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1. The effect of geological biases on our perception of early land plant radiation

Author: Eliott Capel, Claude Monnet, Christopher J. Cleal, Jinzhuang Xue, Thomas Servais, Borja Cascales‐Miñana, Évolution, Écologie et Paléontologie (Evo-Eco-Paleo) - UMR 8198 (Evo-Eco-Paléo (EEP)), Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], The Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, Peking University [Beijing], and ANR-20-CE01-0002,EARTHGREEN,Comprendre le verdissement de la Terre primitive(2020)
Subjects: land plants Silurian Devonian diversity sampling-standardization rock record, Paleontology, Devonian, sampling-standardization, rock record, land plants, [SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology, Silurian, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, diversity
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Published: 2023
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2. Newly formed craters on Mars located using seismic and acoustic wave data from InSight

Author: Raphael F. Garcia, Ingrid J. Daubar, Éric Beucler, Liliya V. Posiolova, Gareth S. Collins, Philippe Lognonné, Lucie Rolland, Zongbo Xu, Natalia Wójcicka, Aymeric Spiga, Benjamin Fernando, Gunnar Speth, Léo Martire, Andrea Rajšić, Katarina Miljković, Eleanor K. Sansom, Constantinos Charalambous, Savas Ceylan, Sabrina Menina, Ludovic Margerin, Rémi Lapeyre, Tanja Neidhart, Nicholas A. Teanby, Nicholas C. Schmerr, Mickaël Bonnin, Marouchka Froment, John F. Clinton, Ozgur Karatekin, Simon C. Stähler, Nikolaj L. Dahmen, Cecilia Durán, Anna Horleston, Taichi Kawamura, Matthieu Plasman, Géraldine Zenhäusern, Domenico Giardini, Mark Panning, Mike Malin, William Bruce Banerdt, Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO), Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences [Providence], Brown University, Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géosciences [UMR_C 6112] (LPG), Université d'Angers (UA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Nantes université - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (Nantes univ - UFR ST), Nantes Université - pôle Sciences et technologie, Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université - pôle Sciences et technologie, Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ), Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS), Department of Earth Science and Engineering [Imperial College London], Imperial College London, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Géoazur (GEOAZUR 7329), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP (UMR_7154)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Department of Earth Sciences [Oxford], University of Oxford, Curtin University [Perth], Planning and Transport Research Centre (PATREC), UAR-Institut de physique du globe de Paris (IPGP-UAR / UAR3454), Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering [London] (DEEE), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], University of Maryland [College Park], University of Maryland System, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division [Los Alamos], Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Royal Observatory of Belgium [Brussels] (ROB), Institute of Geophysics [ETH Zürich], Department of Earth Sciences [Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - ETH Zürich] (D-ERDW), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich)- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Institut für Geophysik [Zürich], California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), ANR-14-CE36-0012,SEISMARS,Seismology on Mars(2014), ANR-19-CE31-0008,MAGIS,MArs Geophysical InSight(2019), and ANR-18-IDEX-0001,Université de Paris,Université de Paris(2018)
Subjects: Science & Technology, EXPLOSION, Natural hazards, Geology, ATMOSPHERE, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Inner planets, Meteoritics, Physical Sciences, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences, Geosciences, Multidisciplinary, MOON, Seismology, METEORITE IMPACTS
Abstract: International audience; Meteoroid impacts shape planetary surfaces by forming new craters and alter atmospheric composition. During atmospheric entry and impact on the ground, meteoroids excite transient acoustic and seismic waves. However, new crater formation and the associated impact-induced mechanical waves have yet to be observed jointly beyond Earth. Here we report observations of seismic and acoustic waves from the NASA InSight lander’s seismometer that we link to four meteoroid impact events on Mars observed in spacecraft imagery. We analysed arrival times and polarization of seismic and acoustic waves to estimate impact locations, which were subsequently confirmed by orbital imaging of the associated craters. Crater dimensions and estimates of meteoroid trajectories are consistent with waveform modelling of the recorded seismograms. With identified seismic sources, the seismic waves can be used to constrain the structure of the Martian interior, corroborating previous crustal structure models, and constrain scaling relationships between the distance and amplitude of impact-generated seismic waves on Mars, supporting a link between the seismic moment of impacts and the vertical impactor momentum. Our findings demonstrate the capability of planetary seismology to identify impact-generated seismic sources and constrain both impact processes and planetary interiors.
Published: 2022
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3. Phu Din Daeng, a new Early Cretaceous vertebrate locality on the Khorat Plateau, NE Thailand

Author: Kamonrak Wongko, Varavudh Suteethorn, Haiyan Tong, Jeremy E. Martin, Uthumporn Deesri, Wilailuck Naksri, Suravech Suteethorn, Eric Buffetaut, Gilles Cuny, Julien Claude, Lionel Cavin, Palaeontological Research and Education Centre, Mahasarakham University, Laboratoire de géologie de l'ENS (LGENS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Department of Mineral Resources, Department of Mineral Resources - Bangkok, Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement [Lyon] (LGL-TPE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon), PaleoEnvironnements et PaleobioSphere (PEPS), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Biology Department, School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (UMR ISEM), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR226-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement (LGL-TPE), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE)
Subjects: 010506 paleontology, geography, Plateau, geography.geographical_feature_category, biology, Ecology, Fauna, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, Paleontology, Vertebrate, biology.organism_classification, 01 natural sciences, Cretaceous, law.invention, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], law, biology.animal, Pycnodontiformes, 14. Life underwater, Turtle (robot), [SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: In this paper, we report on a new Early Cretaceous vertebrate locality, Phu Din Daeng, in Nakhon Phanom Province, NE Thailand. The Phu Din Daeng site has yielded a diverse vertebrate assemblage, including sharks (Heteroptychodus steinmanni), bony fishes (Pycnodontiformes; Sinamiidae cf. Siamamia and ?Vidalamiinae, and Ginglymodi), adocid turtles, indeterminate neosuchian crocodiles, pterosaurs and dinosaurs (spinosaurids and indeterminate theropods). A new adocid turtle, Protoshachemys rubra n. g. n. sp. is described on the basis of shell material. Field investigations on the geology and comparisons with other vertebrate faunas place Phu Din Daeng in the Sao Khua Formation (Barremian) of the Khorat Group.
Published: 2019
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4. List of keywords for polymer science (IUPAC Technical Report)

Author: Cláudio Gouvêa dos Santos, Roger C. Hiorns, Richard G. Jones, Christine K. Luscombe, Gregory T. Russell, Natalie Stingelin, Stanislaw Slomkowski, Carmen Scholz, Tamaki Nakano, Przemysław Kubisa, Christopher M. Fellows, Michael G. Walter, Center of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Polska Akademia Nauk = Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), University of New England (UNE), Institut des sciences analytiques et de physico-chimie pour l'environnement et les materiaux (IPREM), Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Lódź, University of Canterbury [Christchurch], School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], and University of Bristol [Bristol]
Subjects: chemistry.chemical_classification, Polymer science, 010405 organic chemistry, Chemistry, General Chemical Engineering, Chemical nomenclature, IUPAC, keyword, polymer science, [CHIM.MATE]Chemical Sciences/Material chemistry, General Chemistry, Polymer, 010402 general chemistry, 01 natural sciences, 0104 chemical sciences, [CHIM.THEO]Chemical Sciences/Theoretical and/or physical chemistry, [CHIM.POLY]Chemical Sciences/Polymers, [CHIM.ANAL]Chemical Sciences/Analytical chemistry, Technical report
Abstract: This paper provides a list of the most important terms from all areas of polymer science including polymer chemistry, polymer physics, polymer technology and polymer properties. These have been assembled into a representative list of terms that serves as an IUPAC recommended list of keywords for polymer science.
Published: 2019
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5. High‐Frequency Seismic Events on Mars Observed by InSight

Author: Philippe Lognonné, William T. Pike, John Clinton, Amir Khan, Ludovic Margerin, Domenico Giardini, Constantinos Charalambous, Simon Stähler, Anna Horleston, Nicholas Schmerr, Maren Böse, Guenolé Orhand-Mainsant, William B. Banerdt, Martin Knapmeyer, Fabian Euchner, Taichi Kawamura, John‐R. Scholz, Martin van Driel, Savas Ceylan, Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP (UMR_7154)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), ANR-19-CE31-0008,MAGIS,MArs Geophysical InSight(2019), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute of Geophysics [ETH Zürich], Department of Earth Sciences [Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - ETH Zürich] (D-ERDW), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich)- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Swiss Seismological Service [ETH Zurich] (SED), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich)- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich)-Department of Earth Sciences [Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - ETH Zürich] (D-ERDW), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering [London] (DEEE), Imperial College London, Institute for Theoretical Physics [ETH Zürich] (ITP), Department of Physics [ETH Zürich] (D-PHYS), Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO), Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung = Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt [Berlin] (DLR), University of Maryland [College Park], University of Maryland System, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), and ANR-14-CE36-0012,SEISMARS,Seismology on Mars(2014)
Subjects: Seismometer, Martian, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Scattering, [SDU.STU.GP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph], Attenuation, Crust, Mars Exploration Program, Mars InSight Marsbeben, 01 natural sciences, Coda, Geophysics, [SDU.STU.PL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Planetology, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Geochemistry and Petrology, Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous), Layering, Seismology, Geology, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: International audience; The seismometer deployed on the surface of Mars as part of the InSight mission (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) has recorded several hundreds of marsquakes in the first 478 sols after landing. The majority of these are classified as high-frequency (HF) events in the frequency range from approximately 1 to 10 Hz on Mars' surface. All the HF events excite a resonance around 2.4 Hz and show two distinct but broad arrivals of seismic energy that are separated by up to 450 s. Based on the frequency content and vertical-to-horizontal energy ratio, the HF event family has been subdivided into three event types, two of which we show to be identical and only appear separated due to the signal-to-noise ratio. We show here that the envelope shape of the HF events is explained by guided Pg and Sg phases in the Martian crust using simple layered models with scattering. Furthermore, the relative travel times between these two arrivals can be related to the epicentral distance, which shows distinct clustering. The rate at which HF events are observed varies by an order of magnitude over the course of one year and cannot be explained by changes of the background noise only. The HF content and the absence of additional seismic phases constrain crustal attenuation and layering, and the coda shape constrains the diffusivity in the uppermost shallow layers of Mars.
Published: 2021
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6. Science goals and new mission concepts for future exploration of Titan's atmosphere geology and habitability: Titan POlar Scout/orbitEr and In situ lake lander and DrONe explorer (POSEIDON)

Author: Sébastien Rodriguez, Sandrine Vinatier, Daniel Cordier, Gabriel Tobie, Richard K. Achterberg, Carrie M. Anderson, Sarah V. Badman, Jason W. Barnes, Erika L. Barth, Bruno Bézard, Nathalie Carrasco, Benjamin Charnay, Roger N. Clark, Patrice Coll, Thomas Cornet, Athena Coustenis, Isabelle Couturier-Tamburelli, Michel Dobrijevic, F. Michael Flasar, Remco de Kok, Caroline Freissinet, Marina Galand, Thomas Gautier, Wolf D. Geppert, Caitlin A. Griffith, Murthy S. Gudipati, Lina Z. Hadid, Alexander G. Hayes, Amanda R. Hendrix, Ralf Jaumann, Donald E. Jennings, Antoine Jolly, Klara Kalousova, Tommi T. Koskinen, Panayotis Lavvas, Sébastien Lebonnois, Jean-Pierre Lebreton, Alice Le Gall, Emmanuel Lellouch, Stéphane Le Mouélic, Rosaly M. C. Lopes, Juan M. Lora, Ralph D. Lorenz, Antoine Lucas, Shannon MacKenzie, Michael J. Malaska, Kathleen Mandt, Marco Mastrogiuseppe, Claire E. Newman, Conor A. Nixon, Jani Radebaugh, Scot C. Rafkin, Pascal Rannou, Ella M. Sciamma-O’Brien, Jason M. Soderblom, Anezina Solomonidou, Christophe Sotin, Katrin Stephan, Darrell Strobel, Cyril Szopa, Nicholas A. Teanby, Elizabeth P. Turtle, Véronique Vuitton, Robert A. West, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP (UMR_7154)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA (UMR_8109)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Groupe de spectrométrie moléculaire et atmosphérique (GSMA), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géosciences [UMR_C 6112] (LPG), Université d'Angers (UA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Nantes université - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (Nantes univ - UFR ST), Nantes Université - pôle Sciences et technologie, Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université - pôle Sciences et technologie, Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ), Department of Astronomy [College Park], University of Maryland [College Park], University of Maryland System-University of Maryland System, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Leicester], University of Leicester, University of Idaho [Moscow, USA], Southwest Research Institute [Boulder] (SwRI), PLANETO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Planetary Science Institute [Tucson] (PSI), Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA (UMR_7583)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), Physique des interactions ioniques et moléculaires (PIIM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Physical Geography [Utrecht], Utrecht University [Utrecht], Department of Physics [Imperial College London], Imperial College London, Department of Physics [Stockholm], Stockholm University, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory [Tucson] (LPL), University of Arizona, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École polytechnique (X)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Cornell University [New York], Institute of Geological Sciences [Berlin], Department of Earth Sciences [Berlin], Free University of Berlin (FU)-Free University of Berlin (FU), Faculty of Mathematics and Physics [Charles University of Praha], Charles University [Prague] (CU), Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (LPC2E), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences [New Haven], Yale University [New Haven], Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory [Laurel, MD] (APL), Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome] (UNIROMA), Aeolis Research, Department of Geological Sciences [BYU], Brigham Young University (BYU), Space Science and Astrobiology Division at Ames, NASA Ames Research Center (ARC), Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences [MIT, Cambridge] (EAPS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences [Pasadena], California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), DLR Institut für Planetenforschung, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt [Berlin] (DLR), Johns Hopkins University (JHU), School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG ), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Météo-France -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Météo-France, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-IPG PARIS-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique [UMR 6112] (LPG), Université d'Angers (UA)-Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), European Space Agency (ESA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome], Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique = Laboratory of Space Studies and Instrumentation in Astrophysics (LESIA), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-IPG PARIS-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPC), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Lancaster University, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES)
Subjects: geology, space mission concept, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, [PHYS.ASTR.EP]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], Habitability, [SDU.ASTR.EP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], FOS: Physical sciences, orbiter, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, drones, Orbiter, Poseidon, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Drones, Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP), Atmosphere, 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::520 Astronomie::520 Astronomie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geology, FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences, habitability, lake lander, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, atmosphere, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Titan, Lake lander, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract: In response to ESA Voyage 2050 announcement of opportunity, we propose an ambitious L-class mission to explore one of the most exciting bodies in the Solar System, Saturn largest moon Titan. Titan, a "world with two oceans", is an organic-rich body with interior-surface-atmosphere interactions that are comparable in complexity to the Earth. Titan is also one of the few places in the Solar System with habitability potential. Titan remarkable nature was only partly revealed by the Cassini-Huygens mission and still holds mysteries requiring a complete exploration using a variety of vehicles and instruments. The proposed mission concept POSEIDON (Titan POlar Scout/orbitEr and In situ lake lander DrONe explorer) would perform joint orbital and in situ investigations of Titan. It is designed to build on and exceed the scope and scientific/technological accomplishments of Cassini-Huygens, exploring Titan in ways that were not previously possible, in particular through full close-up and in situ coverage over long periods of time. In the proposed mission architecture, POSEIDON consists of two major elements: a spacecraft with a large set of instruments that would orbit Titan, preferably in a low-eccentricity polar orbit, and a suite of in situ investigation components, i.e. a lake lander, a "heavy" drone (possibly amphibious) and/or a fleet of mini-drones, dedicated to the exploration of the polar regions. The ideal arrival time at Titan would be slightly before the next northern Spring equinox (2039), as equinoxes are the most active periods to monitor still largely unknown atmospheric and surface seasonal changes. The exploration of Titan northern latitudes with an orbiter and in situ element(s) would be highly complementary with the upcoming NASA New Frontiers Dragonfly mission that will provide in situ exploration of Titan equatorial regions in the mid-2030s., Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1908.01374
Published: 2021
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7. Lactation and gestation controls on calcium isotopic compositions in a mammalian model

