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Terra Nova

Edited by:
Georges Calas, Max Coleman, Carlo Doglioni, Alfred Kroener, Adolphe Nicolas & Jason Phipps-Morgan


ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 41/143 Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Impact Factor: 1.899


Terra Nova publishes short, innovative and provocative papers of interest to a wide readership and covering the broadest spectrum of the Solid Earth and Planetary Sciences. Terra Nova encompasses geology, geophysics and geochemistry, and extends to the fluid envelopes (atmosphere, ocean, environment) whenever coupling with the Solid Earth is involved.

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TopHighlights

Highlighted Debate
Original article
A possible impact crater for the 1908 Tunguska Event
L. Gasperini, F. Alvisi, G. Biasini, E. Bonatti, G. Longo, M. Pipan, M. Ravaioli and R. Serra

Comment article
Evidence that Lake Cheko is not an impact crater
G. S. Collins, N. Artemieva, K. Wünnemann, P. A. Bland, W. U. Reimold, C. Koeberl

Reply
Lake Cheko and the Tunguska Event: impact or non-impact?
L. Gasperini, E. Bonatti, G. Longo

Review Articles

Sponges (Porifera) as living metazoan witnesses from the Neoproterozoic: biomineralization and the concept of their evolutionary success
Xiaohong Wang, Shixue Hu, Lu Gan, Matthias Wiens, Werner E.G. Müller


Effects of secular variation in seawater Mg/Ca ratio (calcite-aragonite seas) on CaCO3 sediment production by the calcareous algae Halimeda, Penicillus and Udotea - evidence from recent experiments and the geological record
Justin Baker Ries

Cyclostratigraphic reasoning and orbital time calibration
Robin John Bailey

Pharaonic necrostratigraphy: a review of geological and archaeological studies in the Theban Necropolis, Luxor, West Bank, Egypt
Marie-Pierre Aubry, William A. Berggren, Christian Dupuis, Holeil Ghaly, David Ward, Chris King, Robert W. O'B. Knox, Khaled Ouda, Moustafa Youssef, Wael Fathi Galal

Plate tectonics, flood basalts and the evolution of Earth's oceans
Jun Korenaga

Mesozoic transpression, transtension, subduction and metallogenesis in northern and central California
W. G. Ernst, Cameron A. Snow, Hannah H. Scherer

Selected Papers
Marine palaeoseismology from very high resolution seismic imaging: the Gondola Fault Zone (Adriatic foreland)
D. Di Bucci, D. Ridente, U. Fracassi, F. Trincardi, G. Valensise

Assessing the contribution of off-fault deformation to slip-rate estimates within the Taupo Rift, New Zealand, using 3-D ground-penetrating radar surveying and trenching
Alastair Fergus McClymont, Pilar Villamor, Alan G. Green

Constraints on the depth of generation and emplacement of a magmatic epidote-bearing quartz diorite pluton in the Coast Plutonic Complex, British Columbia
J. M. Chang, C. L. Andronicos

Sediments from Lake Cheko (Siberia), a possible impact crater for the 1908 Tunguska Event
Luca Gasperini, Enrico Bonatti, Sonia Albertazzi, Luisa Forlani, Carla A. Accorsi, Giuseppe Longo, Mariangela Ravaioli, Francesca Alvisi, Alina Polonia, Fabio Sacchetti


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