With the Paris Agreement, the international community has agreed to limit global warming to well below 2 °C and to pursue efforts to stay below 1.5 °C (UNFCCC 2015a) to avoid dangerous climate impacts. Staying within these ...

The Zimbabwe Craton and surrounding mobile belts that make up Zimbabwe form the north-eastern part of the Southern African Plateau, which is of great scientific interest due to its anomalous elevation. The Phanerozoic ...

Important runoff reductions have been reported in mid-latitude, Mediterranean-like climate catchments of the Southern Hemisphere (SH), in particular in the southwest of Western Australia (SWA) and in central Chile (CC). ...

The geochemical characterisation of oceanic crust, in its dual role as a mantle-derived melt and a subducted material, is an essential component in understanding the evolution of the Earth’s mantle. Interaction of newly ...

The deep subseafloor hosts the largest prokaryotic biomass on Earth, with cell abundances 3-4 orders of magnitude higher than the overlying ocean. Oxidant concentrations in the subseafloor are consumed sequentially by ...

Unravelling the processes involved in granite magmatism is essential to our understanding of the continental crust, its formation and evolution. Radiogenic isotope systems are commonly employed to this end, but the behaviour ...

This thesis investigated fire weather in Victoria, Australia and the Ecuadorian Andes. The selection of these areas considered several criteria. First of all, bushfires cause significant impacts in these two regions. ...

Microorganisms strongly influence the environmental form and fate of mercury. Recent advancements in culture-independent molecular techniques, such as high-throughput sequencing, allow us to delve deeply into the functional ...

The evolution of dense lower crust or lithosphere sinking from below continental crust is analysed using numerical and analytical models. The dripping and delamination mechanisms are typically used to describe modern ...

Deep convection is an important process that influences the vertical redistribution of heat, moisture, and momentum. Convective momentum transport (CMT) is composed of multiscale dynamical processes, including convective-scale ...