The Eocene Kuldana Formation(KF)in the Yadgar area of Pakistan,comprises a diverse range of sedimentary facies,including variegated red beds of shales,mudstones,and sandstones,as well as interbedded limestone and marl...
The tests performed with two hundred and thirty-nine (239) samples from the A-X and B-X drillings help to know their sedimentological and chemostratigraphic characters. In sedimentological term formations are composed...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(92055208);Guangxi Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars(2018GXNSFFA281009);the CAS‘Light of West China’Program(2018-XBYJRC-003);the Guangxi Science Innovation Base Construction Foundation(Guike ZY21195031);the Fifth Bagui Scholar Innovation Project of the Guangxi Province(to Xu Jifeng);the grant of the Laboratory for Marine Geology,Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology(MGQNLM201901)。
The global Hangenberg Crisis or Hangenberg Extinction is a mass extinction near the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary.Comprehensive research of petrology and geochemistry on the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary,as expose...
Sedimentary sequences preserve the records of changes in major controls of sedimentation namely,tectonics,climate,relative sea level and sediment production and preservation.The potential to characterize these changes...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41472089,91755210)
The Ediacaran–Cambrian succession in South China records dramatic biological,oceanic and geochemical changes,but it is not well constrained geochronologically.This study reports a new SIMS U-Pb date of 543.4±3.5 Ma(...
supported by Projects CGL2008-05251-E and CGL2012-39835(MINECO);the Research Group RNM-178,Junta de Andalucia,Spain;supported by the Post-Doctoral Fellowship SFRH/BPD/92376/2013(Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia,Portugal);the research units GeoBiotec-UID/GEO/04035/2013 and MARE-UID/MAR/04292/2013
Shallow-platform settings with marked differences in paleoplatform bottom physiography influence the degree of connection with oceanic waters and overall circulation patterns,even when sharing the same palaeoclimatic ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41290260, 41521061);the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant Nos. XDB26000000, XDB18000000);the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. QYZDY-SSW-DQC023)
A series of major geological and biological events which altered the evolutionary processes of whole biosphere occurred during the earth history. Establishing a high-resolution stratigraphic framework and timescale is...
supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program (B) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDB18000000);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41672027)
Ediacaran successions occur widely in various depositional facies in South China and yield a series of fossil Lagerst?tten, providing a complete fossil record for the evolution of marine ecosystems after the terminal ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41290260, 41772005);the Chinese Academy of Sciences New Frontiers Special Grants (Grant Nos. XDB10010100, XDB26000000);the SAFEA Project (Grant No. 20140491530), the National Science and Technology Major Project (Grant No. 2017ZX05036-001-004);the MSTof China Special Grants for Basic Science Projects (Grant No. 2013FY111000)
In this chapter, starting with a brief review of the research history and current status in the studies of the Ordovician chronostratigraphy in China, the subdivision of the Ordovician System, definition and recogniti...
supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant Nos. XDPB05, XDB26000000);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41530103, 41521061, 41290260)
Silurian is a period with the shortest duration in Phanerozoic except for the Neogene and Quaternary. It represents an important and unique interval when the biotic diversity recovered quickly after the end-Ordovician...