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{"title":"A critical review of hurricane risk assessment models and predictive frameworks","authors":"Sameera Maha Arachchige , Biswajeet Pradhan , Hyuck-Jin Park","doi":"10.1016/j.gsf.2025.102012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gsf.2025.102012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Hurricanes are one of the most destructive natural disasters that can cause catastrophic losses to both communities and infrastructure. Assessment of hurricane risk furnishes a spatial depiction of the interplay among hazard, vulnerability, exposure, and mitigation capacity, crucial for understanding and managing the risks hurricanes pose to communities. These assessments aid in gauging the efficacy of existing hurricane mitigation strategies and gauging their resilience across diverse climate change scenarios. A systematic review was conducted, encompassing 94 articles, to scrutinize the structure, data inputs, assumptions, methodologies, perils modelled, and key predictors of hurricane risk. This review identified key research gaps essential for enhancing future risk assessments. The complex interaction between hurricane perils may be disastrous and underestimated in the majority of risk assessments which focus on a single peril, commonly storm surge and flood, resulting in inadequacies in disaster resilience planning. Most risk assessments were based on hurricane frequency rather than hurricane damage, which is more insightful for policymakers. Furthermore, considering secondary indirect impacts stemming from hurricanes, including real estate market and business interruption, could enrich economic impact assessments. Hurricane mitigation measures were the most under-utilised category of predictors leveraged in only 5% of studies. The top six predictive factors for hurricane risk were land use, slope, precipitation, elevation, population density, and soil texture/drainage. Another notable research gap identified was the potential of machine learning techniques in risk assessments, offering advantages over traditional MCDM and numerical models due to their ability to capture complex nonlinear relationships and adaptability to different study regions. Existing machine learning based risk assessments leverage random forest models (42% of studies) followed by neural network models (19% of studies), with further research required to investigate diverse machine learning algorithms such as ensemble models. A further research gap is model validation, in particular assessing transferability to a new study region. Additionally, harnessing simulated data and refining projections related to demographic and built environment dynamics can bolster the sophistication of climate change scenario assessments. By addressing these research gaps, hurricane risk assessments can furnish invaluable insights for national policymakers, facilitating the development of robust hurricane mitigation strategies and the construction of hurricane-resilient communities. To the authors’ knowledge, this represents the first literature review specifically dedicated to quantitative hurricane risk assessments, encompassing a comparison of Multi-criteria Decision Making (MCDM), numerical models, and machine learning models. Ultimately, advancements in hurricane risk assessmen","PeriodicalId":12711,"journal":{"name":"Geoscience frontiers","volume":"16 3","pages":"Article 102012"},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143480627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Influence of ambient geochemical and microbiological variables on the bacterial diversity in a cold seep ecosystem in North Indian Ocean","authors":"Delcy R. Nazareth ,&nbsp;Maria Judith Gonsalves ,&nbsp;Nitisha Sangodkar","doi":"10.1016/j.gsf.2025.102015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gsf.2025.102015","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cold seeps are oases for biological communities on the sea floor around hydrocarbon emission pathways. Microbial utilization of methane and other hydrocarbons yield products that fuel rich chemosynthetic communities at these sites. One such site in the cold seep ecosystem of Krishna-Godavari basin (K-G basin) along the east coast of India, discovered in Feb 2018 at a depth of 1800 m was assessed for its bacterial diversity. The seep bacterial communities were dominated by phylum Proteobacteria (57%), Firmicutes (16%) and unclassified species belonging to the family <em>Helicobacteriaceae</em>. The surface sediments of the seep had maximum OTUs (operational taxonomic units) (2.27 × 10³) with a Shannon alpha diversity index of 8.06. In general, environmental parameters like total organic carbon (p &lt; 0.01), sulfate (p &lt; 0.001), sulfide (p &lt; 0.05) and methane (p &lt; 0.01) were responsible for shaping the bacterial community of the cold seep ecosystem in the K-G Basin. Environmental parameters play a significant role in changing the bacterial diversity richness between different cold seep environments in the oceans.