The glacial-interglacial transitions of ice ages are associated with large, rapid changes in
climate, which potentially can be reconstructed from stratigraphic profiles of the chemical …

Deep and ancient strata are significant successor fields for future oil and gas exploration.
Recently, a unit of thick high-quality interglacial black rock series was discovered between …

Today's era of big data is witnessing a gradual increase in the amount of data, more
correlations between data, as well as growth in their spatial dimension. Conventional linear …

Abstract In South China, the Yangtze and Cathaysia blocks were welded together along the
Jiangnan Fold Belt during Neoproterozoic time (∼ 830 Ma). Large-scale mineralization in …

Many manganese (Mn) carbonate deposits over geologic history are often closely
associated with black shales. However, the mechanism (s) by which the Mn entered the …

In order to explore Cryogenian seawater chemistry and its underlying controls, we present
an integrated study of iron speciation, major and trace elements, and carbon isotopes of Mn …

It is not well understood how, in the immediate aftermath of the Sturtian Snowball Earth,
marine sulfur cycling resulted in a global distribution of sedimentary pyrite with δ 34 S values …

Although elemental proxies (ie, boron/gallium [B/Ga], strontium/barium [Sr/Ba], and
sulfur/total organic carbon [S/TOC]) have been extensively used to evaluate paleo …

The Aoertuokanashi deposit located in the Western Kunlun Orogen is the first known Late
Carboniferous large high-grade carbonate-hosted Mn deposit in the world and it has been …

Based on a comprehensive review of published results, the plate tectonic setting of the
Neoproterozoic basins in the Yangtze Craton can be summarized as evolving from the …