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Recent publications

Alcantara Fors, R. et al., 2025. Cattle on the rocks: Understanding cattle mobility, diet, and seasonality in the Iberian Peninsula. The Middle Neolithic site of Cova de les Pixarelles (Tavertet, Osona). PLoS ONE 20 e0317723. (10.1371/journal.pone.0317723)
Alves, T. M. et al. 2025. Data sampling strategies for accurate fault analyses: A scale-independent test based on a machine learning approach. Journal of Structural Geology 191 105342. (10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105342)
Chen, X. et al., 2025. The spatio-temporal variability of soil microplastic distribution and erosion-induced microplastic export under extreme rainfall event using sediment fingerprinting and. Journal of Hazardous Materials 488 137378. (10.1016/j.jhazmat.2025.137378)
Clarke, B. M. , McKinley, E. and Ballinger, R. C. 2025. UK public attitudes and perceptions of seafood sustainability: A case study of the Marine Conservation Society’s good fish guide. Sustainability 17 (2) 587. (10.3390/su17020587)
Costa, K. M. et al., 2025. Calculating sedimentation rates of oxic pelagic clays using core top thorium isotopes. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 26 (1) e2024GC011717. (10.1029/2024gc011717)
Davies, K. L. et al., 2025. Floral structure, histochemistry and volatile compounds in Bulbophyllum species of the ‘Cirrhopetalum alliance’ (Orchidaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 207 (1), pp.10-39. (10.1093/botlinnean/boae029)
Feng, S. et al., 2025. Effect of environmental factors on macrobenthic community structure in Chishui River basin. Sustainability 17 (2) 469. (10.3390/su17020469)
Gnann, S. et al., 2025. The influence of topography on the global terrestrial water cycle. Reviews of Geophysics 63 (1) e2023RG000810. (10.1029/2023rg000810)
Gong, L. et al., 2025. Eocene tearing and fragmentation of Indian lithosphere beneath the Woka rift, southern Tibet. GSA Bulletin 137 (1-2), pp.564-574. (10.1130/B37577.1)
He, Y. et al., 2025. Experimental observation of moduli dispersion and attenuation at seismic frequencies in saturated tight rock: effect of microstructure and fluid viscosity. Geophysical Journal International 240 , pp.1308–1330. (10.1093/gji/ggae442)
Hu, Y. et al., 2025. Physicochemical characteristics of individual indoor airborne particles in the high lung cancer rate area in Xuanwei, China. Atmosphere 16 (2) 187. (10.3390/atmos16020187)
Julve Lillo, J. et al. 2025. Impact of upper‐plate faulting on megathrust foreshocks: Insights from the 2014 Iquique earthquake. Geophysical Research Letters 52 (3) e2024GL111064. (10.1029/2024GL111064)
Kerr, A. 2025. Petrology, geochemistry and petrogenesis of the dykes from the Zhob Ophiolite, Pakistan. Iranian Journal of Earth Sciences
Li, Q. et al., 2025. Light iron isotopes in high-silica granites record fluid evolution in magmatic-hydrothermal systems. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (10.1016/j.gca.2024.12.034)
Maier, W. D. , Mansur, E. and Nykänen, V. 2025. Thematic Issue on Magmatic PGE-(Ni-Cu-Cr-V) deposits: petrology, geochemistry and exploration tools. Mineralium Deposita (10.1007/s00126-024-01345-5)
McRuer, J. et al., 2025. Human-ocean relationships: Exploring alignment and collaboration between ocean literacy research and marine conservation. Marine Policy 171 106418. (10.1016/j.marpol.2024.106418)
Moore, A. E. et al., 2025. Tectonic triggers for the intrusion of the great dyke (Zimbabwe) and bushveld complex (South Africa). South African Journal of Geology
Odongo, R. A. et al., 2025. Drought impacts and community adaptation: perspectives on the 2020-2023 drought in East Africa. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 119 105309. (10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105309)
