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    Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition: Volume 92, Issue 6

    I-VIII, 2067-2486
    December 2018
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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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Magnetochronology of Late Miocene Mammal Fauna in Xining Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau, China

Jian'en HAN,  Zhaogang SHAO,  Qiguang CHEN,  Biao XU,  Qianqian ZHANG,  Jia YU,  Qingwei MENG,  Xuefeng ZHANG,  Jin WANG,  Dagang ZHU, 
  • Pages: 2067-2078
  • First Published: 27 December 2018
Magnetochronology of Late Miocene Mammal Fauna in Xining Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau, China

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Larger Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy and Facies Analysis of the Oligocene–Miocene Asmari Formation in the Western Fars Sub-basin, Zagros Mountains, Iran

Tahereh HABIBI,  Telm BOVER-ARNAL, 
  • Pages: 2079-2097
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Larger Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy and Facies Analysis of the Oligocene–Miocene Asmari Formation in the Western Fars Sub-basin, Zagros Mountains, Iran

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Geodynamic Background of Intracontinental Cenozoic Alkaline Volcanic Rocks in Laojiezi, Western Yangtze Craton: Constraints from Sr-Nd-Hf-O Isotopes

Qinggao YAN,  Xiaojun JIANG,  Chao LI,  Limin ZHOU,  Zhongqiang WANG,  Sultan Baig SHER,  Wenjun QU,  Andao DU, 
  • Pages: 2098-2119
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Geodynamic Background of Intracontinental Cenozoic Alkaline Volcanic Rocks in Laojiezi, Western Yangtze Craton: Constraints from Sr-Nd-Hf-O Isotopes

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A Thickness Gauge for the Lithosphere Based on Ce/Yb and Sm/Yb of Mantle–Derived Magmatic Rocks

Zhenhan WU,  Patrick J. BAROSH,  Qichao ZHANG,  Jiwen WU,  Yan YANG, 
  • Pages: 2120-2135
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A Thickness Gauge for the Lithosphere Based on Ce/Yb and Sm/Yb of Mantle–Derived Magmatic Rocks

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Geochemistry, Geochronology, and Hf isotopic Composition of the Late Paleoproterozoic Lujiapuzi Formation, NE Yan-Liao Rift, Northern Liaoning

Jin LIU,  Jian ZHANG,  Zhenghong LIU,  Changqing YIN,  Chen ZHAO,  Youbo PENG,  Shiyong DOU,  Zhongjie YANG, 
  • Pages: 2136-2156
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Geochemistry, Geochronology, and Hf isotopic Composition of the Late Paleoproterozoic Lujiapuzi Formation, NE Yan-Liao Rift, Northern Liaoning

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Geochronology and Genetic Model for Early Cretaceous Volcanic Rocks from the Southern Qiangtang Terrane, Northern Tibet, China: Constraints from U-Pb Zircon Dating, Whole-Rock Geochemical and Sr-Nd Isotopic Data

Shen LIU,  Caixia FENG,  M. Santosh,  Guangying FENG,  Mengjing XU,  Ian M. COULSON,  Xiaolei GUO,  Zhuang GUO,  Yan FAN, 
  • Pages: 2157-2178
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Geochronology and Genetic Model for Early Cretaceous Volcanic Rocks from the Southern Qiangtang Terrane, Northern Tibet, China: Constraints from U-Pb Zircon Dating, Whole-Rock Geochemical and Sr-Nd Isotopic Data

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Enigmatic Glass-Like Carbon from the Alpine Foreland, Southeast Germany: A Natural Carbonization Process

Tatyana G. SHUMILOVA,  Sergey I. ISAENKO,  Vasily V. ULYASHEV,  Boris A. MAKEEV,  Michael A. RAPPENGLÜCK,  Aleksey A. VELIGZHANIN,  Kord ERNSTSON, 
  • Pages: 2179-2200
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Enigmatic Glass-Like Carbon from the Alpine Foreland, Southeast Germany: A Natural Carbonization Process

