Atmospheric CO2 over the Past 66 Million Years from Marine Archives

JWB Rae, YG Zhang, X Liu, GL Foster… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Throughout Earth's history, CO2 is thought to have exerted a fundamental control on
environmental change. Here we review and revise CO2 reconstructions from boron isotopes …

[HTML][HTML] Andean mountain building since the Late Cretaceous: A paleoelevation reconstruction

LM Boschman - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Mountain building in the Andes, the longest continental mountain range on Earth, started in
the Late Cretaceous but was highly diachronous. Reconstructing the timing of surface uplift …

Orogenic quiescence in Earth's middle age

M Tang, X Chu, J Hao, B Shen - Science, 2021 - science.org
Mountain belts modulate denudation flux and hydrologic processes and are thus
fundamental to nutrient cycling on Earth's surface. We used europium anomalies in detrital …

Global CO2 Consumption by Silicate Rock Chemical Weathering: Its Past and Future

S Zhang, X Bai, C Zhao, Q Tan, G Luo, J Wang… - Earth's …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Silicate rock weathering maintains a stable and long‐term absorption of CO2. However, the
magnitude, spatial pattern, and evolution characteristics of global silicate rock weathering …

Monsoon controls on sediment generation and transport: Mass budget and provenance constraints from the Indus River catchment, delta and submarine fan over …

PD Clift, TN Jonell - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
How well do deep-sea sedimentary archives track erosion in upland sources, driven by
climatic change or tectonic forcing? Located on the western edge of South Asian monsoon …

[HTML][HTML] Subduction initiation in the Scotia Sea region and opening of the Drake Passage: When and why?

SHA van de Lagemaat, MLA Swart, B Vaes… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
During evolution of the South Sandwich subduction zone, which has consumed South
American Plate oceanic lithosphere, somehow continental crust of both the South American …

Sea level and deep-sea temperature reconstructions suggest quasi-stable states and critical transitions over the past 40 million years

EJ Rohling, J Yu, D Heslop, GL Foster, B Opdyke… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Sea level and deep-sea temperature variations are key indicators of global climate changes.
For continuous records over millions of years, deep-sea carbonate microfossil–based δ18O …

Global chemical weathering dominated by continental arcs since the mid-Palaeozoic

TM Gernon, TK Hincks, AS Merdith, EJ Rohling… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Earth's plate-tectonic activity regulates the carbon cycle and, hence, climate, via volcanic
outgassing and silicate-rock weathering. Mountain building, arc–continent collisions and …

Predicting algal blooms: Are we overlooking groundwater?

AE Brookfield, AT Hansen, PL Sullivan… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Significant advances in understanding and predicting freshwater algal bloom dynamics
have emerged in response to both increased occurrence and financial burden of nuisance …

Potassium isotopic fractionation during clay adsorption

W Li, XM Liu, Y Hu, FZ Teng, Y Hu - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
Clay adsorption is a critical process responsible for the mobilization and cycling of
potassium (K) on Earth's surface. Recent studies emphasized the potential of using stable K …