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    Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition: Volume 91, Issue 3

    I-VIII, 763-1168
    June 2017
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Editorial

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New Editor-in-Chief Professor Degan SHU

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Message from the Editor-in-Chief

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Introduction to Associate Editors-in-Chief

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List of members of the Editorial Board

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Original Articles

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A New Troodontid Dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning Province, China

Caizhi SHEN,  Junchang LÜ,  Sizhao LIU,  Martin KUNDRÁT,  Stephen L. BRUSATTE,  Hailong GAO, 
  • Pages: 763-780
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A New Troodontid Dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning Province, China

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A New Specimen of Crichtonpelta benxiensis (Dinosauria: Ankylosaurinae) from the Mid-Cretaceous of Liaoning Province, China

Jingtao YANG,  Hailu YOU,  Li XIE,  Hongrui ZHOU, 
  • Pages: 781-790
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A New Specimen of Crichtonpelta benxiensis (Dinosauria: Ankylosaurinae) from the Mid-Cretaceous of Liaoning Province, China

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Sauropod Teeth from the Lower Cretaceous Luohandong Formation of Ordos Basin, Inner Mongolia

Yandong HOU,  Lifu ZHANG,  Shan JIANG,  Shu-an JI, 
  • Pages: 791-796
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Sauropod Teeth from the Lower Cretaceous Luohandong Formation of Ordos Basin, Inner Mongolia

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A New Fossil Scorpionfly (Insecta: Mecoptera: Holcorpidae) with Extremely Elongate Male Genitalia from Northeastern China

Lei LI,  Chungkun SHIH,  Chen WANG,  Dong REN, 
  • Pages: 797-805
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A New Fossil Scorpionfly (Insecta: Mecoptera: Holcorpidae) with Extremely Elongate Male Genitalia from Northeastern China

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Characterization of the Microbial Dolomite of the Upper Sinian Dengying Formation in the Hanyuan Area of Sichuan Province, China

Xiaoxian LIN,  Jun PENG,  Lingchun DU,  Jianping YAN,  Zhongjian HOU, 
  • Pages: 806-821
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Characterization of the Microbial Dolomite of the Upper Sinian Dengying Formation in the Hanyuan Area of Sichuan Province, China

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Interlinking the Hotspot Track in the Arctic and its Implications for Paleo-plate Reconstrution

Zhonglan LIU,  Jianghai LI,  Chiheng LIU,  Weibo LI,  Hongwei ZHANG, 
  • Pages: 822-831
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Interlinking the Hotspot Track in the Arctic and its Implications for Paleo-plate Reconstrution

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Carboniferous–Permian Stratigraphy and Sedimentary Environment of Southeastern Inner Mongolia, China: Constraints on Final Closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean

Junbin ZHU,  Jishun REN, 
  • Pages: 832-856
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Carboniferous–Permian Stratigraphy and Sedimentary Environment of Southeastern Inner Mongolia, China: Constraints on Final Closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean

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Emplacement Mechanism of the Akebasitao Pluton: Implications for Regional Tectonic Evolution of West Junggar, NW China

Pan ZHANG,  Guocan WANG,  Yongtao LI,  Shengye ZHANG,  Chao PENG,  Hongwei ZHAO,  Yanhong ZHA, 
  • Pages: 857-874
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Emplacement Mechanism of the Akebasitao Pluton: Implications for Regional Tectonic Evolution of West Junggar, NW China

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Compositions, Proportions, and Equilibrium Temperature of Coexisting Two-feldspar in Crystalline Rocks

Hongwen MA,  Jing YANG,  Shuangqing SU,  Wengui YAO, 
  • Pages: 875-881
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Compositions, Proportions, and Equilibrium Temperature of Coexisting Two-feldspar in Crystalline Rocks

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Discovery and Significance of Diamonds and Moissanites in Chromitite within the Skenderbeu Massif of the Mirdita Zone Ophiolite, West Albania

Weiwei WU,  Jingsui YANG,  Changqian MA,  Ibrahim MILUSHI,  Dongyang LIAN,  Yazhou TIAN, 
  • Pages: 882-897
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Discovery and Significance of Diamonds and Moissanites in Chromitite within the Skenderbeu Massif of the Mirdita Zone Ophiolite, West Albania

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Late Paleozoic to Mesozoic Intrusions Distribution in the North Sanjiang Orogenic Belt, Southwest China: Evidence from Zircon U–Pb Dating and Geochemistry

Xuejing GONG,  Zhusen YANG,  Xiangjin MENG,  Xiaofei PAN,  Qian WANG,  Lejun ZHANG, 
  • Pages: 898-946
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Late Paleozoic to Mesozoic Intrusions Distribution in the North Sanjiang Orogenic Belt, Southwest China: Evidence from Zircon U–Pb Dating and Geochemistry

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Genesis of the Gold Deposit in the Indus-Yarlung Tsangpo Suture Zone, Southern Tibet: Evidence from Geological and Geochemical Data

