Selected Recent Publications:

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Merdith, A.S., Gernon, T.M., Maffre, P., Donnadieu, Y., Goddéris, Y., Longman, J., Müller, R.D. and Mills, B.J.W.  Phanerozoic icehouse climates as the result of multiple solid-Earth cooling mechanisms. Science Advances 11 (7), eadm9798, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adm9798 (2025).

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Gernon, T.M., Brune, S., Hincks, T.K. & Keir, D. A viable Labrador Sea rifting origin of the Northern Appalachian and related seismic anomalies. Geology, doi: 10.1130/G53588.1 (2025). [CNN]

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Spencer, C.J., Gernon, T.M. & Mitchell, R.N., 2025. Greenlandic debris in Iceland likely tied to Bond event 1 ice-rafting in the Dark Ages. Geology, 53(7), p. 572–575, doi: 10.1130/G53168.1. [Telegraph]​

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Watts, E.J., Rees, R., Jonathan, P., Keir, D., Taylor, R.N., Siegburg, M., Chambers, E.L., Pagli, C., Cooper, M.J., Michalik, A., Milton, J.A., Hincks, T.K., Gebru, E.F., Ayele, A., Abebe, B., and Gernon, T.M. Mantle upwelling at Afar triple junction shaped by overriding plate dynamics, Nature Geoscience, doi: 10.1038/s41561-025-01717-0 (2025). [The Times]

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Spencer, C.J., Gernon, T.M., Davies, N.S., McMahon, W. & Merdith, A., 2025. From Plant Roots to MountainRoots: Impact of Land Plants on Subduction Zone Magmatism. Geology, 53(8), p. 679–683, doi: 10.1130/G53235.1 (2025).

 

Gernon, T.M., Mills, B.J.W., Hincks, T.K., Merdith, A.S., Alcott, L.J., Rohling, E.J.R., & Palmer, M.R. Solid Earth forcing of Mesozoic oceanic anoxic events. Nature Geoscience 17, 926–935, doi: 10.1038/s41561-024-01496-0 (2024).

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Gernon, T.M., Hincks, T.K., Brune, S., Braun, J., Jones, S.M., Keir, D., Cunningham, A., & Glerum, A., Co-evolution of craton margins and interiors during continental breakup. Nature 632, 327–335, doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07717-1 (2024). [BBC]

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See the News feature by H. Richter, In sweeping geological theory, mantle waves lift up plateaus. Science 588 (6709), 588–589, doi: 10.1126/science.z1mp7qn.

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See the Special Issue News feature for "Breakthrough of the Year" (Runners-Up) by P. Voosen, Mantle waves sculpt the continents. Science 386 (6727), 1210-1215, doi: 10.1126/science.adv2101.

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Gernon, T.M., Jones, S.M., Brune, S., Hincks, T.K., Palmer, M.R., Schumacher, J.C., Primiceri, R.M., Field, M., Griffin, W.L., O’Reilly, S.Y., Keir, D., Spencer, C.J., Merdith, A. & Glerum, A. Rift-induced disruption of cratonic keels drives kimberlite volcanism. Nature 620, 344–350, doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06193-3 (2023). [The Guardian, New York Times]

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See the News feature by P. Voosen, The death of supercontinent brings diamonds to the surface. Science 381 (6656), 362–363, doi: 10.1126/science.adj9565.

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Spencer, C.J., Davies, N.S., Gernon, T.M., Wang, X., McMahon, W.J., Morrell, T.R.I., Hincks, T.K., Pufahl, P.K., Brasier, A., Seraine, M. & Lu, G.-M. Composition of continental crust altered by the emergence of land plants. Nature Geoscience 15, 735-740, doi: 10.1038/s41561-022-00995-2 (2022).

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See the News & Views feature by N. Greber, Plant fingerprints in the deep Earth. Nature Geoscience 15, 685-686, doi: 10.1038/s41561-022-01022-0.

