Research across the whole spectrum of the Earth Sciences, including the areas of Geophysics, Geochemistry, Mineral Sciences, Petrology, Palaeontology, Vulcanism, Marine Sciences, and Palaeoceanography

Earth Sciences is the most multidisciplinary of the Natural Sciences. Our understanding of the Earth and other planets is based on research across the whole spectrum of the Earth Sciences and includes the areas of Geophysics, Geochemistry, Mineral Sciences, Petrology, Palaeontology, Vulcanism, Marine Sciences, Palaeoceanography. We focus on particular aspects of the earth; its internal structure and evolution, the behaviour and properties of minerals as natural materials, oil, gas and other natural resources, Earth history as recorded in rocks and fossils, the origin of life and global climate change. We draw on the expertise of the neighbouring sciences, mathematics, chemistry, physics, material sciences, geography and the biological sciences.

### Sub-communities within this community

• #### Mineral Science

Research focusing on elucidating the properties and behaviour of minerals and fluids at a fundamental level

### Collections in this community

• #### Climate Change and Earth-Ocean Atmosphere Systems

Using chemical, isotopic and sedimentary proxies of critical parameters to explore the causes and consequences of rapid climate changes in the last glacial cycle
• #### Geodynamics, Geophysics and Tectonics

Investigation of a very broad spectrum of structural, tectonic and geodynamical processes using quantitative physical models based on land-, marine- and space-based observations

• #### Palaeobiology

Straddles Earth Sciences and Biology; aims to investigate whether evolution is open-ended and indeterminate, or highly constrained by physico-chemical factors
• #### Petrology: Igneous, Metamorphic and Volcanic Studies

Research of igneous, metamorphic and volcanic processes to enhance understanding of global tectonics as well as their more immediate impacts on our surficial environment

### Recent Submissions

• #### First-principles reinvestigation of bulk WO$_{3}$ ﻿

(American Physical Society, 2016-12-19)
Using first-principles calculations, we analyze the structural properties of tungsten trioxide WO$_{3}$. Our calculations rely on density functional theory and the use of the B1-WC hybrid functional, which provides very ...
• #### Resolving the Middle Jurassic dinoflagellate radiation: The palynology of the Bajocian of Swabia, southwest Germany ﻿

(Elsevier, 2017-03-01)
Dinoflagellates underwent a major radiation during the Bajocian (Middle Jurassic, ~ 170–168 Ma). The group originated in the Middle Triassic and dinoflagellate cysts were relatively low in diversity until the Bajocian, ...
• #### Converted phases from sharp 1000 km depth mid-mantle heterogeneity beneath Western Europe ﻿

(Elsevier, 2017-02-01)
Until recently, most of the lower mantle was generally considered to be well-mixed with strong heterogeneity restricted to the lowermost several hundred kilometres above the core–mantle boundary, known as the $\textbf{D}$″ ...
• #### Assessing the activity of faults in continental interiors: Palaeoseismic insights from SE Kazakhstan ﻿

(Elsevier, 2017-02-01)
The presence of fault scarps is a first-order criterion for identifying active faults. Yet the preservation of these features depends on the recurrence interval between surface rupturing events, combined with the rates of ...