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{"title":"Comment on “Revisiting the Dom Feliciano Belt and surrounding areas – An integrated geophysical and isotope geology approach” by Teixeira et al","authors":"Giuseppe Betino De Toni","doi":"10.1016/j.earscirev.2026.105423","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.earscirev.2026.105423","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Teixeira et al. (2025) integrated previously published regional geophysical and geochronological data with new gravimetric surveys of the Dom Feliciano Belt (DFB) and surrounding areas. However, the paper contains a few inaccuracies and overlooks some publications that should be considered in a review. This comment aims to deepen the discussion by recognizing some data not considered in their paper, foccusing in a critical evaluation of (1) \"terrenology\" as a working philosophy in the context of DFB, considering (2) the authochtonous nature of major tectonic domains, (3) the non-continuity between Dorsal de Canguçu and Major Gercino shear zones, and (4) the controversial origin of hinterland batholiths either as post-collisional or magmatic arc.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11483,"journal":{"name":"Earth-Science Reviews","volume":"276 ","pages":"Article 105423"},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146153130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reply to Comment on “Revisiting the Dom Feliciano Belt and surrounding areas – An integrated geophysical and isotope geology approach”","authors":"C.D. Teixeira ,&nbsp;T.J. Girelli ,&nbsp;H. Serratt ,&nbsp;F. Chemale Jr.","doi":"10.1016/j.earscirev.2026.105424","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.earscirev.2026.105424","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This Reply addresses the Comment by De Toni (EARTH-D-25-01160) on our article “Revisiting the Dom Feliciano Belt and surrounding areas – An integrated geophysical and isotope geology approach” (Teixeira et al., 2025). We respond to points regarding: (1) the use of terrane terminology; (2) methodological differences in aerogeophysical interpretations; (3) the structural continuity between the Dorsal de Canguçu and Major Gercino Shear Zones; and (4) the nature of Ediacaran magmatic arcs. We maintain that the integrated geophysical and geochronological evidence presented in our original work provides a robust framework for understanding the complex tectonic evolution of southwestern Gondwana.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11483,"journal":{"name":"Earth-Science Reviews","volume":"276 ","pages":"Article 105424"},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146160272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Euler-pole clustering of GNSS velocities using unsupervised machine learning in the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau: Crustal block identification and the dominance of sinistral-slip faults","authors":"X. Rui ,&nbsp;D.S. Stamps","doi":"10.1016/j.earscirev.2026.105420","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.earscirev.2026.105420","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Previous studies have constrained fault slip rates and crustal block geometries of the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau (SETP) with contradictory results due to complex geodynamics and deformation patterns as well as subjective choices of crustal block boundaries. In this work, we address the issue of uncertain crustal block geometries by employing an unsupervised machine learning Euler pole clustering algorithm that automatically resolves regions that behave as rigid blocks (clusters) rotating on a sphere using GNSS velocity vectors. Optimal clustering results, determined by F-test and Euler-vector (angular velocity vector) overlap analyses, indicate 4 elongated crustal blocks exist in the SETP that are approximately parallel and delineated by a set of arcuate sinistral-slip faults. Our clustering results redefine the first-order kinematics of the SETP region with new crustal block definitions that elucidate the dominance of sinistral-slip faults.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11483,"journal":{"name":"Earth-Science Reviews","volume":"276 ","pages":"Article 105420"},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146135068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Moisture migration, ice lenses and frost heave characteristics of soils under one-dimensional freezing action: A critical literature review","authors":"Xiuling Ren ,&nbsp;Fujun Niu ,&nbsp;Degou Cai ,&nbsp;Jing Luo ,&nbsp;Qihao Yu ,&nbsp;Minghao Liu ,&nbsp;Guoan Yin ,&nbsp;Zeyong Gao","doi":"10.1016/j.earscirev.2026.105418","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.earscirev.2026.105418","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Soil frost heave seriously threatens the stability of engineering structures and the normal operation of major infrastructures in cold