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Iron Speciation of Mud Breccia from the Dushanzi Mud Volcano in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, NW China

Wang XU,  Guodong ZHENG,  Xiangxian MA,  Danielle FORTIN,  David R. HILTON,  Shouyun LIANG,  Zhi CHEN,  Guoyi HU, 
  • Pages: 2201-2213
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Iron Speciation of Mud Breccia from the Dushanzi Mud Volcano in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, NW China

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Using Portable Gamma-Ray Spectrometry for Testing Uranium Migration: A Case Study from the Wadi El Kareim Alkaline Volcanics, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt

Osama K. DESSOUKY,  Hani H. ALI, 
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Using Portable Gamma-Ray Spectrometry for Testing Uranium Migration: A Case Study from the Wadi El Kareim Alkaline Volcanics, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt

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Salt-Gathering and Potassium Formation of Potassium-Rich Brine during the Triassic in the Sichuan Basin, China

Bing ZHANG,  Kai YANG,  Xuben WANG,  Zhengqi XU,  Hongyu YANG,  Saimin ZHANG,  Jinchao CHEN,  Mingming ZHANG,  Wei LIU, 
  • Pages: 2233-2250
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Salt-Gathering and Potassium Formation of Potassium-Rich Brine during the Triassic in the Sichuan Basin, China

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Microbial Gas in the Mohe Permafrost, Northeast China and its Significance to Gas Hydrate Accumulation in Permafrost across China

Xingmin ZHAO,  Youhong SUN,  Jian DENG,  Zhu RAO,  Cheng LÜ,  Jian SONG,  Lixia Li, 
  • Pages: 2251-2266
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Microbial Gas in the Mohe Permafrost, Northeast China and its Significance to Gas Hydrate Accumulation in Permafrost across China

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Characterizing the Micropores in Lacustrine Shales of the Late Cretaceous Qingshankou Formation of Southern Songliao Basin, NE China

Mingna GE,  Shoumai REN,  Tianxu GUO,  Zhi ZHOU,  Shengjian WANG,  Shujing BAO, 
  • Pages: 2267-2279
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Characterizing the Micropores in Lacustrine Shales of the Late Cretaceous Qingshankou Formation of Southern Songliao Basin, NE China

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Characteristics of the First Occurrence of Jurassic Petroleum in the Zagros Basin, Iran

Sadouni JALIL,  Rabbani AHMADREZA, 
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Characteristics of the First Occurrence of Jurassic Petroleum in the Zagros Basin, Iran

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Retracted: The Original Organism Assemblages and Kerogen Carbon Isotopic Compositions of the Early Paleozoic Source Rocks in the Tarim Basin, China

Guang HU,  Qingqiang MENG,  Jie WANG,  Tengger  ,  Xiaomin XIE,  Longfei LU,  Houyong LUO,  Wenhui LIU, 
  • Pages: 2297-2309
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Retracted: The Original Organism Assemblages and Kerogen Carbon Isotopic Compositions of the Early Paleozoic Source Rocks in the Tarim Basin, China

Original Articles

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Geological Controls on the CBM Productivity of No.15 Coal Seam of Carboniferous–Permian Taiyuan Formation in Southern Qinshui Basin and Prediction for CBM High-yield Potential Regions

Zheng ZHANG,  Yong QIN,  Xinguo ZHUANG,  Guoqing LI,  Donghai LIU, 
  • Pages: 2310-2332
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Geological Controls on the CBM Productivity of No.15 Coal Seam of Carboniferous–Permian Taiyuan Formation in Southern Qinshui Basin and Prediction for CBM High-yield Potential Regions

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Geochemistry, Petrology and Mineralogy of Coal Measure Shales in the Middle Jurassic Yanan Formation from Northeastern Ordos Basin, China: Implications for Shale Gas Accumulation

