The Uhelchulu quartz diorite-granodiorite intrusions in Xiwuqi, Inner Mongolia, are exposed along the northwestern margin of the Xilinhot microcontinental block, located within the central and eastern parts of the southeastern Hegenshan suture zone....
The Southern Beishan Orogenic Belt (SBOB), an integral part of the Southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB), is characterized by extensive Late Paleozoic magmatism. These igneous rocks are the key to studying the tectonic evolution process and the...
Northeast China occupies the majority of the eastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt, which mainly consists of continental blocks and accretionary terranes. The Devonian was a tectonic quiet period in the NE China region due to a lack of tectono-magmatis...
In the Baltic States and Belarus, the Middle Devonian period is characterised by an abundant fossil record of invertebrates such as scolecodonts, brachiopods, ostracods, trilobites, bivalves, crinoids, gastropods, and tentaculites. On the other hand,...
Morphology and nomenclature are essential issues of botany, in which both extant and fossil plant taxa follow the same nomenclature code. Devonian (419.2–358.9 Ma) herbaceous lycopsid Barsassia, one of the earliest coal-forming plants in geolog...
We present new data on the tectonic evolution of north-eastern Siberia using an integrated provenance analysis based on U–Pb detrital zircon dating and sandstone petrography of Devonian sedimentary strata. Our petrographic data suggest that Upp...
This paper presents a detailed study including LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb dating, geochemical, zircon Hf isotope, and whole rock Sr-Nd isotope analysis of magmatic rocks from the Yitong County, Jilin Province, NE China. These data are used to better const...
The scarcity of high-quality Paleozoic paleomagnetic data from the South China Block (SCB) has rendered the kinematic history of its rifting and drifting from Gondwana highly debated, consequently leaving the timing of opening and subsequent spreadin...
The Chinese Altay is located in the western segment of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) and preserves critical records of the Paleo-Asian Ocean (PAO) Plate evolution during the Paleozoic era. This region also hosts significant mineral deposits,...
This study focuses on understanding the association of rare earth elements (REE; lanthanides + yttrium + scandium) with organic matter from the Middle Devonian black shales of the Appalachian Basin. Developing a better understanding of the role of or...
The Tannuola terrane, located in the northern Central Asian Orogenic Belt, comprises magmatic rocks, attributed to island-arc and collisional settings during the Early Cambrian to the Late Ordovician. However, zircon U-Pb age, geochemical, and Sr-Nd...
Macropetalichthys rapheidolabis Norwood and Owen, 1846 (Placodermi: Petalichthyida), type species of Macropetalichthys Norwood and Owen, 1846, was based on a single cranial roof from the Devonian of southeastern Indiana. Poor preservation, and later...
John Strong Newberry described three species of the lobe-fin fish Onychodus (Osteichthyes, Sarcopterygii, Onychodontida) based on parasymphysial teeth, or tusks. Two species, Onychodus sigmoides Newberry, 1857 (type species of the genus) and Onychodu...
During the Late Paleozoic and Early Mesozoic, intensive tectonic and magmatic activity along the northern margin of the North China Craton (NCC) was associated with widespread gold mineralization. This study investigates the petrology, geochemistry,...
The origin and tectonic implication of Early–Middle Devonian magmatism in the northern margin of YB (Yili Block) remain enigmatic and are important for understanding Late Paleozoic evolution of the Junggar Ocean and southern Kazakhstan Orocline. Here...
This study conducted a spatiotemporal review of the coelacanth fossil record and explored its distribution and diversity patterns. Coelacanth research can be divided into two distinct periods: the first period, which is based solely on the fossil rec...
The closure time of the Shangdan Ocean is critical for understanding the tectonic evolution of the Proto-Tethys Ocean. However, the proposed closure time was prolonged from Ordovician to Devonian. In the present study, detrital zircon from the metase...
Forests appeared during the Middle to Late Devonian, but Devonian forests and their compositions are still rarely known. Xinhang forest was reported as the largest Devonian forest, with lycopsid trees of Guangdedendron micrum Wang et al. A fern-like...
A new hypothesis about the origin of isoetalean lycopsids was proposed based on palynological data. The occurrence of three apical papillae on the proximal surfaces of miospores is a significant palynological feature that is clearly defined in both i...
South China displays Devonian strata with well-exposed outcrops and is regarded as a diversity hotspot of Late Devonian lycopsids. The heterosporous lycopsid Sublepidodendron grabaui has been studied for over ten years, with its general morphology, a...
Lithospheric slices preserving pre-Alpine metamorphic imprints are widely described in the Alps. The Variscan parageneses recorded in continental, oceanic, and mantle rocks suggest a heterogeneous metamorphic evolution across the Alpine domains. In t...
Paleoclimate change from arid to dry sub-humid conditions is recorded in the upper Silurian (Přídolí) through lowermost Devonian (Lochkovian) Clam Bank Formation, western Newfoundland, based on the stratigraphy of reworked paleosol...
Sedimentary and hydrothermal pyrites contained in selected Malaysian black shale and cherts have been analysed using laser ablation inductively coupled plasma (LA ICP-MS) and electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) at the University of Tasmania, Australi...
The Late Paleozoic strata on the northwestern margin of the Tarim Block provide valuable insights into the subduction and collision processes that formed the Southwest Tianshan Orogenic Belt. This study integrates detrital zircon U-Pb dating and sand...
The ophiolites in the Beishan Orogenic Belt provide important information about the evolution of the Beishan Ocean in the Paleozoic Era. We studied ophiolite petrology, geochemistry and isotopic chronology. The Shazouquan ophiolites consist of dunite...