Xiong ZHANG,  Xueguo DENG,  Zhusen YANG,  Zengqian HOU,  Yuanchuan ZHENG,  Yingchao LIU,  Xiaoyan ZHAO,  Bo XU,  Yingru PEI,  Jinsheng ZHOU,  Miao ZHAO,  Jianfei YUAN, 
  • Pages: 947-970
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Genesis of the Gold Deposit in the Indus-Yarlung Tsangpo Suture Zone, Southern Tibet: Evidence from Geological and Geochemical Data

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Characteristics of Meso-Cenozoic Igneous Complexes in the South Yellow Sea Basin, Lower Yangtze Craton of Eastern China and the Tectonic Setting

Yumao PANG,  Xunhua ZHANG,  Guolin XIAO,  Xingwei GUO,  Zhenhe WEN,  Zhiqiang WU,  Xiaoqing ZHU, 
  • Pages: 971-987
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Characteristics of Meso-Cenozoic Igneous Complexes in the South Yellow Sea Basin, Lower Yangtze Craton of Eastern China and the Tectonic Setting

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Early Neoarchean Magmatic and Paleoproterozoic Metamorphic Events in the Northern North China Craton: SHRIMP Zircon Dating and Hf Isotopes of Archean Rocks from the Miyun Area, Beijing

Yuruo SHI,  Xitao ZHAO, 
  • Pages: 988-1002
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Early Neoarchean Magmatic and Paleoproterozoic Metamorphic Events in the Northern North China Craton: SHRIMP Zircon Dating and Hf Isotopes of Archean Rocks from the Miyun Area, Beijing

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Origin and Geological Significance of TTG Gneisses from the Maevatanana Greenstone Belt in North–Central Madagascar, and A Comparison with India

Peng LI,  Jiankang LI,  Shanbao LIU,  Rongfu PEI,  Guanghai SHI, 
  • Pages: 1003-1024
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Origin and Geological Significance of TTG Gneisses from the Maevatanana Greenstone Belt in North–Central Madagascar, and A Comparison with India

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Genesis of the Ciemas Gold Deposit and Relationship with Epithermal Deposits in West Java, Indonesia: Constraints from Fluid Inclusions and Stable Isotopes

Chaofei ZHENG,  Zhengwei ZHANG,  Chengquan WU,  Junhua YAO, 
  • Pages: 1025-1040
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Genesis of the Ciemas Gold Deposit and Relationship with Epithermal Deposits in West Java, Indonesia: Constraints from Fluid Inclusions and Stable Isotopes

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Geochemical Stream Sediment Survey in the Wadi Umm Rilan Area, South Eastern Desert, Egypt: A New Occurrence for Gold Mineralization

Mohamed Abdallah Gad DARWISH, 
  • Pages: 1041-1062
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Geochemical Stream Sediment Survey in the Wadi Umm Rilan Area, South Eastern Desert, Egypt: A New Occurrence for Gold Mineralization

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A Periglacial Palaeoenvionment in the Upper Carboniferous–Lower Permian Tobra Formation of the Salt Range, Pakistan

Irfan U. JAN,  Shahid IQBAL,  Sarah J. DAVIES,  Jan A. ZALASIEWICZ,  Michael H. STEPHENSON,  Michael WAGREICH,  Muhammad HANEEF,  Muhammad HANIF,  Sajjad AHMAD, 
  • Pages: 1063-1078
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A Periglacial Palaeoenvionment in the Upper Carboniferous–Lower Permian Tobra Formation of the Salt Range, Pakistan

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Does Glacial-Interglacial Transition Affect Sediment Accumulation in Monsoon-Dominated Regions?

Dharmendra Pratap SINGH,  Rajeev SARASWAT,  Dinesh K. NAIK, 
  • Pages: 1079-1094
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Does Glacial-Interglacial Transition Affect Sediment Accumulation in Monsoon-Dominated Regions?

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Intensification of the East Asian Monsoon in Southern China at about 300–400 kaBP Inferred from Eolian Deposits in the Middle-lower Reaches of the Yangtze River

Lin QI,  Yansong QIAO,  Yuehui LI,  Yan WANG,  Shasha PENG,  Zexin HE,  Shuaibin YANG,  Chao HAN,  Xujiao ZHANG, 
  • Pages: 1095-1108
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Intensification of the East Asian Monsoon in Southern China at about 300–400 kaBP Inferred from Eolian Deposits in the Middle-lower Reaches of the Yangtze River

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Change of Organic δ13C in Ornithogenic Sediments of the Xisha Archipelago, South China Sea and its Implication for Ecological Development

Libin WU,  Xiaodong LIU,  Liqiang XU, 
  • Pages: 1109-1119
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Change of Organic δ13C in Ornithogenic Sediments of the Xisha Archipelago, South China Sea and its Implication for Ecological Development

Reviews

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A Century of Spinosaurs - A Review and Revision of the Spinosauridae with Comments on Their Ecology

David William Elliott HONE,  Thomas Richard HOLTZ Jr, 
  • Pages: 1120-1132
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A Century of Spinosaurs - A Review and Revision of the Spinosauridae with Comments on Their Ecology

News and Highlights

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China Has Successfully Conducted its First Pilot Production of Natural Gas Hydrates

