The research is jointly supported by the Key Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.40332020);Prophase Special Research of Vital Projects in the Basic Research of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(No.2001CCA01 800);International Geological Correlation Program(IGCP463/494).
The Cretaceous is among the most unusual eras in the geological past. Geoscience communities have been having great concerns with geological phenomena within this period, for example carbonate platforms and black shal...