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First record of stable isotopes (δ¹³C, δ¹⁸O) and element ratios (Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca) of Middle to Late Jurassic belemnites from the Indian Himalayas and their potential for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions

Middle to Late Jurassic belemnites from the Spiti and Zanskar valleys in the Indian Himalayas were used for stable isotope (δ¹³C, δ¹⁸O) and element (Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca) analyses. Although the Himalayan orogeny deformed...

Authors: Matthias Alberti, Franz T. Fürsich, Dhirendra K. Pandey, Nils Andersen, Dieter Garbe-Schönberg, Suraj Bhosale, Ketan Chaskar and Jörg M. Habermann

Deltas: a new classification expanding Bates’s concepts

Deltas constitute complex depositional systems formed when a land-derived gravity-flow (carrying water and sediments) discharges into a marine or lacustrine standing body of water. However, the complexity of d...

Authors: Carlos Zavala, Mariano Arcuri, Mariano Di Meglio, Agustin Zorzano, Germán Otharán, Ainara Irastorza and Antonela Torresi

Manganese carbonate stromatolites of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation in Chengkou, northern Yangtze Craton, China

The origin process of manganese ores remains unsolved worldwide. Exploring the origins of stromatolites that contain manganese may be a key to deciphering the sedimentary environments and metallogenic processe...

Authors: Yi Zhang, Jian Li, Long Chen, Yi Wei, Qiang Shi, Dong-Ge Wang, Qing-Ming Wu, Liao-Yuan Song, Meng Tian, Hong-Wei Kuang, Yong-Qing Liu, Kaarel Mänd, Hua-Qing Bai, Zi-Liang Liu, Yu-Chong Wang, Da-Wei Qiao…

Spatiotemporal patterns of sediment deposition on the northern slope of the South China Sea in the last 150,000 years

The source-to-sink system of the northern South China Sea (SCS) has been widely discussed during the past few decades. Sr–Nd isotope, clay minerals and trace elements were extensively used as the proxies of se...

Authors: Zhe Hu, Bao-Qi Huang, Le-Jun Liu and Na Wang

Provenance of sediments from Barra del Tordo and Tesoro beaches, Tamaulipas State, northwestern Gulf of Mexico

The mineralogy, bulk sediment geochemical composition, and U–Pb ages of detrital zircons retrieved from the Barra del Tordo (Tordo) and Tesoro beach sediments in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico were analyzed t...

Authors: Mayla A. Ramos-Vázquez and John S. Armstrong-Altrin

Microfabric features of microbial carbonates: experimental and natural evidence of mold holes and crusts

Results of our study based on examination of induced precipitation of carbonate by a cyanobacterium, Lyngbya in the laboratory, and the analyses of microphotographs of both modern and ancient microbial carbonates...

Authors: Ya-Sheng Wu, Hong-Xia Jiang, Ying Li and Gong-Liang Yu

Coevolution of global brachiopod palaeobiogeography and tectonopalaeogeography during the Carboniferous

The global brachiopod palaeobiogeography of the Mississippian is divided into three realms, six regions, and eight provinces, while that of the Pennsylvanian is divided into three realms, six regions, and nine...

Authors: Ning Li, Cheng-Wen Wang, Pu Zong and Yong-Qin Mao

The new ichnotaxon Eubrontes nobitai ichnosp. nov. and other saurischian tracks from the Lower Cretaceous of Sichuan Province and a review of Chinese Eubrontes-type tracks

The Jiaguan Formation and the underlying Feitianshan Formation (Lower Cretaceous) in Sichuan Province yield multiple saurischian (theropod–sauropod) dominated ichnofaunas. To date, a moderate diversity of six ...

Authors: Li-Da Xing, Martin G. Lockley, Hendrik Klein, Li-Jun Zhang, Anthony Romilio, W. Scott Persons IV, Guang-Zhao Peng, Yong Ye and Miao-Yan Wang

Late Oligocene Melia (Meliaceae) from the Nanning Basin of South China and it’s biogeographical implication

Melia L. is a small genus of only 2–3 species, which is native to Indo-Malesia, India, Pakistan and southern parts of tropical Africa. Fossil records of Melia are known from the early Miocene to the Pleistocene. ...

Authors: Wei-Qiu Liu, Sheng-Lan Xu, Qiong-Yao Fu, Cheng Quan and Jian-Hua Jin

Correction to: A near-shore clastic-carbonate mixing mode in a continental rift basin (early Oligocene, eastern Shijiutuo Uplift, Bohai Bay Basin, China): sedimentology, reservoir characteristics and exploration practice

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

Correction to: The turbidite-contourite-tidalite-baroclinite-hybridite problem: orthodoxy vs. empirical evidence behind the “Bouma Sequence”

Authors: G. Shanmugam

Characteristics and evolution of inertinite abundance and atmospheric pO₂ during China’s coal-forming periods

Coal, especially the inertinite in it, is highly sensitive to climate changes, showing an obvious response to paleoclimate conditions, in particular, to paleo-oxygen concentration (pO₂). In this study, the inerti...

