financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Giant No.41902115)。
Girvanella is one of the common genera of cyanobacteria that plays a monumental role in the evolution of life on Earth and the formation of microbialites.Based on a detailed search in the literature of Girvanella foss...
A compilation of many different kinds of natural scientific investigations and their interrelations as well as their collective interpretation are necessary to understand past, presence and future of the Earth’s syst...
funded by the Deep Geological Survey Project of the China Geological Survey(Grant Nos.DD20230229,DD20230008,DD20160083 and DD20190011);the DREAM―Deep Resource Exploration and Advanced Mining of the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2018YFC0603701)。
The continental Asia is mainly composed of three major tectonic regimes,the Tethys,Paleo Asian Ocean,and West Pacific.It underwent multi-stage plate convergences,ocean-continent transformations,and subductions,collisi...
supported by the National Science Foundation(EAR 2121445 to Z.L.and EAR 2121392 to J.L.P.);the Natural Environment Research Council(NERC,PUCCA Project,NE/V011049/1 to R.E.M.R);the European Research Council,SCOOBI Project,(101019146 to R.E.M.R.)。
Atmospheric carbon dioxide and oxygen concentrations are partially linked via the geological cycle of organic carbon(Fig.1A–C;e.g.CO_(2)+H_(2)O↔CH_(2)O+O_(2)).The history of these two biologically active components,c...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41888101,41890834,91755213);the Most Special Fund(MSFGPMR02-3)from the State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources,China University of Geosciences,Wuhan;a contribution to the IUGS International Lithosphere Program(2023-TF1)“Formation,Character,History and Behavior of Earth’s Oldest Lithospheres”。
Geological maps encode vast amounts of data about rock types,ages,chemistry,orogenic architecture and deep-time history or different tectonic units,yet these are often difficult to extract because of the way different...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41888101);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant No.2023T160005)。
Quantitatively estimating the global mean precipitation(GMP)throughout Earth's history is crucial for enhancing our understanding of long-term climate evolution and the hydrological cycle.However,currently there is no...
The rotation of the Earth and the related length of the day (LOD) are predominantly affected by tidal dissipation through the Moon and the growth of the Earth’s core. Due to the increased concentration of mass around...
We thank the National Science Foundation of China for funding S.V.Hohl with a Research Fund for International Excellent Young Scientists(RFIS-II),the stromatolite geochemical archive(funding no.42150610481)。
Some of the earliest bio-sedimentary records of life on Earth are represented by microbial carbonates,which are also critical geochemical archives of ancient seawater chemistry and the environmental circumstances in w...
Power-law patterns appear in a variety of natural systems on the modern Earth;nevertheless,whether such behaviors appeared in the deep-time environment has rarely been studied. Isotopic records in sedimentary rocks, w...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.92155201,42272361);China Geological Survey (The Establishment of Chinese Stratigraphic Standards Project)。
Climatic and environmental conditions play a pivotal role in the evolution of the biosphere,serving as the primary natural factors influencing biological evolution and the development of human civilization.The study o...