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Extending full-plate tectonic models into deep time: Linking the Neoproterozoic and the Phanerozoic by Merdith, Andrew S., Williams, Simon E., Collins, Alan S., Tetley, Michael G., Mulder, Jacob A., Blades, Morgan L., Young, Alexander, Armistead, Sheree E., Cannon, John, Zahirovic, Sabin, Müller, R. Dietmar

“…Recent progress in plate tectonic reconstructions has seen models move beyond the classical idea of continental drift by attempting to reconstruct the full…”
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Atmospheric microplastics: A review on current status and perspectives by Zhang, Yulan, Kang, Shichang, Allen, Steve, Allen, Deonie, Gao, Tanguang, Sillanpää, Mika

“…Microplastics have recently been detected in the atmosphere of urban, suburban, and even remote areas far away from source regions of microplastics, suggesting…”
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Machine learning methods for landslide susceptibility studies: A comparative overview of algorithm performance by Merghadi, Abdelaziz, Yunus, Ali P., Dou, Jie, Whiteley, Jim, ThaiPham, Binh, Bui, Dieu Tien, Avtar, Ram, Abderrahmane, Boumezbeur

“…Landslides are one of the catastrophic natural hazards that occur in mountainous areas, leading to loss of life, damage to properties, and economic disruption…”
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A review of statistically-based landslide susceptibility models by Reichenbach, Paola, Rossi, Mauro, Malamud, Bruce D., Mihir, Monika, Guzzetti, Fausto

“…In this paper, we do a critical review of statistical methods for landslide susceptibility modelling and associated terrain zonations. Landslide susceptibility…”
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Phanerozoic paleotemperatures: The earth’s changing climate during the last 540 million years by Scotese, Christopher R., Song, Haijun, Mills, Benjamin J.W., van der Meer, Douwe G.

“…This study provides a comprehensive and quantitative estimate of how global temperatures have changed during the last 540 million years. It combines…”
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Geological reconstructions of the East Asian blocks: From the breakup of Rodinia to the assembly of Pangea by Zhao, Guochun, Wang, Yuejun, Huang, Baochun, Dong, Yunpeng, Li, Sanzhong, Zhang, Guowei, Yu, Shan

“…Pangea is the youngest supercontinent in Earth's history and its main body formed by assembly of Gondwana and Laurasia about 300–250 Ma ago. As supported by…”
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A review of environmental droughts: Increased risk under global warming? by Vicente-Serrano, Sergio M., Quiring, Steven M., Peña-Gallardo, Marina, Yuan, Shanshui, Domínguez-Castro, Fernando

“…This article reviews current drought effects on environmental systems. It stresses the need for considering environmental drought as a relevant type to be…”
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Response of Tibetan Plateau lakes to climate change: Trends, patterns, and mechanisms by Zhang, Guoqing, Yao, Tandong, Xie, Hongjie, Yang, Kun, Zhu, Liping, Shum, C.K., Bolch, Tobias, Yi, Shuang, Allen, Simon, Jiang, Liguang, Chen, Wenfeng, Ke, Changqing

“…The wide distribution of natural lakes over the Tibetan Plateau, the highest and largest plateau on Earth, have received extensive attention due to global…”
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Monitoring inland water quality using remote sensing: potential and limitations of spectral indices, bio-optical simulations, machine learning, and cloud computing by Sagan, Vasit, Peterson, Kyle T., Maimaitijiang, Maitiniyazi, Sidike, Paheding, Sloan, John, Greeling, Benjamin A., Maalouf, Samar, Adams, Craig

“…Given the recent advances in remote sensing analytics, cloud computing, and machine learning, it is imperative to evaluate capabilities of remote sensing for…”
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Machine learning for digital soil mapping: Applications, challenges and suggested solutions by Wadoux, Alexandre M.J.-C., Minasny, Budiman, McBratney, Alex B.