Author: Doryan Grivault, Samuel Le Goff, Vincent Balter, Jean-Alexis Hernandez, Auguste Hassler, Emmanuelle Albalat, Stéphane Ferchaud, Jeremy E. Martin, Théo Tacail, Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement (LGL-TPE), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Unité Expérimentale Elevages Porcins Innovants (GenESI), Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), University of Oslo (UiO), Center for Earth Evolution and Dynamics, University of Oslo, School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement [Lyon] (LGL-TPE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Calcium Isotopes, Swine, media_common.quotation_subject, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Biophysics, chemistry.chemical_element, [SDV.SA.ZOO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Zootechny, Fractionation, Calcium, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Biochemistry, Models, Biological, Bone and Bones, Biomaterials, 03 medical and health sciences, Animal science, Pregnancy, Lactation, [SDV.BA.ZV]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Vertebrate Zoology, medicine, Animals, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, media_common, Isotope, Metals and Alloys, Animal Feed, Body Fluids, 030104 developmental biology, medicine.anatomical_structure, chemistry, Animals, Newborn, Chemistry (miscellaneous), Gestation, Colostrum, Composition (visual arts), Female, Reproduction
Abstract: Lactation and gestation are among the physiological events that trigger the most intense changes in body calcium (Ca) fluxes. Along with the composition of the animal 2021 diet, these events are suspected to impact the Ca isotopic composition of Ca body reservoirs but their dynamics are poorly understood. In this study, we monitored a group of domestic sows across a full reproduction cycle. We collected tissues and fluids (blood, urine, milk, colostrum, umbilical blood, adult and piglet bones) at different steps of gestation and lactation, and analyzed their Ca isotopic compositions (i.e. δ44/42Ca) by means of multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Among other results, we report the first observations of Ca isotopic fractionation between maternal and umbilical blood (Δ44/42Caumbilical blood-sow blood = −0.18 ± 0.11‰, n = 3). Our data also highlight that gestation and lactation periods are characterized by small diet-bone Ca isotopic offsets (Δ44/42Cabone-diet = −0.28 ± 0.11‰, n = 3), with 44Ca-enriched blood compositions during nursing (Δ44/42Canursing blood-gestation blood = $+ 0.42{\rm{\,\,}}_{ - 0.12}^{ + 0.11}$‰, n = 3). Under the light of an up-to-date mammalian box model, we explored different scenarios of gestation and lactation Ca fluxes experienced by a sow-like animal. These simulations suggest that gestation changes on body δ44/42Ca values may result from the intensification of Ca absorption by the animal, whereas the production of 44Ca-depleted milk is the main driver for the 44Ca enrichment in blood during lactation. In addition, our results also support that bone mineralization could be associated with a more restricted Ca isotopic fractionation than previously envisioned. Together, these results refine the framework of Ca isotope applications, notably regarding the monitoring of human bone balance and the study of species and ecosystems from the present and the past.
Published: 2020
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8. Rates of generation and growth of the continental crust

Author: Bruno Dhuime, Chris J. Hawkesworth, Peter A. Cawood, School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Géosciences Montpellier, and Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université des Antilles (UA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Subduction, Continental crust, lcsh:QE1-996.5, Tectonics, Geochemistry, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, Crust, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Mantle (geology), lcsh:Geology, Plate tectonics, Igneous rock, Rates of crustal growth, Continental margin, [SDU.STU.GC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geochemistry, Continental crust growth curves, 13. Climate action, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Geology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: Models for when and how the continental crust was formed are constrained by estimates in the rates of crustal growth. The record of events preserved in the continental crust is heterogeneous in time with distinctive peaks and troughs of ages for igneous crystallisation, metamorphism, continental margins and mineralisation. For the most part these are global signatures, and the peaks of ages tend to be associated with periods of increased reworking of pre-existing crust, reflected in the Hf isotope ratios of zircons and their elevated oxygen isotope ratios. Increased crustal reworking is attributed to periods of crustal thickening associated with compressional tectonics and the development of supercontinents. Magma types similar to those from recent within-plate and subduction related settings appear to have been generated in different areas at broadly similar times before ∼3.0 Ga. It can be difficult to put the results of such detailed case studies into a more global context, but one approach is to consider when plate tectonics became the dominant mechanism involved in the generation of juvenile continental crust. The development of crustal growth models for the continental crust are discussed, and a number of models based on different data sets indicate that 65%–70% of the present volume of the continental crust was generated by 3 Ga. Such estimates may represent minimum values, but since ∼3 Ga there has been a reduction in the rates of growth of the continental crust. This reduction is linked to an increase in the rates at which continental crust is recycled back into the mantle, and not to a reduction in the rates at which continental crust was generated. Plate tectonics results in both the generation of new crust and its destruction along destructive plate margins. Thus, the reduction in the rate of continental crustal growth at ∼3 Ga is taken to reflect the period in which plate tectonics became the dominant mechanism by which new continental crust was generated. Keywords: Continental crust growth curves, Rates of crustal growth, Tectonics
Published: 2019
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9. Revision of some damsel-dragonflies (Odonata, Liassophlebiidae and Anglophlebiidae new family) from the Triassic/Jurassic of England and Antarctica

Author: Richard S. Kelly, André Nel, School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Department of Natural Sciences, National Museum of Scotland, Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB ), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université des Antilles (UA)
Subjects: Extinction event, 010506 paleontology, Fossil Record, biology, Paleontology, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, Odonata, biology.organism_classification, 01 natural sciences, Incertae sedis, Nomen dubium, Geography, Taxonomy (biology), [SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: Fossil insects from the Triassic-Jurassic boundary of England could provide an important resource for investigating the severity of extinction events in the terrestrial realm of the uppermost Triassic. However, the fossil record is poorly understood for this period even though there are abundant historical collections. Many of these collections are still in need of taxonomic revision before they can be used to reconstruct past entomofaunas and make inferences about diversity change through time. This paper is part of a larger project to revise the taxonomy of insects across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary of England to better understand changes in insect diversity through the Triassic-Jurassic boundary and associated extinction period. Herein, the damsel-dragonfly family Liassophlebiidae Tillyard, 1925 is revised and an additional specimen from the Early Jurassic of Antarctica is included.Rossiphlebianew genus is erected forLiassophlebia jacksoniZeuner, 1962;L. batheriTillyard, 1925 is considered nomen dubium and another specimen originally attributed toL. batheriis identified asL. withersiTillyard, 1925.Liassophlebia(?)clavigasterTillyard, 1925 andL.(?)hopei(Brodie, 1845) are considered incertae sedis at the generic level.Liassophlebia giganteaZeuner, 1962 is based on a fragmentary specimen but has several unique key characteristics. We redescribe it inAnglophlebianew genus and tentatively in Anglophlebiidae new family in Heterophlebioptera. Also discussed areL. magnificaTillyard, 1925,L. withersi, andL. pseudomagnificaWhalley, 1985, which are redescribed with updated figures.Caraphlebia antarcticaCarpenter, 1969 was originally described from the Early Jurassic of Antarctica as being closely related toLiassophlebia; it is herein confirmed in Selenothemistidae Handlirsch, 1939.UUID:http://zoobank.org/8fe9a39c-1c3b-4bda-92a6-92c1a0fc95b8
Published: 2018
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10. The isotope composition of inorganic germanium in seawater and deep sea sponges

Author: Stefan V. Lalonde, Maxence Guillermic, Olivier Rouxel, Katharine R. Hendry, Laboratoire Géosciences Océan (LGO), Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Unité de recherche Géosciences Marines (Ifremer) (GM), Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), Université de Brest (UBO)-Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer - Brest (IFREMER Centre de Bretagne), Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer - Brest (IFREMER Centre de Bretagne), and Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Silicon, Water mass, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Seamount, stable isotopes, Mineralogy, Southern Oceans, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Deep sea, Isotope fractionation, Geochemistry and Petrology, [SDU.STU.VO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Volcanology, 14. Life underwater, Southern Ocean, sponges, [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography, Stable isotopes, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, [SDU.STU.TE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Tectonics, geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, Isotope, Germanium, Stable isotope ratio, silicon, Chemical oceanography, germanium, Oceanography, 13. Climate action, Sponges, chemical oceanography, Seawater, [SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology, Geology
Abstract: Although dissolved concentrations of germanium (Ge) and silicon (Si) in modern seawater are tightly correlated, uncertainties still exist in the modern marine Ge cycle. Germanium stable isotope systematics in marine systems should provide additional constraints on marine Ge sources and sinks, however the low concentration of Ge in seawater presents an analytical challenge for isotopic measurement. Here, we present a new method of pre-concentration of inorganic Ge from seawater which was applied to measure three Ge isotope profiles in the Southern Ocean and deep seawater from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Germanium isotopic measurements were performed on Ge amounts as low as 2.6 ng using a double-spike approach and a hydride generation system coupled to a MC-ICP-MS. Germanium was co-precipitated with iron hydroxide and then purified through anion-exchange chromatography. Results for the deep (i.e. > 1000 m depth) Pacific Ocean off Hawaii (nearby Loihi Seamount) and the deep Atlantic off Bermuda (BATS station) showed nearly identical δ74/70Ge values at 3.19 ± 0.31 ‰ (2SD, n = 9) and 2.93 ± 0.10 ‰ (2SD, n = 2), respectively. Vertical distributions of Ge concentration and isotope composition in the deep Southern Ocean for water depth > 1300 m yielded an average δ74/70Ge = 3.13 ± 0.25 ‰ (2SD, n = 14) and Ge/Si = 0.80 ± 0.09 mol/mol (2SD, n = 12). Significant variations in δ74/70Ge, from 2.62 to 3.71 ‰, were measured in the first 1000 m in one station of the Southern Ocean near Sars Seamount in the Drake Passage, with the heaviest values measured in surface waters. Isotope fractionation by diatoms during opal biomineralization may explain the enrichment in heavy isotopes for both Ge and Si in surface seawater. However, examination of both oceanographic parameters and δ74/70Ge values suggest also that water mass mixing and potential contribution of shelf-derived Ge also could contribute to the variations. Combining these results with new Ge isotope data for deep-sea sponges sampled nearby allowed us to determine a Ge isotope fractionation factor of -0.87 ± 0.37 ‰ (2SD, n = 12) during Ge uptake by sponges. Although Ge has long been considered as a geochemical twin of Si, this work underpins fundamental differences in their isotopic behaviors both during biomineralization processes and in their oceanic distributions. This suggests that combined with Si isotopes, Ge isotopes hold significant promise as a complementary proxy for delineating biological versus source effects in the evolution of the marine silicon cycle through time.
Published: 2017
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11. Initial results from the InSight mission on Mars

Author: Sharon Kedar, Don Banfield, Scott M. McLennan, Nicholas Schmerr, Justin N. Maki, Gareth S. Collins, John Clinton, Anna Mittelholz, Paul Morgan, Mélanie Drilleau, Sabine Stanley, Chloé Michaut, Nicholas A Teanby, Daniele Antonangeli, Jeroen Tromp, W. Bruce Banerdt, James B. Garvin, Mark A. Wieczorek, Jerzy Grygorczuk, Suzanne E. Smrekar, Catherine L. Johnson, Aymeric Spiga, Peter Chi, Brigitte Knapmeyer-Endrun, Raphaël F. Garcia, Claire E. Newman, Seiichi Nagihara, Matthias Grott, W. Thomas Pike, Philippe Lognonné, Véronique Dehant, Ana-Catalina Plesa, Matthew Fillingim, Domenico Giardini, Taichi Kawamura, Mark T. Lemmon, Antoine Mocquet, Naomi Murdoch, Ebru Bozdag, David Mimoun, Ludovic Margerin, Matthew P. Golombek, Jessica C. E. Irving, Troy L. Hudson, Sami W. Asmar, Günter Kargl, Martin Knapmeyer, Mark P. Panning, Francis Nimmo, Scott D. King, John A. Grant, Sebastien Rodriguez, Martin van Driel, Nicholas H. Warner, Nils Mueller, José Antonio Rodríguez-Manfredi, Christopher T. Russell, Caroline Beghein, Clément Perrin, Ulrich R. Christensen, William M. Folkner, Renee Weber, Neil Bowles, Ingrid Daubar, Simon Stähler, Tilman Spohn, Eléanore Stutzmann, Ralph D. Lorenz, Matthew A. Siegler, Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace - ISAE-SUPAERO (FRANCE), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology (CALTECH)-NASA, Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science (CCAPS), Cornell University, Institute of Geophysics [ETH Zürich], Department of Earth Sciences [ETH Zürich] (D-ERDW), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich [Zürich] (ETH Zürich)-Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences [Vancouver] (EOAS), University of British Columbia (UBC), Département de géophysique spatiale et planétaire (DGSP (UMR_7096)), Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-IPG PARIS-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD), Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), DLR Institut für Planetenforschung, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt [Berlin] (DLR), Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-IPG PARIS-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics [Oxford] (AOPP), University of Oxford [Oxford], Department of Geosciences [Princeton], Princeton University, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Swiss Seismological Service [ETH Zurich] (SED), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich [Zürich] (ETH Zürich)-Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich [Zürich] (ETH Zürich)-Department of Earth Sciences [ETH Zürich] (D-ERDW), Department of Earth Science and Engineering [Imperial College London], Imperial College London, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences [Providence], Brown University, Royal Observatory of Belgium [Brussels], Space Sciences Laboratory [Berkeley] (SSL), University of California [Berkeley], University of California-University of California, Département Electronique, Optronique et Signal (DEOS), Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO), Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System (IRSGIS), School of Earth and Space Sciences [Beijing], Peking University [Beijing]-Peking University [Beijing], Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), Graphics and Vision Research Laboratory (Graphics Lab), University of Otago [Dunedin, Nouvelle-Zélande], Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Space Science Institute [Boulder] (SSI), Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory [Laurel, MD] (APL), Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook University [SUNY] (SBU), State University of New York (SUNY)-State University of New York (SUNY), Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement [Lyon] (LGL-TPE), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique [UMR 6112] (LPG), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Nantes - Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques, Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Université d'Angers (UA), AstraZeneca, Aeolis Research, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences [Santa Cruz], University of California [Santa Cruz] (UCSC), Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida [Gainesville], Centro de Astrobiologia [Madrid] (CAB), Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Spain] (CSIC), Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences [Los Angeles] (EPSS), University of California [Los Angeles] (UCLA), The Open University [Milton Keynes] (OU), Morton K. 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[0000-0002-2742-8299], Rodríguez, S. [0000-0003-1219-0641], Lognonné, P. [0000-0002-1014-920X], Perrin, C. [0000-0002-7200-5682], Murdoch, N. [0000-0002-9701-4075], Knapmeyer, M. [0000-0003-0319-2514], Rodríguez Manfredi, J. A. [0000-0003-0461-9815], Spiga, A. [0000-0002-6776-6268], Panning, M. P. [0000-0002-2041-3190], García, R. [0000-0003-1460-6663], Johnson, C. [0000-0001-6084-0149], Stutzmann, E. [0000-0002-4348-7475], Knapmeyer-Endrun, B. [0000-0003-3309-6785], Schmerr, N. [0000-0002-3256-1262], Irving, J. C. E. [0000-0002-0866-8246], Morgan, P. [0000-0001-8714-4178], Mueller, N. [0000-0001-9229-8921], Pike, W. [0000-0002-7660-6231], Kawamura, T. [0000-0001-5246-5561], Clinton, J. [0000-0001-8626-2703], Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), ANR-10LABX-0023 ANR-11-IDEX-0005-0, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF- ANR project), 157133, ETH Research grant, ETH-06 17-02, Lunar and Planetary Institute, 2250, UCL - SST/ELI/ELIC - Earth & Climate, Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), and Science & Technology Facilities Council
Subjects: Seismometer, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, [PHYS.ASTR.EP]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], [SDU.ASTR.EP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], Mars, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Atmosphere, [SDU.STU.PL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Planetology, Impact crater, Autre, Planet, Inner planets, InSight Mars Geophysik, Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences, Seismology, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Atmospheric dynamics, Geomorphology, Moment magnitude scale, Mars InSight, Geomagnetism, Mars Exploration Program, Geophysics, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], 13. Climate action, Intraplate earthquake, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Timekeeping on Mars, [SDU.OTHER]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Other, InSight mission, Geology
Abstract: Banerdt, William B. et al., NASA’s InSight (Interior exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) mission landed in Elysium Planitia on Mars on 26 November 2018. It aims to determine the interior structure, composition and thermal state of Mars, as well as constrain present-day seismicity and impact cratering rates. Such information is key to understanding the differentiation and subsequent thermal evolution of Mars, and thus the forces that shape the planet’s surface geology and volatile processes. Here we report an overview of the first ten months of geophysical observations by InSight. As of 30 September 2019, 174 seismic events have been recorded by the lander’s seismometer, including over 20 events of moment magnitude M = 3–4. The detections thus far are consistent with tectonic origins, with no impact-induced seismicity yet observed, and indicate a seismically active planet. An assessment of these detections suggests that the frequency of global seismic events below approximately M = 3 is similar to that of terrestrial intraplate seismic activity, but there are fewer larger quakes; no quakes exceeding M = 4 have been observed. The lander’s other instruments—two cameras, atmospheric pressure, temperature and wind sensors, a magnetometer and a radiometer—have yielded much more than the intended supporting data for seismometer noise characterization: magnetic field measurements indicate a local magnetic field that is ten-times stronger than orbital estimates and meteorological measurements reveal a more dynamic atmosphere than expected, hosting baroclinic and gravity waves and convective vortices. With the mission due to last for an entire Martian year or longer, these results will be built on by further measurements by the InSight lander., With funding from the Spanish government through the "María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence" accreditation (MDM-2017-0737)
Published: 2020
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12. The seismicity of Mars