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See the Editorial, Plants rooted in rocks. Nature Geoscience 15, 683, doi: 10.1038/s41561-022-01030-0.

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See the Research Highlight by B. Grocholski, Geochemistry: Deep-rooted change. Science 378 (6615), 37-38, doi: 10.1126/science.adf1655.

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Gernon, T.M., Barr, R., Fitton, J. G., Hincks, T.K., Keir, D., Longman, J., Merdith, A., Mitchell, R.N. & Palmer, M.R. Transient mobilization of subcrustal carbon coincident with Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Nature Geoscience 15, 573–579, doi: 10.1038/s41561-022-00967-6 (2022). [The Independent]

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See the News feature by P. Voosen, Hidden carbon layer may have sparked ancient bout of global warming. Science 377 (6601), 12–13, doi: 10.1126/science.add6369.

 

Longman, J., Mills, B.J.W., Manners, H.R., Gernon, T.M. and Palmer, M.R. Late Ordovician climate change and extinctions driven by elevated volcanic nutrient supply. Nature Geoscience 14, 924–929, doi: 10.1038/s41561-021-00855-5 (2021). [Forbes]

 

Gernon, T.M., Hincks, T.K., Merdith, A., Rohling, E.J., Palmer, M.R., Foster, G.L., Bataille, C.P. and Muller, D. Global chemical weathering dominated by continental arcs since the mid-Palaeozoic. Nature Geoscience 14, 690–696, doi: 10.1038/s41561-021-00806-0 (2021). [Euronews]

 

Mitchell, R.N.*, Gernon, T.M.*, Cox, G.M., Nordsvan, A.R., Kirscher, U., Xuan, C., Liu, Y., Liu, X. and He., X., Orbital forcing of ice sheets during snowball Earth. Nature Communications 12 (4187), doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-24439-4 (2021). *These authors contributed equally. [Forbes]

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Mazrouei, S., Ghent, R.R., Bottke, W.F., Parker, A.H., and Gernon, T.M. Earth and Moon impact flux increased at the end of the Paleozoic. Science 363 (6424), 253, doi: 10.1126/science.aar4058 (2019). [The Guardian, New York Times]

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See the Perspective by Christian Koeberl, When Earth got pummeled. Science, 363 (6424), 224–225,
doi: 10.1126/science.aav8480

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Keller, C.B., Husson, J.M., Mitchell, R. N., Bottke, W.F., Gernon, T.M., Boehnke, P., Bell, E.A., Swanson-Hysell, N.L., and Peters, S.E. Neoproterozoic glacial origin of the Great Unconformity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (4), 1136, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1804350116 (2019). [National Geographic]

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See the News Feature by Adityarup Chakravorty, Did Global Glaciation Cause the Great Unconformity?

Eos, 100, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EO120289.

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Hincks, T., Aspinall, W., Cooke, R., and Gernon, T.M.* Oklahoma’s induced seismicity strongly linked to wastewater injection depth. Science 359 (6381), 1251, doi: 10.1126/science.aap7911 (2018). *Corresponding Author. [New York Times, Washington Post]

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Gernon, T.M., Hincks, T.K., Tyrrell, T., Rohling, E.J., and Palmer, M.R. Snowball Earth ocean chemistry driven by extensive ridge volcanism during Rodinia breakup. Nature Geoscience 9 (3), 242–248, doi: 10.1038/ngeo2632 (2016). [ABC]

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See the News & Views feature by Ian Fairchild, Ocean chemistry: Neoproterozoic glass-bleeding. Nature Geoscience 9, 192–193; doi: 10.1038/ngeo2643.

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Gernon, T.M., Brown, R.J., Tait, M.A. & Hincks, T.K. The origin of pelletal lapilli in explosive kimberlite eruptions. Nature Communications 3 (832), doi: 10.1038/ncomms1842 (2012).

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A full list of my publications is available here:

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