Recent Publications

October 16, 2018/by Gelu Costin

SEG Special Publications, Chapter 9: Anhydrite assimilation by ultramafic melts of the Bushveld Complex, and its consequences to petrology and mineralization

October 4, 2018/by Rajdeep Dasgupta

JPet: Sulfur inventory of ocean island basalt source regions constrained by modeling the fate of sulfide during decompression melting of a heterogeneous mantle

September 18, 2018/by James Eguchi

Geochemical Perspectives Letters: Redox state of the convective mantle from CO2-trace element systematics of oceanic basalts

August 21, 2018/by Gelu Costin

Chemistry of Materials: A non-van der Waals 2D Material from natural titanium mineral ore Ilmenite

August 16, 2018/by Gelu Costin

Chemistry of Materials: Impurity controlled crystal growth in low dimensional bismuth telluride

August 10, 2018/by Laurence Yeung

RCMS: Scale distortion from pressure baselines as a source of inaccuracy in triple-isotope measurements

August 3, 2018/by Kyusei Tsuno

GCA: Core-mantle fractionation of carbon in Earth and Mars: The effects of sulfur

July 19, 2018/by Gelu Costin

Advanced Materials Interfaces: Chromiteen: A New 2D Oxide Magnetic Material from Natural Ore

July 19, 2018/by Gelu Costin

Nature Nanotechnology: Exfoliation of a non-van der Waals material from iron ore hematite

June 29, 2018/by Loredana Suciu

ACS: Ratiometric Gas Reporting: A Nondisruptive Approach To Monitor Gene Expression in Soils

June 29, 2018/by Loredana Suciu

PLOS ONE: Effect of freeze-thaw cycling on grain size of biochar

June 29, 2018/by Loredana Suciu

JGR-Biogeosciences: Short-Term Changes in Physical and Chemical Properties of Soil Charcoal Support Enhanced Landscape Mobility

June 29, 2018/by Loredana Suciu

Scientific Reports: Carbon sequestration potential and physicochemical properties differ between wildfire charcoals and slow-pyrolysis biochars

June 29, 2018/by Loredana Suciu

EST: Valuing the Air Quality Effects of Biochar Reductions on Soil NO Emissions

June 29, 2018/by Loredana Suciu

JGR-Biogeosciences: Plant species, not climate, controls aboveground biomass O2:CO2 exchange ratios in deciduous and coniferous ecosystems

June 29, 2018/by Laura Carter

Chem Geo: Decarbonation in the Ca-Mg-Fe carbonate system at mid-crustal pressure as a function of temperature and assimilation with arc magmas – Implications for long-term climate

June 6, 2018/by Pankaj Khanna

Geomorphology: Submerged reef terraces in the Maldivian Archipelago (Indian Ocean)

May 3, 2018/by James Eguchi

Chem Geo: A CO2 solubility model for silicate melts from fluid saturation to graphite or diamond saturation

April 19, 2018/by Nur Schuba

EPSL: A low-angle detachment fault revealed: Three-dimensional images of the S-reflector fault zone along the Galicia passive margin

March 25, 2018/by Cin-Ty Lee

Scientific Reports: Volcanic ash as a driver of enhanced organic carbon burial in the Cretaceous

March 25, 2018/by Cin-Ty Lee

EPSL: An imbalance in the deep water cycle at subduction zones: The potential importance of the fore-arc mantle

March 9, 2018/by Sriparna Saha

G-cubed: High-Pressure Phase Relations of a Depleted Peridotite Fluxed by CO2-H2O-Bearing Siliceous Melts and the Origin of Mid-Lithospheric Discontinuity

March 6, 2018/by Rajdeep Dasgupta

AJS: Volatile-bearing partial melts beneath oceans and continents – Where, how much, and of what compositions?

February 8, 2018/by Gelu Costin

Nature Communication: Platinum-bearing chromite layers are caused by pressure reduction during magma ascent

November 27, 2017/by Rajdeep Dasgupta

GCA: New high pressure experiments on sulfide saturation of high-FeO* basalts with variable TiO2 contents – Implications for the sulfur inventory of the lunar interior

November 17, 2017/by Laurence Yeung

Science Advances: Extreme enrichment in atmospheric ¹⁵N¹⁵N

November 7, 2017/by Laurence Yeung

EPSL: Low oxygen and argon in the Neoproterozoic atmosphere at 815 Ma

October 19, 2017/by Pankaj Khanna

Nature Comm: Coralgal reef morphology records punctuated sea-level rise during the last deglaciation

October 3, 2017/by Clint Miller

“Data report: reanalysis of interstitial water barium, iron, and sulfur concentrations at Sites U1426 and U1427”, by Clint Miller and Gerald Dickens, in Volume 346 of the Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program.

August 4, 2017/by Linda Welzenbach

Regional background O3 and NOx in the Houston–Galveston–Brazoria (TX) region: a decadal-scale perspective

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

Upcoming Seminars

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Thu 25

Current Research in EEPS Seminar: Mathieu Lapotre – Harvard University

October 25 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm CDT