Author: Simon Stähler, Anna Horleston, Sharon Kedar, John-Robert Scholz, L. Luno, J. B. McClean, Henri Samuel, Fabian Euchner, S. Barkaoui, Tristram Warren, Mélanie Drilleau, Martin Schimmel, Maren Böse, M. Nonon, M. van Driel, Nicholas A Teanby, Alexander E. Stott, Savas Ceylan, Ludovic Margerin, A. Jacob, Brigitte Knapmeyer-Endrun, William B. Banerdt, Guenole Mainsant, Tamara Gudkova, Antoine Lucas, T. Gabsi, Renee Weber, Taichi Kawamura, Vincent Conejero, Eléonore Stutzmann, Daniele Antonangeli, C. Agard, Constantinos Charalambous, C. Ferrier, P. Combes, K. Hurst, Philippe Lognonné, Don Banfield, Aymeric Spiga, William T. Pike, Constanza Pardo, J. A Rodriguez Manfredi, Martin Knapmeyer, Attilio Rivoldini, Francis Nimmo, U. R. Christensen, Sue Smrekar, Ingrid Daubar, R. Llorca-Cejudo, Mark P. Panning, Scott D. King, Eric Beucler, Foivos Karakostas, Amir Khan, E. Barrett, Mark A. Wieczorek, Raphaël F. Garcia, Clément Perrin, Naomi Murdoch, David Mimoun, C. Yana, John Clinton, Domenico Giardini, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Swiss National Science Foundation, Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (Switzerland), UK Space Agency, California Institute of Technology, German Centre for Air and Space Travel, Schimmel, Martin, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-IPG PARIS-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Institute of Geophysics [ETH Zürich], Department of Earth Sciences [Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - ETH Zürich] (D-ERDW), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich)- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Department of Mechanical Engineering [Imperial College London], Imperial College London, Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung (MPS), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, INSTITUT OF GEOPHYSICS ETHZ, Swiss Seismological Service, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences [München], Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Department of Geological Sciences [Gainesville] (UF|Geological), University of Florida [Gainesville] (UF), Cornell University [New York], Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique [UMR 6112] (LPG), Université d'Angers (UA)-Université de Nantes - 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Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015 - 2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015 - 2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015 - 2019) (COMUE UCA), Schimmel, Martin [0000-0003-2601-4462], Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences [Munich], Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique UMR6112 (LPG), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Nantes - Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques, Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Université d'Angers (UA), Laboratoire de Géophysique Interne et Tectonophysique (LGIT), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées (LCPC)-Institut des Sciences de la Terre (ISTerre), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-PRES Université de Grenoble-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR219-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut Français des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l'Aménagement et des Réseaux (IFSTTAR)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-PRES Université de Grenoble-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR219-Institut Français des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l'Aménagement et des Réseaux (IFSTTAR), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG Paris), Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung = Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Unité de recherche de l'institut du thorax (ITX-lab), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of California [Santa Cruz] (UC Santa Cruz), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and ANR-14-CE36-0012,SEISMARS,Seismology on Mars(2014)
Subjects: Seismometer, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, [PHYS.ASTR.EP]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], Mars, Induced seismicity, InSight Mars Marsbeben Seismizität, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, seismology, 01 natural sciences, Mantle (geology), Elysium, [SDU.STU.PL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Planetology, Autre, Planet, inner planets, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Seismology, InSight, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Seismicity, Crust, Geology, Mars Exploration Program, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], 13. Climate action, General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Abstract: The InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) mission landed in Elysium Planitia on Mars on 26 November 2018 and fully deployed its seismometer by the end of February 2019. The mission aims to detect, characterize and locate seismic activity on Mars, and to further constrain the internal structure, composition and dynamics of the planet. Here, we present seismometer data recorded until 30 September 2019, which reveal that Mars is seismically active. We identify 174 marsquakes, comprising two distinct populations: 150 small-magnitude, high-frequency events with waves propagating at crustal depths and 24 low-frequency, subcrustal events of magnitude Mw 3–4 with waves propagating at various depths in the mantle. These marsquakes have spectral characteristics similar to the seismicity observed on the Earth and Moon. We determine that two of the largest detected marsquakes were located near the Cerberus Fossae fracture system. From the recorded seismicity, we constrain attenuation in the crust and mantle, and find indications of a potential low-S-wave-velocity layer in the upper mantle. © 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited., We acknowledge NASA, CNES and its partner agencies and institutions (UKSA, SSO, DLR, JPL, IPGP-CNRS, ETHZ, IC and MPS-MPG) and the flight operations team at JPL, SISMOC, MSDS, IRIS-DMC and PDS for providing SEIS data. The Swiss co-authors were jointly funded by (1) the Swiss National Science Foundation and French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (SNF-ANR project 157133 ‘Seismology on Mars’), (2) the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF project 172508 ‘Mapping the internal structure of Mars’), (3) the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SEFRI project ‘MarsQuake Service-Preparatory Phase’) and (4) ETH Research grant no. ETH-06 17-02. Additional support came from the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) under project ID s922. The Swiss contribution in the implementation of the SEIS electronics was made possible by funding from the federal Swiss Space Office (SSO) and contractual and technical support from the ESA-PRODEX office. The French Team acknowledge the French Space Agency CNES, which has supported and funded all SEIS-related contracts and CNES employees, as well as CNRS and the French team universities for personal and infrastructure support. Additional support was provided by ANR (ANR-14-CE36-0012-02 and ANR-19-CE31-0008-08) and, for the IPGP team, by the UnivEarthS Labex programme (ANR-10-LABX-0023), IDEX Sorbonne Paris Cité (ANR-11-IDEX-0005-0). SEIS-SP development and delivery were funded by the UK Space Agency. A portion of the work was carried out at the InSight Project at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The MPS SEIS team acknowledges funding for development of the SEIS leveling system by the DLR German Space Agency. We thank gempa GmbH for software development related to the MQS tools. This paper is InSight contribution number 102.
Published: 2020
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13. The Marsquake catalogue from InSight, sols 0–478

Author: Don Banfield, Alexander E. Stott, Maren Böse, Philippe Lognonné, Guenolé Orhand-Mainsant, William T. Pike, Fabian Euchner, Eric Beucler, Mark P. Panning, Amir Khan, Raphaël F. Garcia, Constantinos Charalambous, Savas Ceylan, John Clinton, Aymeric Spiga, Simon Stähler, Anna Horleston, Sharon Kedar, Taichi Kawamura, Suzanne E. Smrekar, Nikolaj Dahmen, William B. Banerdt, John-Robert Scholz, Clément Perrin, Domenico Giardini, Martin van Driel, Swiss Seismological Service [ETH Zurich] (SED), Institute of Geophysics [ETH Zürich], Department of Earth Sciences [Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - ETH Zürich] (D-ERDW), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich)- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich)-Department of Earth Sciences [Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - ETH Zürich] (D-ERDW), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich)- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Imperial College London, School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-IPG PARIS-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO), Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science (CCAPS), Cornell University [New York], Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique [UMR 6112] (LPG), Université d'Angers (UA)-Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), and Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace - ISAE-SUPAERO (FRANCE)
Subjects: Seismometer, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), [PHYS.ASTR.EP]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], Marsquakes, Mars seismicity catalogue, InSight mission, Induced seismicity, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Mars Seismology, Autre, Long period, Short duration, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Data collection, Event (computing), Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mars Exploration Program, Key features, Geophysics, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Geology, Seismology
Abstract: The InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) mission began collecting high quality seismic data on Mars in February 2019. This manuscript documents the seismicity observed by SEIS, InSightâ€™s seismometer, from this time until the end of March 2020. Within the InSight project, the Marsquake Service (MQS) is responsible for prompt review of all seismic data collected by InSight, detection of events that are likely to be of seismic origin, and curation and release of seismic catalogues. In the first year of data collection, MQS have identified 465 seismic events that we interpret to be from regional and teleseismic marsquakes. Seismic events are grouped into 2 different event families: the low frequency family is dominated by energy at long period below 1 s, and the high frequency family primarily include energy at and above 2.4 Hz. Event magnitudes, from Mars-specific scales, range from 1.3 to 3.7. A third class of events with very short duration but high frequency bursts have been observed 712 times. These are likely associated with a local source driven by thermal stresses. This paper describes the data collected so far in the mission and the procedures under which MQS operates; summarises the content of the current MQS seismic catalogue; and presents the key features of the events we have observed so far, using the largest events as examples. ISSN:0031-9201 ISSN:1872-7395
Published: 2021
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14. Temperature and chemical species distributions in the middle atmosphere observed during Titan’s late northern spring to early summer

Author: Nicolas Gorius, D. E. Jennings, Christophe Mathé, Sandrine Vinatier, Nicholas A Teanby, Sébastien Lebonnois, Bruno Bézard, Richard K. Achterberg, E. Guandique, J. Vatant d'Ollone, Benoît Seignovert, F. M. Flasar, C. Dauphin, A. A. Mamoutkine, Melody Sylvestre, LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, 5 place Jules Janssen, 92195 Meudon, France, Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA (UMR_8109)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), PLANETO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), School of Physics and Astronomy [Leicester], University of Leicester, Institut Villebon – Georges Charpak, Université Paris-Saclay, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Department of Astronomy [College Park], University of Maryland [College Park], University of Maryland System-University of Maryland System, and ADNET Systems, Inc.
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, planets and satellites, composition / methods, data analysis / radiative transfer / infrared, data analysis, Equator, Astrophysics, Atmospheric sciences, 01 natural sciences, Titan / planets and satellites, Atmosphere, Stratopause, Polar vortex, 0103 physical sciences, Solstice, individual, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Stratosphere, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, Polar night, Northern Hemisphere, Astronomy and Astrophysics, planetary system, atmospheres / planets and satellites, radiative transfer, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, infrared, atmospheres, Titan
Abstract: We present a study of the seasonal evolution of Titan’s thermal field and distributions of haze, C2H2, C2H4, C2H6, CH3C2H, C3H8, C4H2, C6H6, HCN, and HC3N from March 2015 (Ls = 66°) to September 2017 (Ls = 93°) (i.e., from the last third of northern spring to early summer). We analyzed thermal emission of Titan’s atmosphere acquired by the Cassini Composite Infrared Spectrometer with limb and nadir geometry to retrieve the stratospheric and mesospheric temperature and mixing ratios pole-to-pole meridional cross sections from 5 mbar to 50 μbar (120–650 km). The southern stratopause varied in a complex way and showed a global temperature increase from 2015 to 2017 at high-southern latitudes. Stratospheric southern polar temperatures, which were observed to be as low as 120 K in early 2015 due to the polar night, showed a 30 K increase (at 0.5 mbar) from March 2015 to May 2017 due to adiabatic heating in the subsiding branch of the global overturning circulation. All photochemical compounds were enriched at the south pole by this subsidence. Polar cross sections of these enhanced species, which are good tracers of the global dynamics, highlighted changes in the structure of the southern polar vortex. These high enhancements combined with the unusually low temperatures (3N, C6H6 and possibly C4H2 in March 2015 (Ls = 66°). These molecules were observed to condense deeper with increasing distance from the south pole. At high-northern latitudes, stratospheric enrichments remaining from the winter were observed below 300 km between 2015 and May 2017 (Ls = 90°) for all chemical compounds and up to September 2017 (Ls = 93°) for C2H2, C2H4, CH3C2H, C3H8, and C4H2. In September 2017, these local enhancements were less pronounced than earlier for C2H2, C4H2, CH3C2H, HC3N, and HCN, and were no longer observed for C2H6 and C6 H6, which suggests a change in the northern polar dynamics near the summer solstice. These enhancements observed during the entire spring may be due to confinement of this enriched air by a small remaining winter circulation cell that persisted in the low stratosphere up to the northern summer solstice, according to predictions of the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace Titan Global Climate Model (IPSL Titan GCM). In the mesosphere we derived a depleted layer in C2H2, HCN, and C2H6 from the north pole to mid-southern latitudes, while C4H2, C3H4, C2H4, and HC3N seem to have been enriched in the same region. In the deep stratosphere, all molecules except C2H4 were depleted due to their condensation sink located deeper than 5 mbar outside the southern polar vortex. HCN, C4H2, and CH3C2H volume mixing ratio cross section contours showed steep slopes near the mid-latitudes or close to the equator, which can be explained by upwelling air in this region. Upwelling is also supported by the cross section of the C2H4 (the only molecule not condensing among those studied here) volume mixing ratio observed in the northern hemisphere. We derived the zonal wind velocity up to mesospheric levels from the retrieved thermal field. We show that zonal winds were faster and more confined around the south pole in 2015 (Ls = 67−72°) than later. In 2016, the polar zonal wind speed decreased while the fastest winds had migrated toward low-southern latitudes.
Published: 2020
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15. Seasonal evolution of temperatures in Titan's lower stratosphere

Author: Nicholas A Teanby, J. Vatant d'Ollone, S. Vinatier, Patrick G. J. Irwin, Melody Sylvestre, Sébastien Lebonnois, Bruno Bézard, School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA (UMR_8109)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD), Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics [Oxford] (AOPP), and University of Oxford [Oxford]
Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP), Insolation, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, [SDU.ASTR.EP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Zonal and meridional, Atmospheric sciences, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Latitude, symbols.namesake, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], 0103 physical sciences, symbols, Environmental science, Solstice, Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Titan (rocket family), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Stratosphere, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract: International audience; The Cassini mission offered us the opportunity to monitor the seasonal evolution of Titan's atmosphere from 2004 to 2017, i.e. half a Titan year. The lower part of the stratosphere (pressures greater than 10 mbar) is a region of particular interest as there are few available temperature measurements, and because its thermal response to the seasonal and meridional insolation variations undergone by Titan remain poorly known. In this study, we measure temperatures in Titan's lower stratosphere between 6 mbar and 25 mbar using Cassini/CIRS spectra covering the whole duration of the mission (from 2004 to 2017) and the whole latitude range. We can thus characterize the meridional distribution of temperatures in Titan's lower stratosphere, and how it evolves from northern winter (2004) to summer solstice (2017). Our measurements show that Titan's lower stratosphere undergoes significant seasonal changes, especially at the South pole, where temperature decreases by 19 K at 15 mbar in 4 years.
Published: 2019
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16. Configurational constraints on glass formation in the liquid calcium aluminate system

Author: James W E Drewitt, Sandro Jahn, Louis Hennet, School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne, Zuelpicher Str. 49b, 50674 Cologne, Germany, Conditions Extrêmes et Matériaux : Haute Température et Irradiation (CEMHTI), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Université d'Orléans (UO), and Université d'Orléans (UO)
Subjects: Statistics and Probability, Diffraction, Materials science, Aluminate, Neutron diffraction, chemistry.chemical_element, FOS: Physical sciences, 02 engineering and technology, Calcium, 01 natural sciences, Ion, law.invention, glasses (structural), chemistry.chemical_compound, Molecular dynamics, law, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Condensed Matter - Materials Science, Isotope, Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci), Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, [CHIM.MATE]Chemical Sciences/Material chemistry, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Synchrotron, molecular dynamics, chemistry, energy landscapes, Physical chemistry, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, 0210 nano-technology
Abstract: We report new time-resolved synchrotron x-ray diffraction (SXRD) measurements to track structural transformations in calcium-aluminate (CaO)x(Al2O3)1-x liquids during glass formation, and review recent progress in neutron diffraction with isotope substitution (NDIS) experiments, combined with aspherical ion model molecular dynamics (AIM-MD) simulations, to identify the atomic-scale configurational constraints on glass-forming ability., Comment: Accepted for publication in The Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Unifying Concepts in Glass Physics VII Special Issue). 16 pages, 15 figures
Published: 2019
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17. Probable detection of hydrogen sulphide (H2S) in Neptune’s atmosphere

Author: Nicholas A Teanby, Patrick G. J. Irwin, Bruno Bézard, Ryan Garland, Daniel Toledo, Leigh N. Fletcher, Glenn S. Orton, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics [Oxford] (AOPP), University of Oxford [Oxford], Department of Physics [Oxford], School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA (UMR_8109)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Atmospheres—planets and satellites, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, [SDU.ASTR.EP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], FOS: Physical sciences, Empirical orthogonal functions, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Atmosphere, Neptune, 0103 physical sciences, Individual (Neptune), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Line (formation), Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP), Spectral signature, Atmospheric models, Individual (Uranus), Uranus, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Polar, Environmental science, Planets and satellites, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract: Recent analysis of Gemini-North/NIFS H-band (1.45 - 1.8 $\mu$m) observations of Uranus, recorded in 2010, with recently updated line data has revealed the spectral signature of hydrogen sulphide (H$_2$S) in Uranus's atmosphere (Irwin et al., 2018). Here, we extend this analysis to Gemini-North/NIFS observations of Neptune recorded in 2009 and find a similar detection of H$_2$S spectral absorption features in the 1.57 - 1.58 $\mu$m range, albeit slightly less evident, and retrieve a mole fraction of $\sim1-3$ ppm at the cloud tops. We find a much clearer detection (and much higher retrieved column abundance above the clouds) at southern polar latitudes compared with equatorial latitudes, which suggests a higher relative humidity of H$_2$S here. We find our retrieved H$_2$S abundances are most consistent with atmospheric models that have reduced methane abundance near Neptune's south pole, consistent with HST/STIS determinations (Karkoschka and Tomasko, 2011). We also conducted a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of the Neptune and Uranus data and found that in the 1.57 - 1.60 $\mu$m range, some of the Empirical Orthogonal Functions (EOFs) mapped closely to physically significant quantities, with one being strongly correlated with the modelled H$_2$S signal and clearly mapping the spatial dependence of its spectral detectability. Just as for Uranus, the detection of H$_2$S at the cloud tops constrains the deep bulk sulphur/nitrogen abundance to exceed unity (i.e. $ > 4.4 - 5.0$ times the solar value) in Neptune's bulk atmosphere, provided that ammonia is not sequestered at great depths, and places a lower limit on its mole fraction below the observed cloud of (0.4 - 1.3) $\times 10^{-5}$. The detection of gaseous H$_2$S at these pressure levels adds to the weight of evidence that the principal constituent of the 2.5 - 3.5-bar cloud is likely to be H$_2$S ice., Comment: 13 Figures
Published: 2019
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18. Upper Tithonian Himalayitidae Spath, 1925 (Perisphinctoidea, Ammonitina) from Le Chouet (Drôme, France): implications for the systematics

