Nature Geoscience

Nature Geoscience is a monthly journal dedicated to publishing high-quality original research papers across all areas of the geosciences. The journal’s content reflects all the disciplines within the geosciences, including studies of the Earth’s climate system, the solid Earth and the planets. Nature Geoscience covers studies based on all the methods used by geoscientists, ranging from field work and numerical modelling on regional and global scales to theoretical studies and remote sensing. Physical, chemical and biological investigations that contribute to our understanding of the Earth system or the planets are all represented.

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Ishtar Terra highlands on Venus raised by craton-like formation mechanisms

Fri, 08/02/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 02 August 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01485-3

Venusian highland terrains such as Ishtar Terra formed from melting beneath thinned lithosphere that created a stiff mantle root in a mechanism akin to craton formation on the early Earth, according to three-dimensional computational simulations.

Author Correction: Uncertain response of ocean biological carbon export in a changing world

Mon, 07/29/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 29 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01516-z

Author Correction: Uncertain response of ocean biological carbon export in a changing world

Author Correction: Regional stratification at the top of Earth’s core due to core–mantle boundary heat flux variations

Mon, 07/29/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 29 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01503-4

Author Correction: Regional stratification at the top of Earth’s core due to core–mantle boundary heat flux variations

Author Correction: Past Earth warmed by tidal resonance-induced organization of clouds under a shorter day

Thu, 07/25/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 25 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01515-0

Author Correction: Past Earth warmed by tidal resonance-induced organization of clouds under a shorter day

Moist heatwaves intensified by entrainment of dry air that limits deep convection

Thu, 07/25/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 25 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01498-y

Climate model simulations and reanalysis data suggest that inhibition of atmospheric convection by dry air intensifies moist heatwaves, and this process may further increase moist heatwaves under climate warming.

Highly variable deep-sea currents over tidal and seasonal timescales

Thu, 07/25/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 25 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01494-2

Mooring observations suggest that deep-sea currents exhibit substantial variability over tidal and seasonal timescales, driving a complex pattern of sediment transport.

Isotopic evidence against North Pacific Deep Water formation during late Pliocene warmth

Tue, 07/23/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 23 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01500-7

Late Pliocene warmth did not lead to substantial deep water formation in the North Pacific as previously proposed, according to benthic foraminifera carbon isotope transects.

Evidence of dark oxygen production at the abyssal seafloor

Mon, 07/22/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 22 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01480-8

Oxygen is generated abiotically at the abyssal seafloor in the presence of polymetallic nodules, potentially by seawater electrolysis, according to in situ chamber and ex situ incubation experiments.

Majority of global river flow sustained by groundwater

Fri, 07/19/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 19 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01483-5

Groundwater supplies about 59% of global river flow, suggesting a larger contribution of groundwater to the global water cycle than currently appreciated, according to an analysis integrating estimates from models and observations.

Substantial increase in China’s manufactured sand supply since 2010

Fri, 07/19/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 19 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01501-6

The increasing use of manufactured sand in China since 2010 has greatly reduced the proportion of natural sand in the country’s total sand supply, from 80% in 1995 to 21% in 2020, according to a material flow analysis of sand in China.

Melting at the base of a terrestrial magma ocean controlled by oxygen fugacity

Tue, 07/16/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 16 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01495-1

The melting behaviour of Earth’s primitive mantle was strongly sensitive to changes in oxygen fugacity, according to high-pressure experiments on pyrolite under different redox conditions.

Publisher Correction: Decline in atmospheric nitrogen deposition in China between 2010 and 2020

Mon, 07/15/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 15 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01504-3

Publisher Correction: Decline in atmospheric nitrogen deposition in China between 2010 and 2020

Silica in a state of shock

Fri, 07/12/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 12 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01477-3

Simple silica exists in many forms on Earth, as Falko Langenhorst explains. Some of these polymorphs can shed light on the Earth’s violent past.

Lessons from the Nile about rivers and society

Fri, 07/12/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 12 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01499-x

The Holocene flooding and sedimentation history of the Nile illustrates how fluvial geomorphology has long influenced human society.

Emergence of lake conditions that exceed natural temperature variability

Fri, 07/12/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 12 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01491-5

Earth system models project that lake temperatures will warm beyond the range of natural variability to which aquatic ecosystems are adapted in the coming decades, with conditions exceeding natural analogues sooner at lower latitudes.

Contributions of core, mantle and climatological processes to Earth’s polar motion

Fri, 07/12/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 12 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01478-2

Core processes, dynamically linked to mantle and climate-related surface processes, contribute to both the long-term trend and shorter-term fluctuations observed in Earth’s polar motion, according to predictions from physics-informed neural networks.

Generation of Archaean oxidizing and wet magmas from mafic crustal overthickening

Thu, 07/11/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 11 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01489-z

The high oxygen fugacities and water contents recorded by zircons from Archaean granitoids can be explained by partial melting at the base of overthickened oceanic crust without requiring subduction, according to a phase equilibrium modelling study.

Decline in atmospheric nitrogen deposition in China between 2010 and 2020

Mon, 07/08/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 08 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01484-4

Nitrogen deposition in China decreased by 14% between 2010 and 2020, with greater declines in nitrogen from industrial than agricultural sources, according to decadal observations of atmospheric deposition of different forms of reactive nitrogen.

Climatic pacing of extreme Nile floods during the North African Humid Period

Wed, 07/03/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 03 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01471-9

Extreme and highly variable summer floods in the Nile River valley through the North African Humid Period were modulated by both interannual and multi-decadal climate modes, according to an offshore sedimentary archive.

Publisher Correction: Amplified positive effects on air quality, health, and renewable energy under China’s carbon neutral target

Tue, 07/02/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 02 July 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01487-1

Publisher Correction: Amplified positive effects on air quality, health, and renewable energy under China’s carbon neutral target