The authors thank Prof.Chun-Ju Huang from the China University of Geosciences(Wuhan)for a useful discussion.This research was supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(no.XDB26000000);the China National Key Basic Research Program(2014CB954201);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(nos.31570223,41690115,and 32000174);the State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany(nos.LSEB2019-1 and LSEB2019-4);and the Chinese Academy of Sciences President’s International Fellowship Initiative(2018VBA0016).
The evolution of the Asian monsoon from the Late Oligocene to the Early Miocene is poorly understood.Here,we first reconstruct the precipitation data of central Tibet during 26–16 million years ago(Ma),applying the c...
Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(973 Program)(No.2012CB956004);the Science and Technology Basic Resources Investigation Program of China(No.2017FY201407);the National Oil and Gas Major Projects of China(No.2011ZX05025-002);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(No.41106064)
Carbonate rocks are important reservoirs for global petroleum exploration.The largest oilfield in the South China Sea,Liuhua 11-1,is distributed in the massive carbonate reef area of the Zhujiang(Pearl)River Mouth Bas...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41322013);the Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities (Grant No. B14031);the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2012CB822003)
The Oligocene-Miocene transition period was characterized by a decrease in global CO2 levels, expansion of polar ice sheet, fall in global sea-level, etc. However, the reasons for, and mechanisms of, this global, extr...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41210001, 41372002 & 41528201);National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2012CB822003)
Mummified fossils are extraordinarily important for understanding both biotic evolution and ecology in the geological time,by uniquely providing a far more detailed source of information in comparison to impression ma...
The National Science and Technology Major Project for Large Oil-Gas Fields and Coal-formed Gas Development under contract Nos 2008ZX05023 and 2011ZX05025-002;the National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract Nos 49206061 and 41106064;the National Basic Research Program(973 Program) of China under contract Nos 2012CB956004 and 2009CB219406
Halimeda is one of the major reef-building algas in the middle Miocene of Xisha, and one of the significant reef-building algas in the algal reef oil and gas field of the South China Sea. However, there have been few ...
financially supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2006CB701401);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.31270277)
Abundant palynological fossils are found from the drill core in the west slope of Songliao Basin, the first full coring borehole that drilled throughout the Neogene. Two Palynological assemblages are recognized accord...
This study was supported by NSF EAR-0746105,and partly by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,the National Basic Research Program of China,973 Program,US DOE DE-AC02-06CH11357
Fossil fruits including nuts and associated husk valves of a new species of Carya (Juglandaceae) are described from the latest Miocene to earliest Pliocene in northeastern Tennessee, eastern United States. The husk va...
support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 40721061, 40871098, 41023006, and 41072258);the National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2010CB833405);the Open Foundation of State Key Laboratory Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, CAS (No. SKLLQG1219)
To investigate climate evolution during the Miocene, especially during the Middle Mio- cene climate transition on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, stable oxygen and carbon isotopes of car- bonates from a 288-m-thick ...
supported by the National Science Foundation(BCS 1035897,BCS 1227838 and BCS 0321893);Bryn Mawr College,the American Association of Physical Anthropologists the Yunnan Natural Science Foundation(2010CC010);the Zhaotong Government,the National Basic Research Program of China and the National Natural Science Foundation of China(2012CB821900 and 40925012)
Fossil apes are known from several late Miocene localities in Yunnan Province,southwestern China,principally from Shihuiba(Lufeng)and the Yuanmou Basin,and represent three species of Lufengpithecus.They mostly compris...
grants from a 973 program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China,the National Natural Science Foundation of China,the Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography,Kunming Institute of Botany,Chinese Academy of Sciences
The microsoroid ferns make up a large group in the family Polypodiaceae, easily characterized by the combination of at least partly clathrate rhizome scales and anastomosing reticulate venation. The diversification of...