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12711,"journal":{"name":"Geoscience frontiers","volume":"16 3","pages":"Article 102015"},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143519652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Do energy intensity, resource abundance and inequality drive energy poverty? Evidence from developing countries","authors":"Ashar Awan ,&nbsp;Mustafa Kocoglu ,&nbsp;Mohammad Subhan ,&nbsp;Mohammed Shakib ,&nbsp;Nora Yusma bte Mohamed Yusoff","doi":"10.1016/j.gsf.2025.102014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gsf.2025.102014","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Energy poverty in developing countries is a critical issue characterized by the lack of access to modern energy services, such as electricity and clean cooking facilities, as marked in SDG 7. This study explores the correlations between energy poverty, energy intensity, resource abundance, and income inequality, as these factors have been theorized to play important roles in influencing energy poverty in developing countries. By observing that the dataset is heterogeneous across the countries and over the time frame, we use the Method of Moments Quantile Regression (MMQR) to analyze our developing countries’ data from 2000 to 2019. Our findings indicate that energy intensity is a significant factor influencing energy poverty, suggesting that higher energy consumption relative to the sample countries can exacerbate this issue. Additionally, we observe that income inequality within the sample countries is a critical determinant of energy poverty levels, highlighting the dynamics between economic disparity and access to energy resources. Interestingly, our study reveals that resource abundance acts as a blessing rather than a curse in terms of energy poverty, implying that countries rich in natural resources may have better opportunities to combat energy deprivation. Finally, we emphasize the vital role of financial markets in addressing energy poverty on a global scale, suggesting that robust financial systems can facilitate investments and innovations aimed at improving energy access for vulnerable populations. The results from the robustness supports the empirical results obtained from the main estimation. The empirical findings of the present study advance important comprehensions for policymakers to adopt energy policies that address the complex challenges of energy poverty and promote inclusive energy access.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12711,"journal":{"name":"Geoscience frontiers","volume":"16 3","pages":"Article 102014"},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143480628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Machine learning of pyrite geochemistry reconstructs the multi-stage history of mineral deposits","authors":"Pengpeng Yu ,&nbsp;Yuan Liu ,&nbsp;Hanyu Wang ,&nbsp;Xi Chen ,&nbsp;Yi Zheng ,&nbsp;Wei Cao ,&nbsp;Yiqu Xiong ,&nbsp;Hongxiang Shan","doi":"10.1016/j.gsf.2025.102011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gsf.2025.102011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The application of machine learning for pyrite discrimination establishes a robust foundation for constructing the ore-forming history of multi-stage deposits; however, published models face challenges related to limited, imbalanced datasets and oversampling. In this study, the dataset was expanded to approximately 500 samples for each type, including 508 sedimentary, 573 orogenic gold, 548 sedimentary exhalative (SEDEX) deposits, and 364 volcanogenic massive sulfides (VMS) pyrites, utilizing random forest (RF) and support vector machine (SVM) methodologies to enhance the reliability of the classifier models. The RF classifier achieved an overall accuracy of 99.8%, and the SVM classifier attained an overall accuracy of 100%. The model was evaluated by a five-fold cross-validation approach with 93.8% accuracy for the RF and 94.9% for the SVM classifier. These results demonstrate the strong feasibility of pyrite classification, supported by a relatively large, balanced dataset and high accuracy rates. The