Artificial intelligence for geoscience: Progress, challenges and perspectives

T Zhao, S Wang, C Ouyang, M Chen, C Liu, J Zhang… - The Innovation, 2024 - cell.com
This paper explores the evolution of geoscientific inquiry, tracing the progression from
traditional physics-based models to modern data-driven approaches facilitated by significant …

The core of Rodinia formed by the juxtaposition of opposed retreating and advancing accretionary orogens

EL Martin, CJ Spencer, WJ Collins, RJ Thomas… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Long-lived (800 Ma) Paleo–to Mesoproterozoic accretionary orogens on the
margins of Laurentia, Baltica, Amazonia, and Kalahari collided to form the core of the …

GPlates: Building a virtual Earth through deep time

RD Müller, J Cannon, X Qin, RJ Watson… - Geochemistry …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
GPlates is an open‐source, cross‐platform plate tectonic geographic information system,
enabling the interactive manipulation of plate‐tectonic reconstructions and the visualization …

The Deep-Time Digital Earth program: data-driven discovery in geosciences

C Wang, RM Hazen, Q Cheng… - National Science …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Current barriers hindering data-driven discoveries in deep-time Earth (DE) include:
substantial volumes of DE data are not digitized; many DE databases do not adhere to FAIR …

Plate tectonic regulation of global marine animal diversity

A Zaffos, S Finnegan, SE Peters - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Valentine and Moores [Valentine JW, Moores EM (1970) Nature 228: 657–659]
hypothesized that plate tectonics regulates global biodiversity by changing the geographic …

Improving global paleogeography since the late Paleozoic using paleobiology

W Cao, S Zahirovic, N Flament, S Williams… - …, 2017 - bg.copernicus.org
Paleogeographic reconstructions are important to understand Earth's tectonic evolution, past
eustatic and regional sea level change, paleoclimate and ocean circulation, deep Earth …

The impact of endothermy on the climatic niche evolution and the distribution of vertebrate diversity

J Rolland, D Silvestro, D Schluter, A Guisan… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
Understanding the mechanisms by which the abiotic and biotic requirements of species, or
ecological niches, change over time is a central issue in evolutionary biology. Niche …

Bayesian analyses indicate bivalves did not drive the downfall of brachiopods following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction

Z Guo, JT Flannery-Sutherland, MJ Benton… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Certain times of major biotic replacement have often been interpreted as broadly
competitive, mediated by innovation in the succeeding clades. A classic example was the …

[PDF][PDF] PALEOMAP paleodigital elevation models (PaleoDEMS) for the Phanerozoic

CR Scotese, N Wright - Paleomap Proj, 2018 - earthbyte.org
A paleo-digital elevation model (paleoDEM) is a digital representation of paleotopography
and paleobathymetry that has been" reconstructed" back in time. This report describes how …

Macrostrat: a platform for geological data integration and deep‐time Earth crust research

SE Peters, JM Husson… - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Characterizing the lithology, age, and physical‐chemical properties of rocks and sediments
in the Earth's upper crust is necessary to fully assess energy, water, and mineral resources …