Author: Luc G. Bulot, William A.P. Wimbledon, Camille Frau, Biogéosciences [UMR 6282] (BGS), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement (CEREGE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Biogéosciences [UMR 6282] [Dijon] (BGS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement, Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Collège de France (CdF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
Subjects: Systematics, biology, Ammonitina, Geology, biology.organism_classification, Paleontology, [SDU.STU.GC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geochemistry, [SDU.STU.ST]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Stratigraphy, Taxonomy (biology), 14. Life underwater, [SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology, [SDU.STU.AG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Applied geology, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Perisphinctoidea
Abstract: This contribution focuses on the late Tithonian ammonite faunas belonging to the Family Himalayitidae Spath in the key-section of Le Chouet (Drôme, France). The great majority of specimens from the Mediterranean Tethys, previously referred to Durangites Burckhardt, are now interpreted as juveniles and/or microconchs of the highly variable species Protacanthodiscus andreaei (Kilian). Moreover, comparison between specimens from France, Spain and Bulgaria formerly assigned to Durangites astillerensis Imlay and the type material of this species, supports the introduction of Boughdiriella chouetensis gen. nov. et sp. nov. Further, the revision of the type specimens of D. astillerensis and Durangites of the D. vulgaris group shows that the former species deserves a new generic status, for which Parrasiella gen. nov. is erected. Toucasiella, previously only known from Spain and Tunisia, is also reported for the first time from south east France. The revision of the “Mediterranean Durangites” supports the rejection of a Durangites spp. Zone as part of the standard zonation for the upper Tithonian, and its replacement by the P. andreaei Zone ( = D. vulgaris Zone sensu Sarti, 1988).
Published: 2015
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19. Petrological and experimental evidence for differentiation of water-rich magmas beneath St. Kitts, Lesser Antilles

Author: Rita Martin, Richard J. Arculus, Elena Melekhova, Michel Pichavant, Jon D Blundy, School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans - UMR7327 (ISTO), Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM) (BRGM)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Magma - UMR7327, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM) (BRGM)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Australian National University (ANU), European Project: 247162,EC:FP7:ERC,ERC-2009-AdG,CRITMAG(2010), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM) (BRGM), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM) (BRGM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC)
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Geochemistry, engineering.material, Differentiation of basaltic andesite, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Basaltic andesite, Geochemistry and Petrology, Plagioclase, Xenolith, Petrology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Melt inclusions, Basalt, Original Paper, ‘Magma mush’, Geophysics, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], engineering, Phenocryst, Igneous differentiation, Mafic, High-An plagioclase, Experiments, Cumulates, Geology
Abstract: St. Kitts lies in the northern Lesser Antilles, a subduction-related intraoceanic volcanic arc known for its magmatic diversity and unusually abundant cognate xenoliths. We combine the geochemistry of xenoliths, melt inclusions and lavas with high pressure–temperature experiments to explore magma differentiation processes beneath St. Kitts. Lavas range from basalt to rhyolite, with predominant andesites and basaltic andesites. Xenoliths, dominated by calcic plagioclase and amphibole, typically in reaction relationship with pyroxenes and olivine, can be divided into plutonic and cumulate varieties based on mineral textures and compositions. Cumulate varieties, formed primarily by the accumulation of liquidus phases, comprise ensembles that represent instantaneous solid compositions from one or more magma batches; plutonic varieties have mineralogy and textures consistent with protracted solidification of magmatic mush. Mineral chemistry in lavas and xenoliths is subtly different. For example, plagioclase with unusually high anorthite content (An≤100) occurs in some plutonic xenoliths, whereas the most calcic plagioclase in cumulate xenoliths and lavas are An97 and An95, respectively. Fluid-saturated, equilibrium crystallisation experiments were performed on a St. Kitts basaltic andesite, with three different fluid compositions (XH2O = 1.0, 0.66 and 0.33) at 2.4 kbar, 950–1025 °C, and fO2 = NNO − 0.6 to NNO + 1.2 log units. Experiments reproduce lava liquid lines of descent and many xenolith assemblages, but fail to match xenolith and lava phenocryst mineral compositions, notably the very An-rich plagioclase. The strong positive correlation between experimentally determined plagioclase-melt KdCa–Na and dissolved H2O in the melt, together with the occurrence of Al-rich mafic lavas, suggests that parental magmas were water-rich (> 9 wt% H2O) basaltic andesites that crystallised over a wide pressure range (1.5–6 kbar). Comparison of experimental and natural (lava, xenolith) mafic mineral composition reveals that whereas olivine in lavas is predominantly primocrysts precipitated at low-pressure, pyroxenes and spinel are predominantly xenocrysts formed by disaggregation of plutonic mushes. Overall, St. Kitts xenoliths and lavas testify to mid-crustal differentiation of low-MgO basalt and basaltic andesite magmas within a trans-crustal, magmatic mush system. Lower crustal ultramafic cumulates that relate parental low-MgO basalts to primary, mantle -derived melts are absent on St. Kitts. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1007/s00410-017-1416-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
Published: 2017
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20. Open data and digital morphology

Author: Timothy B. Rowe, Zongjun Yin, Chris Stringer, Thomas G. Davies, Brian D. Metscher, Alistair R. Evans, Stephen Wroe, John R. Hutchinson, Russell J. Garwood, Nathan Jeffery, Jesús Marugán-Lobón, Lawrence M. Witmer, Adam P. Summers, Selena Y. Smith, Emily J. Rayfield, Philip C. J. Donoghue, Peter L. Falkingham, Martin Rücklin, Stephan Lautenschlager, Maeva J. Orliac, Vera Weisbecker, Stig A. Walsh, Imran A. Rahman, Mark D. Sutton, Xi Ping Dong, Paul O'Higgins, Stefan Bengtson, Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra, Renaud Lebrun, Robert J. Asher, Neil H. Shubin, John A. Cunningham, Paul M. Barrett, Philip G. Cox, Carlos Martínez-Pérez, Matt Friedman, José Braga, Doug M. Boyer, J. Matthias Starck, Zerina Johanson, Jen A. Bright, Leon P. A. M. Claessens, Anjali Goswami, Roger B. J. Benson, Karl T. Bates, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Oxford University Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford [Oxford], School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences [Birmingham], University of Birmingham [Birmingham], Museum of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Sciences [NHM London] (DES-NHM), The Natural History Museum [London] (NHM), Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease, University of Liverpool, Department of Palaeobiology [Stockholm], Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM), Department of Earth Sciences [Oxford], Department of Evolutionary Anthropology Durham, Duke University [Durham], Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse (AMIS), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), School of Geosciences, University of South Florida, Florida, Tampa, USA, University of South Florida [Tampa] (USF), College of the Holy Cross, Departments of Archaeology [York] (BioArch), University of York [York, UK], School of Earth and Space Sciences [Beijing], Peking University [Beijing], School of Biological Sciences, VIC, Monash University, Faculty of Science/School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences [Ann Arbor], University of Michigan [Ann Arbor], University of Michigan System-University of Michigan System, Museum of Paleontology [Ann Arbor], School of Earth and Environmental Sciences [Manchester] (SEES), University of Manchester [Manchester], Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, Centre for Biodiversity and Environment, Research, University College of London [London] (UCL), Structure and Motion Laboratory, Royal Veterinary College, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (UMR ISEM), École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR226, Unidad de Paleontologia, Departamento de Biologia, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Department of theoretical biology, University of Vienna, Jackson School of Geosciences (JSG), University of Texas at Austin [Austin], Naturalis Biodiversity Center [Leiden], Paläontologisches Institut und Museum der Universität Zürich, Paläontologisches Institut und Museum der Univer sität Zürich, University of Chicago, Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH), University of Oxford, Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR226-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Universität Wien
Subjects: 0106 biological sciences, 0301 basic medicine, Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics, DYNAMICS, Computer science, Datasets as Topic, Reuse, 01 natural sciences, FOSSILS, three-dimensional models, Naturvetenskap, Data Curation, General Environmental Science, Ecology, palaeontology, [SDV.BID.EVO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Populations and Evolution [q-bio.PE], General Medicine, 11 Medical And Health Sciences, CC, biomechanics Keywords: digital data, Open data, Perspective, Computer data storage, [SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, TISSUES, phenotype, Best practice, Digital data, Library science, Environmental Sciences & Ecology, 010603 evolutionary biology, Biological Science Disciplines, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, QA76, functional analysis, Set (abstract data type), 03 medical and health sciences, PALEONTOLOGY, Biology, Subject Category: Morphology and biomechanics Subject Areas: evolution, visualization, digital data, Evolutionary Biology, Science & Technology, TOMOGRAPHIC MICROSCOPY, Morphology and Biomechanics, General Immunology and Microbiology, business.industry, Research, QH, Reproducibility of Results, computed tomography, PERFORMANCE, 06 Biological Sciences, Data science, EVOLUTION, Visualization, 030104 developmental biology, VISUALIZATION, 07 Agricultural And Veterinary Sciences, business
Abstract: International audience; Over the past two decades, the development of methods for visualizing and analysing specimens digitally, in three and even four dimensions, has transformed the study of living and fossil organisms. However, the initial promise that the widespread application of such methods would facilitate access to the underlying digital data has not been fully achieved. The underlying datasets for many published studies are not readily or freely available, introducing a barrier to verification and reproducibility, and the reuse of data. There is no current agreement or policy on the amount and type of data that should be made available alongside studies that use, and in some cases are wholly reliant on, digital morphology. Here, we propose a set of recommendations for minimum standards and additional best practice for three-dimensional digital data publication, and review the issues around data storage, management and accessibility.
Published: 2017
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21. Detection of Propadiene on Titan

Author: Patrick Irwin, Matthew J. Richter, Conor A. Nixon, F. Michael Flasar, Athena Coustenis, Nicholas A. Lombardo, Thomas K. Greathouse, Nicholas A Teanby, Sandrine Vinatier, Antoine Jolly, Bruno Bézard, Southwest Research Institute [San Antonio] (SwRI), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA (UMR_7583)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], University of California [Davis] (UC Davis), University of California, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Center for Space Sciences and Technology (CSST), University of Maryland [Baltimore County] (UMBC), University of Maryland System-University of Maryland System, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA (UMR_8109)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Allene, [SDU.ASTR.EP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Saturnian satellites, Propyne, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, Pre-biotic astrochemistry, chemistry.chemical_compound, symbols.namesake, 0103 physical sciences, Planetary science, Emission spectrum, Atmosphere of Titan, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Stratosphere, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Propadiene, Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP), Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics - Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, chemistry, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph), symbols, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Titan (rocket family), Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Planetary atmospheres
Abstract: The atmosphere of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, is rich in organic molecules, and it has been suggested that the moon may serve as an analog for the pre-biotic Earth due to its highly reducing chemistry and existence of global hazes. Photochemical models of Titan have predicted the presence of propadiene (historically referred to as allene), CH$_{2}$CCH$_{2}$, an isomer of the well-measured propyne (also called methylacetylene) CH$_{3}$CCH, but its detection has remained elusive due to insufficient spectroscopic knowledge of the molecule - which has recently been remedied with an updated spectral line list. Here we present the first unambiguous detection of the molecule in any astronomical object, observed with the Texas Echelle Cross Echelle Spectrograph (TEXES) on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) in July 2017. We model its emission line near 12 $\mu$m and measure a volume mixing ratio (VMR) of (6.9 $\pm$ 0.8) $\times$10$^{-10}$ at 175 km, assuming a vertically increasing abundance profile as predicted in photochemical models. Cassini measurements of propyne made during April 2017 indicate that the abundance ratio of propyne to propadiene is 8.2$\pm$1.1 at the same altitude. This initial measurement of the molecule in Titan's stratosphere paves the way towards constraining the amount of atomic hydrogen available on Titan, as well as future mapping of propadiene on Titan from 8 meter and larger ground based observatories, and future detection on other planetary bodies.
Published: 2019
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22. Structure of liquid tricalcium aluminate

Author: Simon C. Kohn, Daniel R. Neuville, Michael J. Walter, Adrian C Barnes, Sandro Jahn, James W E Drewitt, Alexey N. Novikov, Louis Hennet, Henry E. Fischer, School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory [Bristol], Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne, Zuelpicher Str. 49b, 50674 Cologne, Germany, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-IPG PARIS-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Conditions Extrêmes et Matériaux : Haute Température et Irradiation (CEMHTI), Université d'Orléans (UO)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-IPG PARIS-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Laue-Langevin, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Université d'Orléans (UO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-IPG PARIS-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), and Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Materials science, Neutron diffraction, Structure (category theory), Pair distribution function, Percolation threshold, 02 engineering and technology, Reverse Monte Carlo, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, 01 natural sciences, Bridging oxygen, chemistry.chemical_compound, Crystallography, chemistry, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], 0103 physical sciences, Tricalcium aluminate, 010306 general physics, 0210 nano-technology, Structure factor
Abstract: The atomic-scale structure of aerodynamically levitated and laser-heated liquid tricalcium aluminate (${\mathrm{Ca}}_{3}{\mathrm{Al}}_{2}{\mathrm{O}}_{6}$) was measured at 2073(30) K by using the method of neutron diffraction with Ca isotope substitution (NDIS). The results enable the detailed resolution of the local coordination environment around calcium and aluminum atoms, including the direct determination of the liquid partial structure factor, ${S}_{\mathrm{CaCa}}(Q)$, and partial pair distribution function, ${g}_{\mathrm{CaCa}}(r)$. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation and reverse Monte Carlo (RMC) refinement methods were employed to obtain a detailed atomistic model of the liquid structure. The composition ${\mathrm{Ca}}_{3}{\mathrm{Al}}_{2}{\mathrm{O}}_{6}$ lies at the CaO-rich limit of the CaO:${\mathrm{Al}}_{2}{\mathrm{O}}_{3}$ glass-forming system. Our results show that, although significantly depolymerized, liquid ${\mathrm{Ca}}_{3}{\mathrm{Al}}_{2}{\mathrm{O}}_{6}$ is largely composed of ${\mathrm{AlO}}_{4}$ tetrahedra forming an infinite network with a slightly higher fraction of bridging oxygen atoms than expected for the composition. Calcium-centered polyhedra exhibit a wide distribution of four- to sevenfold coordinated sites, with higher coordinated calcium preferentially bonding to bridging oxygens. Analysis of the MD configuration reveals the presence of $\ensuremath{\sim}10\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}%$ unconnected ${\mathrm{AlO}}_{4}$ monomers and ${\mathrm{Al}}_{2}{\mathrm{O}}_{7}$ dimers in the liquid. As the CaO concentration increases, the number of these isolated units increases, such that the upper value for the glass-forming composition of CaO:${\mathrm{Al}}_{2}{\mathrm{O}}_{3}$ liquids could be described in terms of a percolation threshold at which the glass can no longer support the formation of an infinitely connected ${\mathrm{AlO}}_{4}$ network.
Published: 2017
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23. Experimental Simulations of Magma Storage and Ascent

Author: Jon D Blundy, Bruno Scaillet, Caroline Martel, Michael Pichavant, Joan Andújar, Richard A. Brooker, Magma - UMR7327, Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans - UMR7327 (ISTO), Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM) (BRGM)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM) (BRGM)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Joachim Gottsmann, Jürgen Neuberg, Bettina Scheu, European Project: 282759,EC:FP7:ENV,FP7-ENV-2011,VUELCO(2011), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM) (BRGM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM) (BRGM)
Subjects: Vulcanian eruption, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Pyroclastic rock, Replicate, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, Key issues, 01 natural sciences, 13. Climate action, Magma, [SDU.STU.VO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Volcanology, Petrology, Geology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Melt inclusions
Abstract: International audience; One of the key issues in utilizing precursor signals of volcanic eruption is to reliably interpret geophysical and geochemical data in terms of magma movement towards the surface. An important first step is to identify where the magma is stored prior to ascent. This can be studied through phase-equilibrium experiments designed to replicate the phase assemblage and compositions of natural pyroclasts or by measuring volatiles in melt inclusions from previous eruptions. The second crucial step is to characterize the magmatic conditions and processes that will guide the eruption style. This may be addressed through controlled dynamic decompression or deformation experiments to examine the different rates that govern the kinetics of syn-eruptive degassing, crystallization, and strain. Comparing the compositional and textural characteristics of these experimental products with the natural samples can be used to retrieve magma ascent conditions. These experimental simulations allow interpretation of direct observations and in situ measurements of syn-eruptive processes leading to more accurate forecasting of future eruptive scenarios.
Published: 2017
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24. Constraints on Titan's middle atmosphere ammonia abundance from Herschel/SPIRE sub-millimetre spectra

Author: Nicholas A Teanby, Paul Hartogh, Miriam Rengel, R. Moreno, Conor A. Nixon, Régis Courtin, Emmanuel Lellouch, Patrick G. J. Irwin, Bruce Swinyard, School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics [Oxford] (AOPP), University of Oxford [Oxford], NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Observatoire de Paris - Site de Paris (OP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung (MPS), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, University of Oxford, and Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung = Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS)
Subjects: ROTOTRANSLATIONAL ABSORPTION-SPECTRA, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Photochemistry, Equinox, 01 natural sciences, symbols.namesake, RADIATIVE-TRANSFER, Herschel, TEMPERATURES, 0103 physical sciences, STRATOSPHERE, Radiative transfer, SPECTROMETER, 300-K, Spectral resolution, Sub-millimetre, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Stratosphere, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Remote sensing, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Physics, Spectrometer, PAIRS, Atmosphere, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, CASSINI-CIRS DATA, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, symbols, Millimeter, HYDROCARBONS, Titan, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Titan (rocket family), FAR-INFRARED SPECTRA, Shortwave, Composition
Abstract: Sub-millimetre spectra measured with Herschel's SPIRE Fourier Transform Spectrometer were used to search for ammonia (NH3) in Titan's stratosphere. Observations were taken during 2010 and 2011, just after Titan's northern spring equinox, which occurred in mid-2009. In our analysis we used high spectral resolution data (0.074 cm−1 apodised) from the SPIRE shortwave spectrometer array (SSW), which provided the best possible signal-to-noise ratio for detecting any NH3 emission features. These data have the most sensitivity to NH3 spectral emission of any currently available observations, although despite this we did not detect any significant emission features above the noise. However, we can place an improved 3-sigma upper limit on NH3 abundance of for altitudes 65–110 km (75 km peak sensitivity), or alternatively a column abundance of . These observations provide modest constraint for future photochemical models and are consistent with most current stratospheric predictions. Scaling of photochemical model profiles, in order to fit elevated abundances observed at 1100 km by Cassini's INMS instrument, are for the most part also consistent with our observations.
Published: 2013
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25. Understanding melt generation beneath the slow-spreading Kolbeinsey Ridge using 238U, 230Th, and 231Pa excesses

