2005 Impact Factor of 1.739

Terra Nova

Edited by:
Georges Calas, Max Coleman, Carlo Doglioni, Alfred Kroener, Adolphe Nicolas & Jason Phipps-Morgan

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2007: 30/137 (Geosciences, Multidisciplinary)
Impact Factor: 2.065

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Terra Nova publishes short, innovative and provocative papers of interest to a wide readership and covering the broadest spectrum of the Solid Earth and Planetary Sciences. Terra Nova encompasses geology, geophysics and geochemistry, and extends to the fluid envelopes (atmosphere, ocean, environment) whenever coupling with the Solid Earth is involved.

TopNews and Announcements

Online Content Now Available Back to Volume 1
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OnlineEarly
Terra Nova now features OnlineEarly articles. These articles are in final form and published online in advance of their appearance in a regular issue. They have been through the full peer review process, and proofs have been corrected by the author.
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Terra Nova operates online article submission and peer review.  Please see the For Authors page to view the author instructions.

Free Online Access in the Developing World
Free online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the OARE Initiative (Online Access to Research in the Environment) in conjunction with UNEP, the United Nations Environment Programme.

TopHighlights

Highlighted Debate
Original article
A possible impact crater for the 1908 Tunguska Event
L. Gasperini, F. Alvisi, G. Biasini, E. Bonatti, G. Longo, M. Pipan, M. Ravaioli and R. Serra

Comment article
Evidence that Lake Cheko is not an impact crater
G. S. Collins, N. Artemieva, K. Wünnemann, P. A. Bland, W. U. Reimold, C. Koeberl

Reply
Lake Cheko and the Tunguska Event: impact or non-impact?
L. Gasperini, E. Bonatti, G. Longo 

Review Articles
Neoproterozoic cap carbonates: a critical appraisal of existing models and the plumeworld hypothesis
Graham A. Shields

Alpine and Pacific styles of Phanerozoic mountain building: subduction-zone petrogenesis of continental crust
W.G. Ernst

Structural similarity and variety at the tips in a wide range of strike-slip faults: a review
Young-Seog Kim, David J. Sanderson

Selected Papers
Review: secular tectonic evolution of Archean continental crust: interplay between horizontal and vertical processes in the formation of the Pilbara Craton, Australia
Martin J. Van Kranendonk, R. Hugh Smithies, Arthur H. Hickman and D.C. Champion

Impact of methane seeps on the local carbon-isotope record: a case study from a Late Jurassic hemipelagic section
Beat Louis-Schmid, Pauline Rais, Dmitry Logvinovich, Stefano M. Bernasconi and Helmut Weissert

Structure of earthquake occurrence in space, time and magnitude
Álvaro Corral

Possible flexural accommodation on the eastern edge of the Altiplano in relation to focussed erosion in the Rio La Paz drainage system
Gerold Zeilinger and Fritz Schlunegger

Unique deformation processes involving the recrystallization of chrysotile within serpentinite: implications for aseismic slip events within subduction zones
Ken-ichi Hirauchi and Haruka Yamaguchi

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