The evolving Earth surface: erosional, sedimentary, morphotectonic, and volcanic processes

Relevant editorial teams:

  • Geodynamics, geodesy, gravity, and geomagnetism | Buiter, Aubert, Dannberg, Gerya, Gillet, Lewi, Mandea, and McClusky
  • Geochemistry, mineralogy, petrology, and volcanology | Di Muro, Currenti, Lissenberg, Longo, and Pinel
  • Seismics, seismology, paleoseismology, geoelectrics, and electromagnetics | Krawczyk, Currenti, Malinowski, Pilia, and Werban
  • Stratigraphy, sedimentology, geomorphology, morphotectonics, and palaeontology | Stroeven, Gardin, Ogata, and Oliva

Recent papers

10 Sep 2025
The influence of accretionary orogenesis on subsequent rift dynamics
Zoltán Erdős, Susanne J. H. Buiter, and Joya L. Tetreault
Solid Earth, 16, 841–863, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-16-841-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-16-841-2025, 2025
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10 Sep 2025
Using nanoindentation to quantify the mechanical profile of the Wufeng–Longmaxi Formation in southwestern China: link to sedimentary conditions
Jianfeng Wang, Chao Yang, Yuke Liu, Wenmin Jiang, Yun Li, Ting Zhang, Yijun Zheng, Yuhong Liao, Qiuli Huo, Li Fu, Yusheng Wang, Ping'an Peng, and Yongqiang Xiong
Solid Earth, 16, 819–839, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-16-819-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-16-819-2025, 2025
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08 Sep 2025
The crustal magma reservoir geometry and seismic activity beneath the Wudalianchi volcano in northeast China: implications for the multilevel magmatic system
Ziqiang Lü, Qinghan Kong, Jianshe Lei, and Yinshuang Ai
Solid Earth, 16, 807–818, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-16-807-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-16-807-2025, 2025
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05 Sep 2025
Characterizing some major Archean faults at depth in the Superior craton, North America
David B. Snyder, Jack M. Simmons, John A. Ayer, Mostafa Naghizadeh, Ademola Q. Adetunji, Taus R. C. Jørgensen, Graham J. Hill, Eric A. Roots, and Saeid Cheraghi
Solid Earth, 16, 785–806, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-16-785-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-16-785-2025, 2025
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29 Aug 2025
Fatbox: the fault analysis toolbox
Pauline Gayrin, Thilo Wrona, Sascha Brune, Derek Neuharth, Nicolas Molnar, Alessandro La Rosa, and John Naliboff
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-3989,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-3989, 2025
Preprint under review for SE (discussion: open, 2 comments)
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Highlight articles

10 Jul 2025
Evidence for multi-rifting in the Variscan–Alpine cycle transition: insights from the European western Southern Alps
Emanuele Scaramuzzo, Franz A. Livio, Maria Giuditta Fellin, and Colin Maden
Solid Earth, 16, 619–640, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-16-619-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-16-619-2025, 2025
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08 May 2023
Quantifying gender gaps in seismology authorship
Laura Anna Ermert, Maria Koroni, and Naiara Korta Martiartu
Solid Earth, 14, 485–498, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-14-485-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-14-485-2023, 2023
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23 Jan 2023
Anatomy of a high-silica eruption as observed by a local seismic network: the June 2011 Puyehue–Cordón Caulle event (southern Andes, Chile)
Daniel Basualto, Andrés Tassara, Jonathan Lazo-Gil, Luis Franco-Marin, Carlos Cardona, Juan San Martín, Fernando Gil-Cruz, Marcela Calabi-Floddy, and Cristian Farías
Solid Earth, 14, 69–87, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-14-69-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/se-14-69-2023, 2023
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