Published in Communications Earth & Environment
Information on the initial chemical nature of Archean organic materials can survive in rocks despite a complex geological history, according to spatially resolved chemical analyses of 3.4-billion-year old organic films.
Published in Communications Earth & Environment
Shocked apatite and merrillite in lunar norites from the Apollo 17 Station 8 record impact events around 4.2 and 0.5 billion years ago, the former of which could represent the formation age of the Serenitatis Basin, according to U-Pb and Pb-Pb dating.
Published in Communications Earth & Environment
Repeating earthquakes display variable behaviour across distinct portions of the Pernicana fault system, Mt. Etna, indicating structural differences and episodic triggering, according to a 20 year earthquake dataset, and GPS ground deformation measurements.
Published in Communications Earth & Environment
Cubanite and chalcopyrite identified in regolith grains returned from the Itokawa asteroid by the Hayabusa mission likely represent part of an exogenous mineral assemblage with a carbonaceous chondrite or cometary origin
Published in Communications Earth & Environment
The long-term mean northern Atlantic Overturning Circulation is substantially influenced by horizontal circulation across sloping density surfaces, suggest analyses of high-resolution climate model simulations constrained by observed hydrographic climatology.
Published in Communications Earth & Environment
The global occurrence of harmful algal bloom events is not increasing uniformly over time and the increase in recorded events is due to enhanced coastal monitoring and aquaculture, according to an analysis of a 33-year global dataset.
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Future changes in non-growing season conditions, particularly irradiance and temperature, will enhance carbon emissions from a northern peatland, according to projections with a data-driven machine learning model.
Published in Communications Earth & Environment
Cenozoic signatures of life in calcite and pyrite deposits suggest deep biosphere activity throughout the Fennoscandian Shield, as revealed by isotopic, molecular and morphological analyses of mineral specimens.
Published in Communications Earth & Environment
Small-scale soil hydraulic properties can be accounted for in large-scale hydrologic and climate models by incorporating vegetation influences on soil structure, informed by global-scale vegetation metrics and soil texture data
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Late Cenozoic variation in Central Asian hydroclimate resulted from the interaction between mid-latitude westerlies and the Siberian high-pressure system and may have driven terrestrial feedbacks, according to analyses of sediments from Charyn Canyon, Kazakhstan.
