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Submissions from 2025

Quantitative identification of lithofacies by integrating diverse geophysical data in the Late Holocene False River point bar complex, Louisiana, USA, Tamer Ali, Juan M. Lorenzo, Peter D. Clift, Alan Brown, and Kory Konsoer

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Gamma irradiation effects on physical and electronic properties of monolayer CVD grown graphene, Chintan P. Chavda, Ashok Srivastava, Erin Vaughan, Jianwei Wang, Manas Ranjan Gartia, and Georgios Veronis

The quest for habitats in the outer Solar System and how to protect exotic pristine environments, Athena Coustenis, Peter T. Doran, Karen Olsson-Francis, Olga Prieto-Ballesteros, François Raulin, Petra Rettberg, Olivier Grasset, Alexander Hayes, Christian Mustin, Niklas Hedman, et al.

Ice thickness regulates heat flux in permanently ice-covered lakes, Hilary A. Dugan, Maciej K. Obryk, Michael N. Gooseff, Peter T. Doran, Amy L. Chiuchiolo, Jade P. Lawrence, and John C. Priscu

Br-Li and stable isotopes to induce groundwater salinity in crystalline and detrital aquifers: Oriental Haouz Morocco, Mohmmed Elgettafi, Samia Rochdane, Abdenabi Elmandour, and Juan M. Lorenzo

Gender in mineral names, Christopher Emproto, Gabriela A. Farfan, Tyler L. Spano, Marko Bermanec, Mike S. Rumsey, Barbara L. Dutrow, Raquel Alonso-Perez, Jessica Riaño, and Adam C. Simon

Dethiothermospora halolimnae gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel moderately halophilic, thermotolerant, bacterium isolated from a brine lake, Luke A. Fisher, Saloni R. Dangre, Arthur Odenheimer, Nirav Patel, Peter T. Doran, Jeff S. Bowman, Britney E. Schmidt, and Douglas H. Bartlett

Continental hydroclimate during the late Paleocene-early Eocene in the central Rockies: insights from sedimentological and geochemical records preserved in the greater Green River Basin, southwestern Wyoming, U.S.A., Min Gao, Majie Fan, Guangsheng Zhuang, and Domenico Chiarella

Decoding dynamic landslide hazard processes for a massive refugee camp in Bangladesh, Dewan Mohammad Enamul Haque, Ritu Roy, Sumya Tasnim, Shamima Ferdousi Sifa, Suniti Karunatillake, A. S.M. Maksud Kamal, and Juan M. Lorenzo

Rapid subsidence as a driver of phosphate deposition in the later Ordovician: Case study from the Alabama Appalachians, John T. Haynes, Rafael A. Villanueva, Richard M. Robinet, Stephen A. Leslie, and Achim D. Herrmann

Experimental degassing of moderately volatile chalcophile elements from silicate melt with and without sulfur present, William F. Heck, Achim D. Herrmann, and Colin R.M. Jackson

Cesium Lead Bromide-Coated Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors for Gamma Radiation Environments, Tahira Khan, Manas R. Gartia, Jianwei Wang, and Jyotsna Sharma

Study of the Electrical Behavior of CsPbBr3 Single Crystal and Films under Visible and High-Energy Photons, Tahira Khan, Manas R. Gartia, Jianwei Wang, and Jyotsna Sharma

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Sulfur in Martian magmas from sulfur concentration at sulfide saturation applied to regional chemical maps, Levben Parsons, Benjamin A. Black, and Suniti Karunatillake

Multiple fluid interactions recorded in tourmaline from the Dorothy China Clay Pit, St. Austell, Cornwall, U.K., Mary E. Roach, Barbara L. Dutrow, and Darrell J. Henry

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Ceres: Organic-Rich Sites of Exogenic Origin?, R. Sarkar, A. Nathues, M. Hoffmann, E. Cloutis, K. Mengel, P. Singh, G. Thangjam, J. Hernandez, S. Karunatillake, and M. Coutelier

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Rethinking the Lake History of Taylor Valley, Antarctica During the Ross Sea I Glaciation, Michael S. Stone, Peter T. Doran, and Krista F. Myers

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Trans-crustal magmatic processes revealed by amphibole breakdown textures at the Quillacas monogenetic volcanic center, Bolivia, L. C. Velázquez Santana, C. L. McLeod, B. Shaulis, M. Loocke, and R. Al Gbory

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Light cues drive community-wide transcriptional shifts in the hypersaline South Bay Salt Works, Margaret M. Weng, Benjamin Klempay, Jeff S. Bowman, Luke Fisher, Cyprien Camplong, Peter T. Doran, Susan Rundell, Jennifer B. Glass, Avishek Dutta, Alexandra Pontefract, et al.

