Global plate motion models provide a spatial and temporal framework for geological data
and have been effective tools for exploring processes occurring at the earth's surface …

The thin-skin Sevier and thick-skin Laramide belts of the North American Cordillera provide
a long-term record of the interrelations between evolving styles of mountain building and …

The breakup of the former Pangea supercontinent culminated in the modern drifting
continents. Increased rifting caused the establishment of the Atlantic Ocean in the middle …

The time scale for marine magnetic anomalies for the Late Cretaceous through Neogene (C-
sequence) and Middle Jurassic through Early Cretaceous (M-sequence with deep-tow …

Abstract The Jurassic stratigraphy in China is dominated by continental sediments. Marine
facies and marine-terrigenous facies sediment have developed locally in the Qinghai-Tibet …

South China hosts the most abundant and largest tungsten (W) deposits in the world, being
a famous W metallogenic region. Located at the eastern part of the South China Block …

Picritic lava flows near Lijiang in the late Permian Emeishan flood basalt province are
associated with augite-phyric basalt, aphyric basalt, and basaltic pyroclastic units. The …

We have devised a new absolute Late Jurassic‐Cretaceous Pacific plate model using a
fixed hot spot approach coupled with paleomagnetic data from Pacific large igneous …

The mantle sources of Tethyan basalts and gabbros from Iran, Tibet, the eastern Himalayas,
the seafloor off Australia, and possibly Albania were isotopically similar to those of present …

The L ate J urassic to E arly C retaceous interval represents a time of environmental
upheaval and cataclysmic events, combined with disruptions to terrestrial and marine …