regions. This paper aims to synthesize the development and state of the art in moisture migration, cryostructure, soil frost heave, as well as their underlying micro-mechanisms, impacting factors and simulation models. First, we provide a brief review on moisture migration, cryostructure and soil frost heave. Second, some microstructural experiments incorporate X-ray computed tomography (X-CT), scanning electron microscope (SEM), and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) were reviewed to elucidate the underlying micro-mechanisms. Third, impacting factors for soil frost heave covering soil intrinsic properties, testing and environmental conditions were summarized. Moreover, numerous frost heave models involving theoretical, numerical, and machine learning (ML) models were discussed. Then, we point out some limits and identify the direction of future efforts. Despite advances achieved through decades of researches, some issues remain in the research on the frost heave of the coarse-grained soils, and soils with admixtures. To solve these problems by performing one-dimensional (1D) freezing and microstructural experiments on these soils considering these factors, and establishing novel frost heave models. Overall, this review will provide significant references for further research on soil frost heave, and an important theoretical guidance for the prevention and control of the frost heave distresses of infrastructures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11483,"journal":{"name":"Earth-Science Reviews","volume":"276 ","pages":"Article 105418"},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146135070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Global wood cascades from terrestrial sources to terrestrial, freshwater, and marine sinks","authors":"Ellen Wohl ,&nbsp;Nikolai Maximenko ,&nbsp;Rebecca Helm","doi":"10.1016/j.earscirev.2026.105425","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.earscirev.2026.105425","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Forests cover nearly one third of Earth’s land. Dead, downed wood plays a critical role in the planet's physical, biogeochemical, evolutionary, and ecological processes. Wood from terrestrial source areas moves into freshwater and marine environments in wood cascades. Cascades embody a ‘source-to-sink’ approach emphasizing the details of connectivity between production and eventual recycling and can be applied at local to global scales. We lack quantitative studies of specific source-to-sink wood movement, including volumes of wood involved in the cascade, timespans of transport and storage, or partitioning of terrestrial wood from a particular forested area into diverse potential sinks. Characterizing wood cascades can highlight differences in wood dynamics from source to sink and identify geographically specific wood cascades disrupted by human activities, the potential consequences associated with this disruption, and strategies for mitigating the disruption. We review existing understanding of wood production at terrestrial sources, transport processes and rates in freshwater and marine settings, and wood abundance in sinks, and highlight knowledge gaps. Wood dynamics in forests and rivers are the best understood components of wood cascades. Global deforestation and freshwater and coastal management have drastically altered wood cascades. Despite the documented importance of wood, contemporary understanding of wood abundance and quantitative prediction of transport processes and pathways or wood accumulation sites is limited. An integrative conceptualization of wood from source to sink and research targeted at known gaps can advance our understanding of the importance of wood and inform efforts to manage wood for human and environmental benefits.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11483,"journal":{"name":"Earth-Science Reviews","volume":"276 ","pages":"Article 105425"},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146153125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integrated constraints of tectonics, sedimentation and climatic regimes on the pre- and post-salt petroleum systems in the Santos Basin, Southeastern Brazil","authors":"Yiran Lu, Huajian Wang, Wenyang Wang, Wang Zhang, Zhong-Qiang Chen, Liang Zhao, Rixiang Zhu","doi":"10.1016/j.earscirev.2026.105522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2026.105522","url":null,"abstract":"Recent hydrocarbon discoveries in the pre-salt section of the offshore Santos Basin have significantly advanced global deep-to-ultra-deep water hydrocarbon exploration. These successes highlight the vast potential of depositional successions formed during the Mesozoic breakup of Western Gondwana and the opening of the South Atlantic Ocean. However, the formation mechanisms of both the pre- and post-salt petroleum systems remain poorly constrained. This study aims to reconstruct the tectonic and climatic evolutions of the Santos Basin, and to examine how their