Submissions from 2024

Elevation Dynamics Between Polders and the Natural Sundarbans of the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta Plain, Sharmin Akter, Carol A. Wilson, Anwar Hossain Bhuiyan, Syed Humayun Akhter, Michael S. Steckler, and Md Masud Rana

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Response of a Terrestrial Polar Ecosystem to the March 2022 Antarctic Weather Anomaly, J. E. Barrett, Byron J. Adams, Peter T. Doran, Hilary A. Dugan, Krista F. Myers, Mark R. Salvatore, Sarah N. Power, Meredith D. Snyder, Anna T. Wright, and Michael N. Gooseff

The World Atlas of Rivers, Estuaries, and Deltas, Jim Best, Stephen Darby, Luciana Esteves, and Carol Wilson

WORLD ATLAS OF RIVERS, ESTUARIES, AND DELTAS, Jim Best, Stephen Darby, Luciana Esteves, and Carol Wilson

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The Role of Ice and Latitude-Dependent Mantling on Boulder Distributions Across the Martian Northern Lowlands, A. L. Cohen-Zada, D. R. Hood, R. C. Ewing, and S. Karunatillake

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Short-Term Sediment Dispersal on a Large Retreating Coastal River Delta via 234Th and 7Be Sediment Geochronology: The Mississippi River Delta Front, Andrew Courtois, Samuel Bentley, Jillian Maloney, Kehui Xu, Jason Chaytor, Ioannis Y. Georgiou, Michael D. Miner, Jeffrey Obelcz, Navid H. Jafari, and Melanie Damour

Advancing the COSPAR Policy and planetary protection guidelines for a safe and sustainable exploration, Athena Coustenis, Peter T. Doran, Niklas Hedman, Omar Al Shehhi, Eleonora Ammannito, Masaki Fujimoto, Olivier Grasset, Frank Groen, Tim Haltigin, Alexander Hayes, et al.

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The staggered retreat of grounded ice in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), Matthew A. Danielson and Philip J. Bart

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Migration and erosion in tidal and river channels in Bangladesh, Katharine M. Donato, Leslie Valentine, Amanda Carrico, Carol A. Wilson, Kimberly G. Rogers, and Timo Tonassi

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The COSPAR planetary protection policy for missions to Icy Worlds: A review of history, current scientific knowledge, and future directions, P. T. Doran, A. Hayes, O. Grasset, A. Coustenis, O. Prieto-Ballesteros, N. Hedman, O. Al Shehhi, E. Ammannito, M. Fujimoto, F. Groen, et al.

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A multivariate statistical approach for mineral geographic provenance determination using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy and electron microprobe chemical data: A case study of copper-bearing tourmalines, Barbara L. Dutrow, Nancy J. McMillan, and Darrell J. Henry

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Temporal Scales of Mass Wasting Sedimentation across the Mississippi River Delta Front Delineated by 210Pb/137Cs Geochronology, Jeffrey Duxbury, Samuel J. Bentley, Kehui Xu, and Navid H. Jafari

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Sedimentary Processes and Instability on the Mississippi River Delta Front near the Shipwreck of the SS Virginia, Nathan Figueredo, Samuel J. Bentley, Jason D. Chaytor, Kehui Xu, Navid Jafari, Ioannis Y. Georgiou, Melanie Damour, Jeffrey Duxbury, Jeffrey Obelcz, and Jillian Maloney

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Timing and evolution of structures within the southeastern Greater Caucasus and Kura Fold-Thrust Belt from multiproxy sediment provenance records, Adam M. Forte, Eric S. Cowgill, Dawn Y. Sumner, Dominique I. Garello, Nathan A. Niemi, and K. Colton Fowler

Stochastic in Space and Time: 1. Characterizing Orographic Gradients in Mean Runoff and Daily Runoff Variability, A. M. Forte and M. W. Rossi

Stochastic in Space and Time: 2. Effects of Simulating Orographic Gradients in Daily Runoff Variability on Bedrock River Incision, A. M. Forte and M. W. Rossi