Ziguo HAO,  Hongcai FEI,  Qingqing HAO,  Lian LIU, 
  • Pages: 1133-1134
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Research Advances

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First Report of Late Miocene Mammals Including Chilotherium in the Xining Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau, China

Jianen HAN,  Zhaogang SHAO,  Biao XU,  Qianqian ZHANG,  Jia YU,  Qingwei MENG,  Xiangang MENG,  Dagang ZHU,  Jin WANG, 
  • Pages: 1135-1136
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The Firstly Discovered Cosmic Spherules in Carbonaceous Siltstone from the Taizi Formation of the Mesoproterozoic Shennongjia Group, Central China

Hongwei KUANG,  Tianrui SONG,  Yongqing LIU,  Nan PENG,  Zhicai ZHU,  Zhengxiu FAN,  Yuchong WANG,  Xiaoxu XIA,  Huanxin SONG,  Yong TANG, 
  • Pages: 1137-1138
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New Discovery of Molar Tooth Structures in the Kangjia Formation at Benxi, Liaoning and its Significance

Hao WU,  Xiaozhong DING,  Yanxue LIU,  Hongwei KUANG, 
  • Pages: 1139-1140
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Discovery of Marine-terrestrial Transitional Facies Shale Gas in Taiyuan Formation of Zhenjia 1 Well, Northern Shaanxi, Ordos basin

Yongsheng ZHANG,  Mianping ZHENG,  Enyuan XING,  Yangchi LI,  Baoling GUI,  Lizhi SHI,  Yongtao HE,  Linlin WANG,  Yuan PENG,  Haitong ZHAO, 
  • Pages: 1141-1142
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A Cretaceous Desert-Playa Sedimentary System Controlled the Potash Formation in the Simao Basin

Chihua WU,  Chenglin LIU,  Lijian SHEN,  Jiuyi WANG,  Hua ZHANG, 
  • Pages: 1143-1144
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A New Example of Retrograde Solubility Model for Carbonate Rocks

Lihong LIU,  Chunlian WANG,  Daming WANG,  Haida WANG, 
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Siliceous Cementation of Chlorite-Coated Grains in the Permian Sandstone Gas Reservoirs, Ordos Basin

Aiping FAN,  Renchao YANG,  Jinbu LI,  Zhongjun ZHAO,  A.J. (Tom) VAN LOON, 
  • Pages: 1147-1148
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A New Chronological Report of the Hongshi Breccia-Host Gold Deposit in the Western Qinling Region, China

Chenguang WANG,  Yi CAO,  Tao SUN,  Weigang LI,  Hao ZENG, 
  • Pages: 1149-1150
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New Zircon U-Pb Age of the Babu Ophiolites in Southeast Yunnan, China and Constrains of Plate Subduction Time

Hu HUANG,  Yuansheng DU,  Jianghai YANG,  Wenchao YU, 
  • Pages: 1151-1152
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Discovery of the Dagele Eclogite in East Kunlun, Western China and Its Zircon SHRIMP U-Pb Ages: New Constrains on the Central Kunlun Suture Zone

Wei DU,  Changyi JIANG,  Tang Zhongli,  Mingzhe XIA,  Zhaode XIA,  Jinlan LING,  Wei ZHOU,  Bangyao WANG, 
  • Pages: 1153-1154
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SHRIMP Zircon U–Pb Age of the Sidingheishan Mafic–Ultramafic Intrusion in the Southern Margin of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, NW China and its Petrogenesis implication

Tao SUN,  Zhuangzhi QIAN,  Gang XU,  Jun DUAN,  Wanting LI,  Aiping ZHANG, 
  • Pages: 1155-1156
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Adakitic Rocks Resulting from Partial Melting of Metabasite at High-Pressure Granulite-Facies Condition during Continental Collision

Shengyao YU,  Sanzhong LI,  Jianxin ZHANG,  Deyou SUN, 
  • Pages: 1157-1158
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Tectonic Nature of the Northern Segment of the Jiao-Liao-Ji Belt: A Rift or Continental Collision Belt?

En MENG,  Chaoyang WANG,  Yanguang LI,  Jia CAI,  Hong YANG,  Zhuang LI, 
  • Pages: 1159-1160
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The Discovery of Deep High-Resistivity Block and Inadequately Consolidated Magma Chambers in Gaoligongshan Oblique Collisional Orogen and its Tectonic Implications

Nian YU,  Xuben WANG,  Xiangyun HU,  Dewei LI,  Fangjin DENG,  Xuelin CAI, 
  • Pages: 1161-1162
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A New Model for Correlation between the Marine Benthic Oxygen Isotope and Red Clay Magnetic Susceptibility on the Chinese Loess Plateau

Hujun GONG,  Rui ZHANG,  Yunxiang ZHANG,  Leping YUE, 
  • Pages: 1163-1164
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News and Highlights

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Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) Calls For Open-dated Submission of Paleontological Papers

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Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) Calls For Submission of Review Papers

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Introduction to Geological Periodical Network of China

  • Pages: 1167-1168
  • First Published: 05 July 2017