Panton, J. et al. 2025. Unique composition and evolutionary histories of large low velocity provinces. Scientific Reports 15 (1) 4466. (10.1038/s41598-025-88931-3)
Qi, R. et al., 2025. Enhanced remediation of oil-contaminated mineral sand by the controlled release of a surfactant from calcium alginate capsules. Environmental Technology (10.1080/09593330.2025.2450558)
Sáez, A. et al., 2025. Westerlies migrations and volcanic records over the past 4000 years from the Azores lacustrine sequences. Exploring correlations and impacts on Western Europe. Global and Planetary Change 246 104698. (10.1016/j.gloplacha.2025.104698)
Shao, Y. et al., 2025. Human health, ecosystem quality, and resource scarcity burdens inflicted by livestock production across Chinese regions. Earth's Future 13 (1) e2024EF005263. (10.1029/2024ef005263)
Sharmin, T. and Chappell, A. 2025. Detecting the changing impact of urbanisation on urban heat islands in a tropical megacity using local climate zones. Energy and Built Environment (10.1016/j.enbenv.2025.02.002)
Smith, W. D. et al., 2025. Petrogenesis and Ni-Cu-(PGE) prospectivity of the Mount Ayliff Complex in the Karoo Igneous Province: new insights from the Ingeli and Horseshoe lobes. Geological Society Special Publications 552 (1)(10.1144/SP552-2023-35)
Stanislowski, K. et al., 2025. Weak, frictionally unstable input sediments explain shallow seismogenesis at the north Sumatran subduction zone. Geology (10.1130/G52910.1)
Starr, A. et al., 2025. Shifting Antarctic Circumpolar Current south of Africa over the past 1.9 million years. Science Advances 11 (1) eadp1692. (10.1126/sciadv.adp1692)
Thompson, E. S. et al., 2025. Magmatic stratigraphy and platinum group element mineralization at Tweefontein, Northern Bushveld Complex: Evidence of a complex intrusion history of lower, critical, and main zone magmas. Economic Geology (10.5382/econgeo.5123)
Thompson, E. S. et al., 2025. The effects of carbonate contamination on Ni-Cu-PGE deposit genesis in the Platreef, northern Bushveld Complex: A case study using Niggli numbers. Chemical Geology 671 122481. (10.1016/j.chemgeo.2024.122481)
Thompson, H. E. et al., 2025. A methodology to compile multi-hazard interrelationships in a data-scarce setting: an application to the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 25 (1), pp.353-381. (10.5194/nhess-25-353-2025)
Wang, M. , Claghorn, J. and Zhuo, L. 2025. Assessing the efficacy of tributary upstream meander restoration on downstream landscape stability through computational modelling. Landscape and Urban Planning 254 105232. (10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105232)
Wang, M. , Claghorn, J. and Zhuo, L. 2025. Investigating the impacts of tributary meander restoration on main channel flood mitigation through computational modelling. Journal of Environmental Management 375 124127. (10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.124127)
Zammit, R. , Petrash, D. and Bialik, O. 2025. Climatic and tectonic controls on ferroan dolomite formation – insights on Early Miocene Mediterranean anoxia (il-Blata, Malta). Journal of the Geological Society (10.1144/jgs2024-146)
Zamrsky, D. et al., 2025. Current trends and biases in groundwater modelling using the community-driven Groundwater Model Portal (GroMoPo). Hydrogeology Journal
Zhang, M. et al., 2025. Mantle metasomatism by subducted Indian continental crust: Evidence from post-collisional basaltic ultrapotassic rocks in southern Tibetan plateau. Lithos: Journal of Petrology, Mineralogy and Geochemistry 498-9 107966. (10.1016/j.lithos.2025.107966)
Zhang, Q. , Alves, T. M. and Martins‐Ferreira, M. A. C. 2025. Buried pockmarks associated with listric faults of salt minibasins (Espírito Santo, SE Brazil): Evidence for local hydrocarbon escape since the miocene. Basin Research 37 (1) e70015. (10.1111/bre.70015)