Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40572015 and 40332016);Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No. 2006CB806400);Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (PCSIRT);Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, and National Basic Science Personnel Training Foundation (Grant No. J0630537)
Phosphatized and three-dimensionally preserved embryos and spherical fossils of metazoan recovered from the Kuanchuanpu Member, Dengying Formation in southern Shaanxi, China provide nice devel- opmental sequence for t...
Marine invertebrate animal embryos and their early developmental products are of great significance to the study of taxonomy and phylogeny of early animals. A great number of phosphatized globular fossils were collect...
We have collected a suite of Paleoloxodon naumanni-Coelodonta antiquitatis fossils from a river terrace profile between Xi’an and Xianyang cities in Guanzhong Area, Shaanxi Province. A detailed examination of the fos...
The study of the Xishuidong micromammalian fauna, found from Lantian, Shaanxi Province, indicates that both the northern slope of the Qinling Mountains and Sichuan_Guizhou area must belong to the same Oriental Realm i...
THE microfossils were obtained by using 5%—7% HF acid from Qingbaikouian Dazhuang Formation in Luonan County, Shaanxi Province, with an age of 800—1000 Ma. The fossils may be one type of the oldest skeletal mierofos...
Over two hundred species of the Hipparion fauna belonging to the Baode Stage havebeen found in more than a hundred localities in China. All of these fossils had beenthought to come from the same horizon by most scient...
Project sponsored by the foundation of Xi'an Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary, Academia Sinica and by the foundation of the Laboratory of Geomechanics Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources PRC
The thick loess strata in the Loess Plateau of China, which have not been essentially reformed by internal and external agents, are one of the optimum continental deposits preserving the extraterrestrial materials in ...
In 1950, R. E. Beschel proposed the lichenometric dating technique. For age determination, the diameter growth rate of lichens is usually taken as a constant. Alternatively, the growth curve of lichens is derived by d...