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  1. The fabrics of microbialites preserved in limestones are generally better than in dolostones. What are the fabrics of the microbialites preserved in heavily dolomitized dolostones? This paper presents an examp...

    Authors: Ying Li, Hong-Xia Jiang, Ya-Sheng Wu, Wen-Qing Pan, Bao-Shou Zhang, Chong-Hao Sun and Guo Yang

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2021 10:3

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  2. As the second common type of volcanic vent on Earth, maar-diatreme volcanoes and their post-eruptive lacustrine sediments are a main focus of volcanology, palaeolimnology, palaeoclimatology and palaeontology. ...

    Authors: Cong Chen, Zhuo Zheng, Li-Feng Zeng, Fan Xiao, Li-Ping Tian and Kang-You Huang

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2021 10:2

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  3. Bioturbation plays a critical role in sediment mixing and biogeochemical cycling between sediment and seawater. An abundance of bioturbation structures, dominated by Thalassinoides, occurs in carbonate rocks of t...

    Authors: Yu-Chao Fan, Yong-An Qi, Ming-Yue Dai, Da Li, Bing-Chen Liu and Guo-Shuai Qing

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2021 10:1

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  5. Rising sea-levels in tectonically active epicontinental basins often lead to varied depositional settings and palaeogeography, mostly influenced by the net accommodation resulting from mutual interference of t...

    Authors: Biplab Bhattacharya, Suparna Jha and Prantik Mondal

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2020 9:30

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  6. Stromatoporoid sponges were very abundant during the middle Palaeozoic Era and are thought to disappear at the end of the Devonian Period in the Hangenberg Crisis. However, there are records of organisms with ...

    Authors: Stephen Kershaw and Consuelo Sendino

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2020 9:29

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  7. Zircons are abundant in the beach sediments. In this study, surface microtexture, mineralogy, bulk sediment geochemistry, trace element composition and U–Pb isotopic geochronology of detrital zircons collected...

    Authors: John S. Armstrong-Altrin

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2020 9:28

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  8. Although Paleogene warm climatic intervals have received considerable attention for atmospheric and oceanographic changes, the authigenic mineralization associated with these time spans remains overlooked. An ...

    Authors: Santanu Banerjee, Tathagata Roy Choudhury, Pratul Kumar Saraswati and Sonal Khanolkar

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2020 9:27

    Content type: Review

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  9. The problematic calcareous microfossil Halysis is abundant in the Middle Ordovician Darriwilian Stage of the western edge of the Ordos Basin, North China. The rich and well-preserved specimens of Halysis in this ...

    Authors: Li-Jing Zheng, Hong-Xia Jiang, Ya-Sheng Wu, Hong-Ping Bao, Yue-Yang Zhang, Jun-Feng Ren and Zheng-Liang Huang

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2020 9:26

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  10. A comprehensive sedimentary and reservoir analysis was conducted based on seismic, well logging, core and relative test data, taking Members 1 and 2 of Shahejie Formation of the early Oligocene in the steep sl...

    Authors: Xiao-Feng Du, Hao Liu, Xiao-Bo Huang, Zhang-Qiang Song, Wei Xu and Can Zhang

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2020 9:25

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  11. The Middle Permian Lucaogou Formation in the Jimusar Sag, eastern Junggar Basin, NW China, was deposited in a salt lake within an intracontinental rift basin with intense hydrothermal activity. Hydrothermal-se...

    Authors: Shuai Zhang, Yi-Qun Liu, Hong Li, Xin Jiao and Ding-Wu Zhou

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2020 9:24

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  12. Sichuan Basin is very famous for the Mesozoic reptiles, especially the Jurassic dinosaurs. Here, we report some isolated plesiosaurian teeth and vertebrae newly excavated from the Middle Jurassic Xintiangou Fo...

