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Welcome to the Earth and Planetary Science area. Providing you with access to news, resources and information about Elsevier’s publications in Earth and Planetary Sciences.

How Elsevier's Article of the Future supports researchers in the digital era

Innovations in Publishing - Audio slide show by Bethan Keall, Executive Publisher Earth and Planetary Sciences

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Elsevier and EarthChem database linking: how it benefits you
Elsevier-published research articles from 23 journals in the Earth Sciences, hosted on SciVerse ScienceDirect are bi-directionally linked to the corresponding research datasets in EarthChem.
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Virtual Special Issue on the 2011 Mw 9.1 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake
Since the 2011 Mw 9.1 Tohoku-Oki earthquake, Tectonophysics, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Sedimentary Geology and International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, have published a number of papers related to this event. In this Virtual Special Issue we have collected a range of these articles.
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New Virtual Special Issue demonstrates how ScienceDirect enriches academic publications with interactive geospatial data using Google Maps
Research output in the digital age is more than text and images; computer code, data, multimedia, and domain-specific data formats are increasingly important elements of the scientific record.
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New Virtual Special Issue of open access articles of the Earth and Planetary Science Journals
We are delighted to bring you a selection of the open access articles published in Elsevier's Earth and Planetary Science Journals to date.
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Author workshop slides available
An Author workshop was given by Katherine Eve at IAMG, September 2011 in Salzburg, Austria. Focused on the best practices on how to write a first class paper and publish in a scientific journal. for more information about these types of activity's keep track of this web site or take a look at the Journal news.

Top 3 Most Cited Articles by Scopus

Assembly, configuration, and break-up history of Rodinia: A synthesis
2008, Precambrian Research, Volume 160, Issues 1-2, pp. 179-210
By: Li, Z.X., Bogdanova, S.V., Collins, A.S., Davidson, A., De Waele, B., Ernst, R.E., Fitzsimons, I.C.W., Fuck, R.A., Gladkochub, D.P., Jacobs, J., Karlstrom, K.E., Lu, S., Natapov, L.M., Pease, V., Pisarevsky, S.A., Thrane, K., Vernikovsky, V.

The Neoproterozoic assembly of Gondwana and its relationship to the Ediacaran-Cambrian radiation
2008, Gondwana Research, Volume 14, Issues 1-2, pp.5-21
By: Joseph G. Meerta and Bruce S. Lieberman.

Geochemical constraints on the origin of the pore fluids and gas hydrate distribution at Atwater Valley and Keathley Canyon, northern Gulf of Mexico
2008, Marine and Petroleum Geology, Volume 25, Issues 9, pp.860-872
By: Kastner, M., Claypool, G., Robertson, G.