Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …

Siliciclastic sediments owe their origin mainly to land sources. New discriminant-function-
based major-element diagrams for the tectonic discrimination of siliciclastic sediments from …

This paper presents new major and trace-element data and Lu–Hf and Sm–Nd isotopic
compositions for representative suites of marine sediment samples from 14 drill sites …

Discrimination of active and passive margins is important from both academic and economic
aspects. This can only be successfully achieved, however, if there are major compositional …

The flux balances of carbon and chlorine between subduction into the deep mantle and
volcanic emissions into the atmosphere are crucial for the habitability of our planet …

We carried out a geochemical evaluation and modeled the mechanism responsible for
varied Hf isotopic ratios in magmatic zircons of a single granitic rock specimen. Five …

In subduction zones, melting and dehydration of the subducted slab introduce material into
the mantle wedge and modify its chemical and isotopic composition. As a consequence …

Dust provides ecosystem-sustaining nutrients to landscapes underlain by intensively
weathered soils. Here we show that dust may also be crucial in montane forest ecosystems …

Abstract Knowledge of the average composition of the upper continental crust is crucial to
establish not only how it formed but also when. While well constrained averages have been …

Age-dating of detrital zircons from 22 samples collected along, and adjacent to, the Yarlung-
Tsangpo suture zone, southern Tibet provides distinctive age-spectra that characterize …