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Geochemical Variability of Magma and Volcanic Eruptions

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Volcanic Arc System ,  MagentaGreen ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Geochemical variability as an indicator for large magnitude eruptions in volcanic arcs (WEBER and SHELDRAKE, 2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-19902-1 Effects of aseismic ridge subduction on geochemistry of frontal arc magmas (CHIARADIA et al. , 2020) https://eartharxiv.org/repository/object/507/download/1097/ Mineralogy and Geochemical Variation of Igneous rocks from Ungaran and Murio Volcano and its Processes related to Subduction Zone Magmatism of Sunda Arc (MARIN et al. , 2019) https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/279/1/012017/pdf Formation of massive iron deposits linked to explosive volcanic eruptions (OVALLE et al., 2018) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-33206-3 Geochemical variation within the northern Ryukyu Arc:  magma source compositions and geodynamics implications (SHINJO et al. , 2000) http://repository.geologyscience.ru/bitstream/handle/123456789/...

The synthetic rocks helping us understand how sought-after rare earth elements form (Trinity College Dublin)

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The synthetic rocks helping us understand how sought-after rare earth elements form : Researchers from Trinity have shed new light on the formation of increasingly precious rare earth elements (REEs) by creating synthetic rocks and testing their responses to varying environmental conditions... Featured Research Article : Targeted Crystallization of Rare Earth Carbonate Polymorphs at Hydrothermal Conditions via Mineral Replacement Reactions (SZUCS et al. , 2022) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gch2.202200085 Rare Earth Elements and their Spectra , Umop503 ; Link

Heavy Metal Soil Contamination and Bioaccumulation in Vegetable Crops

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Vegetable Garden , P199 ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Assessment of potential exposure to As, Cd, Pb and Zn in vegetable garden soils and vegetables in a mining region (VEJVODOVÁ et al. , 2022) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-17461-z Risk assessment of heavy metals in souls and edible parts of vegetables grown on sites contaminated by an abandoned steel plant in Havana (ALFARO et al. , 2022) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Luiz-Henrique-Vieira-Lima/publication/354591706_Risk_assessment_of_heavy_metals_in_soils_and_edible_parts_of_vegetables_grown_on_sites_contaminated_by_an_abandoned_steel_plant_in_Havana/links/628a7bf46e41e5002d3b7be3/Risk-assessment-of-heavy-metals-in-soils-and-edible-parts-of-vegetables-grown-on-sites-contaminated-by-an-abandoned-steel-plant-in-Havana.pdf Hazardous heavy metals accumulation and health risk assessment of different vegetable species in contaminated soils from a typical mining city, central China (WANG et al. , 2021) https://www....

New Global Environmental Boundary for PFAS Exceeded

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Satellite Image of Earth's Interrelated Systems and Climate , NASA ; Link Outside the Safe Operating Space of a New Planetary Boundary for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) [COUSINS et al. , 2022] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c02765 Also... Outside the Safe Operating Space of the Planetary Boundary of Novel Entities (PERSSONS et al. , 2022) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c04158 Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) , Manuel Almagro RIVAS ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link Perfluorononanoic Acid (PFNA) , Mplanine ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link Perfluorohexanesulfonic Acid (PFHxS) , Pimbim ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link Perfluorooctanesulfonic Acid (PFOS) , Link Plus... EPA to designate 'forever chemicals' as hazardous substances (Matthew DALY, Associated Press ; August 26, 2022) https://apnews.com/article/health-climate-and-environment-government-politics-a0fcd1fe52839474093735923e68dfaa

Mineral Classification by Historic Natural Kinds

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Elbaïte , Robert M. LAVINSKY ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Crushed, Zapped, Boiled Baked And More: Nature Used 57 Recipes To Create Earth's 10,500+ Mineral Kinds ( Carnegie Institute for Science ; July 1, 2022) https://carnegiescience.edu/news/crushed-zapped-boiled-baked-and-more-nature-used-57-recipes-create-earths-10500-mineral-kinds Also... Historical natural kinds and mineralogy: Systematizing contingency in the context of necessity   (CLELAND et al. , 2020) https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2015370118 An evolutionary system of mineralogy: Proposal for a classification of planetary materials based on natural kinds clustering (HAZEN, 2019) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/345525240_An_evolutionary_system_of_mineralogy_Proposal_for_a_classification_of_planetary_materials_based_on_natural_kind_clustering/fulltext/5fa87e92a6fdcc0624201016/An-evolutionary-system-of-mineralogy-Proposal-for-a-classification-of-planetary-materials-based-on-natural-kind-clustering...

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...