Subduction plays a fundamental role in plate tectonics and is a significant factor in modifying the structure and topography of the Earth. It is driven by convection forces that change over a >100 Myr time scale. Howe...
P.A.gratefully acknowledges Jornvall Foundation,Mark and Mo Constantine,and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Visiting Professorship for Senior International Scientists(No.2011T2S04);P.A.and U.O.acknowledge the Swedish Research Council(Grant Nos.2015-04402 and 2015-04651,respectively)
Background: The White-browed Shortwing(Brachypteryx montana) is widespread from the central Himalayas to the southeast Chinese mainland and the island of Taiwan, the Philippines and Indonesia. Multiple subspecies are ...
financially supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2006CB701401);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.31270277)
Abundant palynological fossils are found from the drill core in the west slope of Songliao Basin, the first full coring borehole that drilled throughout the Neogene. Two Palynological assemblages are recognized accord...
This study was supported by NSF EAR-0746105,and partly by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,the National Basic Research Program of China,973 Program,US DOE DE-AC02-06CH11357
Fossil fruits including nuts and associated husk valves of a new species of Carya (Juglandaceae) are described from the latest Miocene to earliest Pliocene in northeastern Tennessee, eastern United States. The husk va...
supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 40872024, 40534019);the Key Laboratory of Off shore Oil Exploration and Development of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes
The present study deals with the planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy of the Miocene-Pliocene sequence of three petroleum exploration wells (BY7-1-1,KP6-1-1 and KP91-1) in the Pearl River Mouth Basin (PRMB).In gen...
We describe in detail the Miocene to Quaternary paleoceanography of the western equatorial Pacific Ocean based on calcareous nannofossils of Hole 805B. The relative abundance of Discoaster which lived in the lower pho...
supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2006FY120300 and 2006CB806400);the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZCX2-YW-120, Q09);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (40730210), and the All-China Stratigraphic Commission
The Lower Pliocene of the Linxia Basin in Gansu Province is one of only a few representative sections for the Early Pliocene sedimentary records in northern China, and even in East Asia. Recently,abundant mammalian fo...
This paper is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of china (Nos. 40576031, 40476030, 40631007).
Combined data of physical property, benthic foraminifera, and stable isotopes from ODP Sites 1148, 1146, and 1143 are used to discuss deep water evolution in the South China Sea (SCS) since the Early Miocene. The re...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.49902009 and 40202005);the Outstanding Overseas Chinese Scholars Fund of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.2003-1-7).
The wind system responsible for transporting dust onto the Chinese Loess Plateau during the late Miocene and Pliocene is still unknown and recent investigations highlight many controversies. This report aims to invest...