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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Amphibole interlocking into jade

Mon, 02/12/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 12 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01373-w

Nephrite jade is a semi-precious gemstone composed of tiny crystals and needles of amphibole. Here, Matthew Tarling and Steven Smith describe how its origins lead to inner toughness and beauty.

Melting ice core archives

Mon, 02/12/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 12 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01385-6

Urgent efforts are needed to collect and preserve ice cores from mountain glaciers before these archives are lost.

Regional variations in relative sea-level changes influenced by nonlinear vertical land motion

Mon, 02/12/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 12 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-023-01357-2

A probabilistic reconstruction of vertical land motion reveals regional variations in relative sea-level changes and large uncertainties in sea-level projections due to nonlinear effects.

Abrupt Holocene ice loss due to thinning and ungrounding in the Weddell Sea Embayment

Thu, 02/08/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 08 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01375-8

The Ronne Ice Shelf of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated rapidly in the early Holocene due to ice sheet dynamic thinning and subsequent ungrounding, according to an ice core record from Skytrain Ice Rise.

Substantial contribution of tree canopy nitrifiers to nitrogen fluxes in European forests

Thu, 02/08/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 08 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-023-01364-3

Canopy nitrification contributes up to 80% of the nitrate reaching the soils via throughfall in European forests, according to analyses of nitrogen deposition and oxygen isotopes in nitrate at ten forested sites.

Stress-driven recurrence and precursory moment-rate surge in caldera collapse earthquakes

Mon, 02/05/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 05 February 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-023-01372-3

The initiation and rupture extent of earthquakes are controlled by stress heterogeneity, according to analysis of seismicity and deformation during caldera collapse of Kilauea Volcano.

Geomorphic controls on the abundance and persistence of soil organic carbon pools in erosional landscapes

Mon, 01/29/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 29 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-023-01365-2

Erosion rate is a first-order control of abundance and persistence of soil organic carbon in hilly and mountainous regions, according to analyses of the physiochemical properties of soils from field sites in Oregon, USA.

Proto-monsoon rainfall and greening in Central Asia due to extreme early Eocene warmth

Mon, 01/29/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 29 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-023-01371-4

Proto-monsoon expansion doubled rainfall in Central Asia during an early Eocene hyperthermal, leading to a rapid if transient expansion of forests replacing the steppe-desert.

Prioritize environmental sustainability in use of AI and data science methods

Fri, 01/26/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 26 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-023-01369-y

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data science will play a crucial role in improving environmental sustainability, but the energy requirements of these methods will have an increasingly negative effect on the environment without sustainable design and use.

High-altitude glacier archives lost due to climate change-related melting

Fri, 01/26/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 26 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-023-01366-1

Information on past environmental conditions stored within high-altitude glaciers is being lost due to accelerated melting associated with climate change, according to ice core analysis from a Swiss glacier.

Noble gas evidence of a millennial-scale deep North Pacific palaeo-barometric anomaly

Wed, 01/24/2024 - 00:00

Nature Geoscience, Published online: 24 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41561-023-01368-z

Noble gas concentrations in the deep North Pacific indicate that sea-level pressure in Antarctic Bottom Water formation regions has changed over the past 2,000 years.