financially supported by the National Natural Science Fund of China(Nos.42002166,41690134,42162016);the Guizhou Provincial Fund Project(Nos.[2020]1Y161,ZK[2021]199,ZK[2022]106)。
The black shale samples from the Niutitang Formation in the Yangtze Block were sequentially treated using organic solvent extraction and wet chemical oxidation.The organic matter(OM)in the shales includes physically m...
supported by the Prime Minister’s Research Fellows(PMRF)scheme from the Ministry of Education,New Delhi,Government of India(PMRF ID:1300753);Fieldwork and laboratory studies were financially supported by the Science and Engineering Research Board(SERB,Govt.of India)core research grant(CRG/2019/000812)to N.Prabhakar;Mineral and monazite analyses were performed using the SERB-funded EPMA National Facility at the Department of Earth Sciences,IIT Bombay(IRPHA grant no.IR/S4/ESF-16/2009);Prabhakar acknowledges the core research grant(file no.CRG/2019/000812)for the financial support given for laboratory analysis。
Mikir Hills region,which represents the eastern segment of the Assam-Meghalaya Gneissic Complex(AMGC)in northeast India,constitutes part of the Eastern Gondwana.The Mikir Hills preserves multiple metamorphic and magma...
supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41930319,41621003,and EAR-1554897);the 111 Project(No.D17013);the Natural Science Basic Research Plan of Shaanxi Province(No.2022JC-DW5-01).
Burgess Shale-type deposits provide a wealth of information on the early evolution of animals.Questions that are central to understanding the exceptional preservation of these biotas and the paleoenvironments they inh...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFA0718200);the Strategic Priority Research Program(B)of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB41000000);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41972072 and 42373056);S.X.is supported by the US National Science Foundation(EAR-2021207).
An increase in atmospheric pO_(2) has been proposed as a trigger for the Cambrian Explosion at∼539–514 Ma but the mechanistic linkage remains unclear.To gain insights into marine habitability for the Cambrian Explos...
supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.B200202009).
The Early Cambrian represents a critical time period characterized by extraordinary biological innovations and dynamic redox conditions in seawaters.Nitrogen isotopic signatures of ancient sediments have the potential...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.42272103,92062221,42063009,U1812402);the Guizhou Provincial Science and Technology Projects(Grant No.Qiankehejichu–ZK[2022]common 213);the Higher Education Scientific Research Projects of the Education Department of Guizhou Province(Grant No.Qianjiaoji[2022]157).
A polymetallic layer is usually developed at the bottom of the early Cambrian black shale in Guizhou Province.The mineral that makes up the polymetallic layer is related to the sedimentary facies.To analyze the differ...
supported by the PetroChina Innovation Foundation (No.2018D-5007-0105);National Natural Science Foundation of China (42102193);Open Experiment Funding of Southwest Petroleum University (2021KSZ02008 and 2021KSP02031).
At the end of Early Cambrian time,the Sichuan basin(South China)was located in a wide carbonate platform,with hundreds of meters of carbonate deposited.The Longwangmiao Formation carbonate in Sichuan basin is partiall...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41572099 and 41872127).
The Niutitang Formation in the South China Block might be a source of hydrocarbon as it contains an enormous quantity of organic matter.Black rock of the Early Cambrian Niutitang Formation is widely distributed in the...
This work was financially supported by a National Natural Science Foundation of China Projects(41730213);a Grant-inAid for Scientific Research from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(JSPS)to Prof.Toshiaki Tsunogae(18H01300)。
The circum-Gondwana subduction initiated by the early Cambrian has been suggested to reflect the establishment of the modern plate tectonics.The metamorphic rocks with low thermobaric(T/P)ratios indicative of cold sub...
supported by the Key R&D Project of Ministry of Science and Technology(Grant No.2022YFF0800100);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.42072335,42002027,41825019,41821001,42130208);the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDB26000000).
Despite intensive study of the early Cambrian Nanhua Basin(ECNB)in South China,its degree of connectedness to the open ocean remains uncertain,impeding analysis of contemporaneous oceanic redox evolution and its role ...