    Authors: Feng Zhang, Hai-Dong Yu, Can Xiong, Zhao-Ying Wei, Guang-Zhao Peng and Xue-Fang Wei

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2020 9:23

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  15. Paleosols in an outcrop of fluvial–lacustrine red beds have been recognized in the Upper Cretaceous Yaojia Formation in southern Songliao Basin, Songyuan City, Jilin Province, NE China. They are recognized in ...

    Authors: Li Zhang, Zhi-Dong Bao, Chang-Min Zhang, Lu-Xing Dou, Ping Fu, Jia-Hong Zhao, Wu-Xue Wang and Yu Ji

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2020 9:20

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  16. This study investigates the provenance of sedimentary rocks in Bogda Mountains, NW China, and reconstructs the lithology and unroofing history of the Eastern North Tianshan Suture. Petrographic point counting ...

    Authors: Dong-Yu Zheng and Wan Yang

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2020 9:19

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  17. Microbial deposits commonly occur at the transition between carbonate and sulphate facies, and they also abound in the uppermost part of the middle Wuchiapingian Zechstein Limestone in west Poland. These depos...

    Authors: Tadeusz Marek Peryt, Marek Jasionowski, Paweł Raczyński and Krzysztof Chłódek

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2020 9:18

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  18. A hyperpycnal flow forms when a relatively dense land-derived gravity flow enters into a marine or lacustrine water reservoir. As a consequence of its excess of density, the incoming flow plunges in coastal ar...

    Authors: Carlos Zavala

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2020 9:17

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  19. The middle Miocene Badenian evaporite basin of the Carpathian Foredeep Basin was a saline lake, separated by a barrier from the sea and supplied with seawater seeping through the barrier or overflowing it occa...

    Authors: Danuta Peryt, Przemysław Gedl and Tadeusz Marek Peryt

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2020 9:16

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  20. Ostracods are described for the first time from the red-coloured marine sandstones of Arisu section (Arisu red beds) of the Upper Ordovician Tierekeawati Formation in Kalpin area of northwestern Tarim Basin, X...

    Authors: Jun-Jun Song, Yi-Xin Shen, Peng Tang, Xiao-Le Zhang, Qi-Jian Li and Zheng-Jiang Luo

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2020 9:15

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  21. Records of palaeoearthquakes in sedimentary rocks are often debated due to the potential confusion in distinguishing seismic versus aseismic trigger mechanisms causing liquefaction. The present paper documents...

    Authors: Biplab Bhattacharya and Abhirup Saha

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2020 9:14

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  22. Cenozoic sediments form extensive outcrops in the Niger Delta Basin. Detailed palynostratigraphic study was undertaken across Paleogene sequences exposed in Bende–Umuahia Area in up-dip sectors of the Niger De...

    Authors: Okechukwu Nicodemus Ikegwuonu, Obianuju Patricia Umeji, Osita Igwebuike Chiaghanam, Kingsley K. Nwozor, Otobong Sunday Ndukwe and Kingsley Chukwuebuka Chiadikobi

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2020 9:13

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  23. This study focuses on Early Cretaceous mudstones from the Shahai and Fuxin formations in the Fuxin continental basin. We analyse chemical weathering, land surface temperatures and palaeoclimates based on chemi...

    Authors: Xiao-Tao Xu, Long-Yi Shao, Bo Lan, Shuai Wang, Jason Hilton, Jian-Yi Qin, Hai-Hai Hou and Jie Zhao

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2020 9:12

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  24. Deep-marine and deep-lacustrine reservoirs have been targets for conventional and unconventional oil and gas exploration and development for decades. Thickening-upward cycles in the deep-marine Carboniferous R...

    Authors: Lei-Fu Zhang and Da-Zhong Dong

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2020 9:11

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Journal of Palaeogeography 2020 9:31

  26. This study describes a sequence of microbialites and volcanics of the Lower Cretaceous Shipu Group, an example of microbialites influenced by volcanic activity. It is located at Shipu town in eastern Zhejiang ...

