Mantle-Derived Corundum-Bearing Felsic Dykes May Survive Only within the Lower (Refractory/Inert) Crust: Evidence from Zircon Geochemistry and Geochronology (Ivrea–Verbano Zone, So... by Mattia Bonazzi, Antonio Langone, Simone Tumiati, Edoardo Dellarole, Maurizio Mazzucchelli, Tommaso Giovanardi, Alberto Zanetti

“….%) felsic dykes formed with albite, ±K-feldspar, ±hercynite and ±biotite-siderophyllite cut the lower crustal rocks exposed in the Ivrea–Verbano Zone (NW Italy). …”
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Thermal Resolution of Unblocking Temperatures (TROUT): A Method for “Unmixing” Multi‐Component Magnetizations by Brendan Cych, Matthias Morzfeld, David Heslop, Sarah Maher, Jeffrey Gee, Lisa Tauxe

“…Abstract Some rocks contain multiple remanence “components,” each of which preserves a record of a different magnetic field. …”
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Carbon dioxide removal technologies are not born equal by Jessica Strefler, Nico Bauer, Florian Humpenöder, David Klein, Alexander Popp, Elmar Kriegler

“…If only enhanced weathering of rocks on croplands or re- and afforestation are available, Latin America and Asia cover nearly all of global CDR deployment. …”
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Hydrocarbon Charging and Accumulation in the Permian Reservoirs of the Wumaying Buried Hill, Huanghua Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, China by Runze Yang, Xianzheng Zhao, Changyi Zhao, Xiugang Pu, Haitao Liu, Hongjun Li, Lixin Fu, Ying Tang

“…The results indicate that the only source for Permian oil and gas reservoirs are Carboniferous–Permian coal-measure source rocks in the Wumaying buried hill. There are three periods of hydrocarbon charging. …”
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An Image Analysis-Based Methodology for Chromite Exploration through Opto-Geometric Parameters; a Case Study in Faryab Area, SE of Iran by Mansur Ziaii, Ali A. Pouyan, Rahman Yousefzadeh, Javad Ghiasi-Freez

“…Microscopic inclination of chromite veins can be generalized for exploring the macroscopic layers of chromite buried under either the surface quaternary alluvium or overburden rocks. The performance of the OGIA methodology is tested in a real case study, where several exploratory boreholes are drilled. …”
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Controlling effect of Late Paleozoic tectonic and sedimentary differentiation on multi-type gas reservoirs in Permian, Sichuan Basin by Longlong LI, Kaiping LUO, Xu LIU, Changjiang ZHANG, Qinggu CAO, Yongde LU, Jinning PENG

“…Multiple sets and types of source rocks formed in the platform sag, tidal plane-lagoon, slope, shelf-basin and other facies, sub-facies or micro-facies, and multiple sets and types of reservoirs controlled by beaches, platform edge sand and later diagenesis transformation constituted a variety of source-reservoir combinations such as lower generation and upper storage, side generation and side storage, self-generation and self-storage etc. …”
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Experimental Research on Electrical Conductivity of the Olivine-Ilmenite System at High Temperatures and High Pressures by Wenqing Sun, Lidong Dai, Haiying Hu, Mengqi Wang, Mengqi Wang, Ziming Hu, Ziming Hu, Chenxin Jing, Chenxin Jing

“…Ilmenite is a common metallic oxide distributed in the mafic rocks from the Earth’s upper mantle, and thus the effect of ilmenite contents on the electrical structures of the Earth’s upper mantle should be investigated in detail. …”
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The Diversity and Community Pattern of Liverworts on Sygera Mountain, Tibet by Xiaotong Song, Jiqi Gu, Yanhui Ye, Wei Li, Yujia Liao, Ruihong Wang, Heping Ma, Xiaoming Shao

“…In the present study, we recorded the liverwort taxa of Sygera Mountain growing on decaying wood, trees, soil, and rocks along an elevational gradient from 3100 m to 4500 m using complex field surveys in 2017 and 2019; we investigated the effects of elevation and various climatic factors on the liverworts’ diversity and community composition. …”
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Paleosecular Variation and the Time‐Averaged Geomagnetic Field Since 10 Ma by Wellington P. deOliveira, Gelvam A. Hartmann, Filipe Terra‐Nova, Daniele Brandt, Andrew J. Biggin, Yael A. Engbers, Richard K. Bono, Jairo F. Savian, Daniel R. Franco, Ricardo I. F. Trindade, Thiago R. Moncinhatto

“…The new database comprises 2,543 paleomagnetic sites from igneous rocks, providing improvements in the geographic and temporal distributions of high‐quality data relative to previous compilations. …”
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Estimation of Shallow Landslide Susceptibility Incorporating the Impacts of Vegetation on Slope Stability by Hu Jiang, Qiang Zou, Bin Zhou, Yao Jiang, Junfang Cui, Hongkun Yao, Wentao Zhou

“…Shallow landslide susceptibility study in an area with diverse vegetation types as well as distinctive geographic factors (such as steep terrain, fractured rocks, and joints) that dominate the occurrence of shallow landslides is challenging. …”
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Veronicastrum wulingense (Plantaginaceae), a new species from Southwestern Hubei, China by Shi-Xiong Ding, Hui Jiang, Jing Tian, Jing Ren, Fredrick Munyao Mutie, Emmanuel Nyongesa Waswa, Guang-Wan Hu, Qing-Feng Wang

