Recent Publications

July 6, 2017/by Clint Miller

Pore water geochemistry along continental slopes north of the East Siberian Sea: inference of low methane concentrations

June 27, 2017/by Melodie French

EPSL: High pore fluid pressures stabilize faults

June 26, 2017/by Chengzu Wang

Bounds on Geologically Current Rates of Motion of Groups of Hotspots

June 26, 2017/by Tuo Zhang

The rigid-plate and shrinking-plate hypotheses: Implications for the azimuths of transform faults

June 25, 2017/by Colin Zelt

Comparison of full wavefield synthetics with frequency-dependent traveltimes calculated using wavelength-dependent velocity smoothing

June 25, 2017/by Colin Zelt

Detecting a known near-surface target through application of frequency-dependent traveltime tomography and full waveform inversion to P- and SH-wave seismic refraction data

June 22, 2017/by Cin-Ty Lee

IGR: Deep mantle roots and continental emergence: implications for whole-Earth elemental cycling, long-term climate, and the Cambrian explosion

June 15, 2017/by Rajdeep Dasgupta

JGR-Planets: Carbon contents in reduced basalts at graphite saturation: Implications for the degassing of Mars, Mercury, and the Moon

June 7, 2017/by Tian Dong

Geomorphology: Stepwise morphological evolution of the active Yellow River (Huanghe) delta lobe (1976–2013): Dominant roles of riverine discharge and sediment grain size

June 6, 2017/by Cin-Ty Lee

Nature Comm: Lithospheric foundering and underthrusting imaged beneath Tibet

May 30, 2017/by Hehe Jiang

EPSL: Coupled magmatism-erosion in continental arcs: reconstructing the history of the Cretaceous Peninsular Ranges batholith, southern California through detrital hornblende barometry in forearc sediments

May 12, 2017/by Tian Dong

Sci.Adv.: The exceptional sediment load of fine-grained dispersal systems: Example of the Yellow River, China

May 10, 2017/by Cin-Ty Lee

EPSL: Effects of crustal thickness on magmatic differentiation in subduction zones

April 25, 2017/by Rajdeep Dasgupta

Rise of Earth’s atmospheric oxygen controlled by efficient subduction of organic carbon

March 23, 2017/by Rajdeep Dasgupta

Experimental determination of CO2 content at graphite saturation along a natural basalt-peridotite melt join: Implications for the fate of carbon in terrestrial magma oceans

February 20, 2017/by Tian Dong

JGR-ES: Morphodynamic modeling of fluvial channel fill and avulsion time scales during early Holocene transgression, as substantiated by the incised valley stratigraphy of the Trinity River, Texas

February 17, 2017/by James Eguchi

CO2 content of andesitic melts at graphite-saturated upper mantle conditions with implications for redox state of oceanic basalt source regions and remobilization of reduced carbon from subducted eclogite

February 3, 2017/by Adrian Lenardic

How habitable zones and super-Earths lead us astray

January 13, 2017/by Cin-Ty Lee

Episodic nature of continental arc activity since 750 Ma: A global compilation

January 13, 2017/by Laurence Yeung

The relative abundances of resolved ¹²CH₂D₂ and ¹³CH₃D and mechanisms controlling isotopic bond ordering in abiotic and biotic methane gases

December 14, 2016/by Adrian Lenardic

Plate tectonics: A supercontinental boost

December 2, 2016/by Rajdeep Dasgupta

The fate of sulfide during decompression melting of peridotite – implications for sulfur inventory of the MORB-source depleted upper mantle

December 2, 2016/by Adrian Lenardic

Scaling relationships and physics for mixed heating convection in planetary interiors: Isoviscous spherical shells

December 2, 2016/by Adrian Lenardic

The Energetics and Convective Vigor of Mixedmode Heating: Velocity Scalings and Implications for the Tectonics of Exoplanets

November 18, 2016/by Adrian Lenardic

A window for plate tectonics in terrestrial planet evolution?

