Search Results - "Earth and planetary science letters"

The geophysics, geology and mechanics of slow fault slip by Bürgmann, Roland

“…Modern geodetic and seismologic observations describe the behavior of fault slip over a vast range of spatial and temporal scales. Slip at sub-seismogenic…”
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Sedimentary host phases of mercury (Hg) and implications for use of Hg as a volcanic proxy by Shen, Jun, Feng, Qinglai, Algeo, Thomas J., Liu, Jinling, Zhou, Chenyang, Wei, Wei, Liu, Jiangsi, Them, Theodore R., Gill, Benjamin C., Chen, Jiubin

“…•Sediment Hg can be hosted by the organic, sulfide or clay fractions.•Hg uptake by sulfide fraction favored under strongly euxinic conditions.•TS > 1.0% and…”
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Linking collisional and accretionary orogens during Rodinia assembly and breakup: Implications for models of supercontinent cycles by Cawood, Peter A., Strachan, Robin A., Pisarevsky, Sergei A., Gladkochub, Dmitry P., Murphy, J. Brendan

“…Periodic assembly and dispersal of continental fragments has been a characteristic of the solid Earth for much of its history. Geodynamic drivers of this…”
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How to make porphyry copper deposits by Lee, Cin-Ty A., Tang, Ming

“…Much of the world's economic copper resources are hosted in porphyry copper deposits (PCDs), shallow level magmatic intrusions associated mostly with thick…”
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Origin of the non-carbonaceous–carbonaceous meteorite dichotomy by Nanne, Josefine A.M., Nimmo, Francis, Cuzzi, Jeffrey N., Kleine, Thorsten

“…The isotopic composition of meteorites reveals a fundamental dichotomy between non-carbonaceous (NC) and carbonaceous (CC) meteorites. However, the origin of…”
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Mineralogy of an ancient lacustrine mudstone succession from the Murray formation, Gale crater, Mars by Rampe, E.B., Ming, D.W., Blake, D.F., Bristow, T.F., Chipera, S.J., Grotzinger, J.P., Morris, R.V., Morrison, S.M., Vaniman, D.T., Yen, A.S., Achilles, C.N., Craig, P.I., Des Marais, D.J., Downs, R.T., Farmer, J.D., Fendrich, K.V., Gellert, R., Hazen, R.M., Kah, L.C., Morookian, J.M., Peretyazhko, T.S., Sarrazin, P., Treiman, A.H., Berger, J.A., Eigenbrode, J., Fairén, A.G., Forni, O., Gupta, S., Hurowitz, J.A., Lanza, N.L., Schmidt, M.E., Siebach, K., Sutter, B., Thompson, L.M.

“…The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover has been traversing strata at the base of Aeolis Mons (informally known as Mount Sharp) since September 2014. The…”
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The early Eocene rise of the Gonjo Basin, SE Tibet: From low desert to high forest by Xiong, Zhongyu, Ding, Lin, Spicer, Robert A., Farnsworth, Alexander, Wang, Xu, Valdes, Paul J., Su, Tao, Zhang, Qinghai, Zhang, Liyun, Cai, Fulong, Wang, Houqi, Li, Zhenyu, Song, Peiping, Guo, Xudong, Yue, Yahui

“…•Carbonate clumped isotopes validate the preservation of primary carbonate of the Gonjo Basin in the early and middle Eocene.•The Gonjo Basin was low (0.7 km)…”
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Young lunar mare basalts in the Chang'e-5 sample return region, northern Oceanus Procellarum by Qian, Yuqi, Xiao, Long, Head, James W., van der Bogert, Carolyn H., Hiesinger, Harald, Wilson, Lionel

“…•Chang'e-5 mission is China's first lunar sample return mission.•The Chang'e-5 landing site lies within northern Oceanus Procellarum.•Em4 basalts are among one…”
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Forearc ages reveal extensive short-lived and rapid seafloor spreading following subduction initiation by Reagan, Mark K., Heaton, Daniel E., Schmitz, Mark D., Pearce, Julian A., Shervais, John W., Koppers, Anthony A.P.

