American Journal of Science

Founded in 1818 by Benjamin Silliman. The Journal is devoted to geology and related sciences.

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New Paper: Facies Vectors: Disentangling Environmental Variability, Diagenesis, and Secular Change in Carbonate Stratigraphies by Ryan A. Manzuk, Matthew D. Nadeau, Clare Mate, Sarah M. Jacquet, Adam C. Maloof
Am J Sci 2026; 326:8 https://t.co/10rwYxctOL

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New Paper: Reversed Inter-Mineral Fe-Zn Isotope Fractionation in Ophiolitic Peridotites: Evidence for Widespread Hydration of Oceanic Lithospheric Mantle by Ben-Xun Su, Yan Xiao, Jing Wang, Qi-Qi Pan, and Shou-Qian Zhao Am J Sci 2026; 326:7 https://t.co/t9TYctZ3zQ

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New Paper: Dependence of River Water Lithium Isotope Ratios on Watershed Attributes Complicates Interpretation of Weathering-Driven CO2 Drawdown by Evan J. Ramos, Preston Cosslett Kemeny, Mark A. Torres, and Tomas N. Capaldi
Am J Sci 2026; 326:6 https://t.co/Vog3HNagWm

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New Paper: Heterogeneous Carbonate Lithium Isotope Records Across the end-Permian Mass Extinction Indicate a Highly Perturbed Lithium Cycle in the Early Triassic by Taylor et al.
Am J Sci 2026; 326:5 https://t.co/mLnNHfajxm

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New Paper: Carbon Isotope Trends of Precambrian-Cambrian Carbonates in Southwestern Laurentia Are Robust to Diagenetic Overprinting by Lonsdale et al.
Am J Sci 2026; 326:4 https://t.co/42uuWv3cLJ

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New Paper: Permian Syn-Extensional Barrovian Metamorphism in the Envelope of a Migmatite Dome of the Mongolian Altai – Petrostructural and Geochronological Arguments by de Hoÿm de Marien et al.
Am J Sci 2026; 326:3 https://t.co/xoXWD7YTIl

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New Paper: From Source Rock to Cinnabar – How the Giant Mercury Deposits in Earth’s Crust Formed by L. Taras Bryndzia
Am J Sci 2026; 326:2 https://t.co/imPCsk12p6

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New Paper: A Basin in Transition: Ecological, Environmental, and Tectonic Shifts Across the Ediacaran–Cambrian Boundary in the Nama Group, Kalahari Craton by Nelson et al., Am J Sci 2026; 326:1 https://t.co/HeATvSS1BQ

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New Paper: Rare Earth Element-Mineralized Carbonatite in the Bear Lodge Alkaline Complex, USA—Ore Genesis Implications from Fluid Inclusion Characterization by Allen K. Andersen, Danielle A. Olinger, Mitchell M. Bennett Am J Sci 2025; 325:13 https://t.co/lrCCuonuHw

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New Paper: Balancing Redox Budgets: Mechanisms for Prolonging Anoxia During Major Carbon Burial Events by Sean M. Newby, Seth A. Young, Theodore R. Them II, Benjamin C. Gill, Jeremy D. Owens
Am J Sci 2025; 325:12 https://t.co/kKgRJYzwbf

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New Paper: A Micromechanical Model for Mineral Replacement Reactions and Associated Deformation: From Pore Clogging to Solid Volume Increase by Viktoriya M. Yarushina, Yury Y. Podladchikov, Anatoly V. Vershinin
Am J Sci 2025; 325:11
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New Paper: Silicate Weathering and Diagenetic Reaction Balances in Deltaic Muds by Gerrit Trapp-Müller, Robert C. Aller, Appy Sluijs, Jack J. Middelburg
Am J Sci 2025; 325:10 https://t.co/LuhBDplyXL

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New Paper: Plio-Pleistocene Western Retroarc Magmatic Evolution and Its Relation With Variable Subduction Settings in the Southern Central Andes (34-38 °S) by Iannelli et al.
Am J Sci 2025; 325:9 https://t.co/u8r3vz07Ju

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New Paper: Partial Molar Volumes in Highly Siliceous Melts and the Relationship to Liquid Immiscibility by H. Wayne Nesbitt, Pascal Richet, Grant S. Henderson
Am J Sci 2025; 325:8 https://t.co/kUQJ242QDL

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New Paper: A Physical Model for Accurate Paleotemperature Reconstruction From Fluid Inclusions in Halite by Emmanuel Guillerm, Tim K. Lowenstein, Véronique Gardien, Achim Brauer, Yves Krüger, William D. Arnuk, Frédéric Caupin
Am J Sci 2025; 325:7 https://t.co/YLcgyXmiT2

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New Paper: EPR Dating of Clay Minerals Formation Through Geological Times: Benchmarking From the Quaternary to the Neoproterozoic Era by T. Allard et al.,
Am J Sci 2025; 325:6 https://t.co/aANgB2Lry7

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New Paper: Geometry and Kinematics of Bump-Type Fault-Bend Folding by Jiajun Chen, Dengfa He, John Suppe, and Fanglei Tian
Am J Sci 2025; 325:5 https://t.co/uI5s4CkgPT
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New Paper: Serpentinites of the Guatemala Suture Zone: Varieties, Origin, and Compositional Modification by George E. Harlow, Kennet E. Flores, Céline Martin, Virginia B. Sisson, and Sorena S. Sorensen

Am J Sci 2025; 325:4 https://t.co/JDvXZPOavH
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New Paper: Cambrian Foreland Phosphogenesis in the Khuvsgul Basin of Mongolia by Eliel S. C. Anttila, Francis A. Macdonald, Blair Schoene, and Sean P. Gaynor Am J Sci 2025; 325:3 https://t.co/Go8qsnzJoe

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New Paper: Timescales of Drainage Network Evolution Revealed: Spatiotemporal Variability in Drainage Density in the Post-Glacial Central Lowlands, USA by Nooreen A. Meghani and Alison M. Anders
Am J Sci 2025; 325:2 https://t.co/49uFEHtwAO
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