This paper explores the evolution of geoscientific inquiry, tracing the progression from
traditional physics-based models to modern data-driven approaches facilitated by significant …

The concept of a digital twin of Earth envisages the convergence of Big Earth Data with
physics-based models in an interactive computational framework that enables monitoring …

Explaining broad molecular, phenotypic and species biodiversity patterns necessitates a
unifying framework spanning multiple evolutionary scales. Here we argue that although …

New palaeogeographical reconstructions for the earlier Ordovician (480 Ma), and later
Ordovician (450 Ma) integrate revised longitude-calibrated palaeomagnetic reconstructions …

Sampling biases in the fossil record distort estimates of past biodiversity. However, these
biases not only reflect the geological and spatial aspects of the fossil record, but also the …

The Siberian Traps large igneous province (STLIP) is commonly invoked as the primary
driver of global environmental changes that triggered the end-Permian mass extinction …

In the mid 1990s two landmark metaheuristics have been proposed: Particle Swarm
Optimization and Differential Evolution. Their initial versions were very simple, but rapidly …

The massive accumulation of available multi-modal mineral exploration data for most
metallogenic belts worldwide provides abundant information for the discovery of mineral …

Abstract The Cambrian 'Explosion', located by many authors between 540 and 520 million
years ago (Ma), is considered to be an abrupt appearance in the fossil record of most animal …

Current barriers hindering data-driven discoveries in deep-time Earth (DE) include:
substantial volumes of DE data are not digitized; many DE databases do not adhere to FAIR …