November 18, 2016/by Adrian Lenardic

The importance of temporal stress variation and dynamic disequilibrium for the initiation of plate tectonics

November 18, 2016/by Adrian Lenardic

The Solar System of Forking Paths: Bifurcations in Planetary Evolution and the Search for Life-Bearing Planets in Our Galaxy

November 18, 2016/by Adrian Lenardic

Climate-tectonic coupling: Variations in the mean, variations about the mean, and variations in mode

October 26, 2016/by Laurence Yeung

Isotopic ordering in atmospheric O₂ as a tracer of ozone photochemistry and the tropical atmosphere

October 14, 2016/by Laura Carter

Effect of melt composition on crustal carbonate assimilation: Implications for the transition from calcite consumption to skarnification and associated CO2 degassing

September 5, 2016/by Rajdeep Dasgupta

Carbon and sulfur budget of the silicate Earth explained by accretion of differentiated planetary embryos

August 29, 2016/by Rajdeep Dasgupta

Effects of water, depth and temperature on partial melting of mantle-wedge fluxed by hydrous sediment-melt in subduction zones

August 26, 2016/by Carrie Masiello

Charcoal Disrupts Soil Microbial Communication Through a Combination of Signal Sorption and Hydrolysis

August 26, 2016/by Carrie Masiello

New methods to track microbes’ behavior in the environment

August 26, 2016/by Alan Levander

A compressive sensing approach to the high-resolution linear Radon transform: Application on teleseismic wavefields

August 7, 2016/by Cin-Ty Lee

QSR: Marine record of Holocene climate, ocean, and cryosphere interactions: Herbert Sound, James Ross Island, Antarctica

August 7, 2016/by Cin-Ty Lee

Past ice-sheet behaviour: retreat scenarios and changing controls in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

July 11, 2016/by Cin-Ty Lee

Rice University scientists propose that life in the solar system could have been very different

June 17, 2016/by Cin-Ty Lee

EPSL: Critical porosity of melt segregation during crustal melting: Constraints from zonation of peritectic garnets in a dacite volcano

May 18, 2016/by Tian Dong

GSAB: Controls on gravel termination in seven distributary channels of the Selenga River Delta, Baikal Rift basin, Russia

May 16, 2016/by Cin-Ty Lee

PNAS: A lead isotope perspective on urban development in ancient Naples

May 16, 2016/by Cin-Ty Lee

NATURE GEOSCIENCE: Two step rise of atmospheric oxygen

May 4, 2016/by Cin-Ty Lee

NATURE: Fault-controlled hydration of the upper mantle during continental rifting

May 3, 2016/by Cin-Ty Lee

SCIENCE: Continental Arc Volcanism driving greenhouse-icehouse variability

February 18, 2016/by Laurence Yeung

PNAS: Widespread collapse of the Ross Ice Shelf during the late Holocene

February 10, 2016/by Brandon Dugan

Impacts of biochar concentration and particle size on hydraulic conductivity and DOC leaching of biochar–sand mixtures

February 4, 2016/by Monica Erdman

Role of arc magmatism and lower crustal foundering in controlling elevation history of the Nevadaplano and Colorado Plateau: A case study of pyroxenitic lower crust from central Arizona, USA

January 27, 2016/by Carrie Masiello

Chemical and Isotopic Thresholds in Charring: Implications for the Interpretation of Charcoal Mass and Isotopic Data

January 26, 2016/by Richard Gordon

Deformation of Indian Ocean lithosphere: Evidence for a highly nonlinear rheological law

January 25, 2016/by Cin-Ty Lee

The rise and fall of continental arcs

October 18, 2015/by Laurence Yeung

Combinatorial effects on clumped isotopes and their significance in biogeochemistry

September 26, 2015/by Gerald Dickens

Mixed Carbonate–Siliciclastic Sedimentation Along the Great Barrier Reef Upper Slope: A Challenge to the Reciprocal Sedimentation Model

September 25, 2015/by Gerald Dickens

The onset of the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum at Branch Stream, Clarence River valley, New Zealand

September 24, 2015/by Laura Carter

An Experimental Study of Trace Element Fluxes from Subducted Oceanic Crust

September 4, 2015/by Hehe Jiang

Geochemistry and thermodynamics of an earthquake: A case study of pseudotachylites within mylonitic granitoid

August 28, 2015/by Min Chen

Insight to the enigmatic origin of the Hangai Dome in central Mongolia

August 12, 2015/by Cin-Ty Lee

Hydrous basalt–limestone interaction at crustal conditions: Implications for generation of ultracalcic melts and outflux of CO₂ at volcanic arcs

April 24, 2015/by Cin-Ty Lee

SCIENCE: Biological signatures in clumped isotopes of O₂

April 3, 2015/by Cin-Ty Lee

The effects of internal heating and large scale variations on tectonic bi-stability in terrestrial planets