Nature Geoscience contents: May 2017 Volume 10 Number 5 pp326-393

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TABLE OF CONTENTS May 2017 Volume 10, Issue 5 Editorial Correspondence Book and Arts News and Views Perspective Articles Addendum Advertisement An open access, online-only, multidisciplinary research journal dedicated to publishing the most important scientific advances in the life sciences, physical sciences, and engineering fields that are facilitated by spaceflight and analogue platforms. Explore the benefits of submitting your next research article. Subscribe   Facebook   RSS   Recommend to library   Twitter   Advertisement npj Climate and Atmospheric Science: open for submissions An open access, online-only journal providing researchers, policy makers and the public with the latest research on weather and climate, publishing high-quality papers that focus on topics including climate dynamics, climate variability, weather and climate prediction, climate change, weather extremes, atmospheric composition including aerosols, the hydrological cycle and atmosphere-ocean interactions.  Find out more >>    Editorial Top Where credit is due   p323 doi:10.1038/ngeo2949 Authors of research manuscripts should be aware of their authorship, have read the paper and agree with it. What else is required for co-authorship — and what merits only a mention in the acknowledgements — is less clear. Correspondence Top Save northern high-latitude catchments   pp324 - 325 Hjalmar Laudon, Christopher Spence, Jim Buttle, Sean K. Carey, Jeffrey J. McDonnell et al. doi:10.1038/ngeo2947 Book and Arts Top Exhibition: A flame-filled history   p326 doi:10.1038/ngeo2944 News and Views Top Climate change: River redirected   pp327 - 328 Rachel M. Headley doi:10.1038/ngeo2946 Glaciers and ice sheets are retreating in response to climate warming. An analysis of drainage patterns of a huge glacier in Yukon, Canada shows that glacier retreat has led to a drastic change in the destination of its meltwater in spring 2016. See also: Article by Shugar et al. Deforestation: Accelerating riverbank erosion   p328 Robert Emberson doi:10.1038/ngeo2948 Cryospheric science: The power of glacial microbes   pp329 - 330 Elizabeth B. Kujawinski doi:10.1038/ngeo2933 Organic carbon fluxes from glaciers are a key control on biogeochemical cycles in polar regions. Two analyses of carbon cycling in glaciers show the importance of glacier-surface microbial communities in setting these inputs. See also: Article by Musilova et al. | Article by Smith et al. Planetary Tectonics: Sinking plates on Venus   pp330 - 331 Fabio Crameri doi:10.1038/ngeo2941 Unlike Earth, Venus lacks discrete, moving plates. Analogue model experiments suggest that observed hints at plate recycling do indeed indicate current, localized destruction of the Venusian surface. See also: Article by Davaille et al. Geoscience JOBS of the week FY2018 Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) Postdoctoral Fellow Programme Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) Cluster Hiring in Geo-Bioinformatics / Environmental Genomics and Organic Biogeochemistry Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) Researcher, Oceans & Atmosphere Section The Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) at the University of California San Diego Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Accelerator Mass Spectrometry University of Ottawa More Science jobs from Geoscience EVENT 17 International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2017 27.06.17 Bulgaria More science events from Perspective Top The cold and relatively dry nature of mantle forearcs in subduction zones   pp333 - 337 G. A. Abers, P. E. van Keken and B. R. Hacker doi:10.1038/ngeo2922 Dehydration of subducting slabs could create a reservoir of water in the overlying mantle. A synthesis of thermal model results, however, shows that slab dehydration is slow over geological time scales, so such reservoirs are probably rare. Advertisement npj Clean Water: open for submissions An open access, online-only journal, dedicated to publishing high-quality papers that describe the significant and cutting-edge research that continues to ensure the supply of clean water to populations. Explore the benefits of submitting your next manuscript.   