“…The Izu–Bonin–Mariana (IBM) forearc contains a record of a widespread and short-lived subduction initiation event in the early Eocene. We present new…”
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Age of the subducting Pacific slab beneath East Asia and its geodynamic implications by Liu, Xin, Zhao, Dapeng, Li, Sanzhong, Wei, Wei

“…We study the age of the subducting Pacific slab beneath East Asia using a high-resolution model of P-wave tomography and paleo-age data of ancient seafloor…”
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Mercury in marine Ordovician/Silurian boundary sections of South China is sulfide-hosted and non-volcanic in origin by Shen, Jun, Algeo, Thomas J., Chen, Jiubin, Planavsky, Noah J., Feng, Qinglai, Yu, Jianxin, Liu, Jinling

“…Mercury (Hg) enrichment in stratigraphic successions is now widely used as a proxy for volcanic inputs, often for the purpose of documenting a relationship…”
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Terrestrial sources as the primary delivery mechanism of mercury to the oceans across the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Early Jurassic) by Them, T.R., Jagoe, C.H., Caruthers, A.H., Gill, B.C., Grasby, S.E., Gröcke, D.R., Yin, R., Owens, J.D.

“…This study evaluates the utility of sedimentary mercury (Hg) contents as a proxy for fingerprinting ancient massive volcanism, which is often associated with…”
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Geodynamics of kimberlites on a cooling Earth: Clues to plate tectonic evolution and deep volatile cycles by Tappe, Sebastian, Smart, Katie, Torsvik, Trond, Massuyeau, Malcolm, de Wit, Mike

“…Kimberlite magmatism has occurred in cratonic regions on every continent. The global age distribution suggests that this form of mantle melting has been more…”
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Scaling in situ cosmogenic nuclide production rates using analytical approximations to atmospheric cosmic-ray fluxes by Lifton, Nathaniel, Sato, Tatsuhiko, Dunai, Tibor J.

“…Several models have been proposed for scaling in situ cosmogenic nuclide production rates from the relatively few sites where they have been measured to other…”
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Tracking variable sedimentation rates and astronomical forcing in Phanerozoic paleoclimate proxy series with evolutionary correlation coefficients and hypothesis testing by Li, Mingsong, Kump, Lee R., Hinnov, Linda A., Mann, Michael E.

“…This paper addresses two fundamental issues in cyclostratigraphy and paleoclimatology: identification of astronomical forcing in sequences of stratigraphic…”
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The 2016 Mw5.1 Fairview, Oklahoma earthquakes: Evidence for long-range poroelastic triggering at >40 km from fluid disposal wells by Goebel, T.H.W., Weingarten, M., Chen, X., Haffener, J., Brodsky, E.E.

“…Wastewater disposal in the central U.S. is likely responsible for an unprecedented surge in earthquake activity. Much of this activity is thought to be driven…”
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IMS observations of infrasound and acoustic-gravity waves produced by the January 2022 volcanic eruption of Hunga, Tonga: A global analysis by Vergoz, J., Hupe, P., Listowski, C., Le Pichon, A., Garcés, M.A., Marchetti, E., Labazuy, P., Ceranna, L., Pilger, C., Gaebler, P., Näsholm, S.P., Brissaud, Q., Poli, P., Shapiro, N., De Negri, R., Mialle, P.

“…•The 2022 Tonga Lamb explosive energy is comparable to that of the 1883 Krakatoa.•The eruption is the largest event ever detected by CTBTO infrasound…”
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Gondwana's interlinked peripheral orogens by Cawood, Peter A., Martin, Erin L., Murphy, J. Brendan, Pisarevsky, Sergei A.

“…After its Ediacaran-Early Cambrian assembly, Gondwana was flanked by a system of peripheral orogens, Terra Australis, Avalonian-Cadomian and newly defined…”
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Comparative deep Earth volatile cycles: The case for C recycling from exosphere/mantle fractionation of major (H2O, C, N) volatiles and from H2O/Ce, CO2/Ba, and CO2/Nb exosphere ratios by Hirschmann, Marc M.

“…Crucial monitors of operation of deep Earth volatile cycles are the accumulated volatile masses in the exosphere, particularly when these are compared to…”
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Oxygenation history of the Neoproterozoic to early Phanerozoic and the rise of land plants by Wallace, Malcolm W., Hood, Ashleigh vS, Shuster, Alice, Greig, Alan, Planavsky, Noah J., Reed, Christopher P.

“…There has been extensive debate about the history of Earth's oxygenation and the role that land plant evolution played in shaping Earth's ocean–atmosphere…”
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