classifier was employed to reveal the genesis of the controversial Keketale Pb-Zn deposit in NW China, which has been inconclusive among SEDEX, VMS, or a SEDEX-VMS transition. Petrographic investigations indicated that the deposit comprises early fine-grained layered pyrite (Py1) and late recrystallized pyrite (Py2). The majority voting classified Py1 as the VMS type, with an accuracy of RF and SVM being 72.2% and 75%, respectively, and confirmed Py2 as an orogenic type with 74.3% and 77.1% accuracy, respectively. The new findings indicated that the Keketale deposit originated from a submarine VMS mineralization system, followed by late orogenic-type overprinting of metamorphism and deformation, which is consistent with the geological and geochemical observations. This study further emphasizes the advantages of Machine learning (ML) methods in accurately and directly discriminating the deposit types and reconstructing the formation history of multi-stage deposits.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12711,"journal":{"name":"Geoscience frontiers","volume":"16 3","pages":"Article 102011"},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143420929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Warm continental subduction initiated by back-arc collapse: Evidence from remote south-west Tasmania","authors":"Dillon A. Brown ,&nbsp;Martin Hand ,&nbsp;Laura J. Morrissey ,&nbsp;Justin L. Payne ,&nbsp;Andrew W. McNeill","doi":"10.1016/j.gsf.2025.102009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gsf.2025.102009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Tasmanian microcontinent, situated along the East Gondwana accretionary margin during the late Neoproterozoic and early Palaeozoic, contains an unequivocal high-pressure metamorphic record comprising key information pertaining to the geodynamics of subduction along the margin. Subduction of the Tasmanian microcontinent is interpreted by some as a response to back-arc basin inversion prior to ophiolite obduction and high-pressure metamorphism during the Cambrian Tyennan Orogeny. However, thermobarometric evidence in support of such a model from rocks once positioned on the subducting continental margin is lacking. Despite occurrences of eclogite-facies mineral assemblages in the strongly deformed Tyennan Region of western Tasmania, garnet-bearing quartzofeldspathic assemblages documented in metasedimentary lithologies from the remote south-west coast of Tasmania have been interpreted as an expression of low- to moderate-pressure metamorphism. We report a strongly overprinted chlorite-quartz-garnet-bearing assemblage from the southern Tyennan Region (Nye Bay) which shows evidence for high-pressure metamorphism. Coarse-grained garnet porphyroblasts contain inclusions of kyanite, muscovite, and rutile, and yield in-situ Lu–Hf dates of c. 520 Ma. The cm-scale garnet porphyroblasts are zoned in the major and trace elements, preserving core-rim compositional gradients reflecting garnet growth up-pressure. Aided by mineral equilibria forward modelling, the garnet rim compositions and the Zr content of Cambrian rutile constrain peak metamorphic conditions of ∼ 17.5–19 kbar and ∼ 780–820 °C, equivalent to warm subduction thermal gradients between 410–470 °C/GPa. Garnet core compositions and the Ti content of quartz inclusions in the garnet cores constrain the pressures and temperatures for garnet nucleation to ∼ 6–7 kbar and ∼ 560–580 °C, corresponding to relatively high prograde thermal gradients between 800–965 °C/GPa. The thermal gradients determined from the south-west Tasmanian metamorphic record provide a direct window into the progressive evolution of the thermal state of the Cambrian subduction system, with the physical conditions of garnet nucleation potentially reflecting those of subduction initiation. The corresponding warm thermal gradients provide evidence for subduction initiation driven by the collapse of a pre-orogenic back-arc. This interpretation is consistent with an existing tectonic model for the Tyennan Orogeny which proposes a back-arc basin origin for the protoliths to the western Tasmanian sub-ophiolitic metamorphic sole.