Faunal exploitation at the elephant hunting site of Lehringen, Germany, 125,000 years ago - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Faunal exploitation at the elephant hunting site of Lehringen, Germany, 125,000 years ago

🚨 #PaperAlert!
#Neanderthals were elephant gourmets, but also not picky eaters!
Our new study at Lehringen (~125 ka) shows evidence of elephant butchery associated with a wooden spear, alongside the exploitation of bears, beavers, and ungulates.
Flexible hunters with everything on the menu 🐘🍽️
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How does tectonic #stress control fracture patterns during #hydration? McElwee et al. (US/JP) show that stress #orientation determines whether #branching or #spalling fractures form-guiding fluid flow in oceanic #lithosphere

doi.org/10.5194/se-17-537-2026

#numericalmodeling #paperalert

📢🔬New #PaperAlert! on the cover of @ScienceAdvances :
Emergence of clay personal ornaments in Southwest Asia

A butterfly clay bead from #Natufian Eynan-Mallaha, colored red with ochre and marked with the fingerprints of the child (≈10 y/o) who modeled it 12,000 years ago

doi.org/10.1126/scia...

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Two blocks, one #fault: Yang et al. (CN/UK/ID) find sharp #Moho depth variations across the #Palu–Koro fault, confirming it juxtaposes distinct crustal blocks with different tectonic histories

doi.org/10.5194/se-17-453-2026

#crustalstructure #tectonics #Sulawesi #paperalert

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Strongly coupled volcanic arc 🌋 meets weakly coupled subduction 🌊: Portela et al. (ES) find slab coupling Φ≈0.2 offshore El Salvador, strengthening westward into Guatemala

doi.org/10.5194/se-17-369-2026

#subduction #plateboundaries #geohazards #paperalert

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Where do induced #earthquakes occur? Schwarz et al. (CH) show seismicity clusters in #intermediate-velocity zones during #geothermal stimulation — avoiding both intact rock & heavily fractured zones

doi.org/10.5194/se-17-347-2026

#inducedearthquakes #EGS #fractures #paperalert

Different sex determination systems in two closely related Eurasian minnow (Phoxinus) species - Heredity Heredity - Different sex determination systems in two closely related Eurasian minnow (Phoxinus) species

#paperalert #fishes Two closely related minnow ( #Phoxinus ) species share the same rivers — and sometimes even hybridise. But new research shows they've evolved completely different ways of determining sex. 🐟🧬 Lead author PhD student @thetemi.bsky.social @leibnizlib.bsky.social

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Which type of #orogenic inheritance controls #rifting? Li et al. (DE) find #structural inheritance (thrust faults) dominates margin width & breakup location, while #thermal inheritance governs timing & symmetry

doi.org/10.1029/2025TC009156

#tectonics #continentalbreakup #paperalert

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Stress deviations aren't just for major faults! Caldeira et al. (CH) show #sub-seismic fault zones (<10 km) cause #paleostress rotations up to 30° in the Swiss Jura Mountains

doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2026.105640

#paleostress #structuralgeology #paperalert

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From collision to rifting: Wang et al. (CN/DE) show ~1.78 Ga diorites record the transition from orogenic to intraplate magmatism in the North China Craton

doi.org/10.5194/se-17-203-2026

#Paleoproterozoic #craton #tectonics #paperalert

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How far do #faults perturb the #stress field? Velagala et al. (DE/CH/AU) use calibrated 3D #geomechanical models to show stress perturbations are <1 km from faults in northern Switzerland:

doi.org/10.5194/se-17-179-2026

#paperalert #insitustress

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Thick sand cover, loose terrain, grazing livestock... Sihoyiya et al. (ZA) overcome field challenges to image the #HotazelFormation at 1.0-1.5 km depth using high-resolution #seismic surveys:

doi.org/10.5194/se-17-135-2026

#KalahariManganeseField #geophysics #paperalert

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How do you date brittle #deformation in sedimentary basins? Boschetti et al. (FR) combine U-Pb #calcite dating with #RSCM thermometry to unravel the polyphase tectonic history of the Vocontian Basin at the Alps-Pyrenees junction:

doi.org/10.5194/se-17-35-2026
#paperalert #geochronology

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Tired of manual #fault interpretation bias? Basa et al. (NO) adopt a #data-driven approach using #DNNs trained on synthetic #seismic to automatically extract 3D fault networks and characterize segment-scale attributes:

doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105569

#paperalert #faultinterpretation

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Planning CO2 storage in Denmark? Better understand the salt first! Nielsen et al. (DK) use structural restoration to reveal different timing and mechanisms - from Triassic gravitational gliding to differential loading:

doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2025.105609

#paperalert #salttectonics #CCS

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Check out AutoEncodix, a framework for multi-omics data integration and analysis using autoencoders developed #opensource by Jan Ewald and his team @scadsai.bsky.social github.com/jan-forest/a...

