Planet evolution

Prof. Giorgio Sartor

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Climate	Earthquakes	Geochemistry	PLANET EVOLUTION AND CONTINENTS
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PALEOMAP PaleoAtlas for GPlates (Tutorial)

100 Largest Islands of the World

A cryptic Gondwana-forming orogen located in Antarctica

A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago

A Late Cretaceous true polar wander oscillation

A multimillion-year-old record of Greenland vegetation and glacial history preserved in sediment beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century

A new global ice sheet reconstruction for the past 80 000 years

A pulse of mid-Pleistocene rift volcanism in Ethiopia at the dawn of modern humans

A pulse of the Earth: A 27.5-Myr underlying cycle in coordinated geological events over the last 260 Myr

A reassessment of the proposed ‘Lairg Impact Structure’ and its potential implications for the deep structure of northern Scotland

A seismically induced onshore surge deposit at the KPg boundary, North Dakota

A unified model for hydrogen in the Earth and Moon: No one expects the Theia contribution

A unified continental thickness from seismology and diamonds suggests a melt-defined plate

Alfred Wegener’s Hypothesis on Continental Drift and Its Discussion in Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen (1912 – 1942)

Atlas of the underworld: Slab remnants in the mantle, their sinking history, and a new outlook on lower mantle viscosity

Atmospheric ¹⁴C/¹²C changes during the last glacial period from Hulu Cave

Back to the future: Testing different scenarios for the next supercontinent gathering

Caribbean plate tilted and actively dragged eastwards by low-viscosity asthenospheric flow

Climate change and the selective signature of the Late Ordovician mass extinction

Comprehensive geoneutrino analysis with Borexino

Constraining the Volume of Earth's Early Oceans With a Temperature-Dependent Mantle Water Storage Capacity Model

Cosmogenic ¹⁰Be production records reveal dynamics of geomagnetic dipole moment (GDM) over the Laschamp excursion (20–60 ka)

Decreasing Phanerozoic extinction intensity as a consequence of Earth surface oxygenation and metazoan ecophysiology

Deep glacial troughs and stabilizing ridges unveiled beneath the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet

Deglaciation of the Eurasian ice sheet complex

Did the Atlantic Close and then Re-Open?

Earth and Moon impact flux increased at the end of the Paleozoic

Earth tectonics as seen by GOCE - Enhanced satellite gravity gradient imaging

Earth’s inner core nucleation paradox

Early trace of life from 3.95 Ga sedimentary rocks in Labrador, Canada

East Antarctica magnetically linked to its ancient neighbours in Gondwana

Efficiency of the oxygenic photosynthesis on Earth-like planets in the habitable zone

Eocene animal trace fossils in 1.7-billion-year-old metaquartzites

Evidence for the Innermost Inner Core: Robust Parameter Search for Radially Varying Anisotropy Using the Neighborhood Algorithm

Evidence that the GOE was a prolonged event with a peak around 1900 Ma

Evolution and diversity of subduction zones controlled by slab width

Extraordinary Biomass-Burning Episode and Impact Winter Triggered by the Younger Dryas Cosmic Impact ∼12,800 Years Ago. 1. Ice Cores and Glaciers (SM)

Fe Alloy Slurry and a Compacting Cumulate Pile Across Earth's Inner‐Core Boundary

Gas with an ancient history

Giant impacts and the origin and evolution of continents

Giant Impact Origin for the Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces

Gravitational N-body Simulations

Instability of the African large low-shear-wavevelocity province due to its low intrinsic density

Iron isotope evidence for very rapid accretion and differentiation of the proto-Earth

Is There a Tectonically Driven Supertidal Cycle?

Kinematics and dynamics of the East Pacific Rise linked to a stable, deep-mantle upwelling

Late Miocene megalake regressions in Eurasia

Limited Archaean continental emergence reflected in an early Archaean ¹⁸O-enriched ocean

Long-Term Sustainability of a High-Energy, Low-Diversity Crustal Biome

Mantle plumes and their role in Earth processes

Mercury as The Relic of Earth and Venus' Outward Migration

Milankovitch cycles in banded iron formations constrain the Earth–Moon system 2.46 billion years ago

Multidecadal climate oscillations during the past millennium driven by volcanic forcing

Multidecadal variation of the Earth’s inner-core rotation

Natural nuclear fission reactors: time constraints for occurrence, and their relation to uranium and manganese deposits and to the evolution of the atmosphere

New Archeomagnetic Directional Records From Iron Age Southern Africa (ca. 425–1550 CE) and Implications for the South Atlantic Anomaly

Oxidation of the Ediacaran Ocean

Palaeo-altimetry of Tibet

Palaeoproterozoic oxygenated oceans following the Lomagundi–Jatuli Event

Penetration of Bomb ¹⁴C into the Deepest OceanTrench

Primitive Helium Is Sourced From Seismically Slow Regions in the Lowermost Mantle

Probing the hydrothermal system of the Chicxulub impact crater

Proterozoic Milankovitch cycles and the history of the solar system

Pulsed volcanic combustion events coincident with the endPermian terrestrial disturbance and the following global crisis

Rapid recovery of life at ground zero of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

Recent north magnetic pole acceleration towards Siberia caused by flux lobe elongation

Seismic evidence for convection-driven motion of the North American plate

Skew of mantle upwelling beneath the East Pacific Rise governs segmentation

Source location of the 26 sec microseism from cross-correlations of ambient seismic noise

Southern Ocean upwelling, Earth’s obliquity, and glacial-interglacial atmospheric CO₂ change

Stratigraphy and paleobiology of the Upper Cretaceous-Lower Paleogene sediments from the Trans-Saharan Seaway in Mali

Structure and Dynamics of the Laacher See Magma Chamber (Eifel, Germany) from Major and Trace Element Zoning in Sanidine: a Cathodoluminescence and Electron Microprobe Study

Sulfur mass-independent fractionation in subsurface fracture waters indicates a long-standing sulfur cycle in Precambrian rocks

Superionic iron alloys and their seismic velocities in Earth’s inner core

The causes of sea-level rise since 1900

The contribution of the Precambrian continental lithosphere to global H₂production

The effect of pre-impact spin on the Moon-forming collision

The last natural nuclear fission reactor

The Late Ordovician Mass ExtintionThe Late Ordovician Mass Extintion

The mountains that triggered the Late Neoproterozoic increase in oxygen: The Second Great Oxidation Event

The Norwegian-Greenland Sea, the Laschamps, and the Mono Lake Excursions Recordedin a Black Sea Sedimentary Sequence Spanning From 68.9 to 14.5 ka

The Operational Search for MH370

The thermal evolution of Mercury’s Fe–Si core

Thermal and magnetic evolution of a crystallizing basal magma ocean in Earth’s mantle

Topography of mountain belts controlled by rheology and surface processes

Widespread distribution of OH/H2O on the lunar surface inferred from spectral data

What drives tectonic plates?

World Digital Magnetic Anomaly Map

Zealandia: Earth’s Hidden Continent

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