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Geological review of English coastal archaeological evidence portending multi-metre sea-level rise by 2100

Roger Higgs

Published: 2025-03-20
Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics

English archaeological literature, its sea-level significance hitherto underappreciated, is reviewed here from a geological (sedimentological) perspective. Five Roman-built (~300AD) waterside forts and a seaside palace (~100AD), all meticulously excavated by archaeologists, tightly dated (tree-rings, coins, pottery), and published in great detail, yield evidence proving a ~4-metre (m) sea-level [...]

Some mechanical and thermal manifestations of the 1908 Tunguska event near its epicenter

Andrei Ol'khovatov

Published: 2025-03-20
Subjects: Education, Physical Sciences and Mathematics

This paper is a continuation of a series of works, devoted to various aspects of the 1908 Tunguska event. It is devoted to some manifestations near the epicenter of the event. Many of the manifestations were established back in the 1960s. Recently a couple of works have appeared that reveal previously undetected phenomena, namely, traces of exposure to high temperatures and high pressure. A [...]

The New Method of Estimation Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change

Slavoljub R Mijovic

Published: 2025-03-20
Subjects: Environmental Sciences, Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Global climate change is one of the major concerns of modern society. To estimate this change, the global mean temperature is often used. Measuring and calculating the Earth’s average temperature is a complex, multi-step process that combines data from various sources and employs statistical techniques. Today, datasets containing spatial-temporal data on Earth’s temperature are readily [...]

Physically consistent sectoral pathways for phasing out fossil fuels

Ugo Vaitua Legendre, Louis Delannoy, Pablo Rafael Brito-Parada

Published: 2025-03-19
Subjects: Engineering, Physical Sciences and Mathematics

The transition away from fossil fuels relies on electricity-producing renewable energy sources. To understand how much electricity is needed to substitute fossil fuels, sectors of the economy being electrified must be analysed discretely, as their suitability for electrification varies significantly. Constructing, operating, and maintaining these renewable power plants requires substantial [...]

Large reductions in United States heat extremes found in overshoot simulations with SPEAR

Zachary Michael Labe, Thomas L. Delworth, Nathaniel C. Johnson, et al.

Published: 2025-03-19
Subjects: Atmospheric Sciences, Climate, Meteorology, Oceanography, Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology, Other Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology, Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Increases in the intensity and frequency of heatwaves are already evident in the observational record, and these increases are expected to be further amplified in future climate projections with greater radiative forcing. However, it is unclear how temperature extremes will respond regionally to emissions reductions and declines of greenhouse gases later in the 21st century, such as through the [...]

An Enhanced Deep-Learning Catalog of the Mw 8.8 Maule Aftershock Sequence

Rodrigo Flores-Allende, Léonard Seydoux, Éric Beaucé, et al.

Published: 2025-03-18
Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics

We re-examine the aftershock sequence of the Mw 8.8 Maule earthquake in south-central Chile using deep learning on 10 months of continuous seismic data from 156 temporary stations along the rupture zone (March 2010–March 2011). By integrating back-projection and matched filtering with PhaseNet (a deep-learning phase picker), we initially identify 99,137 earthquakes. We then relocate these events [...]

Interactive annular mode links jet stream-ocean coupling to decadal Northern Hemispheric warmth

Tsubasa Kohyama, Yoko Yamagami, Shoichiro Kido, et al.

Published: 2025-03-17
Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics

The atmospheric jet stream governs the distribution and intensity of midlatitude weather systems and climate variability. In the Northern Hemisphere, meridional migrations of the jet stream are directly linked to the frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events. While previous studies have established that jet stream fluctuations are modulated by spatio-temporal variations in diabatic [...]

Summertime sediment storage on the Alaskan Beaufort Shelf and implications for ice-sediment rafting and shelf erosion

Emily Eidam

Published: 2025-03-14
Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Arctic coastlines are known to be rapidly eroding, but the fate of this material in the coastal ocean (and the sedimentary dynamics of Arctic continental shelves in general) is less well-constrained. This study used summertime mooring data from the Alaskan Beaufort Shelf to study sediment-transport patterns which are dominated by waves and wind-driven currents. Easterly wind events account for [...]

