Research of J.S. was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (42072037 and 92055201);the 111Project of the National Bureau of Foreign Experts and the Ministry of Education of China (BP0820004)。
Theory regarding the causation of mass extinctions is in need of systematization, which is the focus of this contribution. Every mass extinction has both an ultimate cause, i.e. the trigger that leads to various clima...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (grant 2017YFC0601206);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grants 41674060 and 41630210)
The seismological characteristics of the 15 February 2013 Chelyabinsk bolide explosion are investigated based on seismograms recorded at 50 stations with epicentral distances ranging from 229 to 4324 km. By using 8–2...
supported by the GROWTH project (National Science Foundation Grant No.1545949)
At 12:07 UT(8:07 pm China Standard Time)on 2017 Oct 4,a bright bolide was widely observed in the Shangri-La region of the Province of Yunnan,China(Figure 1).The event was well observed by the general public as it took...
THE consequence of "nuclear winter" induced by nuclear war and climatic catastrophe induced by extraterrestrial impact were widely studied for fear of the potential danger of the basic nuclear war (the totalexplosive ...