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Sandy beaches can survive sea-level rise
It has been asserted by Vousdoukas et al., that climate change, in particular global sea-level rise (SLR), poses a threat to the existence of sandy beaches. The authors used globa…
Seasonal Rainfall Forecasts for the Yangtze River Basin in Summer 2019 from an Improved Climate Service
Rainfall forecasts for the summer monsoon season in the Yangtze River Basin allow decision-makers to plan for possible flooding, which can affect the lives and livelihoods of mill…
Structural controls on the location, geometry, and longevity of an intraplate volcanic system - The Tuatara Volcanic Fi…
Intraplate volcanism is widely distributed across continental interiors. Yet controls on the location, 3D geometry, and longevity of many individual intraplate volcanic systems ar…
Sedimentation and viscosity controls on forearc highs
Crustal rheology and surface processes strongly influence strain distribution and shape of orogenic wedges at their front but how they influence the wedge rear is still unclear. H…
Global dominance of tectonics over climate in shaping river longitudinal profiles
River networks are striking features engraved into Earths surface, shaped by uplift and erosion under the joint influence of climate and tectonics. How a river descends along its …
The Last Glacial Maximum Balearic Abyssal Plain Megabed revisited
Megabeds are thick sedimentary layers extending over thousands square kilometres in deep sea basins and are thought to result from large slope failures triggered by major external…
Sedimentary Ripple marks from pavements of forts in Jaipur, Rajasthan. India
Prolific occurrence of a variety of ripple trains in popular forts of Jaipur are observed. The occurrence of extensive Geological sample within man-made buildings form a valuable …
Dynamic recrystallisation can produce porosity in shear zones
Creep cavities are increasingly recognised as an important syn-kinematic feature of shear zones but much about this porosity needs investigation. Largely, observations of creep ca…
A spatial reconstruction of Siberian Last Glacial Maximum climate from pollen data
The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, around 21.000 years before present) was a period with significantly colder global mean temperature, large Northern Hemisphere ice sheets, and lower …
A Serious Gaming Framework for Decision Support on Hydrological Hazards
In this study, a web-based decision support tool (DST) was developed for hydrological multi-hazard analysis while employing gamification techniques to introduce a competitive elem…
Space-time stress variations on the Palu-Koro fault impacting the 2018 Mw 7.5 Palu earthquake and its seismic hazards
In this study we calculated the Coulomb stress change before and after the 2018 Palu earthquake (Mw7.5) induced by historical large earthquakes on and around the Palu‐Koro fault (…
Improving the retrieval of offshore-onshore correlation functions with machine learning
The retrieval of reliable offshore-onshore correlation functions is critical to improve our ability to predict long-period ground motions from megathrust earthquakes. However, loc…
Performance of terrestrial laser scanning to characterize managed Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) stands is dependent …
There is a limited understanding of how forest structure affects the performance of methods based on terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) in characterizing trees and forest environmen…
Reply to “Global coastal wetland expansion under accelerated sea-level rise is unlikely”
We thank Törnqvist et al. for engaging with our modelling study on the future response of global coastal wetlands to sea-level rise (SLR) and their careful and critical discussion…
On the formation of oceanic detachment faults and their influence on intra-oceanic subduction initiation: 3D thermomech…
Extensional detachment faults, which have been widely documented in slow-spreading and ultraslow-spreading ridges on Earth, can effectively localize deformation due to their weakn…
Use of geochemical fingerprints to trace sediment sources in an agriculture catchment of Argentina
Soil erosion and associated sediment redistribution are key environmental problems in Central Argentina. Specific land uses and management practices, such as intensive grazing and…
Global inventories of inverted stream channels on Earth and Mars
Data from orbiting and landed spacecraft have provided vast amounts of information regarding fluvial and fluvial-related landforms and sediments on Mars. One variant of these land…