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12711,"journal":{"name":"Geoscience frontiers","volume":"16 3","pages":"Article 102009"},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143420930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Geospatial applicability optics of the TROPOspheric monitoring instrument (TROPOMI) on a global scale: An overview","authors":"Alcindo Neckel ,&nbsp;Emanuelle Goellner ,&nbsp;Marcos L.S. Oliveira ,&nbsp;Paloma Carollo Toscan ,&nbsp;Alana Urio ,&nbsp;Guilherme Peterle Schmitz ,&nbsp;Giana Mores ,&nbsp;Brian William Bodah ,&nbsp;Eduardo Nuno Borges Pereira","doi":"10.1016/j.gsf.2025.102008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gsf.2025.102008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Studies arising from literature reviews are important as they facilitate specific understanding about the use of the Sentinel-5P satellite developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) to detect the concentration levels of atmospheric pollutants on a global scale. The objective of this literature review is to analyze the application of the geospatial optics of the Sentinel-5P satellite; coupled with the Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) in the detection of NO₂ and CO over the period beginning in May 2018 and lasting through May 2024. This was accomplished using manuscripts published in the ScienceDirect databases. The study employed the rigorous Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) method, using the specific search term ‘sentinel TROPOMI satellite’, which yielded 555 results published between 2018 and 2024. Subsequently, 274 manuscripts were selected, and 85 were classified for analysis after a concise review. The Content Analysis Method (CAM) was used to understand the absolute frequency, with the use of the MAXQDA software (version 24.2.0) in this analysis. The purpose of using TROPOMI in the 85 manuscripts analyzed is significant. The manuscripts studied focused on air quality monitoring (30.1%), COVID-19 impact detection (24.3%), assessment of pollution sources (23.3%), support for decision makers (13.6%) and the development of methods and tools (8.7%). In this context, 38.5% of the examined studies focused on Asia, followed Europe (29.2%), North and South America (25.1%) and Africa (7.3%). TROPOMI data makes it possible to contribute to creating future government public policies on both the local and global scale.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12711,"journal":{"name":"Geoscience frontiers","volume":"16 2","pages":"Article 102008"},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143145347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lithium isotopes in the geothermal waters of the India–Asia continental convergent margin: Source and evolution","authors":"Yinlei Hao ,&nbsp;Hui Zhou ,&nbsp;Xingxing Kuang ,&nbsp;Qinghua Gong ,&nbsp;Yuqing Feng ,&nbsp;Meizhuang Zhu ,&nbsp;Nianqing Li ,&nbsp;Xiaoyan Shi","doi":"10.1016/j.gsf.2025.102001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gsf.2025.102001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Lithium (Li) in geothermal waters along the India–Asia continental convergent margin is a potential Li resource and plays an important role in the Li budget and Li isotopic composition (<em>δ</em>⁷Li) of rivers and oceans. However, its origins and behavior remain unclear. Here, we systematically investigated the <em>δ</em>⁷Li, water (<em>δ</em>¹⁸O and <em>δ</em>²H) and helium (³He/⁴He) isotopes of 21 geothermal water samples as well as a series of shallow groundwater and river water samples from southern Tibet and the Himalayas. The <em>δ</em>⁷Li values of geothermal waters vary from +1.0‰ to +14.3‰ and are negatively correlated with the Li concentration (0.006–35.0 mg/L). For geothermal water with Li concentrations &gt;5 mg/L, Li is sourced mainly from magmatic fluids exsolving from granitic magma chambers in the crust rather than the mantle, with contributions of 49.5% ± 3.2% to 85.5% ± 1.0%. The <em>δ</em>⁷Li values of these Li-rich geothermal waters are relatively homogeneous and comparable to those of bulk granitic rocks. They are mainly controlled by the Li isotopic compositions of granitic magmatic fluids (−2.6‰ to +5.6‰), and the dissolution of primary minerals and the precipitation of secondary minerals with minimal Li isotopic fractionation during high-temperature (174 ± 5 °C to 315 ± 6 °C) water–granite interactions at deep geothermal reservoirs (4.4–7.9 km). For geothermal waters with Li concentrations &lt;5 mg/L, Li originates primarily from water–granitic rock interactions (dominated by biotite dissolution) at 106 ± 3 °C to 207 ± 10 °C, contributing approximately 85% ± 16% of the total Li. An integrated dissolution–precipitation–mixing model suggests that high <em>δ</em>⁷Li values in Li-depleted samples result from preferential incorporation of ⁶Li into secondary minerals at lower reservoir temperatures within shallower reservoirs (2.7–5.2 km) and mixing of shallow groundwater during the ascent of geothermal waters. This study provides new insights into the fluid geochemistry of crustal granitic magma chambers and highlights that Li-rich geothermal waters in Tibet are controlled by the existence of crustal granitic magma chambers and the scale of faults.