Qian CHEN,  Xiangbin YAN,  Yuanling GUO,  Taiyuan HONG,  Haikuan NIE,  Jinchuan ZHANG,  Xuan TANG,  Wanjun LI,  Chong LIU, 
  • Pages: 2333-2350
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Geochemistry, Petrology and Mineralogy of Coal Measure Shales in the Middle Jurassic Yanan Formation from Northeastern Ordos Basin, China: Implications for Shale Gas Accumulation

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Development Phases and Mechanisms of Tectonic Fractures in the Longmaxi Formation Shale of the Dingshan Area in Southeast Sichuan Basin, China

Cunhui FAN,  Shun HE,  Yu ZHANG,  Qirong QIN,  Cheng ZHONG, 
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Development Phases and Mechanisms of Tectonic Fractures in the Longmaxi Formation Shale of the Dingshan Area in Southeast Sichuan Basin, China

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Carbon Isotopic Evolution Characteristics and the Geological Significance of the Permian Carbonate Stratotype Section in the Northern Upper-Yangtze Region, Southern China

Hongjun QU,  Peng LI,  Tengwen LUO,  Liqun GUAN,  Yuhai FAN,  Li WANG, 
  • Pages: 2367-2381
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Carbon Isotopic Evolution Characteristics and the Geological Significance of the Permian Carbonate Stratotype Section in the Northern Upper-Yangtze Region, Southern China

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Application of Geochemistry and VNIR Spectroscopy in Mapping Heavy Metal Pollution of Stream Sediments in the Takab Mining Area, NW of Iran

Parisa PIROOZFAR,  Samad ALIPOUR,  Soroush MODABBERI,  David COHEN, 
  • Pages: 2382-2394
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Application of Geochemistry and VNIR Spectroscopy in Mapping Heavy Metal Pollution of Stream Sediments in the Takab Mining Area, NW of Iran

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Flow Behavior of Clay-Silt to Sand-Silt Water-Rich Suspensions at Low to High Shear Rates: Implications for Slurries, Transitional Flows, and Submarine Debris-Flows

Pierdomenico DEL GAUDIO,  Guido VENTURA, 
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Flow Behavior of Clay-Silt to Sand-Silt Water-Rich Suspensions at Low to High Shear Rates: Implications for Slurries, Transitional Flows, and Submarine Debris-Flows

Reviews

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Assessing Lateral Continuity within the Yammama Reservoir in the Foroozan Oilfield, Offshore Iran: An Integrated Study

Payam HASSANZADEH,  Ahmad Reza RABBANI,  Ardeshir HEZARKHANI,  Saeed KHAJOOIE, 
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Assessing Lateral Continuity within the Yammama Reservoir in the Foroozan Oilfield, Offshore Iran: An Integrated Study

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Wave-Enhanced Sediment-Gravity Flows in Bohai Bay Lacustrine Basin, Eastern China

Chenyang BAI,  Bingsong YU,  Tianyang DONG,  Shujun HAN,  Jia GE,  Donglin ZHU, 
  • Pages: 2416-2431
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Wave-Enhanced Sediment-Gravity Flows in Bohai Bay Lacustrine Basin, Eastern China

News and Highlights

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China's Geological Work is Facing a Major Transformation

Lian LIU,  Ziguo HAO,  Zhiqiang LIU,  Min HUANG,  Hongcai FEI,  Jian ZHOU,  Yuxu ZHANG, 
  • Pages: 2432-2433
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Research Advances

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Cretaceous Hitchhikers: a Possible Phoretic Association between a Pseudoscorpion and Bird in Burmese Amber

Lida XING,  Ryan C. MCKELLAR,  Zhizhong GAO, 
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New Discovery of Post-Magmatic Pyrite in Natural Coke at Yangliu Coalmine, Northern China

