A new 7.5-yearlong time series of hourly estimates of nontidal ocean angular momentum, representing signals forced by 6-hourly surface atmospheric pressure and winds including those forced by the atmospheric tides, is used ...

In the time period since 1961, n-alkanes (straight-chain hydrocarbons) have been detected in varying amounts in many meteorites. Proposed origins for these compounds have included extraterrestrial biotic, extraterrestrial ...

Recent fieldwork in western Bhutan, dedicated to unravelling the tectonic structure of the mid-crustal rocks, indicates a complex deformation pattern in the Greater Himalayan Slab (GHS). A system of normal shear zones, ...

Unlike the major droughts of the twentieth century that are readily identified in the instrumental record, similar events in the nineteenth century have to be identified using a combination of proxy data, historical accounts ...

Arctic climate has experienced major changes over the past millennia that are not fully understood in terms of their controls and seasonality. Stable-data from ice wedges in permafrost provide unique information on past ...

This paper continues the description of volcanic activity at the Northern group of Kamchatkan volcanoes since 1935. The period described embraces the years of 1990, 1991, and 1992. The paper describes the evoluton of ...

Multichannel seismic reflection data, acquired by MAGE in 1990, provide the first view of the geological structure of the East Siberian Sea between 76.5–80N and 152–164E. This northwestern part of the East Siberian Margin ...