Author: Julie Prytulak, Colin W. Devey, Janne Blichert-Toft, J.-G. Schilling, Kenneth W.W. Sims, L. J. Elkins, Nelia W. Dunbar, Nadine Mattielli, Michael T. Murrell, Jerzy S. Blusztajn, Tim Elliott, Dieter F. Mertz, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Department of Geology, Bryn Mawr College, Department of Geology and Geophysics [Laramie], University of Wyoming (UW), Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics [Oxford] (AOPP), University of Oxford [Oxford], School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Département des Sciences de la Terre et de l'Environnement, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement [Lyon] (LGL-TPE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology [New Mexico Tech] (NMT), Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften (IFM-GEOMAR), Institut für Geowwisenschaften, Johannes Gutenberg - Universität Mainz (JGU), University of Rhode Island, University of Rhode Island (URI), Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), NSF : OCE-0422278, OCE-1061037/1060434, INSU : French Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ( WHOI ), University of Wyoming ( UW ), Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics [Oxford] ( AOPP ), Université Libre de Bruxelles [Bruxelles] ( ULB ), Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement [Lyon] ( LGL-TPE ), École normale supérieure - Lyon ( ENS Lyon ) -Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 ( UCBL ), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology [New Mexico Tech] ( NMT ), Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften ( IFM-GEOMAR ), Johannes Gutenberg - Universität Mainz ( JGU ), Los Alamos National Laboratory ( LANL ), University of Oxford, Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement (LGL-TPE), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Johannes Gutenberg - Universität Mainz = Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon), and École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)
Subjects: NORWEGIAN-GREENLAND SEA, U-SERIES DISEQUILIBRIA, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE, Geochemistry, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, HETEROGENEOUS ICELAND PLUME, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, [SDU.STU.GC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geochemistry, Geochemistry and Petrology, JUAN-DE-FUCA, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, TH-PA-RA, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Petrogenesis, ND-PB ISOTOPE, Peridotite, Basalt, UPWELLING RATES BENEATH, [ SDU.STU ] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, Crust, TRACE-ELEMENT EVIDENCE, [ SDU.STU.GC ] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geochemistry, EAST PACIFIC RISE, [ SDE.MCG ] Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, 13. Climate action, Ridge (meteorology), Upwelling, Eclogite, Geology
Abstract: International audience; To examine the petrogenesis and sources of basalts from the Kolbeinsey Ridge, one of the shallowest locations along the global ridge system, we present new measurements of Nd, Sr, Hf, and Pb isotopes and U-series disequilibria on 32 axial basalts. Young Kolbeinsey basalts (full-spreading rate = 1.8 cm/yr; 67 degrees 05'-70 degrees 26'N) display ((230)Th/(238)U) < 1 and ((230)Th/(238)U) > 1 with ((230)Th/(238)U) from 0.95 to 1.30 and have low U (11.3-65.6 ppb) and Th (33.0 ppb-2.40 ppm) concentrations. Except for characteristic isotopic enrichment near the Jan Mayen region, the otherwise depleted Kolbeinsey basalts (e. g. (87)Sr/(86)Sr = 0.70272-0.70301, epsilon(Nd) = 8.4-10.5, epsilon(Hf) = 15.4-19.6 (La/Yb)(N) = 0.28-0.84) encompass a narrow range of ((230)Th/(232)Th) (1.20-1.32) over a large range in ((238)U/(232)Th) (0.94-1.32), producing a horizontal array on a ((230)Th/(232)Th) vs. ((238)U/(232)Th) diagram and a large variation in ((230)Th/(238)U). However, the ((230)Th/(238)U) of the Kolbeinsey Ridge basalts (0.96-1.30) are inversely correlated with ((234)U/(238)U) (1.001-1.031). Samples with low ((230)Th/(238)U) and elevated ((234)U/(238)U) reflect alteration by seawater or seawater-derived materials. The unaltered Kolbeinsey lavas with equilibrium (234)U/(238)U have high ((230)Th/(238)U) values (>= 1.2), which are consistent with melting in the presence of garnet. This is in keeping with the thick crust and anomalously shallow axial depth for the Kolbeinsey Ridge, which is thought to be the product of large degrees of melting in a long melt column. A time-dependent, dynamic melting scenario involving a long, slowly upwelling melting column that initiates well within the garnet peridotite stability zone can, in general, reproduce the ((230)Th/(238)U) and ((231)Pa/(235)U) ratios in uncontaminated Kolbeinsey lavas, but low ((231)Pa/(235)U) ratios in Eggvin Bank samples suggest eclogite involvement in the source for that ridge segment
Published: 2011
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26. Deep Mantle Cycling of Oceanic Crust: Evidence from Diamonds and Their Mineral Inclusions

Author: Andrew Steele, C. B. Smith, Simon C. Kohn, Debora Araujo, Eloïse Gaillou, Jianhua Wang, Michael J. Walter, Galina Bulanova, Steven B. Shirey, School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Instituto de Geociências, Universidade de Brasilia, Universidade de Brasilia [Brasília] (UnB), Smithsonian Institution, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism [Carnegie Institution], Carnegie Institution for Science [Washington], and Geophysical Laboratory [Carnegie Institution]
Subjects: geography, Multidisciplinary, geography.geographical_feature_category, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Mantle wedge, Crustal recycling, Geochemistry, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, Mid-ocean ridge, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, [SDU.STU.GC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geochemistry, 13. Climate action, Oceanic crust, Transition zone, Adakite, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Planetary differentiation, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Earth's internal heat budget
Abstract: A primary consequence of plate tectonics is that basaltic oceanic crust subducts with lithospheric slabs into the mantle. Seismological studies extend this process to the lower mantle, and geochemical observations indicate return of oceanic crust to the upper mantle in plumes. There has been no direct petrologic evidence, however, of the return of subducted oceanic crustal components from the lower mantle. We analyzed superdeep diamonds from Juina-5 kimberlite, Brazil, which host inclusions with compositions comprising the entire phase assemblage expected to crystallize from basalt under lower-mantle conditions. The inclusion mineralogies require exhumation from the lower to upper mantle. Because the diamond hosts have carbon isotope signatures consistent with surface-derived carbon, we conclude that the deep carbon cycle extends into the lower mantle.
Published: 2011
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27. Modelling Nd-isotopes with a coarse resolution ocean circulation model: Sensitivities to model parameters and source/sink distributions

Author: Mark Siddall, Thomas F. Stocker, Fortunat Joos, Johannes Rempfer, Jean-Claude Dutay, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR), University of Bern, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] (LSCE), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Modélisation du climat (CLIM), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere, Water mass, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Isotope, chemistry.chemical_element, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, Atmospheric sciences, Thermal diffusivity, 01 natural sciences, Neodymium, Isotopic signature, Oceanography, chemistry, Continental margin, 13. Climate action, Geochemistry and Petrology, TRACER, Seawater, 14. Life underwater, [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, environment, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Geology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: The neodymium (Nd) isotopic composition (ϵNd) of seawater is a quasi-conservative tracer of water mass mixing and is assumed to hold great potential for paleoceanographic studies. Here we present a comprehensive approach for the simulation of the two neodymium isotopes 143Nd, and 144Nd using the Bern3D model, a low resolution ocean model. The high computational efficiency of the Bern3D model in conjunction with our comprehensive approach allows us to systematically and extensively explore the sensitivity of Nd concentrations and ϵNd to the parametrisation of sources and sinks. Previous studies have been restricted in doing so either by the chosen approach or by computational costs. Our study thus presents the most comprehensive survey of the marine Nd cycle to date. Our model simulates both Nd concentrations as well as ϵNd in good agreement with observations. ϵNd covaries with salinity, thus underlining its potential as a water mass proxy. Results confirm that the continental margins are required as a Nd source to simulate Nd concentrations and ϵNd consistent with observations. We estimate this source to be slightly smaller than reported in previous studies and find that above a certain magnitude its magnitude affects ϵNd only to a small extent. On the other hand, the parametrisation of the reversible scavenging considerably affects the ability of the model to simulate both, Nd concentrations and ϵNd. Furthermore, despite their small contribution, we find dust and rivers to be important components of the Nd cycle. In additional experiments, we systematically varied the diapycnal diffusivity as well as the Atlantic-to-Pacific freshwater flux to explore the sensitivity of Nd concentrations and its isotopic signature to the strength and geometry of the overturning circulation. These experiments reveal that Nd concentrations and ϵNd are comparatively little affected by variations in diapycnal diffusivity and the Atlantic-to-Pacific freshwater flux. In contrast, an adequate representation of Nd sources and sinks is crucial to simulate Nd concentrations and ϵNd consistent with observations. The good agreement of our results with observations paves the way for the evaluation of the paleoceanographic potential of ϵNd in further model studies.
Published: 2011
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28. Uranus’ cloud structure and seasonal variability from Gemini-North and UKIRT observations

Author: G. S. Orton, Gary R. Davis, A Kyffin, Nicholas A Teanby, D. Tice, Leigh N. Fletcher, Pgj Irwin, School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Joint Astronomy Centre, and California Institute of Technology (CALTECH)
Subjects: Atmospheres, Solar System, Uranus, Equator, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Field of view, dynamics, Data reduction techniques, Equinox, Latitude, composition, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Space and Planetary Science, Planet, atmosphere, Geology, Long-slit spectroscopy
Abstract: Observations of Uranus were made in September 2009 with the Gemini-North telescope in Hawaii, using both the NIFS and NIRI instruments. Observations were acquired in Adaptive Optics mode and have a spatial resolution of approximately 0.1″. NIRI images were recorded with three spectral filters to constrain the overall appearance of the planet: J, H-continuum and CH 4 (long), and long slit spectroscopy measurements were also made (1.49–1.79 μm) with the entrance slit aligned on Uranus’ central meridian. To acquire spectra from other points on the planet, the NIFS instrument was used and its 3″ × 3″ field of view stepped across Uranus’ disc. These observations were combined to yield complete images of Uranus at 2040 wavelengths between 1.476 and 1.803 μm. The observed spectra along Uranus central meridian were analysed with the NEMESIS retrieval tool and used to infer the vertical/latitudinal variation in cloud optical depth. We find that the 2009 Gemini data perfectly complement our observations/conclusions from UKIRT/UIST observations made in 2006–2008 and show that the north polar zone at 45°N has continued to steadily brighten while that at 45°S has continued to fade. The improved spatial resolution of the Gemini observations compared with the non-AO UKIRT/UIST data removes some of the earlier ambiguities with our previous analyses and shows that the opacity of clouds deeper than the 2-bar level does indeed diminish towards the poles and also reveals a darkening of the deeper cloud deck near the equator, perhaps coinciding with a region of subduction. We find that the clouds at 45°N,S lie at slightly lower pressures than the clouds at more equatorial latitudes, which suggests that they might possibly be composed of a different condensate, presumably CH 4 ice, rather than H 2 S or NH 3 ice, which is assumed for the deeper cloud. In addition, analysis of the centre-to-limb curves of both the Gemini/NIFS and earlier UKIRT/UIST IFU observations shows that the main cloud deck has a well-defined top, and also allows us to better constrain the particle scattering properties. Overall, Uranus appeared to be less convectively active in 2009 than in the previous 3 years, which suggests that now the northern spring equinox (which occurred in 2007) is passed the atmosphere is settling back into the quiescent state seen by Voyager 2 in 1986. However, a number of discrete clouds were still observed, with one at 15°N found to lie near the 500 mb level, while another at 30°N, was seen to be much higher at near the 200 mb level. Such high clouds are assumed to be composed of CH 4 ice.
Published: 2011
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29. Formation and dynamics of magma reservoirs

Author: Katharine V. Cashman, R. S. J. Sparks, Catherine Annen, Alison C Rust, Jonathan D. Blundy, Matthew D. Jackson, School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Institut des Sciences de la Terre (ISTerre), Institut Français des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l'Aménagement et des Réseaux (IFSTTAR)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR219-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Department of Materials Science and Engineering [Sheffield], and University of Sheffield [Sheffield]
Subjects: geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, magma, General Mathematics, General Engineering, General Physics and Astronomy, Magma chamber, volcanoes, Geodynamics, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Instability, igneous systems, Volcano, 13. Climate action, Magma, [SDU.STU.VO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Volcanology, geodynamics, Petrology, Geology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: The emerging concept of a magma reservoir is one in which regions containing melt extend from the source of magma generation to the surface. The reservoir may contain regions of very low fraction intergranular melt, partially molten rock (mush) and melt lenses (or magma chambers) containing high melt fraction eruptible magma, as well as pockets of exsolved magmatic fluids. The various parts of the system may be separated by a sub-solidus rock or be connected and continuous. Magma reservoirs and their wall rocks span a vast array of rheological properties, covering as much as 25 orders of magnitude from high viscosity, sub-solidus crustal rocks to magmatic fluids. Time scales of processes within magma reservoirs range from very slow melt and fluid segregation within mush and magma chambers and deformation of surrounding host rocks to very rapid development of magma and fluid instability, transport and eruption. Developing a comprehensive model of these systems is a grand challenge that will require close collaboration between modellers, geophysicists, geochemists, geologists, volcanologists and petrologists. This article is part of the Theo Murphy meeting issue ‘Magma reservoir architecture and dynamics’.
Published: 2019
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30. The impacts of climate change on water resources and agriculture in China

Author: Shushi Peng, Shilong Piao, Jingyun Fang, Yihui Ding, Liping Zhou, Chunzhen Liu, Yao Huang, Tianyi Zhang, Yongqiang Yu, Kun Tan, Zehao Shen, Philippe Ciais, Pierre Friedlingstein, Hongyan Liu, Junsheng Li, Yuecun Ma, University of Peking, Peking University [Beijing], Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] (LSCE), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), ICOS-ATC (ICOS-ATC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry (LAPC), Institute of Atmospheric Physics [Beijing] (IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing] (CAS)-Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing] (CAS), Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences [Changchun Branch] (CAS), Laboratory for Climate Studies [Beijing] (LCS), Beijing Climate Centre (BCC), China Meteorological Administration (CMA)-China Meteorological Administration (CMA), School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], China Water Information Center, Quantifying and Understanding the Earth System (QUEST)- Bristol UK, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Quantifying and Understanding the Earth System (QUEST)-Bristol UK
Subjects: China, Conservation of Natural Resources, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Political economy of climate change, Natural resource economics, Climate Change, [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, Population Dynamics, Population, Climate change, 010501 environmental sciences, 01 natural sciences, education, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, 2. Zero hunger, education.field_of_study, Multidisciplinary, Global warming, Water, Agriculture, 15. Life on land, Water resources, Geography, [SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology, 13. Climate action, Greenhouse gas, Economic Development, Climate change in China
Abstract: International audience; China is the world's most populous country and a major emitter of greenhouse gases. Consequently, much research has focused on China's influence on climate change but somewhat less has been written about the impact of climate change on China. China experienced explosive economic growth in recent decades, but with only 7% of the world's arable land available to feed 22% of the world's population, China's economy may be vulnerable to climate change itself. We find, however, that notwithstanding the clear warming that has occurred in China in recent decades, current understanding does not allow a clear assessment of the impact of anthropogenic climate change on China's water resources and agriculture and therefore China's ability to feed its people. To reach a more definitive conclusion, future work must improve regional climate simulations--especially of precipitation--and develop a better understanding of the managed and unmanaged responses of crops to changes in climate, diseases, pests and atmospheric constituents
Published: 2010
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31. Controls on Messinian Lower Evaporite cycles in the Mediterranean

Author: Eelco J. Rohling, Mark Siddall, Ralf Schiebel, Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique - Angers (LPG-ANGERS), Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique [UMR 6112] (LPG), Université d'Angers (UA)-Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Angers (UA)-Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], and University of Bristol [Bristol]
Subjects: Mediterranean climate, geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Evaporite, Structural basin, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Paleontology, Geophysics, Oceanography, Mediterranean sea, Messinian, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Geochemistry and Petrology, Marl, Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous), 14. Life underwater, Quaternary, Oceanic basin, Deposition (chemistry), Geology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: International audience; The Messinian Salinity Crisis in the Mediterranean, 5.96–5.33 Million years ago (Ma), represents the most recent case of massive evaporite deposition throughout an ocean basin. Here we quantitatively investigate the nature of the gypsum–marl cycles within its first phase, known as Lower Evaporites (LE) or Primary Lower Gypsum (PLG) (5.96–5.59 Ma). We conclude that to precondition the basin for deposition of the LE/PLG sequence, its connection with the open Atlantic must have been reduced to about 3% of the cross-sectional area of the modern Strait of Gibraltar. Using the modern strait morphology for scale, this would imply a connection with a depth of about 50 m and a width of several kilometres. We find that the LE/PLG evaporite–marl cycles may then have resulted from sea-level fluctuations of the order of 5 to 10 m and/or fluctuations in the Mediterranean's hydrological deficit of the order of 20%. Previous work has argued that sea-level control may be excluded, because there are too many cycles to agree with orbital obliquity-related timing. However, we argue from analogy with Quaternary sea- level records that sub-orbital sea-level fluctuations may easily reach the required magnitudes, so that sea-level control remains plausible.
Published: 2008
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32. A note on gas segregation in dykes and sills at high volumetric gas fractions