Authors: Dong-Dong Wang, Lu-Sheng Yin, Long-Yi Shao, Da-Wei Lyu, Hai-Yan Liu, Shuai Wang and Guo-Qi Dong

A record of deglaciation-related shifting of the proximal zone of a sandur — a case study from the Gwda sandur, NW Poland (MIS 2)

The study analyses a 7.5-m-thick sedimentary succession deposited in the largest sandur (the Gwda sandur, a glacial outwash plain) in NW Poland, during the late Weichselian (MIS 2). Although the study site is ...

Authors: Mateusz Mleczak and Małgorzata Pisarska-Jamroży

Different accretion and diagenetic patterns within the fabrics of the Permian–Triassic boundary microbialites on the Leye isolated carbonate platform, South China Block

A comprehensive study on the accretion and diagenesis of the Permian–Triassic boundary microbialites is conducive to a better understanding of the ecological community after the end-Permian mass extinction. He...

Authors: Xi-Yang Zhang, Yue Li, Guan Wang and Hong-Qiang Yang

Eocene to Oligocene nannofossils stratigraphy and environmental conditions in Izeh Province, Zagros Basin, East Tethys

Data obtained from the calcareous nannofossils, distributed in the upper part of the Pabdeh Formation (Priabonian–Rupelian) and the lower part of the Asmari Formation (Chattian) in the Bid-Zard section, were u...

Authors: Saeedeh Senemari and Farah Jalili

The turbidite-contourite-tidalite-baroclinite-hybridite problem: orthodoxy vs. empirical evidence behind the “Bouma Sequence”

The underpinning problems of deep-water facies still remain unresolved. (1) The Tb, Tc, and Td divisions of the turbidite facies model, with traction structures, are an integral part of the “Bouma Sequence” (T...

Authors: G. Shanmugam

Diversified calcimicrobes in dendrolites of the Zhangxia Formation, Miaolingian Series (Middle Cambrian) of the North China craton

As a type of non-laminated microbial carbonates, dendrolites are dominated by isolated dendritic clusters of calcimicrobes and are distinct from stromatolites and thrombolites. The dendrolites in the upper par...

Authors: Ming-Xiang Mei, Muhammad Riaz, Zhen-Wu Zhang, Qing-Fen Meng and Yuan Hu

Shoreline evolution and modern beach sand composition along a coastal stretch of the Tyrrhenian Sea, southern Italy

This contribution focuses on a multidisciplinary research showing the geomorphological evolution and the beach sand composition of the Tyrrhenian shoreline between Capo Suvero promontory and Gizzeria Lido vill...

Authors: Consuele Morrone and Fabio Ietto

Late Tremadocian (Early Ordovician) reefs on the Yangtze Platform, South China, and their geobiological implications: a synthesis

This study provides an overview and discussion of controls on the distribution of organic reefs during the Early Ordovican Period, in the Yangtze Platform, a region of epicontinental sedimentary rocks in South...

Authors: Jian-Po Wang, Qi-Jian Li, Stephen Kershaw, Yuan-Yuan Zhang, Shen-Yang Yu and Yue Li

Palaeobotanical and biomarker evidence for Early Permian (Artinskian) wildfire in the Rajmahal Basin, India

This study provides a combined analysis on the palynology, fossil charcoal and biomarkers of the subsurface coal deposits from a borehole RMB #2 drilled at the Dhulia Coal Block, Rajmahal Basin, India, in atte...

Authors: Srikanta Murthy, Vinod Atmaram Mendhe, Dieter Uhl, Runcie Paul Mathews, Vivek Kumar Mishra and Saurabh Gautam

Characteristics and origin of a new type of polyhalite potassium ore in the Lower Triassic Jialingjiang Formation, Puguang area, northeastern Sichuan Basin, SW China

A new type of polyhalite potassium ore (NTPPO) was found in the Lower Triassic Jialingjiang Formation, NE Sichuan Basin, SW China. It is water soluble, therefore can be exploited using the water-solution metho...

