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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.

TopNews and Announcements

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Free Online Access in the Developing World
Free online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the OARE Initiative (Online Access to Research in the Environment) in conjunction with UNEP, the United Nations Environment Programme.

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
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
Gas hazard assessment at the Monticchio crater lakes of Mt. Vulture, a volcano in Southern Italy
Antonio Caracausi, P. Mario Nuccio, Rocco Favara, Marco Nicolosi and Michell Paternoster

Sm-Nd isotopic mapping of lithospheric growth and stabilization in the eastern Kaapvaal craton
Blair Schoene, Francis O.L. Dudas, Samuel A. Bowring and Maarten de Wit

200-m-deep earthquake swarm in Tricastin (lower Rhone Valley, France) accounts for noisy seismicity over past centuries
Francois Thouvenot, Liliane Jenatton and Jean-Pierre Gratier

Petroleum surface oil seeps from a Palaeoproterozoic petrified giant oilfield
Victor A. Melezhik, Anthony E. Fallick, Michail M. Filippov, Aivo Lepland, Dmitry V. Rychanchik, Yuliya E. Deines, Pavel V. Medvedev, Alexander E. Romashkin and Harald Strauss


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