Integrating UAV photogrammetry with terrestrial laser scanning to characterize managed forest stands
Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) provides detailed three-dimensional representation of the surrounding forest structure. However, due to close-range hemispherical scanning geometr…
Stress drop variation of deep-focus earthquakes based on empirical Greens function
We analyze source characteristics of global, deep-focus (> 350 km) earthquakes with moment magnitudes (Mw) larger than 6.0-8.2 using teleseismic P-wave and S-wave spectra and a…
Northern peatland depth and lateral expansion is inconsistent with a 1055 GtC estimate of carbon storage
Peatlands contain one of the largest stores of terrestrial carbon and exert a considerable influence on the global climate cycle. However, both the magnitude of the peatland carbo…
Dynamic fault interaction during a fluid-injection induced earthquake: The 2017 Mw 5.5 Pohang event
The November 15th, 2017 Mw 5.5 Pohang earthquake (South Korea) has been linked to hydraulic stimulation and fluid injections, making this the largest induced seismic event associa…
Mechanistic insights into sulfur rich oil formation, relevant to geological carbon storage routes. A study using (+) AP…
Sulfur incorporation into sedimentary organic matter has a key role in carbon preservation in the geosphere. Such processes can inform strategies for human timescale carbon storag…
Crop residue burning practices across north India inferred from household survey data: bridging gaps in satellite obser…
In north India, agricultural burning adversely affects local and regional air quality during the post-monsoon season (October to November), when the prevailing meteorology is favo…
Effect of fault damage zones on long-term earthquake behavior on mature strike-slip faults
Mature strike-slip faults are usually surrounded by a narrow zone of damaged rocks characterized by low seismic wave velocities. Observations of earthquakes along such faults indi…
Slip on wavy frictional faults: is the 3rd dimension a sticking point?
The formulation for the 3D triangular displacement discontinuity boundary element method with frictional constraints is described in detail. Its accuracy in comparison to analytic…
Analytical prediction of seismicity rate due to tides and other oscillating stresses
Oscillatory stresses are ubiquitous on earth and other solid-surface bodies. Tides and seasonal signals perpetually stress faults in the crust. Relating seismicity to these stress…
Power law scaling model predicts N2O emissions along the Upper Mississippi River basin
Nitrous oxide, N2O, is widely recognized as one of the most important greenhouse gases, and responsible for stratospheric ozone destruction. A significant fraction of N2O emission…
Integrated geotechnical, sedimentological and geophysical investigation of seafloor instabilities in the Gulf of Lions …
The Gulf of Lions presents recurring mass-transport deposits (MTDs) within the Plio-Quaternary sediments suggesting a long history of mass-movements. The two large, surficial MTDs…
Magma diversity reflects recharge regime and thermal structure of the crust
The chemistry of magmas erupted by volcanoes is a message from deep within the Earth’s crust, which if decrypted, can provide essential information on magmatic processes occurring…
Constraining mechanisms of quartz precipitation during silicification and chemical sedimentation in the in the ~2.7 Ga …
Silica-rich Precambrian rocks often preserve geochemical information and microfossil remnants from the early biosphere. Because these rocks are such critical geochemical and paleo…
Critical fluid injection volumes for uncontrolled fracture ascent
Hydro-fracturing is a routine industrial technique whose safety depends on fractures remaining confined within the target rock volume. Both observations and theoretical models sho…
Pre-inversion normal fault geometry controls inversion style and magnitude, Farsund Basin, offshore southern Norway
Inversion may localise along pre-existing structures within the lithosphere, far from the plate boundaries along which the causal stress is greatest. Inversion style and magnitude…
Global groundwater sustainability
No abstract but introduction: Groundwater resources are the most reliable source of freshwater on the planet, so long as they are sustainably managed. While serious groundwater de…
Mapping invasive Lupinus polyphyllus Lindl. in semi-natural grasslands using object-based analysis of UAV-borne images
Knowledge on the spatio-temporal distribution of invasive plant species is vital to maintain biodiversity in grasslands which are threatened by the invasion of such plants and to …
