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Showing papers in "Earth and Planetary Science Letters in 2017"


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TL;DR: In this paper, the first three drilled samples from the Murray formation, measured in the Pahrump Hills section, were reported, along with full pattern fitting analyses of X-ray diffraction patterns measured by the MSL CheMin instrument.

261 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the age of the subducting Pacific slab beneath East Asia using a high-resolution model of P-wave tomography and paleo-age data of ancient seafloor was studied.

211 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined triggering mechanisms of induced earthquakes, which occurred at more than 40 km from wastewater disposal wells in the greater Fairview region, northwest Oklahoma, employing numerical and semi-analytical poroelastic models.

200 citations


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TL;DR: This paper used the rare earth element patterns in marine carbonates to monitor the structure of the marine redox landscape through the rise and diversification of animals and early land plants, and found that it was not until the Late Devonian when large land plants and forests first evolved that oxygen levels reached those comparable to the modern world.

185 citations



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TL;DR: In this article, a provenance study of the youngest detrital sedimentary rocks of the Tethyan Himalaya of the Indian plate, in the Western Himalaya, was conducted.

145 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, a detailed dataset of coastal deformation comprising airborne lidar differencing, field surveying and satellite geodesy reveals highly variable vertical displacements, ranging from −2.5 to 6.5 m.

139 citations


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TL;DR: The authors examined the source of leucogranite bodies in one of the world's youngest collisional orogens using novel zircon techniques that can resolve the presence of even minor mantle contributions.

139 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the interplay of crustal thickness and magmatic differentiation using a global geochemical dataset compiled from active volcanic arcs and elevation as a proxy for thickness.

137 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the trace element chemistry of zircons from titanite-bearing intrusions associated with mineralisation at the world class Oyu Tolgoi porphyry Cu-Au deposit (Mongolia) is reported.

132 citations


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TL;DR: The authors examined the stratigraphic architecture and mineralogy of the western fan deposit in the Jezero crater paleolake on Mars to reassess whether this fan formed as a delta in a standing body of water, as opposed to by alluvial or debris flow processes.


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present finite element (FE) geodynamical simulations of Ceres to identify the internal structures and compositions that best reproduce its topography as observed by the NASA Dawn mission.

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TL;DR: In this paper, an improved method for the chemical purification of Rb for high-precision isotope ratio measurements by multi-collector inductively-coupledplasma mass-spectrometry was proposed.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present biostratigraphically constrained carbon isotope data from western North America (Alberta and British Columbia, Canada) to better assess the global extent of the carbon cycle perturbations.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a database of >160 finite fault models for all earthquakes of M 7.5 and above since 1990, created using a consistent modeling approach, and for the first time show a clear and intriguing relationship between maximum potency (the product of slip and area) and average potency for a given earthquake.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a double direct shear configuration within a true-triaxial pressure vessel was used to study the effect of fluid overpressure on the evolution of fault slip.

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TL;DR: Kimberlite and carbonatite magmas that intrude cratonic lithosphere are among the deepest probes of the terrestrial carbon cycle, and their coexistence on thick continental shields is commonly attributed to continuous partial melting sequences of carbonated peridotite at >150 km depths, possibly as deep as the mantle transition zone as mentioned in this paper.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a suite of Cenozoic potassic basalts from NE China displays many previously unrecognized correlations between chemical and isotopic parameters, which tightly constrain the isotopic characteristics of an extreme EM1-type mantle source located in the asthenosphere.

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TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper used secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) baddeleyite dating to show that the diabase sills are distributed over a region that is >600 km long and >200 km wide, with areal extent > 1.2 × 10 5 ǫ

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors calculate the volume of mare basalt emplaced as a function of time, then estimate the corresponding production of volatiles released during the mare-forming eruptions.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a novel reconstruction approach and updated geodetic VLM corrections to estimate the vertical land motion (VLM) at tide gauges and found the terrestrial reference frame and the estimated VLM uncertainty may contribute to the global SLC rate error by ± 0.2 mmyr-1.

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TL;DR: In this article, a large river water data set (1,340 samples) covering most parts of the Tibetan Plateau was presented to characterize the spatial variability and controlling factors of their isotopic compositions.

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TL;DR: This article showed that instead of being caused by the lake outburst, the event could have been caused by accelerated melt from the collapsing ice saddle that linked domes over Hudson Bay in North America.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a 3D, viscoelastic finite element model of the M9 2011 Tohoku-oki, Japan earthquake capable of predicting postseismic displacements due to visco-elastic relaxation and afterslip.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the fate of mantle volatiles through numerical simulations of melting and melt transport at mid-ocean ridges, based on two-phase, magma/mantle dynamics theory coupled to an idealised thermodynamic model of mantle melting in the presence of water and carbon dioxide.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the transition from passive margin to foreland basin sedimentation in the High Zagros belt to provide chronological constraints on the initial stage of Arabia-Eurasia collision and closure of the Neo-Tethys.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a box model to show that the best explanation for the higher δ 238 U values of the post-Sturtian limestones is extensive and temporary oxygenation of the seafloor, and is inconsistent with a scenario involving only increased delivery of uranium to the oceans due to post-Snowball weathering.

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TL;DR: In this article, a combination of uniaxial compressive strength measurements of isotropic and anisotropic porous lava samples, and numerical modelling was used to consider the influence of pore shape on rock strength.

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TL;DR: In this article, a multi-proxy approach that included petrographic analysis of over 275,000 grains, detrital zircon geochronology and apatite thermochronometry rule out local sources (Antarctic Peninsula or South Orkney Islands) for the material.