supported by China Petroleum&Chemical Corporation Key Scientific and Technological Projects(P22078,P22128,and 22079).
Permian sedimentary successions,widely distributed in the eastern Junggar Basin,may record key details on the closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean in this region.Results of boreholes show that Permian strata is mainly com...
This work was made possible by funding support from National Academy of Sciences Prime Cooperative Agreement No.AID-391-A-17-00001 to Dr.Robinson;Pakistan-U.S.Science and Technology Cooperation Program Phase-VII No.HEC/R&D/PAK-US/2017/360 to Dr.Faisal;Additional funding was provided by Graduate Student Research Grant 13308-21 from the Geological Society of America to Joel Schiffer;Logistical support in the field was provided by faculty and students at the National Centre of Excellence in Geology,University of Peshawar,Pakistan.Mineral separations,sample preparation,and analytical services were carried out with the help of GeoSep Services,the Arizona LaserChron Center,and students at the RadIs Laboratory,University of Alabama.
In the central Himalaya,the Greater and Lesser Himalayan tectonostratigraphic zones can be distinguished from each other by combining detrital zircon U-Pb ages and whole-rock Nd isotopic data.In the Hazara-Kashmir syn...