Nature Geoscience contents: December 2018 Volume 11 Number 12

Advertisement Searching for a new career? At Nature Research we frequently recruit talented individuals to join our editorial and publishing teams. If you have a PhD and a passion for science this may be the perfect career for you. Visit our research editorial and publishing careers website to discover more about what we do TABLE OF CONTENTS December 2018 Volume 11, Issue 12 Editorial Correspondence News & Views Perspectives Articles Amendments & Corrections Advertisement Publishing online monthly, Nature Astronomy aims to bring together astronomers, astrophysicists and planetary scientists. In addition to the latest advances in research, we offer Comment and Opinion pieces on topical subjects of relevance to our community, including the societal impact of astronomy and updates on telescopes and space missions. SUBMIT YOUR RESEARCH TODAY   Advertisement Winners announced! We are delighted to announce the first ever winners of the Nature Research Awards for Inspiring Science and Innovating Science, in partnership with The Estée Lauder Companies. Congratulations to both our Award winners! See who's won > In partnership with The Estée Lauder Companies.   Editorial Deaths versus dollars    p887 doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0275-5 Correspondence Healthy debate on early Mars    p888 R. Wordsworth, B. Ehlmann, F. Forget, R. Haberle, J. Head et al. doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0267-5 News & Views Climate swings in extinction    pp889 - 890 Ying Cui doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0264-8 Scraped by flat-slab subduction     pp890 - 891 Marc-André Gutscher doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0270-x World's landlocked basins drying    pp892 - 893 Tamlin M. Pavelsky doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0269-3 Geoscience JOBS of the week More Science jobs from Geoscience EVENT 2018 International Forum on Geoscience and Geodesy (IFGG 2018) 28.12.18 Xi'an, China More science events from Perspectives The role of calcification in carbonate compensation    pp894 - 900 Bernard P. Boudreau, Jack J. Middelburg & Yiming Luo doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0259-5 Changes in calcification of marine organisms must be considered to explain the deepening of carbonate accumulation during ocean recovery from acidification events. According to a literature synthesis and modelling, dissolution of sedimentary carbonate is not sufficient to explain observations. Articles Formation of metre-scale bladed roughness on Europa's surface by ablation of ice    pp901 - 904 Daniel E. J. Hobley, Jeffrey M. Moore, Alan D. Howard & Orkan M. Umurhan doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0235-0 Sublimation rates of water ice in equatorial regions of Jupiter's moon Europa are sufficient to sculpt bladed terrain that would pose a hazard to a potential lander mission. O2 solubility in Martian near-surface environments and implications for aerobic life    pp905 - 909 Vlada Stamenkovic, Lewis M. Ward, Michael Mischna & Woodward W. Fischer doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0243-0 Despite little O2 in the Martian atmosphere, concentrations of dissolved O2 in near-surface brines on Mars may be sufficient to support aerobic life, according to solubility calculations. Persistent polar ocean warming in a strategically geoengineered climate    pp910 - 914 John T. Fasullo, Simone Tilmes, Jadwiga H. Richter, Ben Kravitz, Douglas G. MacMartin et al. doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0249-7 Changes in the water cycle arising from a strategic geoengineering approach alter the ocean circulation and structure, according to an ensemble of simulations with an Earth System Model. Global patterns in wood carbon concentration across the world's trees and forests    pp915 - 920 Adam R. Martin, Mahendra Doraisami & Sean C. Thomas doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0246-x Large variability of wood carbon fractions in different trees can lead to an error of up to 8.9% in carbon estimates for forests, according to an analysis of wood carbon data across global forested biomes. Low buffering capacity and slow recovery of anthropogenic phosphorus pollution in watersheds    pp921 - 925 J. -O. Goyette, E. M. Bennett & R. Maranger doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0238-x Watersheds have a low buffering capacity for phosphorus inputs, and their recovery from phosphorus pollution can take over 2,000 years, according to an analysis of phosphorus data from a large North American river. Recent global decline in endorheic basin water storages    pp926 - 932 Jida Wang, Chunqiao Song, John T. Reager, Fangfang Yao, James S. Famiglietti et al. doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0265-7 Hydrologically landlocked basins worldwide have experienced widespread decline in water storage over the past decade. Climatic and volcanic forcing of tropical belt northern boundary over the past 800 years    pp933 - 938 R. Alfaro-Sánchez, H. Nguyen, S. Klesse, A. Hudson, S. Belmecheri et al. doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0242-1 Climate variability and volcanic forcing both influenced the latitudinal migration of the tropical belt over the past 800?years, according to an analysis of tree-ring widths in the Northern Hemisphere. Anthropogenic modification of vegetated landscapes in southern China from 6,000 years ago    pp939 - 943 Zhongjing Cheng, Chengyu Weng, Stephan Steinke & Mahyar Mohtadi doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0250-1 Human land use changed the evolution of vegetation in southern China 6,000 years ago, according to analyses of a high-resolution marine pollen record. Rapid incision of the Mekong River in the middle Miocene linked to monsoonal precipitation    pp944 - 948 Junsheng Nie, Gregory Ruetenik, Kerry Gallagher, Gregory Hoke, Carmala N. Garzione et al. doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0244-z Incision of the Mekong River that occurred after the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau may have been driven by a period of high monsoon precipitation, as suggested by age data from river bedrock samples and stream profile modelling. Systemic swings in end-Permian climate from Siberian Traps carbon and sulfur outgassing    pp949 - 954 Benjamin A. Black, Ryan R. Neely, Jean-François Lamarque, Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, Jeffrey T. Kiehl et al. doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0261-y Carbon and sulfur release from the Siberian Traps igneous province caused climate swings during the end-Permian mass extinction, according to coupled global climate simulations. Deep embrittlement and complete rupture of the lithosphere during the Mw 8.2 Tehuantepec earthquake    pp955 - 960 Diego Melgar, Angel Ruiz-Angulo, Emmanuel Soliman Garcia, Marina Manea, Vlad. C. Manea et al. doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0229-y Geophysical observations of the 2017 Tehuantepec earthquake suggest that oceanic lithosphere can sustain brittle behaviour and rupture in an earthquake at greater depths than previously assumed. Basal continental mantle lithosphere displaced by flat-slab subduction    pp961 - 964 Gary J. Axen, Jolante W. van Wijk & Claire A. Currie doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0263-9 Continental mantle lithosphere is scraped from the base of the overriding plate by the underlying oceanic slab during flat subduction, according to numerical thermal–mechanical models. Amendments & Corrections Author Correction: Atmospheric mountain wave generation on Venus and its influence on the solid planet's rotation rate    p965 T. Navarro, G. Schubert & S. Lebonnois doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0257-7 Author Correction: A changeable day in the life of Venus    p965 James Tuttle Keane doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0255-9 Author Correction: Microbial life and biogeochemical cycling on land 3,220 million years ago    p965 Martin Homann, Pierre Sansjofre, Mark Van Zuilen, Christoph Heubeck, Jian Gong et al. doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0253-y Author Correction: End-Permian extinction amplified by plume-induced release of recycled lithospheric volatiles    p966 Michael W. Broadley, Peter H. Barry, Chris J. Ballentine, Lawrence A. Taylor & Ray Burgess doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0254-x Publisher Correction: Global-scale evidence for the refractory nature of riverine black carbon    p966 Alysha I. Coppola, Daniel B. Wiedemeier, Valier Galy, Negar Haghipour, Ulrich M. Hanke et al. doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0252-z Advertisement Nature Briefing is an essential round-up of science news, opinion and analysis, free in your inbox every weekday. 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