Articles Top Geomorphological evidence for ground ice on dwarf planet Ceres   pp338 - 343 Britney E. Schmidt, Kynan H. G. Hughson, Heather T. Chilton, Jennifer E. C. Scully, Thomas Platz et al. doi:10.1038/ngeo2936 Despite evidence for an ice-rich outer shell, little water ice has been observed on the surface of Ceres. Lobate morphologies observed on Ceres that are increasingly prevalent towards the dwarf planet's poles are consistent with ice-rich flows. A post-accretionary lull in large impacts on early Mars   pp344 - 348 William F. Bottke and Jeffrey C. Andrews-Hanna doi:10.1038/ngeo2937 The timing and number of large impact basins on early Mars are poorly constrained. Gravity and topographic analyses support a lull in basin-forming impacts following the main stage of accretion. Experimental and observational evidence for plume-induced subduction on Venus   pp349 - 355 A. Davaille, S. E. Smrekar and S. Tomlinson doi:10.1038/ngeo2928 Venus lacks plate tectonics, but some trenches on Venus resemble subduction zones. Laboratory experiments suggest that upwelling plumes can initiate localized subduction of a thin lithosphere such as the one on Venus. See also: News and Views by Crameri Microbial formation of labile organic carbon in Antarctic glacial environments   pp356 - 359 H. J. Smith, R. A. Foster, D. M. McKnight, J. T. Lisle, S. Littmann et al. doi:10.1038/ngeo2925 Bioavailable glacial carbon has been thought to be largely ancient or anthropogenic. Analyses of carbon dynamics in an Antarctic supraglacial stream reveal that non-photosynthetic production relies on organic carbon from photosynthetic microbes. See also: News and Views by Kujawinski Microbially driven export of labile organic carbon from the Greenland ice sheet   pp360 - 365 Michaela Musilova, Martyn Tranter, Jemma Wadham, Jon Telling, Andrew Tedstone et al. doi:10.1038/ngeo2920 Glacial systems are important sources of dissolved organic carbon to downstream ecosystems. Observations of carbon dynamics on the Greenland ice sheet reveal substantial melt season production and export of microbial dissolved organic carbon. See also: News and Views by Kujawinski Inland thinning on the Greenland ice sheet controlled by outlet glacier geometry   pp366 - 369 Denis Felikson, Timothy C. Bartholomaus, Ginny A. Catania, Niels J. Korsgaard, Kurt H. Kjaer et al. doi:10.1038/ngeo2934 Greenland's ice loss depends on propagation of mass loss from the marine glacier termini to the interior. An analysis of surface elevation change in 16 glacier catchments shows that the up-glacier extent of thinning is limited by glacier geometry. River piracy and drainage basin reorganization led by climate-driven glacier retreat   pp370 - 375 Daniel H. Shugar, John J. Clague, James L. Best, Christian Schoof, Michael J. Willis et al. doi:10.1038/ngeo2932 River piracy—the diversion of one stream's headwaters into another—has occurred on long timescales. An analysis of streamflow and digital elevation models documents river re-routing in response to glacier retreat in Yukon, Canada in May 2016. See also: News and Views by Headley Groundwater salinity influenced by Holocene seawater trapped in incised valleys in the Red River delta plain   pp376 - 381 Flemming Larsen, Long Vu Tran, Hoan Van Hoang, Luu Thi Tran, Anders Vest Christiansen et al. doi:10.1038/ngeo2938 Brackish to salty waters have been found in inland areas of delta aquifers. Geophysical data and modelling suggest that salty groundwater in the Red River delta originates from trapped seawater contained in underlying Holocene marine deposits. Onset and ending of the late Palaeozoic ice age triggered by tectonically paced rock weathering   pp382 - 386 Yves Godderis, Yannick Donnadieu, Sebastien Carretier, Markus Aretz, Guillaume Dera et al. doi:10.1038/ngeo2931 The late Palaeozoic was characterized by glacial cycles. Numerical simulations suggest that increased silicate weathering due to mountain uplift and soil removal caused atmospheric CO2 to fall below the threshold for glaciation. Rise of Earth's atmospheric oxygen controlled by efficient subduction of organic carbon   pp387 - 392 Megan S. Duncan and Rajdeep Dasgupta doi:10.1038/ngeo2939 Little is known about the deep carbon cycle during the Archaean. High- pressure and -temperature experiments indicate that the subduction of organic carbon on a hotter, younger Earth was efficient, helping to sequester carbon in Earth's interior. Advertisement All content now free to access including archives! Nature Communications is an open access journal that publishes high-quality research from all areas of the natural sciences. Papers published by the journal represent important advances of significance to specialists within each subject area including the Earth Sciences. Visit the website to explore ALL the content available within your field.   Addendum Top Addendum: Large-scale subduction of continental crust implied by India-Asia mass-balance calculation   p393 Miquela Ingalls, David B. Rowley, Brian Currie and Albert S. Colman doi:10.1038/ngeo2930 Nature events is a fully searchable, multi-disciplinary database designed to maximise exposure for events organisers. The contents of the Natureevents Directory are now live. The digital version is available here. Find the latest scientific conferences, courses, meetings and symposia on natureevents.com. For event advertising opportunities across the Nature Publishing Group portfolio please contact natureevents@nature.com More Nature Events

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