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Fault systems impede incision of the Yarlung river into the Tibetan plateau
Crustal flow, exhumation and fault reactivation may hinder river incision and help preserve orogenic plateaus, according to a combination of thermochronology and numerical modelling applied to the Yarlung River in the southern Tibetan plateau
Hydrothermal activity due to the deepest submarine volcanism
Ferromanganese oxides formed by hydrothermal activity have been collected from a petit-spot volcano that erupted on an old and cold oceanic plate prior to subduction. This is the first evidence of hydrothermal activity due to the deepest submarine volcanism.
Declines in western water towers
Mountains act as natural water towers, influencing the water cycle by storing snow until the melt season when downstream demand is high. We calculate and track historic changes in the degree to which mountainous snowpacks delay the timing and amount of water availability relative to precipitation.
Towards a three-dimensional kinematic model of the Alpine-Himalayan belt
Sylvain Barbot and Lifeng Wang
Omnipresent authigenic calcite overgrowth on microfossils distorts Arctic radiocarbon chronology and isotope stratigraphy
The majority of paleoceanographic proxies uses calcareous microfossils as source. In the Arctic Ocean these microfossils are often altered by authigenic calcite overgrowth, this has an significant impact on the reliability of such proxies