Yongle atoll in the Xisha (Paracel) Archipelago is an isolated carbonate platform developed on Precambrian metamorphic and Mesozoic volcanic rocks since early Miocene. To identify 3D stratigraphic architecture evolution of this platform, 13 high-resolution seismic profiles shallow-to-deep water multi-beam data were processed analyzed to reveal facies, sequence boundary reflectors, units, archit...

The Antarctic Peninsula is considered to be the last region of Antarctica to have been fully glaciated as a result of Cenozoic climatic cooling. As such, it was likely the last refugium for plants and animals that had inhabited the continent since it separated from the Gondwana supercontinent. Drill cores and seismic data acquired during two cruises (SHALDRIL I and II) in the northernmost Penin...

The North China Craton (NCC) experienced strong destruction (i.e., decratonization) during the Mesozoic, which triggered intensive magmatism, tectonism and thermal events formed large-scale gold other metal deposits in eastern part of craton. However, how decratonization controls formation distribution is not very clear. Based on a large number published data new results, this paper systematica...

Reliable measurement of the original diversity of paleovegetation must account for many influences: the amount of time and space represented by the sample, the number of plant parts in the sample, the stature of the paleovegetation in relation to sample area, and the preseruational quality of the sample, as well as the number of species in the source community and their relative abundances. Pla...

Study of the interaction between uplift and erosion is a major theme of our science, but our understanding of their interplay is often limited by a lack of quantitative data. A classic example is the Colorado Plateau, for which the starting and ending points are well known: The region was at sea level in the Late Cretaceous, and now, the deeply eroded land surface is at ~2 km. The path of the l...

Understanding the formation of Qilian Shan in NE Tibetan Plateau provides insights into growth mechanisms northern portion plateau through time. The onset time exhumation is still debated. Qinghai Nan subrange, located southeastern Shan, cut by Yellow River that forms Longyang Gorge, providing a good vertical profile for thermochronological investigation exhumation. In this paper, we reconstruc...

Integration of data from fully cored stratigraphic holes with an extensive grid of seismic reflection lines in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, has allowed the formulation of a new model for the evolution of the Cenozoic Victoria Land Basin of the West Antarctic Rift. The Early Rift phase (Eocene to Early Oligocene) is recorded by wedges of strata confined by early extensional faults, and which conta...

[1] The extent and thickness of Antarctic sea ice have important climatic effects on radiation balance, energy transfer between the atmosphere and ocean, and moisture availability. This paper explores the role of sea ice and related feedbacks in the Cenozoic evolution of Antarctic climate and ice sheets, using a numerical climate model with explicit, dynamical representations of sea ice and con...

[1] Oxygen and carbon isotope records are important tools used to reconstruct past ocean and climate conditions, with those of benthic foraminifera providing information on the deep oceans. Reconstructions are complicated by interspecies isotopic offsets that result from microhabitat preferences (carbonate precipitation in isotopically distinct environments) and vital effects (species-specific ...