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Sedimentation processes and morphological changes in a dredge pit and surrounding environment on Ship Shoal in the northern Gulf of Mexico, Adam Gartelman, Kehui Xu, Kanchan Maiti, Haoran Liu, Kelli Moran, Carol Wilson, Brian J. Roberts, and James Nelson

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Short Communication: Numerically simulated time to steady state is not a reliable measure of landscape response time, Nicole M. Gasparini, Adam M. Forte, and Katherine R. Barnhart

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Holocene hydroclimate stability in three lake sediment records from the southeastern United States, Aubrey L. Hillman, Sumar B. Hart, Vann Smith, and Sophie Warny

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Limits on polygonal organization of boulders in the Martian northern lowlands, D. R. Hood, A. L. Cohen-Zada, R. C. Ewing, and S. Karunatillake

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Water-Limited Hydrothermalism and Volcanic Resurfacing of Eridania Basin, Mars, Emmy B. Hughes, James Wray, Suniti Karunatillake, Grace Fanson, Elise Harrington, and Don R. Hood

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Hydrologic connectivity and dynamics of solute transport in a mountain stream: Insights from a long-term tracer test and multiscale transport modeling informed by machine learning, Phong V.V. Le, Saubhagya S. Rathore, Ethan T. Coon, Adam Ward, Roy Haggerty, and Scott L. Painter

Arc Foundations and Subduction Initiation: Insights into the Magmatic Evolution of the Lower Crust/Upper Mantle of the Izu–Bonin Forearc during Subduction Initiation, Matthew P. Loocke and Jonathan E. Snow

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Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy analysis of tourmaline: protocols, procedures, and predicaments, Nancy J. McMillan and Barbara L. Dutrow

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Summer-Wet Hydrologic Cycle during the Middle Miocene of the United States: New Evidence from Fossil Fungi, Jennifer M.K. O’Keefe, Matthew J. Pound, Ingrid C. Romero, Noelia B. Nuñez Otaño, Martha E. Gibson, Jessica McCoy, Margaret E. Alden, C. Jolene Fairchild, Julia Fitzpatrick, Emily Hodgson, et al.

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Ancient volcanism may have influenced patterns of hydrated regolith on Mars, Tyler G. Paladino, Shannon Kobs Nawotniak, Ehouarn Millour, Suniti Karunatillake, Don R. Hood, and Augustus Bates

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Effects of wind on the stability of explosive eruption plumes, Tyler Paladino, Shannon Kobs Nawotniak, Bryan Nicholson, and Suniti Karunatillake

Volunteer-Led, Short-Term, Geophysical Field Experiment: Lessons for Inviting Broader Participation, Building Public Trust, and Communicating Science, P. Persaud, A. Schneida, H. Shepard, S. Rios, L. Franklin, C. Nardoni, A. Juarez-Zuñiga, A. Goseyun, B. Sadler, E. C. Ferré, et al.

Biosignature Molecules Accumulate and Persist in Evaporitic Brines: Implications for Planetary Exploration, Chad Pozarycki, Kenneth M. Seaton, Emily C. Vincent, Carlie Novak Sanders, Nickie Nuñez, Mariah Castillo, Ellery Ingall, Benjamin Klempay, Alexandra Pontefract, Luke A. Fisher, et al.

Structure and Non-Ideal Mixing of Fe-Ni-S Liquid at High Temperature and Pressure and Its Implication for the Earth's Outer Core Composition, Sajin Satyal and Jianwei Wang

Sorting and Weathering Trends of Soil at Gale Crater, Mars: Implications for Regional Pedological Processes, Yutong Shi, Siyuan Zhao, Suniti Karunatillake, Agnes Cousin, Jiannan Zhao, and Long Xiao

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Planetary Protection Knowledge Gap Closure Enabling Crewed Missions to Mars, James A. Spry, Bette Siegel, Corien Bakermans, David W. Beaty, Mary Sue Bell, James N. Benardini, Rosalba Bonaccorsi, Sarah L. Castro-Wallace, David A. Coil, Athena Coustenis, et al.

