yang, yanqiu yang, chuansheng sun, jing liang, jie zhao, qingfang wang, jianqiang
The East China Sea Basin (ECSB) is an integral part of the Western Pacific tectonic system. Its development is linked to the Kula–Pacific Plate and the formation and expansion of the Philippine Sea Basin. Recent advancements in exploration technologies and theory have been applied to Mesozoic basins in the East China Sea. Researchers have posited t...
mikhailenko, anna v. ruban, dmitry a.
Territorial inventories of geosites remain on the international agenda, and they can help in acquiring information for solving pure geological research tasks. New field investigations in the northern part of Mountainous Adygeya (geoheritage-rich territory in the western Greater Caucasus) permitted us to extend our knowledge of its geosites. Five ge...
ruban, dmitry a.
Granitoids are known to crop out on ancient seashores, but the related geological evidence remains limited. The information from the Western Caucasus sheds light on the stratigraphical distribution of coarse siliciclastic beds associated with late Carboniferous granitoids of the Dakh, Rafabgo, and Sakhray crystalline massifs. For the purposes of th...
pibo, su zhao, zhongquan zhang, kangshou
The Mesozoic subduction zone over the Dongsha Waters (DSWs) of the South China Sea (SCS) is a part of the westward subduction of the ancient Pacific plate. Based on the comprehensive interpretation of deep reflection seismic profile data and polar magnetic anomaly data, and the zircon dating results of igneous rocks drilled from well LF35-1-1, the ...
álvarez-parra, sergio azar, dany
Hymenoptera is the fourth-most diverse insect order today, including wasps, bees, bumblebees, and ants. They show a wide panoply of modes of life, such as herbivory, predation, parasitoidism, pollination, and eusociality. This group also includes a great number of extinct species from both amber and compression outcrops. Hymenopterans probably orig...
guo, ye mao, guangzhou qinglin, xu ding, zhengjiang han, yanchao zhao, huiji shen, ying
The Tietonggou pluton is mainly composed of gabbroic diorite and diorite. The petrology, zircon U-Pb age, and geochemistry of the Tietonggou diorite have been studied to determine its petrogenesis and metallogenic significance. The diorite samples have 56–58 wt% SiO2 and 11–14 wt% Al2O3 and are peraluminous and sodic (Na2O/K2O = 1.29–2.07). All the...
Larsén, Eva
This thesis has focused on the evolutionary history of Isoetes (Isoetales, Lycopsida), its phylogeny, megaspore morphology and evolutionary path through deep time. With a broadened sampling of species to include more of the worldwide diversity of the genus compared to previous work an unexpected sister to the rest of the genus was found. Isoetes wo...
Collet, Josse
Among all vertebrates, pterosaurs were the first group to evolve powered flight. This adaptation allowed them to become a diverse group, filling various habitats. Some individual pterosaurs have been interpreted as inhabiting arboreal environments, with adaptations to match. However, a broader verdict on the arboreal capabilities of pterosaurs, or ...
McLoughlin, Stephen Santos, Artai A.
Leaf mining is a highly specialized endophytic feeding style that evolved independently, within multiple lineages, in four major insect orders: Coleoptera (beetles), Hymenoptera (wasps), Diptera (flies), and Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). Mining is carried out by the larval stages of these groups with chewing mouthparts, and this feeding stra...
Jouault, Corentin
We report two new species of Novichneumoninae from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber: Rasnichneumon klopfsteinae sp. nov. and Rasnichneumon gibbosus sp. nov. These new species increase the diversity of novichneumonine wasps documented from Kachin amber during the mid-Cretaceous. We emend the diagnosis of the genus Rasnichneumon to accommodate the morphol...
