located in the Panama Basin. Gravity modelling reveals a 25-30 km-wide... Read More about Structure and dynamics of the Ecuador Fracture Zone, Panama Basin.

Melt diffusion-moderated crystal growth and its effect on euhedral crystal shapes (2023)
Journal Article
Mangler, M. F., Humphreys, M. C. S., Geifman, E., Iveson, A. A., Wadsworth, F. B., Brooker, R. A., …Hammond, K. (2023). Melt diffusion-moderated crystal growth and its effect on euhedral crystal shapes. Journal of Petrology, 64(8), https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egad054

Crystal growth is often described as either interface-controlled or diffusion-controlled. Here, we study crystal growth in an intermediate scenario where reaction rates at the crystal-melt interface are similar to the rates of diffusive transport of... Read More about Melt diffusion-moderated crystal growth and its effect on euhedral crystal shapes.

Mobility and connection among the Early Bronze Age Syrian elite (2023)
Journal Article
Stantis, C., Compton, G. S., Kharobi, A., Maaranen, N., Nowell, G. M., Macpherson, C., …Schwartz, G. M. (2023). Mobility and connection among the Early Bronze Age Syrian elite. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 51, Article 104142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104142

The archaeological site of Umm el-Marra (in the Jabbul plain, western Syria), is a large, fortified urban center. Excavations have uncovered ten tomb structures built during the Early Bronze Age (ca. 2600–2150 BCE) that possibly contain royalty as ev... Read More about Mobility and connection among the Early Bronze Age Syrian elite.

Middle Ordovician brachiopods from Tagoat, Co. Wexford, SE Ireland: Dapingian diversity drivers (2023)
Journal Article
Harper, D. A., & Bates, D. E. (2023). Middle Ordovician brachiopods from Tagoat, Co. Wexford, SE Ireland: Dapingian diversity drivers. Geobios, 81, 85-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2023.06.006

The Dapingian (Arenig) siltstones and sandstones of the Tagoat Group, County Wexford, SE Ireland, contain a well-preserved and diverse brachiopod fauna including a new genus of alimbellid, Palaeotagoatia (type species: Orthis Bailyana Davidson) toget... Read More about Middle Ordovician brachiopods from Tagoat, Co. Wexford, SE Ireland: Dapingian diversity drivers.

Evaluating bubble chain phenomena as a mechanism for open system degassing in basaltic systems (2023)
Journal Article
Lo, M., Loisel, A., Burton, M., & Llewellin, E. (2023). Evaluating bubble chain phenomena as a mechanism for open system degassing in basaltic systems. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 441, Article 107874. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2023.107874

Passive degassing – i.e., the open-system degassing of a magmatic gas phase that is decoupled from the melt phase – is common at many basaltic volcanic systems and consistently makes a greater contribution to total volcanic gas emissions than eruptiv... Read More about Evaluating bubble chain phenomena as a mechanism for open system degassing in basaltic systems.

Seeking their fortunes on the Otago goldfields, New Zealand – Constructing isotopic biographies of colonial goldminers (2023)
Journal Article
King, C. L., Buckley, H. R., Petchey, P., Kinaston, R., Millard, A. R., Nowell, G., …Gröcke, D. R. (2023). Seeking their fortunes on the Otago goldfields, New Zealand – Constructing isotopic biographies of colonial goldminers. Journal of Archaeological Science, 157, 105836. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2023.105836

The nineteenth century New Zealand goldfields were a place where people from across the world came together in search of their fortunes. Written accounts of life on the diggings do exist but are of varying veracity and we therefore have little knowle... Read More about Seeking their fortunes on the Otago goldfields, New Zealand – Constructing isotopic biographies of colonial goldminers.

An onshore-offshore interpretation of structures in the Devonian rocks of the Pentland Firth, Scotland using high resolution bathymetry and drone-enabled field observations. (2023)
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Utley, T. A., Holdsworth, R. E., Walker, R. J., Dempsey, E. D., McCaffrey, K. J., Dichiarante, A., & Jones, T. L. (2023). An onshore-offshore interpretation of structures in the Devonian rocks of the Pentland Firth, Scotland using high resolution bathymetry and drone-enabled field observations. Journal of Structural Geology, 174, Article 104922. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2023.104922

Strong tidal currents in the Pentland Firth separating NE Scotland and Orkney have stripped recent seafloor sediments revealing geological structures in parts of the Devonian Orcadian Basin that are otherwise limited to narrow coastal outcrops. Here... Read More about An onshore-offshore interpretation of structures in the Devonian rocks of the Pentland Firth, Scotland using high resolution bathymetry and drone-enabled field observations..

Andean-type, bivergent crustal shortening in the Rinkian orogen: New constraints on the tectonic evolution of Laurentia–West Greenland in the Paleoproterozoic (2023)
Journal Article
Grocott, J., Thrane, K., McCaffrey, K. J., Sleath, P. R., & Dziggel, A. (2023). Andean-type, bivergent crustal shortening in the Rinkian orogen: New constraints on the tectonic evolution of Laurentia–West Greenland in the Paleoproterozoic. Geosphere, 19(5), 1231–1258. https://doi.org/10.1130/ges02614.1

The “Rinkian belt” of West Greenland is a metamorphic terrain of Paleoproterozoic age comprising: (1) the north Rinkian fold-thrust belt (FTB)—a pro- or fore-arc domain, highly deformed and metamorphosed with widespread anatexis; (2) the Prøven Igneo... Read More about Andean-type, bivergent crustal shortening in the Rinkian orogen: New constraints on the tectonic evolution of Laurentia–West Greenland in the Paleoproterozoic.