Report of the 6th (Virtual) Meeting on the Planetary Protection Knowledge Gaps for Human Missions to Mars on June 1–2, 2022, J. Andy Spry, Bette Siegel, Gerhard Kminek, Amy Baker, Esther Beltran, Michelle Courtney, Peter Doran, Jennifer Heldmann, Aaron Regberg, and Petra Rettberg

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Contribution of campaign GNSS toward parsing subsidence rates by time and depth in coastal Bangladesh, Michael S. Steckler, Md Hasnat Jaman, Céline Jo Grall, Steven L. Goodbred, Carol A. Wilson, and Bar Oryan

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McMurdo Dry Valley lake edge 'moats': the ecological intersection between terrestrial and aquatic polar desert habitats, Michael S. Stone, Shawn P. Devlin, Ian Hawes, Kathleen A. Welch, Michael N. Gooseff, Cristina Takacs-Vesbach, Rachael Morgan-Kiss, Byron J. Adams, J. E. Barrett, John C. Priscu, et al.

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Measuring and modelling functional moat area in perennially ice-covered Lake Fryxell, Antarctica, Michael S. Stone, Mark R. Salvatore, Hilary A. Dugan, Madeline E. Myers, and Peter T. Doran

Chroma: A MATLAB package and open-source platform for biomarker data processing and automatic index calculations, Julian Traphagan and Guangsheng Zhuang

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Monitoring of Wave, Current, and Sediment Dynamics Along the Fog Point Living Shoreline, Glenn Martin National Wildlife Refuge, Maryland, Hongqing Wang, Qin Chen, William D. Capurso, Lukasz M. Niemoczynski, Nan Wang, Ling Zhu, Gregg A. Snedden, Matt Whitbeck, Carol A. Wilson, and Michael Brownley

The palynology of purple honey: kudzu dismissed, aluminum-sourwood reaction and other sources behind color plausible, Sophie Warny, Jennifer M.K. O’Keefe, Carol Wymer, Ben Powell, and David MacFawn

Entropic control on the desorption of oil molecular droplets in water from kerogen surface, Zelong Zhang, Adrienne Stephens, and Jianwei Wang

Submissions from 2023

Quantitative identification of lithofacies by integrating different geophysical data: False River Point bar, Tamer Ali and Juan M. Lorenzo

Supervolcanic resurfacing in northwestern Arabia Terra, Mars, Augustus Bates, S. Goossens, J. M. Lorenzo, L. Ojha, D. R. Hood, S. Karunatillake, S. Kobs Nawotniak, and T. Paladino

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Planetary protection: an international concern and responsibility, Athena Coustenis, Niklas Hedman, Peter T. Doran, Omar Al Shehhi, Eleonora Ammannito, Masaki Fujimoto, Olivier Grasset, Frank Groen, Alexander G. Hayes, Vyacheslav Ilyin, et al.

COSPAR Planetary Protection Policy: recent advances, Athena Coustenis, Niklas Hedman, Peter T. Doran, Omar Al Shehhi, Eleonora Ammannito, Masaki Fujimoto, Olivier Grasset, Frank Groen, Alexander Hayes, Vyacheslav Ilyin, et al.

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Planetary protection: Updates and challenges for a sustainable space exploration, Athena Coustenis, Niklas Hedman, Peter T. Doran, Omar Al Shehhi, Eleonora Ammannito, Masaki Fujimoto, Olivier Grasset, Frank Groen, Alex Hayes, Vyacheslav Ilyin, et al.

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Extreme cold (-69.1°C) in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Peter T. Doran, Krista F. Myers, Christopher P. Mckay, and David H. Bromwich

Land loss due to human-altered sediment budget in the Mississippi River Delta, Douglas A. Edmonds, Stephan C. Toby, Christopher G. Siverd, Robert Twilley, Samuel J. Bentley, Scott Hagen, and Kehui Xu

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Constraints on the timing of the India-Asia collision and unroofing history of the Himalayan orogen using detrital zircon U-Pb-Hf and whole-rock Sr-Nd isotopes in Cretaceous-Miocene Lesser Himalayan sedimentary rocks, Wei Feng, Qingquan Meng, Chunhui Song, Xiaomin Fang, Guangsheng Zhuang, Pengju He, Shufen Yang, Jing Zhang, Yongfa Chen, and Yihu Zhang

Bounding the unknowns of martian crustal heat flow from a synthesis of regional geochemistry and InSight mission data, Katelyn R. Frizzell, Lujendra Ojha, and Suniti Karunatillake

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Creating Continents: Archean Cratons Tell the Story, Carol D. Frost, Paul A. Mueller, David W. Mogk, B. Ronald Frost, and Darrell J. Henry

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Causes and Characteristics of Electrical Resistivity Variability in Shallow (<4 >m) Soils in Taylor Valley, East Antarctica, W. S. Gutterman, P. T. Doran, R. A. Virginia, J. E. Barrett, K. F. Myers, S. M. Tulaczyk, N. T. Foley, J. A. Mikucki, H. A. Dugan, D. J. Grombacher, et al.