multi-scale interplays controlled the development of these two petroleum systems. Source rocks, reservoirs, and seals were formed during the intracontinental rift stage and subsequent passive margin formation stage, respectively. During the transitional stage, an extensive salt layer was deposited under an arid regime in the Santos Basin, influenced by a southern paleo-geographic barrier. Several key events, including the eruption of Paraná–Etendeka Large Igneous Province (PE-LIP), pre- to syn-rift magmatism, the uplift of Serra do Mar coastal range, and the development of Australis and Paraíba do Sul river systems, collectively regulated water and sediment supply, facilitating the formation of the pre-salt source rocks and post-salt siliciclastic reservoirs. Active deep tectonic processes promoted rapid burial and heating of syn-rift deposits, enabling pre-salt source rocks to enter the oil window during the Albian−Cenomanian. Hydrocarbons generated at that time migrated into overlying lacustrine carbonate reservoirs and were effectively sealed by the massive Ariri evaporites. In contrast, post-salt source rocks, due to shallower burial depths and insufficient kitchen heating, remain immature to marginally mature and thus have less contribution to the discovered hydrocarbons. Nevertheless, some post-salt source rocks deposited in topographic lows, including those created by halokinesis, retain exploration potential. Synthesizing these findings from a perspective of Earth system science, emphasizing multi-spheric interactions, provides new insights into the mechanisms of hydrocarbon generation and accumulation in rift lacustrine basins. Applying this approach to other basin types could establish its predictive value and support exploration in areas with limited geological knowledge.","PeriodicalId":11483,"journal":{"name":"Earth-Science Reviews","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147752836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The uppermost Sinemurian and Sinemurian–Pliensbachian transition in Western and Northern Iberia: A chronostratigraphic review and correlation framework","authors":"Íñigo Vitón, María José Comas-Rengifo, Luís V. Duarte, Ricardo L. Silva, Antonio Goy","doi":"10.1016/j.earscirev.2026.105507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2026.105507","url":null,"abstract":"The uppermost Sinemurian and the Sinemurian–Pliensbachian transition represent a critical interval for Lower Jurassic chronostratigraphic correlation. This study presents a comprehensive review of published ammonite-based chronostratigraphic data for this interval, using the Polvoeira-Água de Madeiros (Lusitanian Basin, western Portugal) and Rodiles East (Asturian Basin, northern Spain) sections as key references. These sections are expanded and display a continuous and complete ammonite succession, allowing high-resolution correlation with the Pliensbachian GSSP at Robin Hood's Bay (UK).","PeriodicalId":11483,"journal":{"name":"Earth-Science Reviews","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147726619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Discussion: Episodic terrestrial connectivity and late Palaeozoic tetrapod dispersal in eastern Pangaea","authors":"Leonidas Brikiatis","doi":"10.1016/j.earscirev.2026.105485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2026.105485","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution presents a Discussion of the recent article by <ce:cross-ref ref>Davydov et al. (2026)</ce:cross-ref> on Late Palaeozoic tetrapod dispersal in eastern Pangaea. The study re-examines several key lines of evidence used to support the hypothesis of a permanent terrestrial corridor between western and eastern Pangaea at the Asselian–Sakmarian transition (∼293 Ma), including the age of Chinese tetrapod footprints, the phylogenetic implications of early seymouriamorphs, marine faunal distributions, and palaeogeographic reconstructions. The analysis evaluates whether the available geological and palaeontological data are consistent with a model of continuous terrestrial connectivity or are better explained by episodic land-bridge formation linked to sea-level fluctuations. The results suggest that multiple independent datasets are compatible with intermittent rather than permanent connectivity, supporting a more dynamic palaeogeographic framework for tetrapod dispersal during the Late Palaeozoic.","PeriodicalId":11483,"journal":{"name":"Earth-Science Reviews","volume":"240 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147680762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Climatic and anthropogenic controls on late Holocene sediment transport to the Gulf of Mexico by the Mississippi River","authors":"Peter D. Clift ,&nbsp;Bailey Wycoff ,&nbsp;Andrew Carter ,&nbsp;Samuel Muñoz ,&nbsp;Nikki Neubeck ,&nbsp;Brittney Gregory ,&nbsp;Carol A. Wilson ,&nbsp;Tammy Rittenour ,&nbsp;Jerzy Blusztajn ,&nbsp;Tamer