    Authors: Xiao-Fang Wang, Xiu-Cheng Tan, Shao-Nan Zhang, An-Jiang Shen, Chang Li, Guang Hu, Xin Wang, Zi-Liao Chen, Li-Yin Pan, Jie Zhang and Wei Chen

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2020 9:9

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  28. The Cambrian strata in the North China Platform are fully exposed. A wide variety of carbonate oncoids with different shapes occur in the Xuzhuang and Zhangxia formations (Miaolingian Series) from six Cambrian...

    Authors: En-Zhao Xiao, Ming-Xiang Mei, Shu Jiang and Tehseen Zafar

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2020 9:7

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  30. A new early Visean coral assemblage has been recorded from turbidite facies in the southern part of the Azrou-Khenifra Basin, northwest of Khenifra, central Morocco. The newly discovered Ba Moussa West (BMW) c...

    Authors: Sergio Rodríguez, Ian D. Somerville, Pedro Cózar, Javier Sanz-López, Ismael Coronado, Felipe González, Ismail Said and Mohamed El Houicha

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2020 9:5

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  31. A combined biostratigraphic study of dinoflagellate cysts and foraminifera was carried out on Early Cretaceous subsurface well cutting sediments from well A (DNG) (2800–2746 m depth) from the Krishna-Godavari ...

    Authors: Ashish Kumar Mishra, Nallamuthu Malarkodi, Arun Deo Singh, Dinesh Babu and Vandana Prasad

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2020 9:4

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  32. An earthquake of magnitude M5.7 occurred in Yamutu village, Songyuan City, Jilin Province, NE China (45°16′12″N/124°42′35″E) on May 28, 2018, with a focal depth of 13 km. The epicenter is located at the inters...

    Authors: Zhu-Fu Shao, Jian-Hua Zhong, John Howell, Bing Hao, Xi-Wu Luan, Ze-Xuan Liu, Wei-Min Ran, Yun-Feng Zhang, Hong-Qi Yuan, Jing-Jing Liu, Liang-Tian Ni, Guan-Xian Song, Jin-Lin Liu, Wen-Xin Zhang and Bing Zhao

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2020 9:3

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  33. Sabellaria alveolata (Linnaeus 1767) is a polychaete able to build bioconstructions of different thickness, size and patchiness, in intertidal and subtidal environments. Its biological features have been the obje...

    Authors: Stefania Nunzia Lisco, Pasquale Acquafredda, Salvatore Gallicchio, Luisa Sabato, Andrea Bonifazi, Frine Cardone, Giuseppe Corriero, Maria Flavia Gravina, Cataldo Pierri and Massimo Moretti

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2020 9:2

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  34. This study investigates the process of formation of ooidal ironstones in the Upper Cretaceous-Paleogene succession in western Siberia. The formation of such carbonate-based ironstones is a continuing problem i...

    Authors: Maxim Rudmin, Santanu Banerjee, Elshan Abdullayev, Aleksey Ruban, Ekaterina Filimonenko, Elena Lyapina, Roman Kashapov and Aleksey Mazurov

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2020 9:1

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  35. The stable isotope (δ13C, δ18O) composition of a collection of Lower Jurassic brachiopods and oysters from the Andean Basin of northern Chile was analyzed. The results allow the first reconstruction of absolute w...

    Authors: Matthias Alberti, Franz T. Fürsich and Nils Andersen

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2019 8:33

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  36. In recent years, in some papers and manuscripts published in and submitted to the Journal of Palaeogeography (Chinese Edition and English Edition), the authors named the rocks or rock types as “microfacies” or “l...

    Authors: Zeng-Zhao Feng

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2019 8:32

    Content type: Review

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  37. In this reply, I respond to 18 issues associated with comments made by Zavala (e.g., inverse- to normally-graded sequence, origin of massive sands, experimental sandy debris flows, tidal rhythmites, facies mod...