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Ridge Propagation and the Stability of Small Mid-Ocean Ridge Offsets, Hugh Harper, Karen Luttrell, and David T. Sandwell

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Testing Tectonostratigraphic Hypotheses of the Blountian Phase of the Taconic Orogeny in the Southern Appalachians through an Integrated Geochronological and Sedimentological Study of Ordovician K-Bentonites and Quartz Arenites, Achim D. Herrmann, John T. Haynes, Richard Robinet, Peter D. Clift, and Keith E. Goggin

Sources and chemical stability of soil organic carbon in natural and created coastal marshes of Louisiana, Megan Kelsall, Tracy Quirk, Carol Wilson, and Gregg A. Snedden

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Seepage-Induced Pore Pressure Variations Beneath an Earthen Levee Measured with a Novel Seismic Tool, Daniel Locci-Lopez and Juan M. Lorenzo

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Syndepositional Uptake of Uranium, Molybdenum and Vanadium into Modern Bahamian Carbonate Sediments during Early Diagenesis, Evan Magette, Adam Turner, Yongbo Peng, and Achim D. Herrmann

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Tectonic advection of contacts enhances landscape transience, Nate Mitchell and Adam M. Forte

Crustal genesis and evolution of the Archean Wyoming Province: Continental growth through vertical magmatic and horizontal tectonic processes, David W. Mogk, Carol D. Frost, Paul A. Mueller, B. Ronald Frost, and Darrell J. Henry

The COSPAR Planetary Protection Policy for robotic missions to Mars: A review of current scientific knowledge and future perspectives, Karen Olsson-Francis, Peter T. Doran, Vyacheslav Ilyin, Francois Raulin, Petra Rettberg, Gerhard Kminek, María Paz Zorzano Mier, Athena Coustenis, Niklas Hedman, Omar Al Shehhi, et al.

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Single-cell analysis in hypersaline brines predicts a water-activity limit of microbial anabolic activity, Emily R. Paris, Nestor Arandia-Gorostidi, Benjamin Klempay, Jeff S. Bowman, Alexandra Pontefract, Claire E. Elbon, Jennifer B. Glass, Ellery D. Ingall, Peter T. Doran, Sanjoy M. Som, et al.

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Miocene Climatic Optimum fungal record and plant-based CREST climatic reconstruction from southern McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, Mallory Pilie, Martha E. Gibson, Ingrid C. Romero, Noelia B.Nuñez Otaño, Matthew J. Pound, Jennifer M.K. O'Keefe, and Sophie Warny

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Sediment delivery to sustain the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta under climate change and anthropogenic impacts, Jessica L. Raff, Steven L. Goodbred, Jennifer L. Pickering, Ryan S. Sincavage, John C. Ayers, Md Saddam Hossain, Carol A. Wilson, Chris Paola, Michael S. Steckler, Dhiman R. Mondal, et al.

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The Distribution of Surface Soil Moisture over Space and Time in Eastern Taylor Valley, Antarctica, Mark R. Salvatore, John E. Barrett, Laura E. Fackrell, Eric R. Sokol, Joseph S. Levy, Lily C. Kuentz, Michael N. Gooseff, Byron J. Adams, Sarah N. Power, J. Paul Knightly, et al.

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Climate and Atlantic sea-level recorded in Southwestern Spain from 6.3 to 5.2 Ma. Inferences on the Messinian Crisis in the Mediterranean, Jean Pierre Suc, Séverine Fauquette, Sophie Warny, Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno, and Damien Do Couto

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Mid-Miocene sea level altitude of the Qaidam Basin, northern Tibetan Plateau, Yuanyuan Sun, Yu Liang, Hu Liu, Jun Liu, Junliang Ji, Xue Ke, Xiaobo Liu, Yuxin He, Huanye Wang, Bin Zhang, et al.

