... paleomagnetic poles of the blocks on both sides of the Tianshan sutures suggests that the central oceanic basin of the western Paleo-Asian Ocean (between the Siberian and Tarim blocks) had been closed since the late Carboniferous (ca. 310 Ma), apart from remnant seas. In addition, a sizeable clockwise rotation...

...] for θ by substituting the values of θ p , T and T r (=25) into the equation. This procedure was adapted to the results from the laboratory experiments in this study. The research field was located in Liudaogou Basin in Shaanxi Province in the Loess Plateau, China. The average annual...

... in these areas, but Miaolingian–Furongian trilobites are quite frequently preserved. They are all from deep shelf to basinal environments. Miaolingian–Furongian trilobites of the Hexi Corridor area have been studied by Zhu et al. ( 1979 ) and Zhou et al. ( 1982 ). Lin et al. ( 2013 , 2015 ) have respectively...

... with ophiolite, granite, and quartzite pebbles ( fig. 1 c ). The peridotite massifs mainly crop out in the Liudaogou, Xigou, Yaoshuiquan, and Yeniuquantan areas ( fig. 2 ). The Xigou massif is the largest one and covers an area of around 5 km 2 . Regional mapping demonstrates that it mainly consists...

...C. W. F. Rissmann; M. I. Leybourne; C. Benn; J. A. Kidder; L. K. Pearson Abstract Groundwaters recovered from the Salar de Punta Negra and Monturaqui basins in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile exhibit distinctly different isotopic, major, trace, and porphyry copper elemental compositions...

...; 30 – Xin’antun; 31 – Baishilizi; 32 – Yangjingou; 33 – Wudaogou; 34 – Liudaogou; 35 – Xinglong; 36 – Sanjiazi. Abbreviations: NCGB – northern and central Great Xing’an Range W belt; SGB – southern Great Xing’an Range W belt; LXZB – Lesser Xing’an–Zhangguangcai Range W belt. The SGB, situated...