Author: Jeremy C. Phillips, Thierry Menand, School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], and University of Bristol [Bristol]
Subjects: Basalt, geography, Dike, geography.geographical_feature_category, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Mineralogy, Volcanism, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Strombolian eruption, Viscosity, Geophysics, Sill, Volcano, 13. Climate action, Geochemistry and Petrology, [SDU.STU.VO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Volcanology, Petrology, Geothermal gradient, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Geology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: The model of gas segregation in volcanic systems developed by Menand and Phillips [Menand, T., Phillips, J.C., 2007. Gas segregation in dykes and sills. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res. 159, 393–408] show that non-vertical elements of the plumbing systems, such as dykes and sills, act as strong gas segregators and can explain the persistent degassing displayed by many basaltic volcanoes as well as their associated eruptive characteristics. However, this model is based on laboratory experiments carried out at low volumetric gas fractions
Published: 2007
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33. An experimental investigation of sill formation and propagation in layered elastic media

Author: Stephen Sparks, Janine Kavanagh, Thierry Menand, School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], and University of Bristol [Bristol]
Subjects: geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Continental crust, Geochemistry, Crust, Conrad discontinuity, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Mantle (geology), Mantle plume, Igneous rock, Geophysics, Sill, Space and Planetary Science, Geochemistry and Petrology, [SDU.STU.VO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Volcanology, Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous), Echelon formation, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Geology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: A series of experiments are described where dyed water (a magma analogue) was intruded into solid gelatine (a crustal analogue) to investigate the formation of sills. We considered a layered gelatine system with contrasting adjacent layers. By varying the density and rigidity of the gelatine we found that experimental sills form when the upper layer is more rigid than the lower layer, with intrusion occurring in a plane directly below the interface. Experimental dykes were observed to propagate to the surface when the Young's Modulus ratio of upper to lower gelatine layers was less than one. Experimental dyke arrest occurred when the upper layer was more rigid and the interface was strong. Two varieties of experimental sill formed when the upper layer was more rigid than the lower layer and the interface was sufficiently weak. The form of the intrusion depends on the balance of driving pressures and the Young's Modulus ratio of contrasting adjacent layers. When the rigidity ratio is high and there is a large driving pressure the experimental feeder dyke completely converts to propagate as a sill. However, when the rigidity ratio and driving pressure are both close to one a dyke–sill hybrid forms. Under these conditions the experimental sill formation is accompanied by contemporaneous dyke intrusion into the overlying more rigid layer. During sill propagation deformation structures such as faults and en echelon fractures are formed into the lower layer. Experimental sill propagation dynamics are controlled by viscous dissipation along the length of the sill; causing acceleration with increasing length. Our study suggests that rigidity contrasts may play a major role in the location of sills and development of igneous complexes. In ancient cratonic areas the Moho is a suitable site for the preferential formation of sills with higher rigidity continental crust overlying weaker mantle. Mantle plumes impacting ancient continents provide a situation in which large sills can form to fractionate prior to eruption of flood basalts. The boundary between the upper and lower crust (Conrad discontinuity) may provide a preferential focus for the emplacement of sheets of silicic magma at continental arcs where the lower crust is weakened by prolonged heating and possible hydration.
Published: 2006
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34. Thermal Constraints on the Emplacement Rate of a Large Intrusive Complex: The Manaslu Leucogranite, Nepal Himalaya

Author: Catherine Annen, R. S. J. Sparks, Bruno Scaillet, Section des Sciences de la Terre, University of Geneva [Switzerland], Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans (ISTO), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], and University of Bristol [Bristol]
Subjects: Convection, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, granite emplacement, Fault (geology), 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Sill, Geochemistry and Petrology, High Himalayan Leucogranite, [SDE.MCG.CG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes/domain_sde.mcg.cg, [SDU.STU.VO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Volcanology, Petrology, Geomorphology, Manaslu, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, heat transfer modelling, Migmatite, Leucogranite, Tectonics, Geophysics, Magma, thermal aureole, Accretion (geology), Geology
Abstract: International audience; The emplacement of the Manaslu leucogranite body (Nepal, Himalaya) has been modelled as the accretion of successive sills. The leucogranite is characterized by isotopic heterogeneities suggesting limited magma convection, and by a thin (
Published: 2005
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35. The vertebrate fauna from the 'stipite' layers of the Grands Causses (Middle Jurassic, France)

Author: Raquel López-Antoñanzas, Fabien Knoll, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences [Manchester] (SEAES), University of Manchester [Manchester], Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales [Madrid] (MNCN), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], and University of Bristol [Bristol]
Subjects: Ecology and Evolution, lcsh:Evolution, Aspidorhynchus, Crocodylomorpha, Lepidotes, Theropoda, Asteracanthus, Hybodus, Amphibia, Paleontology, lcsh:QH540-549.5, Pycnodontiformes, lcsh:QH359-425, 14. Life underwater, Chondrichthyes, Dinosauria, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, biology, Albanerpetontidae, biology.organism_classification, lcsh:Ecology, Anura, Caturus, Ornithischia, [SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology
Abstract: The “stipites” are Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) coals that formed in an everglades-like environment and are now exposed in the Grands Causses (southern France). The vertebrate assemblage of the “stipites” and of the transitional layers to the carbonates in which they are interspersed are reviewed. To date, only small-sized and isolated vertebrate bones, teeth, and scales have been recovered. These record the presence of sharks (Hybodus, Asteracanthus), bony fishes (Lepidotes, Pycnodontiformes, Caturus, Aspidorhynchus), amphibians (Anura, Albanerpetontidae), and reptiles (Crocodylomorpha, Ornithischia, Theropoda). Despite its relatively limited taxonomic diversity, the vertebrate assemblage from the “stipites” and from their associated layers is notable for being one of the few of this age with both terrestrial and marine influences. Compared to other approximately coeval formations in Western Europe, the “stipites” vertebrate assemblage is surpassed in diversity only by those from the British Isles., This is a contribution to the research projects CGL2009–12143 and CGL2011-24829.
Published: 2014
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36. Cyanobacteria and the Great Oxidation Event: evidence from genes and fossils

Author: Philip C. J. Donoghue, Muriel Gugger, Bettina E. Schirrmeister, School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Collection des Cyanobactéries, Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP), BES was supported by the Swiss National Fund and is currently a Marie Curie Intra European Fellow (330849). PCJD was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council (NE/G016623/1), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/J00538X/1), a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award and a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship. Sequencing work was financed by the ‘Black Swan Fund’ of the University of Bristol Faculty of Science., We acknowledge with thanks the help of Alan McNally, Jane Coghill, Christy Waterfall, Al Tanner, Davide Pisani and Mario dos Reis. Particular thanks goes to Callum Wright for support with the Bluecrystal high computing machines. We thank the Institut Pasteur for funding of the Pasteur Culture collection of Cyanobacteria, as well as Thierry Laurent and Thérèse Coursin for cyanobacterial maintenance and genomic DNA. Additionally, we would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments and interesting discussion points. We further thank the Palaeobiology group at the University of Bristol for thoughtful comments. BES would like to thank the Palaeontological Association and Crispin Little for the invitation to contribute to the symposium at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association in Leeds., European Project: 330849,EC:FP7:PEOPLE,FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF,EVOXY(2014), and Institut Pasteur [Paris]
Subjects: Cyanobacteria, Symposium, major transition, Atmosphere, Divergence time estimation, Great Oxygenation Event, Paleontology, Genomics, Biology, biology.organism_classification, Early life, Major transition, [SDV.MP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology, divergence time estimation, atmosphere, genomics, early life, Gene, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Abstract: This article is corrected by:Errata: Cyanobacteria and the Great Oxidation Event: evidence from genes and fossils Volume 58, Issue 5, 935–936, Article first published online: 14 August 2015; International audience; Cyanobacteria are among the most ancient of evolutionary lineages, oxygenic photosynthesizers that may have originated before 3.0 Ga, as evidenced by free oxygen levels. Throughout the Precambrian, cyanobacteria were one of the most important drivers of biological innovations, strongly impacting early Earth's environments. At the end of the Archean Eon, they were responsible for the rapid oxygena-tion of Earth's atmosphere during an episode referred to as the Great Oxidation Event (GOE). However, little is known about the origin and diversity of early cyanobacterial taxa, due to: (1) the scarceness of Precambrian fossil deposits; (2) limited characteristics for the identification of taxa; and (3) the poor preservation of ancient microfossils. Previous studies based on 16S rRNA have suggested that the origin of multi-cellularity within cyanobacteria might have been associated with the GOE. However, single-gene analyses have limitations, particularly for deep branches. We reconstructed the evolutionary history of cyanobacteria using genome scale data and re-evaluated the Precambrian fossil record to get more precise calibrations for a relaxed clock analysis. For the phylogenomic reconstructions, we identified 756 conserved gene sequences in 65 cyanobacterial taxa, of which eight genomes have been sequenced in this study. Character state reconstructions based on maximum likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic inference confirm previous findings, of an ancient multicellular cyanobacterial lineage ancestral to the majority of modern cyanobacteria. Relaxed clock analyses provide firm support for an origin of cyanobacteria in the Archean and a transition to multicellularity before the GOE. It is likely that multicellu-larity had a greater impact on cyanobacterial fitness and thus abundance, than previously assumed. Multicellularity, as a major evolutionary innovation, forming a novel unit for selection to act upon, may have served to overcome evolutionary constraints and enabled diversification of the variety of mor-photypes seen in cyanobacteria today.
Published: 2015
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37. The future of the northeast Atlantic benthic flora in a high CO2 world

Author: Brodie, Juliet, Williamson, Christopher J., Smale, Dan A., Kamenos, Nicholas A., Mieszkowska, Nova, Santos, Rui, Cunliffe, Michael, Steinke, Michael, Yesson, Christopher, Anderson, Kathryn M., Asnaghi, Valentina, Brownlee, Colin, Burdett, Heidi L., Burrows, Michael T., Collins, Sinead, Donohue, Penelope J.C., Harvey, Ben, Foggo, Andrew, Noisette, Fanny, Nunes, Joana, Ragazzola, Federica, Raven, John A., Schmidt, Daniela N., Suggett, David, Teichberg, Mirta, Hall-Spencer, Jason M., Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum [London] (NHM), School of Earth and Ocean Sciences [Cardiff], Cardiff University, Marine Biological Association of the UK, The Laboratory, National Oceanography Centre [Southampton] (NOC), University of Southampton, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, Marine Plant Ecology Research Group (ALGAE), Centre of Marine Sciences [Faro] (CCMAR), University of Algarve [Portugal]-University of Algarve [Portugal], School of Biological Sciences [Colchester], University of Essex, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Department of Zoology (The University of British Columbia), University of British Columbia (UBC), Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences (DISTAV), Universita degli studi di Genova, Marine Biological Association, Scottish Oceans Institute, University of St Andrews [Scotland], School of Earth and Environmental Sciences [University St Andrews], Scottish Marine Institute, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Marine Biology and Ecology Research Centre, Plymouth University, Ecogéochimie et Fonctionnement des Ecosystèmes Benthiques (EFEB), Adaptation et diversité en milieu marin (AD2M), Station biologique de Roscoff [Roscoff] (SBR), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Station biologique de Roscoff [Roscoff] (SBR), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), Plymouth Marine Laboratory, School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change Cluster (C3), University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Division of Plant Sciences, University of Dundee, Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenökologie, UK Ocean Acidification Research Programme - NERC, UK Ocean Acidification Research Programme - Defra, UK Ocean Acidification Research Programme - DECC, NERC OARP [NE/H016996/1], University of St Andrews. Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Università degli studi di Genova = University of Genoa (UniGe)
Subjects: macroalgae, Calcified algae, Climate Research, microphytobenthos, Evolution, QH301 Biology, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Seagrasses, Growth, Review, Ecosystems, Klimatforskning, invasive species, QH301, Macroalgae, SDG 13 - Climate Action, Climate change, SDG 14 - Life Below Water, volatile gases, Climate-change, Biology, Ekologi, Ecology, Invasive species, Ocean acidification, fungi, Microphytobenthos, Temperature, Geokemi, Coralline Algae, Carbon, Geochemistry, Volatile gases, Kelp, climate change, seagrasses, [SDE]Environmental Sciences
Abstract: Seaweed and seagrass communities in the northeast Atlantic have been profoundly impacted by humans, and the rate of change is accelerating rapidly due to runaway CO2 emissions and mounting pressures on coastlines associated with human population growth and increased consumption of finite resources. Here, we predict how rapid warming and acidification are likely to affect benthic flora and coastal ecosystems of the northeast Atlantic in this century, based on global evidence from the literature as interpreted by the collective knowledge of the authorship. We predict that warming will kill off kelp forests in the south and that ocean acidification will remove maerl habitat in the north. Seagrasses will proliferate, and associated epiphytes switch from calcified algae to diatoms and filamentous species. Invasive species will thrive in niches liberated by loss of native species and spread via exponential development of artificial marine structures. Combined impacts of seawater warming, ocean acidification, and increased storminess may replace structurally diverse seaweed canopies, with associated calcified and noncalcified flora, with simple habitats dominated by noncalcified, turf-forming seaweeds. In this study, predictions are made as to how rapid warming and ocean acidification are likely to affect benthic flora and coastal ecosystems of the north-east Atlantic in this century based on global evidence from the literature as interpreted by the collective knowledge of the authorship. We predict that kelp forests will die out in the south due to warming, maerl habitat lost in the north through acidification, seagrasses will proliferate, associated epiphytes will switch from calcified algae to diatoms and filamentous species, and invasive species will thrive. Thus, structurally diverse seaweed canopies with associated calcified and noncalcified flora may be replaced with simple habitats dominated by noncalcified, turf-forming seaweeds. © 2014 The Authors.
Published: 2014
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38. New Species of Rotundomys (Cricetinae) from the Late Miocene of Spain and Its Bearing on the Phylogeny of Cricetulodon and Rotundomys

Author: Raquel López-Antoñanzas, Ángeles Álvarez-Sierra, Pablo Peláez-Campomanes, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales [Madrid] (MNCN), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], and Universidad Complutense de Madrid = Complutense University of Madrid [Madrid] (UCM)
Subjects: 010506 paleontology, Teeth, lcsh:Medicine, Zoology, Morphology (biology), Mandible, Molars, Biology, Late Miocene, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, [SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy, 01 natural sciences, Topology, Paleontología, Cladistics, Monophyly, Cricetinae, Maxilla, Animals, Evolutionary Systematics, lcsh:Science, Clade, Phylogeny, Cricetulodon, Taxonomy, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Multidisciplinary, Phylogenetic analysis, Phylogenetic tree, Fossils, lcsh:R, Biology and Life Sciences, Paleontology, biology.organism_classification, Mammalogy, Taxon, Spain, Animal Taxonomy, Earth Sciences, lcsh:Q, Paleobiology, [SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology, Research Article
Abstract: The material of Rotundomys (Rodentia, Cricetinae) from the Late Miocene fossiliferous complex of Cerro de los Batallones (Madrid, Spain) is described and compared with all species currently placed in the genera Rotundomys and Cricetulodon. Both the morphology and size variation encompassed in the collection of specimens from Batallones suggest they belong to a single taxon different from the other known species of these genera. A new species Rotundomys intimus sp. nov. is, therefore, named for it. A cladistic analysis, which is the first ever published concernig these taxa, has been conducted to clear up the phylogenetic position of the new species. Our results suggest that Rotundomys intimus sp. nov. inserts between R. mundi and R. sabatieri as a relatively primitive taxon inside the clade Rotundomys. The new taxon is more derived than R. mundi in having a transversal connection between the metalophulid and the anterolophulid on some m1 but more primitive than R. sabatieri and the most evolved species of Rotundomys (R. montisrotuni +R.bressanus) in its less developed lophodonty showing distinct cusps, shallower valleys, and the presence of a subdivided anteroloph on the M1. The species of Cricetulodon do not form a monophyletic group. As a member of Rotundomys, Rotundomys intimus sp. nov. is more derived than all of these taxa in its greater lophodonty and the complete loss of the anterior protolophule, mesolophs, and mesolophids.
Published: 2014
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39. From the subtropics to the central equatorial Pacific Ocean : neodymium isotopic composition and rare earth element concentration variations