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Metamorphic P-T paths of Archean granulite facies metasedimentary lithologies from the eastern Beartooth Mountains of the northern Wyoming Province, Montana, USA: constraints from quartz-in-garnet (QuiG) Raman elastic barometry, geothermobarometry, and thermodynamic modeling, Larry Tuttle and Darrell J. Henry

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Riverbank erosion and char stability along the fluvial-to-tidal transition zone in the Lower Meghna River and Tentulia Channel in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta, Bangladesh, Leslie A. Valentine and Carol A. Wilson

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Constraints on the Timing and Extent of Deglacial Grounding Line Retreat in West Antarctica, Ryan A. Venturelli, Brenna Boehman, Christina Davis, Jon R. Hawkings, Sarah E. Johnston, Chloe D. Gustafson, Alexander B. Michaud, Cyrille Mosbeux, Matthew R. Siegfried, Trista J. Vick-Majors, et al.

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Monitoring of Wave, Current, and Sediment Dynamics Along the Chincoteague Living Shoreline, Virginia, Hongqing Wang, Qin Chen, Nan Wang, William D. Capurso, Lukasz M. Niemoczynski, Ling Zhu, Gregg A. Snedden, Kevin S. Holcomb, Bowdoin W. Lusk, Carol A. Wilson, et al.

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Computational Materials Design for Ceramic Nuclear Waste Forms Using Machine Learning, First-Principles Calculations, and Kinetics Rate Theory, Jianwei Wang, Dipta B. Ghosh, and Zelong Zhang

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Morphodynamic modeling of Fourleague Bay in Mississippi River Delta: Sediment fluxes across river-estuary-wetland boundaries, Nan Wang, Qin Chen, Kelin Hu, Kehui Xu, Samuel J. Bentley, and Jiaze Wang

Eroding the Himalaya: Topographic and Climatic Control of Erosion Rates and Implications for Tectonics, K. Whipple, B. Adams, A. Forte, and K. Hodges

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The COSPAR planetary protection requirements for space missions to Venus, María Paz Zorzano, Karen Olsson-Francis, Peter T. Doran, Petra Rettberg, Athena Coustenis, Vyacheslav Ilyin, Francois Raulin, Omar Al Shehhi, Frank Groen, Olivier Grasset, et al.

Submissions from 2022

Insights into magma ocean dynamics from the transport properties of basaltic melt, Suraj K. Bajgain, Aaron Wolfgang Ashley, Mainak Mookherjee, Dipta B. Ghosh, and Bijaya B. Karki

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET RE-ADVANCE DURING THE ANTARCTIC COLD REVERSAL IDENTIFIED IN THE WESTERN ROSS SEA, Carlo Baroni, Martina Tenti, Philip J. Bart, Maria Cristina Salvatore, Luca Gasperini, Martina Busetti, Chiara Sauli, Eusebio Maria Stucchi, and Andrea Tognarelli

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A paleo-perspective on West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat, Philip J. Bart and Matthew Kratochvil

The History of Water in Martian Magmas From Thorium Maps, Benjamin A. Black, Michael Manga, Lujendra Ojha, Marc-Antoine Longpré, Suniti Karunatillake, and Lisa Hlinka

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Uvite, CaMg 3 (Al5Mg)(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH), a new, but long-anticipated mineral species of the tourmaline supergroup from San Piero in Campo, Elba Island, Italy, Ferdinando Bosi, Cristian Biagioni, Federico Pezzotta, Henrik Skogby, Ulf Hålenius, Jan Cempírek, Frank C. Hawthorne, Aaron J. Lussier, Yassir A. Abdu, Maxwell C. Day, et al.

The Bioburden and Ionic Composition of Hypersaline Lake Ices: Novel Habitats on Earth and Their Astrobiological Implications, Jacob J. Buffo, Emma K. Brown, Alexandra Pontefract, Britney E. Schmidt, Benjamin Klempay, Justin Lawrence, Jeff Bowman, Meg Grantham, Jennifer B. Glass, Taylor Plattner, et al.

The Nazca Drift System – palaeoceanographic significance of a giant sleeping on the SE Pacific Ocean floor, Gérôme Calvès, Alan Mix, Liviu Giosan, Peter D. Clift, Stéphane Brusset, Patrice Baby, and Mayssa Vega

Barotropic seiches in a perennially ice-covered lake, East Antarctica, Devin N. Castendyk, Hilary A. Dugan, Hugh A. Gallagher, Nimish Pujara, Peter T. Doran, John C. Priscu, and W. Berry Lyons