Ali","doi":"10.1016/j.earscirev.2026.105401","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.earscirev.2026.105401","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Models of large alluviated rivers suggest that erosional signals from the headwaters are not transported to the marine depocenter over many timescales because of extensive sediment buffering and recycling in flood plains. We present here a new integrated Late Holocene sedimentary record of the Mississippi River, synthesizing earlier analyses and new material from oxbow lakes, filled channel plugs and a continuous core from the delta to reconstruct a detailed 3000-year record of sediment compositions in the lower reaches. As well as major element data and new detrital zircon U-Pb dating since 860 y BP, our study presents a new basin-wide Sr and Nd isotope record. We show that weathering proxies are controlled by grain size, with little evidence for a long-term trend in chemical weathering in the last 3000 years. ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr, but not ε_Nd values are linked to grain size and the degree of chemical alteration, with coarser material generally lower in ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr compared to fine sediment.</div><div>There is a long-term trend towards more erosion of ancient crust shown in suspended sediment, with greater flux from the Superior Province via the Upper Mississippi, increasing after 2000 y BP, when the climate dried, and humans adopted a more sedentary rather than hunter-gatherer lifestyle. This contrast with the sandy sediment that shows less erosion from the Trans-Hudson, Superior Province and Appalachian until ∼400 years ago. Another change is noted in both muddy and sandy sediment after ∼400 years ago, close to the start of the Little Ice Age, a time of colder and drier climate, when there was a gradual decrease in flux from the Rocky Mountain foreland basin via the Missouri River. The Mississippi River is not fully buffered on centennial scales prior to the installation of man-made levees. Short-term changes in zircon U-Pb populations indicate pulses of sediment supply to the lower reaches, likely related to floods. Maximum sediment supply from the Missouri River occurred at the Last Glacial Maximum and in the recent past (∼10 years).</div><div>A drying climate after 1000 years ago increased sediment delivery from the Appalachians, Trans-Hudson and Yavapai terranes by enhancing stream incision while reducing reworking of moraines eroded from the Superior Province. After ∼400 years ago human settlement of the Rocky Mountain foreland enhanced erosion from that region. Modern Mississippi sediment supply is heavily anthropogenically disrupted and thus makes a poor analog for older sediments deposited in the Gulf of Mexico.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11483,"journal":{"name":"Earth-Science Reviews","volume":"275 ","pages":"Article 105401"},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146048132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comparison of joint networks in limestones interbedded in shales","authors":"Marta Magán ,&nbsp;David J. Sanderson ,&nbsp;David C.P. Peacock","doi":"10.1016/j.earscirev.2026.105414","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.earscirev.2026.105414","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Joint networks exhibit a range of geometrical and topological features described by many different parameters. Data were collected using unmanned aerial vehicle images of ten limestone beds in the Lower Liassic rocks of Somerset, SW England, which were analysed using a GIS and relational database. Parameters were measured from digitizing maps and images of joint networks, and investigated using a range of parameters and statistical methods without assigning joints to sets. Geometry is analysed using: rose diagrams and cumulative plots of orientation, trace length statistics, and measures of intensity and block size; with the poly-modal orientation data treated by non-parametric methods (Kuiper tests). Topology is analysed based on the numbers of nodes, branches and regions.</div><div>The results show that the networks have similar topology, but have significant variations in intensity, block size and orientation between beds. The within-bed and between-bed variability is evaluated using analysis of variance methods. This allows discussion of stratigraphical and spatial variation, and the evolution of joint networks in multi-bedded sequences. Although bed thickness accounts for some of this variability, long, early formed joints are argued to control much of the network geometry and topology. The methods developed here can be applied directly, or with minor modification, to networks of veins, faults and other structures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11483,"journal":{"name":"Earth-Science Reviews","volume":"275 ","pages":"Article 105414"},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146072727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}