“…During field investigation of plant resources in Pingbaying National Forest Park, Southwestern Hubei, China, an unknown flowering population of Veronicastrum was discovered from thick humus layers adjacent to rocks under broad-leaved forests by walkways. They were collected and morphological characters assesed for further taxonomic treatment. …”
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Retro‐Foredeep Basin Evolution in Taiwan: Zircon U‐Pb and Hf Isotope Constraints From the Coastal Range by Tsai‐Wei Chen, Mei‐Fei Chu, Wen‐Shan Chen, Sun‐Lin Chung, Hao‐Yang Lee, Yoshiyuki Iizuka

“…Abstract The evolution of the Taiwan orogen, an active arc–continent collision zone between the North Luzon Arc (NLA) and the Eurasian continent, is recorded in arc volcanic and sedimentary rocks from the Taiyuan retro‐foredeep basin of the Coastal Range, eastern Taiwan. …”
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Soils in Karst Sinkholes Record the Holocene History of Local Forest Fires at the North of European Russia by Nikita Mergelov, Dmitry Petrov, Elya Zazovskaya, Andrey Dolgikh, Alexandra Golyeva, Vladimir Matskovsky, Renat Bichurin, Sofia Turchinskaya, Vladimir Belyaev, Sergey Goryachkin

“…Series of buried soil profiles separated by charcoal layers and clusters were revealed in specific geomorphological traps represented by the active and paleokarst subsidence sinkholes on sulfate rocks overlaid by glacial and fluvial deposits. We combine the study of soil morphology and stratigraphy with a set of radiocarbon data on charcoal and soil organic matter, as well as the anthracomass analysis, to extract a set of paleoenvironmental data. …”
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Pore system and gas adsorption potential of lacustrine Yanchang Mudstone, Ordos Basin, China by Shutong Li, Yang Wang, Ximeng Wang, Ruiliang Guo

“…The results show that the studied Yanchang Mudstones are mainly siliceous rocks with high total organic carbon concentration (average of 7.63%) and low to moderate thermal maturity (vitrinite reflectance of 0.55–0.92 %). …”
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Geochemical characteristics and genesis of Paleozoic natural gas in the Ordos Basin by Furong LI, Wenhui LIU, Xiaofeng WANG, Dongdong ZHANG, Houyong LUO, Xiaoyan CHEN, Fuqi LI, Wen ZHANG

“…The research has proved that marine hydrocarbon sources including carbonate rocks exist in the Lower Paleozoic of the basin, and the natural gas in the Upper and Lower Paleozoic has mixed to varying degrees in different locations of the basin.…”
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A Review of the G4 “Tin Granites” and Associated Mineral Occurrences in the Kivu Belt (Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo) and Their Relationships with the Last Kibaran Tecto... by Michel Villeneuve, Nandefo Wazi, Christian Kalikone, Andreas Gärtner

“…However, the G4 emplacement and its relationships with older granites, with their host rocks and associated mineralizations, are not yet understood. …”
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Re-Os Isotope Systematics of Sulfides in Chromitites and Host Lherzolites of the Andaman Ophiolite, India by José María González-Jiménez, Sisir K. Mondal, Biswajit Ghosh, William L. Griffin, Suzanne Y. O’Reilly

“…These ages match well with the main tectonothermal events that are documented in the continental crustal rocks of South India, suggesting that the Andaman mantle (or its protolith) had a volume of lithospheric mantle once underlaying this southern Indian continental crust. …”
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National-Scale Geochemical Baseline and Anomalies of Chromium in Papua New Guinea by Yuhao Zhao, Conrad Kumul, Tiangang Wang, Nathan Mosusu, Zhongyou Yao, Yiping Zhu, Bimin Zhang, Xueqiu Wang

“…In terms of stream sediment samples in different tectonic units, as mafic–ultramafic magmatic rocks are widely developed, the median chromium values of the New Guinea Orogen, including the Papuan Fold Belt, the New Guinea Thrust Belt, the Finisterre Terrane, the Aure Fold Belt, the Eastern Fold Belt, and the Eastern Papuan Composite Terrane, were higher than the value of the Melanesian Arc. …”
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Experimental and theoretical investigation of the mechanisms of drying during CO2 injection into saline reservoirs by Yen Adams Sokama-Neuyam, Muhammad Aslam Md Yusof, Shadrack Kofi Owusu, Victor Darkwah-Owusu, Joshua Nsiah Turkson, Adwoa Sampongmaa Otchere, Jann Rune Ursin

“…It was found that, for high permeability rocks, injection of CO2 at relatively low injection rates could result in salt cake deposition at the injection inlet especially under high salinity conditions. …”
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Evidence of an oceanic impact and megatsunami sedimentation in Chryse Planitia, Mars by J. Alexis P. Rodriguez, Darrel K. Robertson, Jeffrey S. Kargel, Victor R. Baker, Daniel C. Berman, Jacob Cohen, Francois Costard, Goro Komatsu, Anthony Lopez, Hideaki Miyamoto, Mario Zarroca

“…Our findings allow that rocks and soil salts at the landing site are of marine origin, inviting the scientific reconsideration of information gathered from the first in-situ measurements on Mars.…”
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