The Mongol-Okhotsk orogenic belt (MOB) is considered to be the youngest division of the huge Central Asian Orogenic Belt, but its origin and evolution are still enigmatic. To better understand the history of the MOB, we conducted U-Pb geochronologica...
Seismic attribute analysis, guided by well data, reveals widespread stratigraphic anomalies caused by erosion or karstification in the late Ordovician-early Devonian Hunton Group in the Arkoma Basin, eastern Oklahoma, USA. This study shows that these...
The Jinba deposit is an orogenic gold deposit located in the Markakuli shear zone, in the southern part of the Altay orogenic belt, northwestern China. Several granite and diorite dykes are present in the area of the mine, with ore bodies occurring i...
The transition from the Proto- to the Paleo-Tethys is still a controversial issue. This study reports a new petrology, zircon U–Pb geochronology, and whole-rock geochemistry of volcanic rocks from the Maoniushan Formation in the Nankeke area, n...
The Sisson Brook deposit is a low-grade, large-tonnage W-Mo deposit with notable Cu located in west-central New Brunswick, Canada, and is one of several W-Mo deposits in New Brunswick associated with fluids sourced from granitic plutons emplaced duri...
The Guanwushan Formation (GWSF) of Devonian dolomite are extensively developed in the northwest of Sichuan Basin in the Upper Yangtze region, but the properties of dolomitization fluid and the geneses are still unclear. Three types of dolomites can b...
The Devonian–Carboniferous transition was marked by a series of perturbations in the geological and biological evolution. The palaeontological data from Transcaucasia allowed the bryozoan diversity dynamics on the northern Gondwanan margin (sou...
A multi-proxy provenance study of Late Carboniferous to Middle Jurassic sandstones from the eastern Sverdrup Basin was undertaken employing optical petrography and heavy mineral analysis, chemical analysis of apatite, garnet and rutile grains, as wel...
It remains highly challenging to decipher the coupling between multistage fracturing and diagenesis in subsurface strike-slip fault zones. Based on seismic fault analysis, core and thin-section observations, and compiled calcite-cement U–Pb age...
Mesozoic porphyritic rocks from the Zijinshan area, southwestern Fujian Province, China, are andesitic to rhyolitic in composition. The whole-rock SiO2 contents of these rocks are between 62.5% and 78.1%. Magmatic zircon from the Mesozoic porphyritic...
Correlation of hydrocarbon reservoir sandstones is one of the most important economic applications for heavy mineral analysis. In this paper, we review the fundamental principles required for establishing correlation frameworks using heavy mineral da...
The Touro volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposit is located in the NW of the Iberian Variscan massif in the Galicia-Trás-os-Montes Zone, an amalgamation of several allochthonous terrains. The Órdenes complex is the most extensive of...
Studies on post-collisional magmatic rocks can provide key clues to researching the crust–mantle interactions and the tectonic evolution of collisional orogenic belts. This study investigated a suite of newly discovered mafic intrusions in the...
Thorium-rare earth-iron oxide deposits of the Lemhi Pass district, Idaho and Montana, are enriched in the middle rare earth elements (REE), and particularly neodymium (Nd). Overall, thorium (Th) and total rare earth oxide (TREO) grades of the deposit...
The origin of granitic rocks from the South Qilian orogenic belt is of great significance for understanding the continental tectonic framework of Western China. Currently, scholars have different opinions on the tectonic evolution of the South Qilian...
The properties of ancient magmatic arcs are crucial for understanding the tectonic evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. The Middle Devonian Kulumudi Formation in the Laofengkou area of West Junggar lacks accurate chronological data constrain...
Because their resistant, sporopolleninous walls preserve a record of morphogenetic change during spore formation, fossil cryptospores provide a direct physical record of the evolution of sporogenesis during the algal–plant transition. That tran...
The Pre-Mesozoic units exposed in the inner Northern Apennines mostly consist of Pennsylvanian-Permian successions unconformably deposited on a continental crust consolidated at the end of the Variscan orogenic cycle (Silurian-Carboniferous). In the...
As one of the four primary evolutionary groups within myriapods, centipedes (Chilopoda) comprise approximately 3150 valid species. Recent molecular studies have begun to elucidate the phylogeny and time to divergence in Chilopoda; yet, identifying sc...
A geochemical study was conducted on the Touro deposit, which is situated within the Iberian Variscan Massif on the allochthonous terrain of the Galicia–Tras-os-Montes Zone. This study encompassed both mineralogical and geochemical analyses of...
The evolution of the eastern Paleo-Asian Ocean (PAO) has controlled the formation of the southeastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB). However, the evolution history and final closure time of the eastern PAO still remain controversial, which great...
Siliceous rocks of various colors and types are extensively developed within the Middle–Lower Ordovician carbonate along the Northwest Tarim Basin. Their genesis provides important insights into the evolution of basinal fluids and the associate...
The Susong metamorphic complex (SSC) in the southern margin of the Dabie orogenic belt (DOB) in central-eastern China is a key metamorphic unit for understanding subduction and exhumation processes in the DOB. However, the formation age and metamorph...
Sphaeromorphic algal cysts, most probably of the prasinophyte Tasmanites, and acanthomorphic acritarch vesicles, most probably Solisphaeridium, occur in a single 20 cm thick bed of micritic limestone in the lower part of the Middle Devonian (Givetian...
High-silica adakites exhibit specific compositions, as follows: SiO2 ≥ 56 wt.%, Al2O3 ≥ 15 wt.%, Y ≤ 18 ppm, Yb ≤ 1.9 ppm, K2O/Na2O ≥ 1, MgO < 3 wt.%, high Sr/Y (≥10), and La/Yb (>10). Devonian I-type adakitic granitoids in th...
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