Author: Grenier, Mélanie, Jeandel, C., Lacan, F., Vance, D., Venchiarutti, C., Cros, A., Cravatte, Sophie, Laboratoire d'études en Géophysique et océanographie spatiales (LEGOS), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), GEOMAR LEGOS, Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Joint Research Center, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, Interactions et dynamique des environnements de surface (IDES), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Océan du Large et Variabilité Climatique (OLVAC), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3)
Subjects: [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere
Abstract: Neodymium isotopic compositions (epsilon(Nd)) and rare earth element (REE) concentrations were measured for filtered surface to deep waters (112 samples) in the Southern Tropical Pacific. The relatively detailed picture of these tracer distributions allowed us to refine the areas where oceanic epsilon(Nd) variations occur. epsilon(Nd) values increase for most of the water masses flowing from Samoa to the Solomon Sea and in the Papua New Guinea (PNG) area, as already observed. Furthermore, water masses arriving from the eastern equatorial Pacific (200-550m depth) also revealed radiogenic values, possibly acquired in the vicinity of the South American coasts and Galapagos Islands. These epsilon(Nd) variations affect the whole water column. The most likely process causing such variations is "boundary exchange" between the numerous radiogenic slopes/margins located in this area and seawater flowing past. Dissolution of atmospheric deposition and/or diffuse streaming of volcanic ash are also suggested to explain the radiogenic epsilon(Nd) observed at the surface in the PNG area. Interestingly, a positive europium (Eu) anomaly characterizes the normalized REE patterns of most of the studied water masses. This anomaly is consistent with the REE patterns of sediment and rock samples that are potential sources for the local waters. Such consistency reinforces the hypothesis that lithogenic sources play a major role in the oceanic REE budget, thanks to "boundary exchange." The data set presented here is a good basis for further sampling that will be realized in the framework of the ongoing GEOTRACES program (www.geotraces.org).
Published: 2013
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40. ISOTOPIC RATIOS IN TITAN's METHANE: MEASUREMENTS AND MODELING

Author: C. D. Sherrill, Nicholas A Teanby, Richard K. Achterberg, Pgj Irwin, F. M. Flasar, Bruno Bézard, A. Coustenis, Berhane Temelso, Sandrine Vinatier, Conor A. Nixon, Kathleen Mandt, D. E. Jennings, Paul N. Romani, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Science Systems and Applications, Inc. [Lanham] (SSAI), Southwest Research Institute [San Antonio] (SwRI), Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics [Oxford] (AOPP), University of Oxford, and University of Oxford [Oxford]
Subjects: Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], 010304 chemical physics, Atmospheric methane, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric sciences, 01 natural sciences, Methane, Astrobiology, Atmosphere, symbols.namesake, chemistry.chemical_compound, chemistry, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Isotopes of carbon, 0103 physical sciences, symbols, Isotopologue, Atmosphere of Titan, Titan (rocket family), [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Hydrodynamic escape
Abstract: The existence of methane in Titan's atmosphere (∼6% level at the surface) presents a unique enigma, as photochemical models predict that the current inventory will be entirely depleted by photochemistry in a timescale of ∼20Myr. In this paper, we examine the clues available from isotopic ratios (12C/13C and D/H) in Titan's methane as to the past atmosphere history of this species. We first analyze recent infrared spectra of CH4 collected by the Cassini Composite Infrared Spectrometer, measuring simultaneously for the first time the abundances of all three detected minor isotopologues: 13CH4, 12CH3D, and 13CH3D. From these we compute estimates of 12C/13C= 86.5 ± 8.2 and D/H= (1.59 ± 0.33) × 10-4, in agreement with recent results from the Huygens GCMS and Cassini INMS instruments. We also use the transition state theory to estimate the fractionation that occurs in carbon and hydrogen during a critical reaction that plays a key role in the chemical depletion of Titan's methane: CH4+ C2H→ CH3+ C2H2. Using these new measurements and predictions we proceed to model the time evolution of 12C/13C and D/H in Titan's methane under several prototypical replenishment scenarios. In our Model1 (no resupply of CH4), we find that the present-day 12C/13C implies that the CH4 entered the atmosphere 60-1600Myr ago if methane is depleted by chemistry and photolysis alone, but much more recently - most likely less than 10Myr ago - if hydrodynamic escape is also occurring. On the other hand, if methane has been continuously supplied at the replenishment rate then the isotopic ratios provide no constraints, and likewise for the case where atmospheric methane is increasing. We conclude by discussing how these findings may be combined with other evidence to constrain the overall history of the atmospheric methane. © 2012 The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
Published: 2012
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41. Active upper-atmosphere chemistry and dynamics from polar circulation reversal on Titan

Author: F. Michael Flasar, S. B. Calcutt, Conor A. Nixon, Sandrine Vinatier, Athena Coustenis, Patrick G. J. Irwin, Nicholas A Teanby, Remco de Kok, Elliot Sefton-Nash, School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), European Space Agency (ESA), University of Oxford [Oxford], NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), and University of Oxford
Subjects: [PHYS]Physics [physics], Multidisciplinary, Haze, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Surface pressure, Atmospheric sciences, 01 natural sciences, Trace gas, Astrobiology, Troposphere, symbols.namesake, Planetary science, 13. Climate action, 0103 physical sciences, symbols, Life Science, Atmosphere of Titan, Thermosphere, Titan (rocket family), [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: Saturn's moon Titan has a nitrogen atmosphere comparable to Earth's, with a surface pressure of 1.4 bar. Numerical models reproduce the tropospheric conditions very well but have trouble explaining the observed middle-atmosphere temperatures, composition and winds. The top of the middle-atmosphere circulation has been thought to lie at an altitude of 450 to 500 kilometres, where there is a layer of haze that appears to be separated from the main haze deck. This 'detached' haze was previously explained as being due to the co-location of peak haze production and the limit of dynamical transport by the circulation's upper branch. Here we report a build-up of trace gases over the south pole approximately two years after observing the 2009 post-equinox circulation reversal, from which we conclude that middle-atmosphere circulation must extend to an altitude of at least 600 kilometres. The primary drivers of this circulation are summer-hemisphere heating of haze by absorption of solar radiation and winter-hemisphere cooling due to infrared emission by haze and trace gases; our results therefore imply that these effects are important well into the thermosphere (altitudes higher than 500 kilometres). This requires both active upper-atmosphere chemistry, consistent with the detection of high-complexity molecules and ions at altitudes greater than 950 kilometres, and an alternative explanation for the detached haze, such as a transition in haze particle growth from monomers to fractal structures.
Published: 2012
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42. The structure of liquid calcium aluminates as investigated using neutron and high energy x-ray diffraction in combination with molecular dynamics simulation methods

Author: Sandro Jahn, James W E Drewitt, Henry E. Fischer, S. Brassamin, Viviana Cristiglio, Louis Hennet, A. Bytchkov, M. Leydier, School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], German Research Centre for Geosciences - Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam (GFZ), European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), ILL, Conditions Extrêmes et Matériaux : Haute Température et Irradiation (CEMHTI), and Université d'Orléans (UO)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: 550 - Earth sciences, 02 engineering and technology, Crystal structure, 01 natural sciences, Molecular physics, symbols.namesake, chemistry.chemical_compound, Molecular dynamics, 0103 physical sciences, General Materials Science, Neutron, Calcium aluminates, 010306 general physics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Chemistry, Pair distribution function, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Condensed Matter Physics, 3. Good health, Crystallography, Chemical bond, X-ray crystallography, symbols, [PHYS.COND.CM-MS]Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat]/Materials Science [cond-mat.mtrl-sci], 0210 nano-technology, Raman spectroscopy
Abstract: The structure of laser heated aerodynamically levitated (CaO)(x)(Al₂O₃)(1-x) high temperature liquids, with x = 0.33, 0.5, 0.75, was measured by using neutron and high energy x-ray diffraction. The partial structure factors for the liquids at 2500 K were also determined using molecular dynamics computer simulations. The simulation results are in excellent agreement with the diffraction measurements. The results show a predominant tetrahedral Al coordination with approximately 20% of fivefold coordinated Al at x = 0.33 which reduces with increasing CaO concentration. The Ca atoms occupy a broad range of coordination environments but with a predominance of sixfold distorted octahedra. The simulations confirm the presence of 13, 7 and 0.6% OAl₃ triclusters connecting AlO₄ tetrahedra in the structure of CA2 (x = 0.33), CA (x = 0.5) and C3A (x = 0.75) liquids, respectively.
Published: 2011
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43. On the formation of high-latitude soil carbon stocks: Effects of cryoturbation and insulation by organic matter in a land surface model

Author: Charles D. Koven, Gerhard Krinner, Philippe Ciais, D. Khvorostyanov, Charles Tarnocai, Pierre Friedlingstein, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] (LSCE), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], ICOS-ATC (ICOS-ATC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD), Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l'environnement (LGGE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Agriculture and Agri-Food [Ottawa] (AAFC), supported by CEA, ANR-06-VULN-0011,IMPACT-BOREAL,IMPACT of climate on hydrology and methane production in anaerobic soils in BOREAL regions(2006), Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ANR: project Impact-Boreal,project Impact-Boreal, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Agriculture and Agri-Food (AAFC)
Subjects: Hydrology, global carbon cycle, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Soil organic matter, 0207 environmental engineering, Yedoma, Soil classification, Soil science, 02 engineering and technology, Soil carbon, 15. Life on land, Permafrost, 01 natural sciences, Carbon cycle, climate change, Geophysics, 13. Climate action, Soil water, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental science, Permafrost carbon cycle, [SDU.STU.GL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Glaciology, 020701 environmental engineering, permafrost, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: International audience; We modify the soil component of the ORCHIDEE terrestrial carbon cycle model to include vertically-discretized soil carbon. With this model, we investigate the feedback of considering thermal insulation by soil carbon, which modifies the soil thermal regime by lowering the thermal conductivity and increasing the heat capacity of a carbon-rich soil, on the total carbon stocks the model builds up. In addition, we demonstrate the effects of diffusive vertical mixing of soil organic matter by cryoturbation on the total carbon stocks that the model builds up in mineral soils in equilibrium with a steady climate. We show that including these two effects together leads to up to 30% higher soil carbon stocks in the top meter of permafrost soils, as well as large stocks of carbon below 1m in the upper permafrost soil layers. The vertical profile of partitioning of carbon between different lability pools is also affected, as the slower pools are more deeply mixed; also the time to reach equilibrium lengthens considerably. These effects are largest in the coldest regions such as Eastern Siberia. The inclusion of cryoturbative mixing and insulation by soil carbon leads to better agreement with estimates of high-latitude soil carbon stocks, where substantial amounts of carbon are found in permafrost regions, to depths of three meters; however we do not include peat, Yedoma, or alluvial deposition processes here, so the total carbon stocks are still lower than observed.
Published: 2009
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44. Footprint of temperature changes in the temperate and boreal forest carbon balance

Author: Peylin, Philippe, Piao, Shilong, Friedlingstein, P., Ciais, Philippe, Zhu, B., Reichstein, M., College of Urban and Environmental Sciences [Beijing], Peking University [Beijing], Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] (LSCE), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], ICOS-ATC (ICOS-ATC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Modélisation des Surfaces et Interfaces Continentales (MOSAIC), University of California, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (MPI-BGC), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Biogéochimie et écologie des milieux continentaux (Bioemco), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AgroParisTech-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Dynamique de la Biodiversité (LADYBIO), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and University of California (UC)
Subjects: [SDE]Environmental Sciences
Abstract: International audience; In this study, we use net ecosystem productivity (NEP) measurement data across several forest sites and a simple conceptual model to investigate the linkage between temperature and NEP by considering either temperature change in the recent past or current mean annual temperature (MAT) as a forcing. After removing the effect of stand age, forest NEP is only weakly correlated with MAT. However, temperature changes during the period of 1980-2002 do explain a very significant fraction of the current spatial patterns of NEP, although the response of the terrestrial carbon balance to temperature changes varies with season. Changes in spring temperature having the highest correlation with annual NEP. We also show that temperature changes before the 1970s had a limited influence on the current NEP, and that the impact of recent temperature changes within the last decade on NEP are not strong enough to be observable. Overall, our analysis indicates not only that temperature changes in the recent past is one of the important drivers of today's forest carbon balance in the Northern Hemisphere, but also that the ongoing global warming will contribute significantly to the near-future evolution of the Northern Hemisphere carbon sink. A non-equilibrium framework must be taken into account when studying the impacts of temperature change on current or future forest net carbon balance.
Published: 2009
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45. Process-based estimates of terrestrial ecosystem isoprene emissions

Author: Steffen M. Noe, Thomas Hickler, Thomas Karl, S. Pressley, Annett Wolf, Iain Colin Prentice, Dominique Serça, Jaana Bäck, Pertti Hari, Benjamin Smith, Almut Arneth, Ülo Niinemets, Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystems Analysis, Centre for GeoBiosphere Science, Department of Plant Physiology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences (EMU), University of Washington [Seattle], Forest Ecology and Management [Helsinki], Department of Forest Sciences [Helsinki], Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry [Helsinki], Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki-Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki-Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry [Helsinki], Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki-Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki, Atmospheric Chemistry Division [Boulder], National Center for Atmospheric Research [Boulder] (NCAR), QUEST [Bristol], School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol]-University of Bristol [Bristol], Laboratoire d'aérologie (LAERO), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Forest Ecology, University of Helsinki-University of Helsinki-Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry [Helsinki], University of Helsinki-University of Helsinki, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), and Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Subjects: [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere, 0106 biological sciences, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Flux, Vegetation, 15. Life on land, Atmospheric sciences, 01 natural sciences, Carbon cycle, chemistry.chemical_compound, chemistry, 13. Climate action, Effects of global warming, Atmospheric chemistry, Environmental science, Ecosystem, Terrestrial ecosystem, Isoprene, 010606 plant biology & botany, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: International audience; In recent years evidence has emerged that the amount of isoprene emitted from a leaf is affected by the CO2 growth environment. Many – though not all – laboratory experiments indicate that emissions increase significantly at below-ambient CO2 concentrations and decrease when concentrations are raised to above ambient levels. A small number of process-based leaf isoprene emission models can reproduce this CO2-stimulation and -inhibition. These models are briefly reviewed, and their performance in standard conditions compared with each other and to an empirical algorithm. One of the models was judged particularly useful to be incorporated into a dynamic vegetation model framework, LPJ-GUESS, aiming to develop a tool that allows the interactive effects of climate and increasing CO2 concentration on vegetation distribution, productivity, and leaf and ecosystem isoprene emissions to be explored. The coupled vegetation dynamics-isoprene model is described and used here in a mode particularly suited for the ecosystem scale, but it can be employed at the global level as well. Annual and/or daily isoprene emissions simulated by the model were evaluated against flux measurements (or model estimates that had previously been evaluated with flux data) from a wide range of environments, and agreement between modelled and simulated values was generally good. By using a dynamic vegetation model, effects of canopy composition, disturbance history, or trends in CO2 concentration can be assessed. We show here for five model test sites that the suggested CO2-inhibition of leaf-isoprene metabolism can be large enough to offset increases in emissions due to CO2-stimulation of vegetation productivity and leaf area growth. When effects of climate change are considered atop the effects of atmospheric composition the interactions between the relevant processes will become even more complex. The CO2-isoprene inhibition may have the potential to significantly dampen the expected steep increase of ecosystem isoprene emission in a future warmer atmosphere with higher CO2 levels; this effect raises important questions for projections of future atmospheric chemistry and its connection to the terrestrial vegetation and carbon cycle.
Published: 2006
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46. First Clarkforkian Equivalent Land Mammal Age in the Latest Paleocene Basal Sparnacian Facies of Europe: Fauna, Flora, Paleoenvironment and (Bio)stratigraphy

Author: Emile Roche, Eric De Bast, Anaïs Boura, Cyril Gagnaison, François Maubert, Romain Thomas, Dario De Franceschi, Johan Yans, Gaël De Ploëg, Floréal Solé, Judicaël Prieur, Thierry Smith, Haiyan Tong, Annelise Folie, Julien Claude, Grégoire Métais, Eric Buffetaut, Alina I. Iakovleva, Florence Quesnel, Christian Dupuis, Jeremy E. Martin, Jean-Yves Storme, Direction Ope'rationnelle Terre et Histoire de la Vie, Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (IRSNB), Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM) (BRGM), Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans - UMR7327 (ISTO), Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM) (BRGM)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre Permanent d'Initiatives pour l'Environnement des Pays de l'Oise, Centre de recherche sur la Paléobiodiversité et les Paléoenvironnements (CR2P), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (UMR ISEM), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR226-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ge'ologie GFA, Faculté polytechnique de Mons, Université de Mons (UMons)-Université de Mons (UMons), Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais, Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences [Moscow] (RAS), School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement (LGL-TPE), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Lafarge Granulats Seine Nord, Lafarge France [Groupe Holcim], Département de Géologie, Université de Liège, Palaeontological Research and Education Centre, Mahasarakham University, Laboratoire de géologie de l'ENS (LGENS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR226, Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement [Lyon] (LGL-TPE), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Lafarge, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)
Subjects: Geologic Sediments, Anatomy and Physiology, Marine and Aquatic Sciences, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Comparative Anatomy, Phylogeny, Mammals, Carbon Isotopes, Multidisciplinary, biology, Fossils, Ecology, Fishes, Biostratigraphy, Plants, Biological Evolution, Europe, Mammalogy, Biogeography, Taphonomy, Plesiadapis, Medicine, Marine Geology, Research Article, Champsosaurus, 010506 paleontology, Science, [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, North American land mammal age, Vertebrate Paleontology, Amphibians, Birds, Paleontology, Macroflora, Animals, [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, environment, Biology, Paleozoology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Palynology, Arctocyon, Reptiles, biology.organism_classification, Earth Sciences, Sediment, Mammal, Paleoecology, Paleobiology, Zoology
Abstract: International audience; The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) is correlated with the first occurrences of earliest modern mammals in the Northern Hemisphere. The latest Paleocene Clarkforkian North American Land Mammal Age, that has yielded rodents and carnivorans, is the only exception to this rule. However, until now no pre-PETM localities have yielded modern mammals in Europe or Asia. We report the first Clarkforkian equivalent Land Mammal Age in the latest Paleocene deposits of the basal Sparnacian facies at Rivecourt, in the north-central part of the Paris Basin. The new terrestrial vertebrate and macroflora assemblages are analyzed through a multidisciplinary study including sedimentologic, stratigraphic, isotopic, and palynological aspects in order to reconstruct the paleoenvironment and to evaluate biochronologic and paleogeographic implications. The mammals are moderately diverse and not abundant, contrary to turtles and champsosaurs. The macroflora is exceptional in preservation and diversity with numerous angiosperms represented by flowers, fruits, seeds and wood preserved as lignite material, revealing an abundance of Arecaceae, Betulaceae, Icacinaceae, Menispermaceae, Vitaceae and probably Cornaceae. Results indicate a Late Paleocene age based on carbon isotope data, palynology and vertebrate occurrences such as the choristoderan Champsosaurus, the arctocyonid Arctocyon, and the plesiadapid Plesiadapis tricuspidens. However, several mammal species compare better with the earliest Eocene. Among these, the particular louisinid Teilhardimys musculus, also recorded from the latest Paleocene of the Spanish Pyrenees, suggests a younger age than the typical MP6 reference level. Nevertheless, the most important aspect of the Rivecourt fauna is the presence of dental remains of a rodent and a ''miacid'' carnivoran, attesting to the presence of two modern mammalian orders in the latest Paleocene of Europe. Interestingly, these two groups are also the only modern groups recorded from the latest Paleocene of North America, making Rivecourt the first direct equivalent to the Clarkforkian Land Mammal Age outside of North America.
Published: 2014
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47. Development of chemical and topological structure in aluminosilicate liquids and glasses at high pressure

