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Soil Properties and Heavy Metal Bioavailability in Agriculture

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Soil Survey 09 , USDA ; Link Effects of soil properties on heavy metal bioavailability and accumulation in crop grains under different farmland use patterns (XU et al. , 2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-13140-1 Bioavailability and bioaccessibility in soil:  A short review and a case study (PETRUZELLI et al. , 2020) https://www.aimspress.com/article/id/5032 Bioavailability of arsenic in agricultural soils under the influence of different soil properties (SINGH and SRIVASTAVA, 2020) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42452-019-1932-z Spatial distribution of total and bioavailable heavy metal contents in soil from agricultural, residential and industrial areas in Sudan (ASHAIEHK et al ., 2019) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Abubakr-Idris/publication/322107398_Spatial_distribution_of_total_and_bioavailable_heavy_metal_contents_in_soil_from_agricultural_residential_and_industrial_areas_in_Sudan/links/5a5a47feaca2727d60860cd5/Spatial-distribu...

Selected Riverine Biogeochemical Studies

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Where Carbon goes when water flows (WARD et al. , 2017);  CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link Superlinear scaling of riverine biogeochemical function with watershed size  (WOLLHEIM et al. , 2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28630-z Characterization of riverine dissolved organic matter using a complementary suite of chromatographic and mass spectrometric methods (LLOYD et al. , 2022) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10533-022-00913-z The implications of lag times between nitrate leaching and riverine loads for water quality policy                                 (MCDOWELL et al ., 2021) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95302-1 Riverine Export of Aged Carbon Driven by Flow Path Depth and Residence Time  (BARNES et al., 2018) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rebecca-Barnes-15/publication/322352225_Riverine_Export_of_Aged_Carbon_Driven_by_Flow_Path_Depth_and_Residence_Tim...

Geochemical Record of Wildfires reconstructed from Australian Stalagmites

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Yonderup Cave (Site 2a) ,   Andy BAKER ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Plato's Cave:  Stalagmites reveal Australia's pre-colonial bushfire history (Jessie HAWLEY, University of New South Wales Sydney ; 14 April 2022) https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/platos-cave-stalagmites-reveal-australias-pre-colonial-bushfire-history Featured Research Article* : Past fires and post-fire impacts reconstructed from a Southwest Australian Stalagmite (MCDONOUGH et al. , 2022) https://eartharxiv.org/repository/object/2249/download/4642/ (*) = Provided link is to the published Research Article Manuscript . Also... Bushfire signals identified in cave formations for the first time (European Geosciences Union, University of New South Wales Sydney ; 21 July 2016) https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/bushfire-signals-identified-cave-formations-first-time Featured Research Article : A post wildfire response in cave drip water chemistry (NAGRA et al. , 2016) https://hess.co...

Redox Evolution and Earth's Crustal Mineral Record during Geologic Time

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MOORE et al. , 2022 ; Link The expanding network of mineral chemistry throughout earth history reveals global shifts in crustal chemistry during the Proterozoic (MOORE et al. , 2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-08650-x Also... dragon:  A New Tool For Exploring Redox Evolution Preserved in the Mineral Record (SPIELMAN and MOORE, 2020) https://eartharxiv.org/repository/object/93/download/184/

Thermal Hot Spring Geochemistry and the Collision Zone between the Eurasian and Indian Tectonic Plates

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Southern Tibetan Plateau , European Space Agency (ESA) ; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO , Link Stanford researchers use hot springs to map where continental plates collide beneath Tibet (Danielle Torrent TUCKER, Stanford University News ; March 14, 2022) https://news.stanford.edu/2022/03/14/hot-springs-reveal-continental-plates-collide-beneath-tibet/ Featured Research Article: Limited underthrusting of India below Tibet: 3He/4He analysis of thermal springs locates the mantle suture in continental collision (KLEMPERER et al. , 2022) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2113877119 Indian Plate , Alataristarion ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link

Selected Recent Studies: Heavy Metals in Soils and Sediments

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Floodplain soils contamination assessment using the sequential extraction method of heavy metals from past mining activities (KANIANSKA et al., 2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-06929-7 Water-sediment interactions and mobility of heavy metals in aquatic environments (MIRANDA et al ., 2021) http://hpkx.cnjournals.com/ch/reader/view_news.aspx?id=20210823154857001 Geochemical fractionation of heavy metals in sediments of the Red Sea, Saudi Arabia (AL-MUR, 2020) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0078323419300624 Concentrations and pollution assessment of heavy metals within surface sediments of the Raohe Basin, China (WEI et al. , 2019) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-49724-7 pH effect on heavy metals release from a polluted sediment (ZHANG et al., 2018) https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jchem/2018/7597640/ Contaminación del agua en el oconal de  Mesapata  (Water Contamination in the Oconal de Mesapata), Cecilia Solange Es...

Land Subsidence Continues in Drought-Stricken California...

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New Data Shows Subsidence Continues in Water Year 2021, But Pace Slower than Seen in Previous Droughts [News Release, California Department of Water Resources (CA DWR) ; February 16, 2022] https://water.ca.gov/News/News-Releases/2022/Feb-22/New-Data-Shows-Subsidence-Continued-in-Water-Year-2021-Pace-Slower-than-Previous-Droughts Boats on Lake Oroville during the 2021 Drought , ©  Frank SCHULENBERG; CC BY-SA 4.0, Link Also... How Bad is the Western Drought?  Worst in 12 Centuries, Study finds (Henry FOUNTAIN, New York Times ; February 14, 2022) https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/climate/western-drought-megadrought.html Selected Research Articles: Modelling 65 years of Land Subsidence in California's San Joaquin Valley  (LEES et al. , 2021) https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-609832/latest.pdf Development of spatially varying draw-down functions for land subsidence estimation   (CHU et al. , 2021) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214581821000...