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Imaging Magma from Afar

by Peter Zeitler 20 December 202419 December 2024

Reservoirs of magma and fluids in the crust create gravity anomalies detectable by altimetry, which can help find submarine volcanoes and provide key insights into their depth, shape and volume.

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Magma Diversity in Iceland

by Peter Zeitler 19 December 202419 December 2024

Iceland’s recent basalt eruptions originated at the crust-mantle boundary and show chemical variability over remarkably short timescales of weeks, suggesting exchanges between diverse magma sources.

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Law and Order for Friction and Faults: One Law to Rule Them All

by Peter Zeitler 19 January 202418 January 2024

Faults are made of complex materials with complex behaviors, and having a single model that can predict these behaviors is an advance in understanding deformation and the earthquake cycle.

Depiction of the of the “melt-percolation barrier” model from the paper.
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Do Some Cratons Have Soggy Bottoms?

by Peter Zeitler 8 January 20248 January 2024

Long-persistent stable cratons bear much of the deep-time geologic record, and a new study combines seismic and petrological data to reveal how interactions with mantle fluids can shape their evolution.

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Fair Seas for All

by Peter Zeitler 2 August 202331 August 2023

Work at sea is key to our science, but, too often, transgender and gender-diverse scientists face obstacles and harassment that make field research a trial. A few simple steps can make things more inclusive.

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Himalayan Tectonics in the Driver’s Seat, Not Climate?

by Peter Zeitler 15 September 20213 May 2022

Earth’s oscillating climate is a natural guess to explain cyclic patterns in erosion, but new sediment data suggests that cyclicity may emerge from tectonic processes adding material to the Himalaya.

Map of Costa Rice showing results from the ASTUTI network for a magnitude 5.2 earthquake.
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Good, Soon, and Cheap – Earthquake Early Warning by Smartphone

by Peter Zeitler 8 July 202117 November 2021

Fixed smartphone networks can provide robust early warning of earthquakes at far lower costs than traditional scientific arrays, which is an important consideration for regions with limited resources.

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Going Down: How Do Cities Carry That Weight?

by Peter Zeitler 14 January 202114 January 2022

Calculations show that the added weight of growing cities can lead to tens of millimeters of subsidence, an effect that needs to be considered for coastal cities under threat by sea-level rise.

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Measuring Paleoclimate During a Deep-Time Deep Freeze

by Peter Zeitler 11 September 202023 January 2023

New application of clumped-isotope thermometry to 700-Myr rocks documents large climate swings related to Snowball Earth glaciation and offers better understanding of an earlier Earth system.

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AGU Advances Goes Online

Eric Davidson, president-elect of AGU by Susan Trumbore, A. Barros, Eric Davidson, Bethany Ehlmann, J. Famiglietti, N. Gruber, Mary Hudson, T. Illangasekare, Sarah Kang, T. Parsons, P. Rizzoli, V. Salters, B. Stevens, D. Wuebbles, Peter Zeitler and T. Zhu 7 August 20193 April 2023

Featuring high-impact papers and a streamlined process, AGU’s new journal is ready to launch.

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