“…The uptake of machine learning (ML) algorithms in digital soil mapping (DSM) is transforming the way soil scientists produce their maps. Within the past two…”
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Westerlies Asia and monsoonal Asia: Spatiotemporal differences in climate change and possible mechanisms on decadal to sub-orbital timescales by Chen, Fahu, Chen, Jianhui, Huang, Wei, Chen, Shengqian, Huang, Xiaozhong, Jin, Liya, Jia, Jia, Zhang, Xiaojian, An, Chengbang, Zhang, Jiawu, Zhao, Yan, Yu, Zicheng, Zhang, Renhe, Liu, Jianbao, Zhou, Aifeng, Feng, Song

“…The ‘westerlies-dominated climatic regime’ (WDCR) in the present interglacial period was proposed because precipitation/moisture variations between arid…”
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A review of black carbon in snow and ice and its impact on the cryosphere by Kang, Shichang, Zhang, Yulan, Qian, Yun, Wang, Hailong

“…Black carbon (BC) has emerged as an important short-lived climate forcer. Due to its light absorption properties, BC can darken the snow/ice surface, affect…”
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Recent advances in carbon dioxide geological storage, experimental procedures, influencing parameters, and future outlook by Ali, Muhammad, Jha, Nilesh Kumar, Pal, Nilanjan, Keshavarz, Alireza, Hoteit, Hussein, Sarmadivaleh, Mohammad

“…The oxidation of fossil fuels produces billions of tons of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from stationary and nonstationary sources per annum,…”
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Late Paleozoic to early Triassic multiple roll-back and oroclinal bending of the Mongolia collage in Central Asia by Xiao, Wenjiao, Windley, Brian F., Han, Chunming, Liu, Wei, Wan, Bo, Zhang, Ji'en, Ao, Songjian, Zhang, Zhiyong, Song, Dongfang

“…The architecture and mechanics of an orogen can be understood in terms of a system of collages that are characterized by a complex assemblage of multiple…”
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Closure of the Proto-Tethys Ocean and Early Paleozoic amalgamation of microcontinental blocks in East Asia by Li, Sanzhong, Zhao, Shujuan, Liu, Xin, Cao, Huahua, Yu, Shan, Li, Xiyao, Somerville, Ian, Yu, Shengyao, Suo, Yanhui

“…As a complex paleo-ocean located between the Tarim-North China and the Sibumasu/Baoshan blocks, the Proto-Tethys Ocean was opened from the rifting of the…”
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Reconstructing South China in Phanerozoic and Precambrian supercontinents by Cawood, Peter A., Zhao, Guochun, Yao, Jinlong, Wang, Wei, Xu, Yajun, Wang, Yuejun

“…The history of the South China Craton and the constituent Yangtze and Cathaysia blocks are directly linked to Earth's Phanerozoic and Precambrian record of…”
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Warming amplification over the Arctic Pole and Third Pole: Trends, mechanisms and consequences by You, Qinglong, Cai, Ziyi, Pepin, Nick, Chen, Deliang, Ahrens, Bodo, Jiang, Zhihong, Wu, Fangying, Kang, Shichang, Zhang, Ruonan, Wu, Tonghua, Wang, Pengling, Li, Mingcai, Zuo, Zhiyan, Gao, Yanhong, Zhai, Panmao, Zhang, Yuqing

“…Warming amplification over the Arctic Pole (AP hereafter) and Third Pole (Tibetan Plateau, TP hereafter) can trigger a series of climate responses and have…”
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A comprehensive review on deep learning based remote sensing image super-resolution methods by Wang, Peijuan, Bayram, Bulent, Sertel, Elif

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Organic-matter-rich shales of China by Zou, Caineng, Zhu, Rukai, Chen, Zhong-Qiang, Ogg, James G., Wu, Songtao, Dong, Dazhong, Qiu, Zhen, Wang, Yuman, Wang, Lan, Lin, Senhu, Cui, Jingwei, Su, Ling, Yang, Zhi

“…Organic-matter-rich shales are the main target rocks for unconventional oil and gas exploration and development across the world. In China, shale-gas…”
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A review on pore structure characterization in tight sandstones by Lai, Jin, Wang, Guiwen, Wang, Ziyuan, Chen, Jing, Pang, Xiaojiao, Wang, Shuchen, Zhou, Zhenglong, He, Zhibo, Qin, Ziqiang, Fan, Xuqiang

“…Tight sandstone reservoirs typically contain a wide pore throat sizes ranging from the nano-scale to micro-scale, and have complex pore geometry and pore…”
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