The post-2016 long-lasting Vulcanian activity of Sabancaya volcano (Peru) and associated aeolian remobilisation of volcanic ash (2023)
Journal Article
Fries, A., Dominguez, L., Jarvis, P. A., Pistolesi, M., Manrique, N., Aguilar, R., …Bonadonna, C. (2023). The post-2016 long-lasting Vulcanian activity of Sabancaya volcano (Peru) and associated aeolian remobilisation of volcanic ash. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 441, Article 107876. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2023.107876

The Global Turbidity Current Pump and Its Implications for Organic Carbon Cycling (2023)
Journal Article
Talling, P. J., Hage, S., Baker, M. L., Bianchi, T. S., Hilton, R. G., & Maier, K. L. (2024). The Global Turbidity Current Pump and Its Implications for Organic Carbon Cycling. Annual Review of Marine Science, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-032223-103626

Submarine turbidity currents form the largest sediment accumulations on Earth, raising the question of their role in global carbon cycles. It was previously inferred that terrestrial organic carbon was primarily incinerated on shelves and that most t... Read More about The Global Turbidity Current Pump and Its Implications for Organic Carbon Cycling.

Equilibrium partitioning and isotopic fractionation of nitrogen between biotite, plagioclase, and K-feldspar during magmatic differentiation (2023)
Journal Article
Boocock, T. J., Stüeken, E. E., Bybee, G. M., König, R., Boyce, A. J., Prytulak, J., …Mikhail, S. (2023). Equilibrium partitioning and isotopic fractionation of nitrogen between biotite, plagioclase, and K-feldspar during magmatic differentiation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 356, 116-128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2023.07.010

A significant portion of the continental crust is composed of plutonic igneous rocks. However, little is known
about the geochemical behaviour of N between the different minerals during magmatic differentiation. To
provide new constraints for the... Read More about Equilibrium partitioning and isotopic fractionation of nitrogen between biotite, plagioclase, and K-feldspar during magmatic differentiation.

Sensitive aerial hearing within a noisy nesting soundscape in a deep-diving seabird, the common murre Uria aalge (2023)
Journal Article
Smith, A. B., Fischer-McMorrow, I., Kolbeinsson, Y., Rasmussen, M., Shero, M. R., McElwaine, J. N., …Mooney, T. A. (2023). Sensitive aerial hearing within a noisy nesting soundscape in a deep-diving seabird, the common murre Uria aalge. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 714, 87-104. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14346

Diving seabirds face a combination of sound exposure in marine and terrestrial environments due to increasing human encroachment on coastal ecosystems. Yet the sound-sensitivity and sensory ecology of this threatened group of animals is largely unkno... Read More about Sensitive aerial hearing within a noisy nesting soundscape in a deep-diving seabird, the common murre Uria aalge.

Sulphur isotope stratigraphy of drill cuttings and stratigraphic correlation of Permian-Triassic evaporites (2023)
Journal Article
Salisbury, J., Gröcke, D. R., & McKie, T. (2023). Sulphur isotope stratigraphy of drill cuttings and stratigraphic correlation of Permian-Triassic evaporites. Frontiers in Earth Science, 11,

The stratigraphy of the European late Permian-Triassic commonly lacks chronostratigraphic constraint due to the scarcity of diagnostic fossils for biostratigraphy. This is particularly true for the United Kingdom, and as a result, stratigraphic corre... Read More about Sulphur isotope stratigraphy of drill cuttings and stratigraphic correlation of Permian-Triassic evaporites.

Perceptions of volcanic air pollution and exposure reduction practices on the Island of Hawai‘i: Working towards socially relevant risk communication (2023)
Journal Article
Horwell, C., Elias, T., Covey, J., Bhandari, R., & Truby, J. (2023). Perceptions of volcanic air pollution and exposure reduction practices on the Island of Hawai‘i: Working towards socially relevant risk communication. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 95, Article 103853. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103853

Kīlauea volcano, on the Island of Hawai‘i, is one of the most active volcanoes in the world. Over the past four decades it has released large amounts of volcanic gases and aerosols which form volcanic air pollution known as ‘vog’. Communities downwin... Read More about Perceptions of volcanic air pollution and exposure reduction practices on the Island of Hawai‘i: Working towards socially relevant risk communication.

The permeability of loose magma mush (2023)
Journal Article
Bretagne, E., Wadsworth, F. B., Vasseur, J., Humphreys, M. C., Dingwell, D. B., Dobson, K. J., Mangler, M. F., & Rooyakkers, S. M. (2023). The permeability of loose magma mush. Geology, 51(9), 829-832. https://doi.org/10.1130/g51133.1

Models for the evolution of magma mush zones are of fundamental importance for understanding magma storage, differentiation in the crust, and melt extraction processes that prime eruptions. These models require calculations of the permeability of the... Read More about The permeability of loose magma mush.

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.