Author: Charlotte J.L. de Grouchy, Chrystèle Sanloup, Gaston Garbarino, Louis Hennet, Sandro Jahn, James W E Drewitt, SUPA, Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], German Research Centre for Geosciences - Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam (GFZ), Institut des Sciences de la Terre de Paris (iSTeP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Conditions Extrêmes et Matériaux : Haute Température et Irradiation (CEMHTI), and Université d'Orléans (UO)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Aluminate, Thermodynamics, Mineralogy, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, Hard spheres, engineering.material, Condensed Matter Physics, Anorthite, Ion, chemistry.chemical_compound, Molecular dynamics, chemistry, Aluminosilicate, Polarizability, engineering, Topological order, General Materials Science
Abstract: International audience; The high pressure structure of liquid and glassy anorthite (CaAl(2)Si(2)O(8)) and calcium aluminate (CaAl(2)O(4)) glass was measured by using in situ synchrotron x-ray diffraction in a diamond anvil cell up to 32.4(2) GPa. The results, combined with ab initio molecular dynamics and classical molecular dynamics simulations using a polarizable ion model, reveal a continuous increase in Al coordination by oxygen, with 5-fold coordinated Al dominating at 15 GPa and a preponderance of 6-fold coordinated Al at higher pressures. The development of a peak in the measured total structure factors at 3.1 Å(-1) is interpreted as a signature of changes in topological order. During compression, cation-centred polyhedra develop edge- and face- sharing networks. Above 10 GPa, following the pressure-induced breakdown of the network structure, the anions adopt a structure similar to a random close packing of hard spheres.
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48. Atmospheric Science with InSight

Author: Mark T. Lemmon, Sébastien Le Maistre, Matthew P. Golombek, Tanguy Bertrand, Yasuhiro Nishikawa, L. Martire, Antoine Mocquet, Naomi Murdoch, Özgür Karatekin, Rudolf Widmer-Schnidrig, Philippe Lognonné, David Mimoun, Véronique Dehant, Bart Van Hove, Don Banfield, Balthasar Kenda, José Antonio Rodríguez Manfredi, William B. Banerdt, Nicholas A Teanby, Aymeric Spiga, Raphaël F. Garcia, Sebastien Rodriguez, Roland Martin, John Clinton, Ralph D. Lorenz, Quentin Brissaud, François Forget, Suzanne E. Smrekar, Eléonore Stutzmann, Ehouarn Millour, Taichi Kawamura, Eric Beucler, Lucie Rolland, Ingrid Daubar, Tilman Spohn, Nils Mueller, Antoine Lucas, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (M.E.N.E.S.R.), Cornell University [New York], University of Bristol [Bristol], Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-IPG PARIS-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Centro de Astrobiologia [Madrid] (CAB), Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Universität Stuttgart [Stuttgart], Département Electronique, Optronique et Signal (DEOS), Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO), Texas A&M University [College Station], Royal Observatory of Belgium [Brussels] (ROB), California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), German Aerospace Center (DLR), Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory [Laurel, MD] (APL), Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique [UMR 6112] (LPG), Université d'Angers (UA)-Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), NASA Ames Research Center Cooperative for Research in Earth Science in Technology (ARC-CREST), NASA Ames Research Center (ARC), Géoazur (GEOAZUR 7329), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), Géosciences Environnement Toulouse (GET), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Cornell University, School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-IPG PARIS-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Atmospheric Sciences [College Station], Royal Observatory of Belgium [Brussels], Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-IPG PARIS-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology (CALTECH)-NASA, Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique UMR6112 (LPG), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Nantes - Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques, Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Université d'Angers (UA), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015 - 2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015 - 2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), Advanced CERamics Deposition (ACERDE), Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-ACERDE, Swiss Seismological Service, DLR Institut für Planetenforschung, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt [Berlin] (DLR), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace - ISAE-SUPAERO (FRANCE), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Spain] (CSIC)-Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Spain] (CSIC), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and UCL - SST/ELI/ELIC - Earth & Climate
Subjects: [SPI.OTHER]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Other, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Planetary boundary layer, [SDU.STU.GP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph], Mars, Atmospheric sciences, 01 natural sciences, [SDU.STU.PL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Planetology, Autre, Saltation (geology), 0103 physical sciences, Atmospheric science, [SDU.STU.GM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geomorphology, [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, environment, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Dust devil, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, InSight, Radiometer, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmosphere of Mars, Mars Exploration Program, Pressure sensor, Planetary science, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Atmosphäre, Geology, Planetary atmospheres
Abstract: International audience; In November 2018, for the first time a dedicated geophysical station, the InSight lander, will be deployed on the surface of Mars. Along with the two main geophysical packages, the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) and the Heat-Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3), the InSight lander holds a highly sensitive pressure sensor (PS) and the Temperature and Winds for InSight (TWINS) instrument, both of which (along with the InSight FluxGate (IFG) Magnetometer) form the Auxiliary Sensor Payload Suite (APSS). Associated with the RADiometer (RAD) instrument which will measure the surface brightness temperature, and the Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC) which will be used to quantify atmospheric opacity, this will make InSight capable to act as a meteorological station at the surface of Mars. While probing the internal structure of Mars is the primary scientific goal of the mission, atmospheric science remains a key science objective for InSight. InSight has the potential to provide a more continuous and higher-frequency record of pressure, air temperature and winds at the surface of Mars than previous in situ missions. In the paper, key results from multiscale meteorological modeling, from Global Climate Models to Large-Eddy Simulations, are described as a reference for future studies based on the InSight measurements during operations. We summarize the capabilities of InSight for atmospheric observations, from profiling during Entry, Descent and Landing to surface measurements (pressure, temperature, winds, angular momentum), and the plans for how InSight’s sensors will be used during operations, as well as possible synergies with orbital observations. In a dedicated section, we describe the seismic impact of atmospheric phenomena (from the point of view of both “noise” to be decorrelated from the seismic signal and “signal” to provide information on atmospheric processes). We discuss in this framework Planetary Boundary Layer turbulence, with a focus on convective vortices and dust devils, gravity waves (with idealized modeling), and large-scale circulations. Our paper also presents possible new, exploratory, studies with the InSight instrumentation: surface layer scaling and exploration of the Monin-Obukhov model, aeolian surface changes and saltation / lifing studies, and monitoring of secular pressure changes. The InSight mission will be instrumental in broadening the knowledge of the Martian atmosphere, with a unique set of measurements from the surface of Mars.
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49. Light particle probes of expansion and temperature evolution: Coalescence model analyses of heavy ion collisions at 47A MeV

Author: Z. Majka, R. Alfaro, P. Staszel, WQ（沈文庆） Shen, J. Cibor, B. Xiao, M. Lunardon, R. Wada, J. B. Natowitz, K. Hagel, N. Marie, M. Murray, T. Keutgen, Aldo Bonasera, Y. Zhao, J. Li, B. A. Li, Cyclotron institute, Cyclotron Institute, Laboratoire de physique corpusculaire de Caen (LPCC), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen (ENSICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], and Guesnon, Sandrine
Subjects: Coalescence (physics), Nuclear reaction, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Projectile, [PHYS.NEXP] Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], Nuclear Theory, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, Charged particle, 25.70.Mn, 24.10.Lx, Excited state, 0103 physical sciences, Atomic physics, 010306 general physics, Nucleon, Nuclear Experiment, Excitation
Abstract: The reactions C-12 + Sn-116, Ne-22 + Ag, Ar-40 + Mo-100, and Zn-64 + Y-89 have been studied at 47A MeV projectile energy. For these reactions the most violent collisions lend to increasing amounts of fragment and light particle emission as the projectile mass increases. This is consistent with quantum molecular dynamics (QMD) model simulations of the collisions. Moving source fits to the light charged particle data have been used to gain a global view of the evolution of the particle emission,Comparisons of the multiplicities and spectra of light charged particles emitted in the reactions with the four different projectiles indicate a common emission mechanism for early emitted ejectiles even though the deposited excitation energies differ greatly. The spectra for such ejectiles can be characterized as emission in the nucleon-nucleon frame. Evidence that the He-3 yield is dominated by this type of emission and the role of the collision dynamics in determining the H-3/He-3 yield ratio are discussed. Self-consistent coalescence model analyses are applied to the light cluster yields, in an attempt to probe emitter source sizes and to follow the evolution of the temperatures and densities from the time of first particle emission to equilibration. These analyses exploit correlations between ejectile energy and emission time, suggested by the QMD calculations. In this analysis the degree of expansion of the emitting system is found to increase with increasing projectile mass. The double isotope yield ratio temperature drops as the system expands. Average densities as low as 0.36 rho(0) are reached at a time near 100 fm/c after contact. Calorimetric methods were used to derive the mass and excitation energy of the excited nuclei which are present after preequilibrium emission. The derived masses range from 102 to 116 u and the derived excitation energies increase from 2.6 to 6.9 MeV/nucleon with increasing projectile mass. A caloric curve is derived for these expanded A similar to 110 nuclei. This caloric curve exhibits a plateau at temperatures near 7 MeV. The plateau extends from similar to 3.5 to 6.9 MeV/nucleon excitation energy.
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50. Predictability of biomass burning in response to climate changes

Author: T I Harrison-Prentice, Janelle Stevenson, Sandy P. Harrison, Colin J. Long, Jennifer R. Marlon, Hermann Behling, Lydie M Dupont, Scott Mooney, Douglas J. Hallett, Elin Norström, Christopher Carcaillet, Fumitaka Katamura, Natasha L. Williams, K. J. Brown, Frank H. Neumann, Hikaru Takahara, John Dodson, Sergey K. Krivonogov, Patrick J. Bartlein, Willy Tinner, C. Paitre, Florian Thevenon, G.M. Mckenzie, Donna D'Costa, M.P. Black, Aurélie Genries, Patricio I. Moreno, Iain Colin Prentice, Mitchell J. Power, Zewdu Eshetu, Geoffrey Hope, Patrick Moss, Lisa M. Kennedy, Elena Marinova, Simon Haberle, Megan K. Walsh, T.G. Kassa, Verushka Valsecchi, Sally P. Horn, Pierre Friedlingstein, Neil Roberts, Louis Scott, Valery T. Terwilliger, Daniel G. Gavin, Eric A. Colhoun, Rebecca Turner, Kenji Izumi, Peter Kershaw, Juliana Atanassova, Guy Robinson, Basil A. S. Davis, Maja Andrič, Yunlin Zhang, Donatella Magri, Naoko Sasaki, Anne-Laure Daniau, Olivier Blarquez, Scott Brewer, Damien Rius, Jun Inoue, Boris Vannière, Daniele Colombaroli, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol [Bristol], Department of Geography, University of Oregon [Eugene], School of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], Grantham Institute for Climate Change and Division of Biology, Imperial College London, Botany Department, University of Wyoming ( UW ), College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences [Exeter] ( EMPS ), University of Exeter, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] ( LSCE ), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines ( UVSQ ) -Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ) -Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Newton St. Cyres, Osaka University [Osaka], University of Wisconsin-Madison [Madison], School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences ( UNSW - BEES ), University of New South Wales [Sydney] ( UNSW ), Utah Museum of Natural History, Department of Geography, University of Utah, University of Utah, Department of Archaeology and Natural History, Australian National University ( ANU ), Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research ( OCCR ), University of Bern, Institute of Archaeology, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Department of Botany, Sofia University 'Sv. Kliment Ohridski', Palynology and Climate Dynamics, Albrecht-von-Haller-Inst. for Plant Sciences, Centre de Bio-Archéologie et d'Ecologie ( CBAE ), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques ( UM2 ) -École pratique des hautes études ( EPHE ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, British Columbia, Paléoenvironnement et chronoécologie UMR 5059-CNRS/Montpellier II/EPHE ( PALECO ), École pratique des hautes études ( EPHE ), School of Environmental and Life Sciences, The University of Newcastle, Institute of Environment, Science and Technology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne ( EPFL ), School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University [Clayton], Institute for Environmental Research, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, MARUM, Universität Bremen Postfach, Department of Paleoanthropology and Paleoenvironment, University of Addis Ababa, Department of Archaeology and Natural History ( RSPS ), Biogeoscience Institute, University of Calgary, The University of Tennessee [Knoxville], Seminar of Geography and Education, University of Cologne, Tokushu Kosho Gijutsu Inc, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, United Institute of Geology, Geophysics and Mineralogy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences ( SB RAS ), Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' [Rome], Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity and Department of Ecological Sciences, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Department of Planning and Environmental Management, School of Geography, The University of Queensland, Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontology, University of the Witwatersrand [Johannesburg] ( WITS ), Forschungsstelle für Paläobotanik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster ( WWU ), Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, Département de Géographie et Centre d'Études Nordiques, Université Laval, Laboratoire Chrono-environnement ( LCE ), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté ( UBFC ) -Université de Franche-Comté ( UFC ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Earth and Environmental Sciences, School of Geography, University of Plymouth, Department of Natural Sciences, Fordham College at Lincoln Center, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Department of Plant Sciences, University of the Free State [South Africa], Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University, Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans - UMR7327 ( ISTO ), Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM) ( BRGM ) -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Université d'Orléans ( UO ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), University of Kansas [Lawrence] ( KU ), Forel Institute, University of Geneva [Switzerland], Pedagogic Research Institute and Observatory, University of Plymouth, Central Washington University, Natural Resources Policy Section, NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet, Institute of Botany, State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing] ( CAS ), School of Geographical Sciences [Bristol], University of Wyoming (UW), College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences [Exeter] (EMPS), Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] (LSCE), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences [Sydney] (BEES), University of New South Wales [Sydney] (UNSW), Australian National University (ANU), Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR), Sofia University 'St. Kliment Ohridski', Centre de Bio-Archéologie et d'Ecologie (CBAE), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paléoenvironnement et chronoécologie UMR 5059-CNRS/Montpellier II/EPHE (PALECO), École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Center for Marine Environmental Sciences [Bremen] (MARUM), Universität Bremen, Addis Ababa University (AAU), Department of Archaeology and Natural History (RSPS), Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS), Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome] (UNIROMA), University of the Witwatersrand [Johannesburg] (WITS), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster = University of Münster (WWU), Université Laval [Québec] (ULaval), Laboratoire Chrono-environnement (UMR 6249) (LCE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences [Plymouth] (SoGEES), Plymouth University, Fordham University [New York], Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), University of the Free State [South Africa] (UFS), Kyoto Prefectural University (KPU), Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans - UMR7327 (ISTO), Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM) (BRGM)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Kansas [Lawrence] (KU), Université de Genève = University of Geneva (UNIGE), Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing] (CAS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome], Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU), Laboratoire Chrono-environnement - CNRS - UBFC (UMR 6249) (LCE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM) (BRGM)
Subjects: biomass burning, 010506 paleontology, Atmospheric Science, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, temperature changes, [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, Climate change, deglaciation, 01 natural sciences, sedimentary charcoal records, ddc:550, [ SDU.ENVI ] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, environment, Environmental Chemistry, Predictability, [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, environment, Biomass burning, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, General Environmental Science, Global and Planetary Change, Fire regime, Moisture, Holocene, Global warming, 15. Life on land, Sedimentary charcoal, [ SDE.MCG ] Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, [SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology, 13. Climate action, Climatology, Environmental science, [ SDU.STU.CL ] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology, climate controls on fire, holocene
Abstract: Climate is an important control on biomass burning, but the sensitivity of fire to changes in temperature and moisture balance has not been quantified. We analyze sedimentary charcoal records to show that the changes in fire regime over the past 21,000 yrs are predictable from changes in regional climates. Analyses of paleo- fire data show that fire increases monotonically with changes in temperature and peaks at intermediate moisture levels, and that temperature is quantitatively the most important driver of changes in biomass burning over the past 21,000 yrs. Given that a similar relationship between climate drivers and fire emerges from analyses of the interannual variability in biomass burning shown by remote-sensing observations of month-by-month burnt area between 1996 and 2008, our results signal a serious cause for concern in the face of continuing global warming. ispartof: Global Biogeochemical Cycles vol:26 issue:4 status: published
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