Abstract The Paleoproterozoic (2.5–1.6 Ga) Era is a decisive time in Earth and life history.
The paleobiological record (microfossils, stromatolites, biomarkers and isotopes) illustrates …

The Jiaodong gold province in northeastern China is the country's premier gold resource
and globally one of the most important gold provinces. The late Early Cretaceous gold …

Phosphorus is the central ingredient in fertilizer that allows modern agriculture to feed the
world's population. This element, also critical in a host of industrial applications, is a …

"… a number of chapters provide excellent summaries of the modern methods available for
studying fungal ecology, along with those more traditional methods that are still extremely …

Phosphatized and silicified microfossils–preserved through replication of organic templates
by authigenic calcium phosphate and silica, respectively–form through mechanistically …

Deposition of black shale of the Lower Cambrian Niutitang Formation (NTT) of the Yangtze
Block, South China, in association with the Ediacaran-Cambrian (EC) transition was …

In order to understand redox variations and organic matter accumulation on the Yangtze
carbonate platform during the Late Ediacaran–Early Cambrian, petrological and …

Abstract The Ediacaran Period witnessed one of the largest phosphogenic events in Earth's
history. Coincidently, some phosphorite deposits in South China are associated with the …

Abstract “Old phosphorite” deposits (Ediacaran to early Cambrian) located in Central
Guizhou, South China, are hosted in carbonate and represent the earliest phosphogenesis …

Numerous sedimentary phosphorites in Southwest China were formed around the
Precambrian–Cambrian transition (PC–C), including the upper Ediacaran Doushantuo …