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12711,"journal":{"name":"Geoscience frontiers","volume":"16 2","pages":"Article 102001"},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143319068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unravelling the geochemical and geochronological diversities of the pre-collisional magmatism: Implications for the subduction dynamics in the Kohistan island arc and Karakorum block, Pakistan","authors":"Matee Ullah ,&nbsp;Urs Klötzli ,&nbsp;Christian Rentenberger ,&nbsp;Jiří Sláma ,&nbsp;Muhammad Younas ,&nbsp;Muhammad Khubab ,&nbsp;Mohammad Goudarzi ,&nbsp;Tanveer Ahmad","doi":"10.1016/j.gsf.2025.102003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gsf.2025.102003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The magmatic arcs in the north-west region of Pakistan comprises of numerous volcanic and plutonic bodies of different ages and compositions evolved during the subduction of the Neo- Tethys Ocean under the Eurasian supercontinent. This study focusses on the examination of the granitoids of the Kohistan batholith (a part of Kohistan-Ladakh Island Arc; KLIA) and the Khunjerab pluton, concentrating on their petrological traits, mineral chemistry, in-situ zircon U-Pb geochronology, and whole-rock major and trace element geochemistry. According to zircon U-Pb dating, the Kohistan batholith granitoid was emplaced around 91.7 ± 0.3 Ma, while zircons of the Khunjerab pluton yield ages of 106.4 ± 0.4 Ma and 106.4 ± 1.0 Ma. All the samples from both magmatic units have calcic to calc-alkaline (Na₂O + K₂O: 3.6–10.6 wt.% and SiO₂: 60–73 wt.%), metaluminous to peraluminous properties (Aluminum Saturation Index (ASI): 0.9–1.2). Notably, Nb, Ta, and Ti show depletion, while large ion lithophile elements like Cs, Rb, and K have been enriched. Additionally, we find that SiO₂ and P₂O₅ have a negative correlation while Rb and Th have a positive correlation, which confirm an I-type arc magmatism. Together with the published literature, TEM analysis, and thermal modelling, our zircon U-Pb results point to a period of continuous magmatic activity from the Late Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous (between 150 Ma and 91 Ma) in the Kohistan Island arc region while the Khunjerab pluton (part of Karakorum block/Eurasian plate) experienced widespread magmatism around 120 Ma to 106 Ma. With SiO₂ concentrations ranging from 67.5–73.3 wt.% and 60–71.4 wt.% and relatively low alkali (Na₂O + K₂O) contents between 3.6–10.6 wt.% and 5.1–7.4 wt.% in the Kohistan batholith and Khunjerab pluton respectively, showing clear signs of acidity. The whole rock as well as the mineral geochemical analysis and the elevated water contents (8–10 wt.% and 3.1–3.5 wt.%) inferred from amphibole and biotite chemistry respectively, indicates that the Kohistan batholith was most likely formed through partial melting of a (hydrous) magma originating from a more or less altered metasomatized mantle wedge. Likewise, the Khunjerab pluton whole rock geochemistry also indicates its origin through partial melting of magma originating from an altered metasomatized mantle wedge. This study also shows that both units are not only different in terms of the nature of magmatism but also in terms of their ages i.e., continental arc magmatism occurred in the Khunjerab (Karakoram) block in the middle Cretaceous (106 Ma) while island arc magmatism occurred on the Kohistan side in the late Cretaceous (91 Ma). Further, this study also investigate why multi-grain U-Pb zircon dating is necessary for studying magmatic rocks by using transmission electron microscopy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12711,"journal":{"name":"Geoscience frontiers","volume":"16 2","pages":"Article 102003"},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143145890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Detrital zircons from Cambrian rocks of western Laurentia define two episodes of Rodinian rift-related magmatism","authors":"Lauren I. Madronich ,&nbsp;William A. Matthews ,&nbsp;Thomas Hadlari ,&nbsp;Chad Morgan ,&nbsp;Charles M. Henderson","doi":"10.1016/j.gsf.2025.102007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gsf.2025.102007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Many aspects of the disassembly of