Thermogenic Methane Production in Antarctic Subglacial Hydrocarbon Seeps

Gavin Piccione, Jared Nirenberg, Joseph Novak, et al.

Published: 2025-03-14
Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Methane forms beneath ice sheets through microbial methanogenesis and thermogenic breakdown of organic matter, creating a potentially large greenhouse gas reservoir prone to release during glacial retreat. Subglacial thermogenic methanogenesis can increase gas buildup and create oases for life, but this process has not yet been observed in Antarctica, contributing to uncertainty in the spatial [...]

Hothouse hydrology: Evolving river dynamics in the Eocene Montllobat and Castissent Formations, Southern Pyrenees

Jonah S. McLeod, Alexander C Whittaker, Gary J Hampson, et al.

Published: 2025-03-14
Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Rivers are highly sensitive to climate and tectonic change, and understanding how fluvial systems respond to greenhouse climates in dynamic tectono-geomorphic settings is vital to projecting imminent landscape change in the face of global warming. We look to the southern Pyrenean Tremp-Graus basin during the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO), analogous to future anthropogenic climate [...]

Is abyssal dark oxygen production even possible at all?

Angel Cuesta, Marcel Jaspars

Published: 2025-03-10
Subjects: Chemistry, Environmental Sciences, Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology, Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Physical principles need to be respected when interpreting controversial findings such as the production of abyssal oxygen. Such extraordinary claims must be analysed carefully before a large research effort is mounted and valuable human and financial resources are wasted based on flawed data. We are aware of the sensitivities around polymetallic nodules and their potential value as a source of [...]

Persistent high-pressure magma storage beneath a near-ridge ocean island volcano (Isla Floreana, Galápagos)

Matthew Lloyd Morgan Gleeson, Penny Wieser, Charlotte L DeVitre, et al.

Published: 2025-03-10
Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Volcanic evolution in ocean island settings is often controlled by variations in the chemistry and volumetric flux of magma from an underlying mantle plume. In locations such as Hawaiʻi or Réunion, this results in predictable variations in magma chemistry, the rate of volcanic activity, and the depth of magma storage with volcanic age and/or distance from the center of plume upwelling. These [...]

Fracturing during freezing in salty ice: preliminary analysis using a low-cost model system

Cody Cruz, Bradley P Lipovsky

Published: 2025-03-08
Subjects: Earth Sciences, Glaciology, Physical Sciences and Mathematics

The fracture properties of saline water ice play an important role in governing the mechanical behavior of sea ice, marine ice sheets, and icy planetary bodies. Here, we design a low-cost experimental system based on a simple observation: fractures form when freshwater is frozen in a plastic bag, but do not form when a small amount of NaCl salt (several g/L) is added before freezing. We [...]

Improved LA-Q-ICP-MS U-Pb Zircon Age Estimates for Young (< 10 Ma) Zircons & Quantification of Bias in CL Guided Spot Selection

Charles Lewis, Adam Kent, Chris Russo, et al.

Published: 2025-03-08
Subjects: Earth Sciences, Geology, Physical Sciences and Mathematics

We present a new approach to reducing U-Pb data from zircons obtained by laser ablation-quadrupole-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-Q-ICP-MS), with emphasis on young (< 10 Ma) zircons. In young zircons the 207Pb yield is extremely low, generating a relatively high abundance of zero values during analyses. This impacts the use of 207Pb/206Pb in application of Tera-Wasserburg [...]

Detecting rapid lateral changes of upper mantle discontinuities using azimuth-dependent P-wave receiver functions and multimode surface waves

Kotaro Tarumi, Kazunori Yoshizawa

Published: 2025-03-06
Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Lateral structural variations in the upper mantle generate azimuthal dependence in receiver functions (RFs) based on incoming directions of body waves. Although these azimuthal variations in RFs have not been considered in earlier studies of RF inversions, they provide a means to image localized changes in upper mantle interfaces. In this study, we incorporate azimuth-dependent RFs into a joint [...]

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