EES acknowledges funding from a NERC Frontiers grant(NE/V010824/1);Leverhulme Trust research grant(RPG-2022-313).
Over the past two decades,it has become increasingly apparent that early Mars may once have been warmer,wetter and more habitable for microbial life than it is today,which has spurred discussions about potential biosi...
Shandong Outstanding Youth Science Foundation(China)(2023HWYQ-065);Taishan Scholar Program(China)(tsqn202306114);National Key R&D Program of China(2022YFF0800401);ASC acknowledges funding through Australian Research Council projects LP210200822,LP200301457,FT120100340,FL240100114 and the MinEx CRC;His contribution forms MinEx publication#2024/37;SL is funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.42121005,91958214);Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation(China)(No.ZR2021YQ25);the Marine S&T Fund of Shandong Province for Laoshan Laboratory(No.2022QNLM050302);SP was supported by the Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship grant to Z.X.Li(FL150100133);This study is a contribution to IGCP 648.NF acknowledges funding through Australian Research Council projects LP220100056 and FT230100001。
Understanding the intricate relationships between the solid Earth and its surface systems in deep time necessitates comprehensive full-plate tectonic reconstructions that include evolving plate boundaries and oceanic ...
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...
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...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41772227,41872232);supported by the Inner Mongolia Mapping Programs(Nos.1212010811001,1212011120700,DD20160045,1212010510506)awarded to Zhiguang Zhou and administered by the Institute of Geological Survey,China University of Geosciences(Beijing).
The Meso-neoproterozoic Bayan Obo rift is located along the northern margin of the North China Craton,and was associated with the break-up of the Columbia supercontinent.During rift evolution,syn-sedimentary deformati...
The West Congo Belt contains in its rocks of Neoproterozoic age from Nemba complex outcropping in the Moumba River. This West Congo belt is made up of a crustal segment of the Arcuaï-West Congo orogen which extends fr...
In the south Eastern Desert of Egypt,two contrasting types of magmatism(mafic and felsic) are recorded in the Wadi Kalalat area,and form the Gabal El Motaghiarat and Gabal Batuga intrusions,respectively.The two intrus...
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...
funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.42072231).
A set of low-grade clastic metamorphic and carbonate rocks,and greenschists outcropping in the southwestern(SW)margin of the North China Craton(NCC),was originally classified as the Paleoproterozoic Xiong’er Group ac...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.42002099);the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (Nos.ZR2018QD002,ZR2020QD031);the Key Technology Research and Development Program of the Shandong Province (No.2019GSF109101)。
The Baoyintu uplift is located at the northwestern margin of the North China Craton(NCC). The affiliation and evolution history of the uplift have been unresolved until now. Here we present LA-ICP-MS and SHRIMP U-Pb d...