A review of radioactive isotopes and other residence time tracers in understanding groundwater recharge: Possibilities, challenges, and limitations

I Cartwright, D Cendón, M Currell, K Meredith - Journal of Hydrology, 2017 - Elsevier
Documenting the location and magnitude of groundwater recharge is critical for
understanding groundwater flow systems. Radioactive tracers, notably 14 C, 3 H, 36 Cl, and …

A cosmic trip: 25 years of cosmogenic nuclides in geology

DE Granger, NA Lifton, JK Willenbring - Bulletin, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides, produced by secondary cosmic-ray interactions in the
atmosphere and in situ within minerals in the shallow lithosphere, are widely used to date …

Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago

C Clarkson, Z Jacobs, B Marwick, R Fullagar, L Wallis… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The time of arrival of people in Australia is an unresolved question. It is relevant to debates
about when modern humans first dispersed out of Africa and when their descendants …

Neocortical neurogenesis in humans is restricted to development

RD Bhardwaj, MA Curtis, KL Spalding… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
Stem cells generate neurons in discrete regions in the postnatal mammalian brain.
However, the extent of neurogenesis in the adult human brain has been difficult to establish …

Spatiotemporal clustering of great earthquakes on a transform fault controlled by geometry

JD Howarth, NC Barth, SJ Fitzsimons… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Minor changes in geometry along the length of mature strike-slip faults may act as
conditional barriers to earthquake rupture, terminating some and allowing others to pass …

Wet phases in the Sahara/Sahel region and human migration patterns in North Africa

IS Castañeda, S Mulitza, E Schefuß… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
The carbon isotopic composition of individual plant leaf waxes (a proxy for C3 vs. C4
vegetation) in a marine sediment core collected from beneath the plume of Sahara-derived …

Molecular complexity and diversity of persistent soil organic matter

AR Jones, RC Dalal, VVSR Gupta, S Schmidt… - Soil Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Managing and increasing organic matter in soil requires greater understanding of the
mechanisms driving its persistence through resistance to microbial decomposition …

A 53 year seasonally resolved oxygen and carbon isotope record from a modern Gibraltar speleothem: reconstructed drip water and relationship to local precipitation

D Mattey, D Lowry, J Duffet, R Fisher, E Hodge… - Earth and Planetary …, 2008 - Elsevier
The response of a climate proxy against measured temperature, rainfall and atmospheric
circulation patterns at sub-annual resolution is the ultimate test of proxy fidelity but very few …

Fossil organic carbon in wastewater and its fate in treatment plants

Y Law, GE Jacobsen, AM Smith, Z Yuan, P Lant - Water research, 2013 - Elsevier
This study reports the presence of fossil organic carbon in wastewater and its fate in
wastewater treatment plants. The findings pinpoint the inaccuracy of current greenhouse gas …

Mangrove forest and soil development on a rapidly accreting shore in New Zealand

CE Lovelock, BK Sorrell, N Hancock, Q Hua, A Swales - Ecosystems, 2010 - Springer
Mangrove forests are rapidly expanding their distribution in New Zealand, which is at the
southern limit of their range. We investigated how these expanding mangrove forests …