Ignimbrites have been widely used as building materials in many historical and touristic structures in the Kayseri region of Türkiye. Their diverse colours and textures make them a popular choice for modern construct...
financially supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (No. 41272079)
In addition to syenite ring dykes and multiple alkaline granite stocks, the sub-volcanic Houshihushan alkaline ring complex near Shanhaiguan, Qinhuangdao City, contains cone-sheets of two types: a majority filled wit...
supported by the DVO Russian Academy of Science (No. 09-Ⅲ-А-08-401)
A comprehensive mineralogical-geochemical and petrological study of ignimbrites from the Yakut-Gora volcanic depression (Primorye, Far Eastern Russia) revealed a wide distribution of silica-metal spherules ("globu...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 40572050, 40272042, and 40234041);the Teaching and Research Award Program for Outstanding Young Teachers in Higher Education Institutions of Ministry of Education, China.
Genesis of metasedimentary-volcanics outcroped in Kangxian-Pipasi-Nanping (康县-琵琶寺-南坪) tectonic zone is closely related with tectonic evolution of the Mianlue (勉略) Ocean. In the west end of Kangxian-Pipasi...
The research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant #40272006, 30430100, 30370184);RFDP of the Chinese Ministry of Education, and RCQJ Project of Beijing Municipal Commission of Education. Thanks are given to Prof. R. C. Fox (University of Alberta) for reading and improving the manuscript.
Lacustrine deposits exposed at Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China, have yielded superbly preserved vertebrate fossils. The fossil beds were first misinterpreted as of Early Cretaceous age, based on alleged occurrences of...
Sponsored by NSFC and the state volcano program 95 -11
The huge comendite ignimbrite-forming eruption of Tianchi Volcano maintained a stable plinian column during its earlier stage of eruption, and succeeded a collapsing of the column producing pumiceous ignimbrite deposi...