#ecsmonday on BS #29

2018 Mw 5.0 Fleri earthquake on #Etna wasn't the first! Check out #paleoseismological and #morphotectonic investigations by Tringali et al. (IT) revealing #historical events and accelerating throw rates:

doi.org/10.5194/se-16-1473-2025

#paperalert #activefaults #MtEtna

#ecsmonday on BS #28

Susin et al. (IE) fuse borehole #petrophysics with #seismic reprocessing to sharpen images of the buried Irish Zn-Pb #orefield. Can this #workflow highlight structures that guide smarter exploration targeting?

doi.org/10.5194/se-16-1453-2025

#paperalert #seismicimaging #Zn-Pb

#ecsmonday on BS #27

Can digging down a #valley trigger deep crust dynamics? What role do #plateau height, #crustal thickness and #erosion rate play?  Check out numerical #simulations by Geffroy et al. (FR/DE):

doi.org/10.5194/se-16-1289-2025

#paperalert #crustaldeformation #exhumation

📢📷 🪿New #PaperAlert in @pnas.org :
Earliest figurine depicting a human-animal interaction

A 12,000-year-old baked clay and ochre-colored figurine of a woman and a goose discovered in Late Natufian Nahal Ein Gev II (Upper Jordan Valley)

doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

#ecsmonday on BS #26

Casiraghi et al. (IT) present an integrated #workflow for parametrising fracture-network geometry from #digital #outcrop #models. Can this bridge the gap between outcrop data and 3-D subsurface fracture models?

doi.org/10.5194/se-16-1351-2025

#paperalert #structuralgeology

#ecsmonday on BS #24

#Digital vs #manual #mapping of #Hiatus. What is better? What do you prefer?
Check out the arguments by Berta Vilacís (ES) et al.:
doi.org/10.1016/j.js...

#paperalert #structuralgeology #subsurface #tectonicdevelopment

Temperature–dependent reaction rates of quinone-alkene cycloaddition reveal that only entropy determines the rate of SPOCQ reactions Second-order rate constants and thermodynamic activation parameters for the strain-promoted oxidation-controlled quinone (SPOCQ) click reaction of an ortho-quinone with various trans-cyclooctene and c...

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Very happy to share our new paper in Chemical Science @chemicalscience.rsc.org

Great work by Yuri Damen (now at BioChem in Oss), @joresfu.bsky.social, Judith Firet, and Han Zuilhof @w-u-r.bsky.social

Especially for those of you who use strained alkynes in their click reactions!

#paperalert | Ricardo Barros Lourenço Is that (happy) day, again. A nice collaboration with Wen Zhuo ☺️ #paperalert 🚨🚨🚨 Title: Exploring causal pathways among soil moisture, climate and ocean–atmosphere teleconnection patterns over the ...

Is that (happy) day, again. A nice collaboration with Wen Zhuo ☺️
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Title: Exploring causal pathways among soil moisture, #climate and ocean–atmosphere #teleconnection patterns over the drought-prone Greater Horn of Africa

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Crustal-scale structures and tectonic domains of the Kheis Tectonic Province in South Africa from multimethod seismic analysis Abstract. The Kheis Tectonic Province of southern Africa represents a key, yet under-constrained, component in the tectonic history of the Kaapvaal Craton and its surrounding terranes. The complex geo...

#ecsmonday on BS #21

M. Westgate et al. (ZA/SE) refined #crustalarchitecture and major #tectonic boundaries across the Kheis Province in ZA using a multimethod #seismic analysis. How deep can they see? Which model do they support? Which #evidence is lost?

doi.org/10.5194/se-1...

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A. Canari et al. (ES) conduct research to provide valuable insights into the early dynamics of an evolving #transtensional #fault system in the #MediterraneanSea, which can have a great impact on coastal cities and population:

doi.org/10.1029/2024...

#paperalert #summerholidays #earthquake

The role of large-scale atmospheric patterns for recent warming periods in Greenland from 1900–2015 Abstract. Large-scale atmospheric patterns strongly determine Greenland's regional climate through air mass advection and local weather conditions, making them essential to understand atmospheric vari...

New paper from APRI member @florinaroana.bsky.social:
"The role of large-scale atmospheric patterns for recent warming periods in Greenland from 1900–2015"

#PaperAlert #PolarResearch #Greenland #AlfredWegener #AtmosphericScience #uummannaq #Maamorilik #qaamarujuk #APRI #APECS
Read it here👇

Discover how #phononic #metamaterials can enable passive transition delay in #boundarylayer #flows by suppressing #FSI instabilities.

Available in #OpenAccess for #JFM: doi.org/10.1017/jfm....

#paperalert #FluidStructureInteraction #FluidMechanics @onera.bsky.social

Integrated modeling of the generation, attenuation, and transport of point-source pollutants at the watershed-scale using SWAT+ Addressing the chemical pollution of surface water bodies requires a good understanding of pollutant and system dynamics. Numerical modeling represent…

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💧Com afecta la contaminació d’origen domèstic als rius?

A ICRA hem desenvolupat un model que simula com els contaminants domèstics arriben als rius, com s’atenuen i quin impacte tenen.

👉 Per a més informació, consulteu l'article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#ecsmonday on BS #15 🤩

Sandro Truttmann et al. (CH) exploit the relation between the size distributions of pre-existing #fractures and #earthquakes to decipher the #seismic deformation processes.
Check it out:
se.copernicus.org/articles/16/...

#paperalert #solidearth #doessizematter