    Authors: G. Shanmugam

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2019 8:31

    Content type: Academic discussion

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  38. In this paper, we provide two new Triassic palaeomagnetic poles from Winterswijk, the Netherlands, in the stable interior of the Eurasian plate. They were respectively collected from the Anisian (~ 247–242 Ma)...

    Authors: Lars P. P. van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen, Cor G. Langereis, Mark J. Dekkers, Bas Zanderink and Martijn H. L. Deenen

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2019 8:30

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  39. The northern part of the eastern margin of the extensional Neogene Teruel Basin (central-eastern Spain) consists of a non-linear, zigzag fault zone made of alternating ca. 2 km long, NNW-SSE trending segments ...

    Authors: Lope Ezquerro, Aránzazu Luzón, José L. Simón and Carlos L. Liesa

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2019 8:29

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  40. The Upper Cretaceous (early Cenomanian) Bahariya Formation of Egypt has an outstanding reputation for its wealth of vertebrate remains, including a variety of iconic dinosaurs, like the carnivorous Spinosaurus an...

    Authors: Haytham El Atfy, Tarek Anan, André Jasper and Dieter Uhl

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2019 8:28

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  41. Plesiosaurs are one of the common groups of aquatic reptiles in the Mesozoic, which mainly lived in marine environments. Freshwater plesiosaurs are rare in the world, especially from the Jurassic. The present ...

    Authors: Ting Gao, Da-Qing Li, Long-Feng Li and Jing-Tao Yang

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2019 8:27

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  42. Various microbial fabrics characterize late Moscovian mounds in Houchang Town, southern Guizhou, South China. The dominant components of the mounds are microbial boundstones with stromatolitic structures, irre...

    Authors: Wen-Tao Huang, Yong-Li Zhang, Chang-Qing Guan, Zhuo-Wei Miao, Xiao-Hong Chen, Zhen-Yuan Yang, Xiao Li and En-Pu Gong

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2019 8:26

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  45. A recent review article (“The hyperpycnite problem”) by Shanmugam (Journal of Palaeogeography 7(3):197–238, 2018) in this journal has some shortcomings, comes to scientifically incorrect conclusions, and calls fo...

    Authors: A. J. (Tom) van Loon, Heiko Hüneke and Thierry Mulder

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2019 8:24

    Content type: Academic discussion

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  47. Microbialites, often considered as a signal of extreme marine environment, are common in the Lower Triassic strata of South China where they flourished in the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction. Earl...

    Authors: Ya-Fei Huang, David P. G. Bond, Yong-Biao Wang, Tan Wang, Zhi-Xing Yi, Ai-Hua Yuan, Jia-Yuan Jia and Yu-Qi Su

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2019 8:22

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  48. Carbonate concretions provide unique records of ancient biogeochemical processes in marine sediments, and have the potential to reflect seawater chemistry indirectly. In fine-siliciclastic settings, they prefe...

    Authors: An-Qi Liu, Dong-Jie Tang, Xiao-Ying Shi, Li-Min Zhou, Xi-Qiang Zhou, Mo-Han Shang, Yang Li and Hu-Yue Song

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2019 8:20

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  49. Based on a combination of high resolution 3-D seismic, drilling and well logging and core data, this study focuses on describing the depositional features of the Neogene Minghuazhen Formation shallow water del...

    Authors: Li-Xin Tian, Hao Liu, Cheng-Min Niu, Xiao-Feng Du, Bo Yang, Xiao-Dong Lan and Dan-Lei Chen

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2019 8:19

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  50. Lacustrine stromatolites were widespread in the Miocene Wudaoliang Group (stromatolites of the Wudaoliang Group), northern Tibetan Plateau; but only at one location nearby the Wudaoliang Town, they occurred in...

    Authors: Ling-Qi Zeng, Hai-Sheng Yi, Guo-Qing Xia, Klaus Simon, Christine Heim and Gernot Arp

    Citation: Journal of Palaeogeography 2019 8:18

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