supported by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research(Grant No.2019QZKK0706);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.42030510,42002009,42102013);the Strategic Priority Research Program(B)of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDB26000000);the State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy(Grant Nos.20201104,20221103);the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences(Grant No.DD20221829)。
The Ordovician rocks on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau represent the oldest non-metamorphic strata,and are critical to understanding the history of regional geology and biotic evolution of the entire plateau.Strata of Fl...
supported by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research(Grant No.2019QZKK0706);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.42372019,41888101,41872004,42272027,42288201,42172028);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant Nos.XDB26000000,XDA2007020203)。
The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau experienced a unique geological evolution during the Jurassic,driven by the termination of the Palaeotethys and the reduction of the Neotethys.The Indian Plate separated from the northern m...
The non-marine Cretaceous sequences are well developed in the relict basins, i.e. the Luxi basin in the west, and the Jiaolai basin in the east of Shandong Province. The Lower Cretaceous Santai Formation (140 - 136 Ma...
supported by the Instituto Geológico y Minero de Espana (IGME) and Dirección General de Investigación (DGI) from Spain by the projects CTM2011-30241-C02-02 and CTM2014-60451-C2-2-P;the Geomodels Research Institute and the Grup de Recerca de Geodinàmica i Anàlisi de Conques (Grant no. 2017SGR596, supported by AGAUR)
The Paleocene(66–56 Ma)was a critical time interval for understanding the geological history in high palaeolatitudes after the end of Cretaceous event(recovery from mass extinction,palaeoclimate,global sea level chan...
the Leverhulme Trust for financial support.This is a contribution to IGCP 653 project’The onset of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event’.
1 Introduction Stratigraphy,placing the sequence of events in Earth history into order,is a fundamental part of the geosciences.Traditionally the starting point is a regional stratigraphy,based on lithological,mappabl...
supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program (B) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant Nos. XDB26000000, XDB18000000);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41290260, 41772004, 41772012);the Special Program for Basic Research of the Ministry of Science and Techology, China (Grant No. 2013FY111000)
The Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points(GSSPs) for the bases of all seven international Devonian stages have been formally defined and ratified by IUGS till 1996, and nowadays, the main tasks for Devonian s...
supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant Nos. XDB26000000, 18000000 and XDPB05);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41290263);and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No. 2013FY111000)
The Carboniferous period lasted about 60 Myr, from ~358.9 Ma to ~298.9 Ma. According to the International Commission on Stratigraphy, the Carboniferous System is subdivided into two subsystems, i.e., Mississippian a...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41530104 & 41661134047)
The Triassic rocks are widespread in China, and both marine and terrestrial strata are well developed. The Triassic stratigraphic architecture of China is very complex in both spatial variation of the so-called "South...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41790452, 41688103, 41172037 and 41272030)
Cretaceous strata are widely distributed across China and record a variety of depositional settings. The sedimentary facies consist primarily of terrestrial, marine and interbedded marine-terrestrial deposits, of whic...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41572021);the National Commission on Stratigraphy of China
The Paleogene is the first period after the Mesozoic Mass Extinction. Mammals become the dominant group in the terrestrial ecosystem with a rapid radiation, and Asia has been considered to be the origin place of sever...