Neoproterozoic supercontinent Rodinia remain poorly constrained. Current models for the breakup along western Laurentia (present coordinates) do not fully reconcile stratigraphic observations regarding the timing and mechanisms of continental rifting. Latest Neoproterozoic to Cambrian stratigraphic units exposed along the North American Cordillera from southwestern Canada to the southwestern United States contain Neoproterozoic and Cambrian zircons interpreted to be sourced from rift-related igneous rocks generated during the fragmentation of Rodinia. Two discrete magmatic episodes distinguished by a ca. 50 Myr period of apparent magmatic quiescence are identified using the detrital record: (1) Tonian and Cryogenian to earliest Ediacaran magmatism (mantle plume events followed by rifting); and (2) latest Ediacaran to late Cambrian magmatism. The detrital zircon record of the first episode supports a 660–650 Ma rift-to-drift transition followed by passive margin sedimentation of the upper Windermere Supergroup. After a period of apparent magmatic quiescence from 630–580 Ma, detrital zircon dates of 580–520 Ma from central-western Laurentia provide evidence for renewed rift magmatism preceding the initiation of the lower Paleozoic passive margin. These new U-Pb dates are used to present a refined model of Rodinia disassembly with improved timing constraints suggesting that its final breakup and the Sauk I transgression occurred ca. 520 Ma, in accordance with recent revisions to the timing of the Sauk transgressions in southwestern Laurentia.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12711,"journal":{"name":"Geoscience frontiers","volume":"16 2","pages":"Article 102007"},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143145891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Quantifying production rates of tropical granitic regolith in Hainan Island, south China: A multi-stage U-series disequilibrium study","authors":"Guodong Jia ,&nbsp;Xu Yvon Zhang ,&nbsp;François Chabaux ,&nbsp;Eric Pelt ,&nbsp;Zhiqi Zhao ,&nbsp;Sheng Xu ,&nbsp;Congqiang Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.gsf.2025.102002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gsf.2025.102002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Regolith, widely distributed on the Earth’s surface, constitutes a significant compartment of the Critical Zone, resulting from intricate interactions among the atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. Regolith formation critically influences nutrient release, soil production, and long-term climate regulation. Regolith development is governed by two primary processes: production and denudation. An urgent need exists to comprehensively understand these processes to refine our understanding of Critical Zone functions. This study investigates an in-situ regolith profile developed on granitic bedrock from a tropical region (Sanya, China). We conducted geochemical analyses, encompassing major, trace elements and mineralogical compositions as well as U-series isotopes, and applied the U-series disequilibrium method to investigate the formation history of this profile. Alternatively, dividing the regolith profile into sub-weathering zones provides a better explanation for the geochemical results, and a multi-stage model based on this subdivision effectively interprets the evolution of deep regolith. Utilizing this multi-stage model, regolith production rates is derived from the “gain and loss” model, ranging from 1.27 ± 0.03 to 42.42 ± 24.24 m/Ma. The production rates first increase from surface until a maximum rate is reached at the depth of ∼ 160 cm and then decrease at further deeper horizons along the depth profile, and the variation of production rates follows a so-called “humped function”. This pioneering investigation into regolith production rates in the Chinese tropical region indicates that (1) the studied profile deviates from a steady state compared to the denudation rate derived from cosmogenic nuclides (¹⁰Be_in-situ); (2) subdividing the deep profile based on geochemical data and U-series isotopic activity ratios is imperative for accurately determining regolith production rates; and (3) the combination of U-series disequilibrium and cosmogenic nuclides robustly evaluates the quantitative evolution state of regolith over long time scales.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12711,"journal":{"name":"Geoscience frontiers","volume":"16 3","pages":"Article 102002"},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143637627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}