Mapping surface displacement using a pair of interferograms: comparative study
Interferometric analysis of Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite images (InSAR) measures only one component of ground deformation, in the satellite line-of-sight direction. In order…
Preliminary hand-held thermal imaging results of sequential monitoring of a simulated deceased individual on terrestria…
Thermal imaging is commonly used by forensic search investigators to locate missing persons, but there is little research on it’s actual effectiveness to detect individuals after …
Structural inheritance and border fault reactivation during active early-stage rifting along the Thyolo fault, Malawi
We present new insights on the geometry, initiation and growth of the Thyolo fault, an 85 km long active border fault in the southern Malawi Rift, from high-resolution topography,…
Kinetics and Products of Chromium(VI) Reduction by Iron(II/III)-Bearing Clay Minerals
Hexavalent chromium is a water-soluble pollutant, the mobility of which can be controlled by reduction of Cr(VI) to less soluble, environmentally benign Cr(III). Iron(II/III)-bear…
Geodetic Evidence for a Buoyant Mantle Plume Beneath the Eifel Volcanic Area, NW Europe
The volcanism of the Eifel volcanic field (EVF), in west-central Germany, is often considered an example of hotspot volcanism given its geochemical signature and the putative mant…
P wave anisotropy caused by partial eclogitization of descending crust demonstrated by modelling effective petrophysica…
Seismological studies of large-scale processes at convergent plate boundaries typically probe lower crustal structures with wavelengths of several kilometers, whereas field-based …
Subducted oceanic crust as the origin of seismically slow lower-mantle structures
Mantle tomography reveals the existence of two large low shear velocity provinces (LLSVPs) at the base of the mantle. We examine here the hypothesis that they are piles of oceanic…
WORKSHOP REPORT: Securing Legacy Seismic Data to Enable Future Discoveries September 18-19, 2019 Albuquerque, New Mexi…
On September 18-19, 2019 a workshop on Securing Legacy Data to Enable Future Discoveries was held in Albuquerque, New Mexico engaging 29 researchers representing universities, nat…
Inchworm-like source evolution through a geometrically complex fault fueled persistent supershear rupture during the 20…
How does fault slip follow an earthquake rupture front propagating faster than the local shear-wave velocity (i.e., at supershear speed)? How does a supershear rupture front pass …
What Role Does Hydrological Science Play in the Age of Machine Learning?
We suggest that there is a potential danger to the hydrological sciences community in not recognizing how transformative machine learning will be for the future of hydrological mo…
Processing Seismic Ambient Noise Data with the Continuous Wavelet Transform to Obtain Reliable Empirical Green’s Functi…
We propose a new data processing flow to compute empirical Green’s functions (EGF) from ambient seismic noise based on a soft thresholding designaling and denoising method using t…
Tracking Flooding Phase Transitions and Establishing a Passive Hotline with AI-Enabled Social Media Data
Flooding management requires collecting real-time onsite information widely and rapidly. As an emerging data source, social media demonstrates an advantage of providing in-time, r…
Using computer-aided image processing to estimate chemical composition of igneous rocks: A potential tool for large-sca…
Digital cameras, particularly on smartphones, have led to the proliferation of amateur photographers. Of interest here is the use of smartphone cameras to conduct rapid, low-cost …
Plant Physiology Increases the Magnitude and Spread of the Transient Climate Response in CMIP6 Earth System Models
Increasing concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere not only influence climate through CO2’s effect as a greenhouse gas but also through its impact on plants. Plants respond to atm…
New composite bio- and isotope stratigraphies spanning the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum at tropical ODP Site 865 in t…
The Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) at ca. 40 Ma is one of the largest of the transient Eocene global warming events. However, it is relatively poorly known from tropical se…
Evolution of a mixed siliciclastic-carbonate deep-marine system on an unstable margin: the Cretaceous of the Eastern Gr…
Mixed siliciclastic-carbonate deep-marine systems (mixed systems) are less documented in the geological record than pure siliciclastic systems. The similarities and differences be…
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