The Songliao Basin in northeastern China is one of the largest and longest-lived Cretaceous sedimentary basins enriched in petroleum and geothermal resources worldwide. Although the modern Songliao Basin has a high geothermal gradient, the geological...
This study focuses on the middle Eocene lacustrine shales of the Lower Member 2 of the Liushagang Formation (L–LS2) in the Weixi’nan Depression of the Beibu Gulf Basin. Employing an integrated approach that combines core observation, thin...
A climatic transition from arid to humid conditions occurred during the deposition of the Permian Pingdiquan Formation in the Shishugou Sag, Junggar Basin, Northwest China. This study reconstructs the paleoenvironmental evolution and organic matter (...
Sandstone of the Lower Cretaceous Luohe Formation is the main water inrush source in the Binchang Mining Area in the southwestern Ordos Basin. Its sedimentary environment and provenance features are critical for local coal development and safe mining...
A multidisciplinary study was conducted to reconstruct the paleoenvironmental evolution of Maladroxia Bay, one of the principal bays of the islet of Sant’Antioco in southwestern Sardinia, over the past eight millennia. As part of an archaeologi...
This study investigated, in detail, the characteristics of the Late Triassic fine-grained sediments in the third member of the Xujiahe Formation (Xu-3 Member), in the Western Sichuan Depression, and the paleoenvironmental evolution during their depos...
Thorough faunal (benthic foraminifera, ostracods, molluscs) and palynomorph analyses as well as magnetic susceptibility measurements performed on the Piraeus coastal plain sedimentary sequences have shed light on the paleoenvironmental evolution of t...
The research utilizes an interdisciplinary approach, combining geological, ecological, and historical methods. It delves into the environmental evolution of Lake Kolon over a span of 17,700 years, shedding light on the intricate interplay between geo...
The Yarkand Basin, located in the southwest of the Tarim Basin, is a northeastern part of the eastern Paratethys ocean in the Paleocene, and a significant amount of evaporites, with gypsum, anhydrite, and halite as the main types, were developed in t...
Investigating the paleoenvironment and characteristics of source rocks in sedimentary basins is crucial for understanding organic matter accumulation and guiding hydrocarbon exploration. The Lishui Sag, a significant hydrocarbon-bearing depression in...
Lake Kolon (Hungary), situated in the middle of the Turjánvidék area between the saline lakes of the Danube valley and the Homokhátság, is one of the most significant natural aquatic habitats in the Danube–Tisza Inte...
Based on data from core observations, thin-section petrography, scanning electron microscopy, whole-rock X-ray diffraction, organic geochemical analysis, and element analysis, in this study, we characterized the mineralogical–petrological featu...
The island of Astypalea (Greece), known for its rich and pristine archeological sites, encompasses a semi-enclosed silled basin that has been very susceptible to global sea levels and regional climate changes due to its relatively modern shallow sill...
The stability of contemporary ice shelves is under threat due to global warming, and the geological records in the Ross Sea offer such an opportunity to test the linkage between them. However, the absence of calcareous microfossils in the sediments o...
This study examines four shallow-water, reef-coral-bearing carbonate successions belonging to the Jhill Limestone Unit of the Gaj Formation, exposed in the area near Karachi (southern Pakistan). Sixty-two samples were collected for the quantitative a...
The black shale deposited in the Niutitang Formation and its adjacent strata is considered to be a favorable source rock in northern Guizhou of south China and has become a target horizon for shale gas exploration in recent years. Based on SQ-1 and C...
The earliest Cambrian (ca., 538.8–524.8 Ma) was an important period in geological history witnessing significant environmental change, during which organic-rich facies were developed in the Yangtze Platform, South China. However, the contempora...
The port of Portus was located about 30 km southwest of Rome and was the most important in the Western Mediterranean during the Roman Imperial period (27 BCE–476 CE). This paper analyses the palaeoenvironmental evolution of the channel linking...
Root systems, the hidden half of terrestrial plants, have been a fundamental geological agent since the late Early Paleozoic, with their evolution preserved in a rich but underutilized archive of soils and sediments. This review adopts a rhizolith-ce...
During the Rhuddanian–Aeronian interglacial period, global geological events such as glacial melting, synsedimentary volcanic activity, biological resurgence, and large-scale marine transgressions caused frequent fluctuations in paleoproductivi...
Paleoenvironmental insights gleaned from geological history are profoundly important for the discovery and exploitation of mineral resources. In China’s Bohai Bay Basin, the Kongdian Formation represents the principal oil-bearing stratum from t...
This research presents the paleoenvironmental evolution of a drained lake at the Lousoi plateau (northern Peloponnese), for the last 10,000 years, through the study of a 7 m depth core. Analyses conducted on the core include grain size, TOC, TN, pH,...
Under the background of global climate change, the evolution of climate in the future is the focus of geoscience. The Nanri Channel is an important passage connecting the Xinghua Bay and the Taiwan Strait, in China, and the study of its provenance an...
We investigated the occurrence of Radiospongilla inesi in a tilapia aquaculture facility located at the Chavantes Reservoir, Paranapanema River, Brazil. Specimens were collected from both artificial (net cages) and natural substrates along the reserv...