Authors: Wen-Jun Shang, Mian-Ping Zheng, Yong-Sheng Zhang, Jia-Ai Zhong, En-Yuan Xing, Yuan Peng, Bao-Ling Gui and Kong Li

Macro- and microfeatures of Early Cambrian dolomitic microbialites from Tarim Basin, China

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

A combined geophysical and lithological study on eruptive history and Quaternary lacustrine stratigraphy of a maar in Leizhou Peninsula, China

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

Bioturbation of Thalassinoides from the Lower Cambrian Zhushadong Formation of Dengfeng area, Henan Province, North China

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

Correction to: Thickening-upward cycles in deep-marine and deep-lacustrine turbidite lobes: examples from the Clare Basin and the Ordos Basin

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: Lei-Fu Zhang and Da-Zhong Dong

Palaeogeographic reconstruction of a fluvio-marine transitional system in Narmada rift basin, India — Implications on Late Cretaceous global sea-level rise

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

Labechia carbonaria Smith 1932 in the Early Carboniferous of England; affinity, palaeogeographic position and implications for the geological history of stromatoporoid-type sponges

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

Detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology and geochemistry of the Riachuelos and Palma Sola beach sediments, Veracruz State, Gulf of Mexico: a new insight on palaeoenvironment

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

The formation of authigenic deposits during Paleogene warm climatic intervals: a review

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

Halysis Høeg, 1932 — an ancestral tabulate coral from the Ordos Basin, North China

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

A near-shore clastic-carbonate mixing mode in a continental rift basin (early Oligocene, eastern Shijiutuo Uplift, Bohai Bay Basin, China): sedimentology, reservoir characteristics and exploration practice

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

Hydrothermal-sedimentary dolomite — a case from the Middle Permian in eastern Junggar Basin, China

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

New freshwater plesiosaurian materials from the Middle Jurassic Xintiangou Formation of the Sichuan Basin, southwestern China

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

Early-Middle Permian palynoflora of Shandong Province, eastern North China

The Permian Taiyuan and Shanxi formations exposed in Shandong Province, eastern North China, contain abundant spores and pollen. In this study, a total of 42 genera and 146 species of spores and pollen from th...

Authors: Tian-Tao Yin, Shou-Jun Li, Xiang-Yu Zhang and Xiu-Li Zhao

The use of mineral interfaces in sand-sized volcanic rock fragments to infer mechanical durability

The use of mineral interfaces, in sand-sized rock fragments, to infer the influence exerted by mechanical durability on the generation of siliciclastic sediments, has been determined for plutoniclastic sand. C...

Authors: Emilia Le Pera and Consuele Morrone

Paleosols in an outcrop of red beds from the Upper Cretaceous Yaojia Formation, southern Songliao Basin, Jilin Province, NE China

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

Provenance of upper Permian-lowermost Triassic sandstones, Wutonggou low-order cycle, Bogda Mountains, NW China: implications on the unroofing history of the Eastern North Tianshan Suture

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

Demise of the Jabłonna Reef (Zechstein Limestone) and the onset of gypsum deposition (Wuchiapingian, west Poland): carbonate-to-evaporite transition in a saline giant

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

Hyperpycnal (over density) flows and deposits

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

Marine transgression(s) to evaporite basin: The case of middle Miocene (Badenian) gypsum in the Central Paratethys, SE Poland

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

First record of ostracods from the Upper Ordovician red-coloured marine sandstones of the Tierekeawati Formation in Tarim Basin, NW China: implications on palaeoenvironment and palaeobiogeography

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

Large soft-sediment deformation structures (SSDS) in the Permian Barren Measures Formation, Pranhita-Godavari Valley, India: potential link to syn-rift palaeoearthquake events

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

Palynomorph assemblage biozonation of Paleogene strata in Bende–Umuahia Area, Niger Delta Basin, southeastern Nigeria

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

Continental chemical weathering during the Early Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE1b): a case study from the Fuxin fluvio-lacustrine basin, Liaoning Province, NE China

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

Thickening-upward cycles in deep-marine and deep-lacustrine turbidite lobes: examples from the Clare Basin and the Ordos Basin

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

Ancient rip current records and their implications: an example from the Cretaceous Ukra Member, Kutch, India

Poorly-sorted conglomerate patches rich in granules or sturdy fossils or both, and reddish mud matrix within the interstices stand out amidst fine-grained siliciclastic shelf sediments of the trangressive syst...

Authors: Subir Sarkar and Amlan Koner

Sedimentary characteristics of microbialites influenced by volcanic eruption: a case study from the Lower Cretaceous Shipu Group in Zhejiang Province, East China

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

Asia–Gondwana connections indicated by Devonian fishes from Australia: palaeogeographic considerations

Middle Palaeozoic vertebrate fossil occurrences are summarised for Australia, with reference to faunal connections between Asia and East Gondwana, as first indicated by fish distributions of Lower Devonian fos...

Authors: Gavin Charles Young and Jing Lu

Morphology and features of Cambrian oncoids and responses to palaeogeography of the North China Platform

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

Benthic foraminiferal assemblages from the Safranbolu Formation (Cuisian, Eocene), Northwest Anatolia, Turkey

Twenty-one outcrop samples collected from a 28-m-thick section from the Safranbolu Formation of the southwestern part of the Safranbolu Basin, Anatolia, Turkey yielded well-preserved benthic foraminifera belon...

Authors: Kubra Okur and Hatice Kutluk