Detailed sedimentological analysis of the Pokaran Boulder Bed,representing the most basal unit of the Neoproterozoic-Lower Cambrian Marwar Supergroup,clearly indicates its glacial origin.The glacial sediments are inte...
supported by the China Geological Survey project(DD20221649);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.U19B6003,42072135,and 42172119);Chongqing Research Program of Basic Research and Frontier Technology(Grant No.cstc2021jcyj-msxm X0023);Open Fund(DGERA 20211105)of Key Laboratory of Deep-time Geography and Environment Reconstruction and Applications of Ministry of Natural Resources,Chengdu University of Technology。
The northeastern Sichuan area in the northern Yangtze margin has unique Ediacaran geological records,especially the Doushantuo Formation(DST),and become a hot research area in recent years.However,the Cryogenian-Ediac...
The SeridóBelt,at the extreme northeast of Brazil,is one of the several Neoproterozoic mobile belts related to the Brasiliano/Pan-African Orogeny in Western Gondwana.The lithostratigraphy of the SeridóBelt comprises...
partly supported by grants"Multi-step evolution of multicellular animals(No.23340152)";"Toward establishment of chemical paleontology(No.23654176)";the Global COE Program"From the Earth to‘Earths’"from the Ministry of Education,Culture,Sports,Science and Technology,Japan;supported by a grant from the Mitsubishi Foundation(T.K.).Each is gratefully acknowledged
Cap Carbonates overlie the Marinoan Snowball Earth-related glacial diamictite, and possibly record the drastic surface environmental change and biological evolution after the Snowball Earth. We conducted on-land drill...
Acknowledgements We thank so much to Prof. Shucheng Xie and two anonymous reviewers for their great constructive comments and corrections to our manuscript. This research was financially supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Nos. 2011CB808805 and 2009CB21950605), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41172102 and 40772073), SinoPec project (GO800-O6-ZS-319) and 111 Project (B08030).
The Snowball Earth hypothesis suggests that the sea water had totally been kept frozen for millions of years in Neoproterozoic glaciation, followed by a rapid and catastrophic deglaciation resulting from the elevated ...
The reported new U-Pb age by sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe (SHRIMP Ⅱ) on zircon was obtained from a tuff sample at the basal Doushantuo Formation in the Jiuqunao section, which situated at the western limb...