This study provides the first comprehensive characterization and classification of organic microfacies within the globally significant Jurassic hydrocarbon source rocks of Iraqi Kurdistan. This study aims to resolve the knowledge gap in the Jurassic...
Although recent studies have significantly improved our understanding of submerged landscapes along the karstified eastern Adriatic coast, many aspects of their evolution and response to post-glacial relative sea-level rise remain poorly understood....
The Permian shale in Northeast Sichuan is an important shale oil and gas resource potential area, and the study of its organic matter characteristics and paleoenvironmental analysis is of great significance for revealing the shale oil and gas formati...
Despite extensive research on sediment provenance in the Bohai Sea (BS), a significant knowledge gap persists concerning long-term provenance evolution, particularly in the western BS since the Middle Pleistocene. This shortcoming limits reconstructi...
Cretaceous paleoenvironmental reconstructions have relied heavily on marine records, whereas lacustrine deposits, though offering valuable high-resolution archives for non-marine environmental changes, remain underexplored. The Songliao Basin, the la...
The current interest in ice caves requires that their varied manifestations be known as accurately as possible in view of their responses to a global change and also to their great potential as paleoenvironmental witnesses. This phenomenon has been k...
The scarcity of well-preserved and directly dateable sedimentary sequences is a major impediment to inferring the Earth’s paleo-environmental evolution. The authigenic mineral glauconite can potentially provide absolute stratigraphic ages for s...
Lacustrine shales are globally important both as archives of paleoenvironmental change and as unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs. The first Member of the Upper Cretaceous Qingshankou Formation in the Songliao Basin, NE China, represents a prominen...
The eastern Junggar Basin in Xinjiang, China is a key coal-bearing region dominated by the Middle Jurassic Xishanyao Formation. Despite its significance as a major coal resource base, detailed paleoenvironmental reconstructions of its coal seams rema...
Aeolian deposits are globally recognized as sensitive recorders of Quaternary climate and environmental change, exemplified by the continuous loess sequences of the Chinese Loess Plateau in northern China, which document paleoclimatic and paleoenviro...
Beachrocks are well known as significant proxies for paleoenvironmental analysis as they indicate the coastal evolution. The combination of geomorphological and archaeological sea level indicators has a significant contribution to the coastal paleoge...
The geochemical characteristics of a 2.1 m BBW25 core, collected from the Beibu Gulf, have been investigated in terms of the major and trace elements, organic matter, and CaCO3 and AMS 14C dating by XRF, ICP-OES, ICP-MS, and more. We have found throu...
China is a crucial region for investigating the relationship between climate change and hominin evolution across diverse terrestrial ecosystems. With the continuous development of palaeoclimatology, chronology, and archaeology, the environmental and...
As biominerals are good tracers of microbial interactions with the environment, they may provide signatures of microbial evolution and paleoenvironmental conditions. Since modern analogues of past environments help with defining proxies and biosignat...
Quaternary continental deposits record spatio-temporal changes of the landscape and offer insights for drainage network analysis and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. This paper focuses on the Turano River, a left tributary of the Velino River, whi...
The study of Burano paleo-lagoon—Wetland of International Value, has allowed us to better define and extend the reconstruction of the Holocene paleoenvironmental evolution of the paleo-lagoons previously studied, located on the Tyrrhenian coast...
The Mallorca coastal caves present large amounts of speleothems that have been studied for decades. However, the sedimentary deposits also present in these cases have not been given the same attention. This work is the first study entirely focused on...
Mid-mountain ecosystems provide a broad diversity of resources, heterogeneous relief, and a mild climate, which are all very useful for human necessities. These features enable different strategies such as the terracing of the slopes as well as wide...
Coastal landscapes are sensitive to changes due to the interplay between surface and submarine geological processes, climate variability, and relative sea level fluctuations. The sedimentary archives of such marginal areas record in detail the comple...
The early Paleozoic Huaiyuan Movement created a major unconformity in the Ordos Basin, significantly influencing sedimentation and early diagenesis in both the overlying and underlying strata near the unconformity. However, the origins of the associa...
Terrestrial carbonates provide important archives for reconstructing paleoenvironmental, paleoclimatic and hydrogeological conditions in semi-arid to arid continental basins. This study investigates the origin, mineralogical characteristics and geoch...
Improved understanding of the drivers of climate variability, particularly over the last millennium, and its influence on Antarctic ice melt have important implications for projecting ice sheet resilience in a changing climate. Here, we investigated...
The discussion on the formation of Chernozems still has no consensus, and one of the outstanding questions is the type of the vegetation that supported the persistence of these soils in Central Europe over the Holocene period. The transformation of C...
The Ganquan Platform, located in the South China Sea, exhibits distinctive topographic and geomorphological features shaped by complex geological processes. Utilizing high-resolution multibeam bathymetry and multi-channel seismic data, this study pro...
Palygorskite is assumed to be the predominant clay mineral in playa-lakes, where it may be detrital or authigenic in origin. Discriminating between detrital and authigenic clays is crucial to elucidate paleoenvironmental conditions in lacustrine depo...
Changsha kilns were exported to more than 20 countries and regions and were an essential part of the culture in the central Yangtze River during the late Holocene. Reconstructing the hydrological landform and sedimentary history of its surrounding ar...
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