Yanfei AN,  Yixiang CHEN,  Shuai ZHANG,  Xingyuan LI,  Chunkit LAI, 
  • Pages: 2436-2437
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New Discovery on Methane Adsorption Change of Coal due to Sc-CO2 Extraction during CO2-ECBM

Run CHEN,  Pengfei ZHANG,  Yong QIN,  Chongtao WEI,  Linlin WANG, 
  • Pages: 2438-2439
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The First Discovery of the Early Palaeozoic Carbonatite in the Bayan Obo Deposit, Inner Mongolia, China: Evidence from Zircon U-Pb Geochronology

Changhui KE,  Yike LI,  Zhongjian WU, 
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Newly Discovered Ca. 163 Ma OIB-Type Diabase Dike from the Shiquanhe Ophiolites, Western Tibet

Chenwei LI,  Zhijun LI,  Hui CAO,  Min ZENG, 
  • Pages: 2443-2444
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The Latest In-Situ Uraninite U-Pb Age of the Guangshigou Uranium Deposit, Northern Qinling Orogen, China: Constraint on the Metallogenic Mechanism

Yong WU,  Mingkuan QIN,  Dongfa GUO,  Guang FAN,  Zhangyue LIU,  Guolin GUO, 
  • Pages: 2445-2447
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Termination Time of the Emeishan Basalts in the Buotuo Region, SW China

Hongqi TAN,  Zhiyao NI,  Zhimin ZHU,  Gang XU,  Jiong ZHANG, 
  • Pages: 2448-2450
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New Zircon U-Pb Age of Devonian Granites in the Niukutou Lead-Zinc Deposit, Qinghai Province and its Significance for Prospecting Blind Orebodies

Runtang JIAN, 
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Cassiterite U-Pb Date of the Yangbin Porphyry Tin Deposit in Zhejiang and its Geological Significance

Qianzhen LI,  Junming YAO,  Rongqing ZHANG, 
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The Openness Degree Study of the Jiaoshiba Shale Gas, Sichuan Basin, China–Potential Factor Responsible for Reversed Isotope Series

Heng ZHAO,  Wenhui LIU,  Xiaofeng WANG, 
  • Pages: 2457-2459
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The Discovery of the 2.35Ga Crystalline Basement in the Southwest of the Yangtze Block and its Geological Significance

Heng ZHANG,  Linzhi GAO,  Chuanheng ZHANG,  Xiaozhong DING,  Tingdong LI,  Yanxue LIU, 
  • Pages: 2460-2461
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New Discovery of Red Paleosols with Calcite and Zeolitic Rhizoliths in the Late Cretaceous Yaojia Formation, Southern Songliao Basin, NE China

Li ZHANG,  Zhidong BAO,  Luxing DOU,  Hongjun WANG,  Yu JI, 
  • Pages: 2462-2463
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New Discovery of Holocene Activity along the Weixi-Qiaohou Fault in Southeastern Margin of the Tibetan Plateau and its Neotectonic Significance

Zufeng CHANG,  Yang ZANG,  Hao CHANG, 
  • Pages: 2464-2465
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The Dry-Cold Climate of the Qijia Archeological Civilization in Chankou of the Loess Plateau along the Silk Road Since the Neolithic Period

Huirong ZHANG,  Blaise DEMBELE,  Wanyi ZHANG,  Jingya ZHANG,  Yuan MA,  Chengjun ZHANG, 
  • Pages: 2466-2467
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Application of High-Resolution Remote Sensing Technology in Quantitative Study on Coseismic Surface Rupture Zones: An Example of the 2008 Mw7.2 Yutian Earthquake

Xinjian SHAN,  Nana HAN,  Xiaogang SONG,  Wenyu GONG,  Chunyan QU,  Yingfeng ZHANG, 
  • Pages: 2468-2469
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News and Highlights

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Contents of Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) Vol. 92, No. 1–6, 2018

  • Pages: 2470-2483
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Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) Calls For Open-dated Submission of Paleontological Papers

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Open Access to Geological Research of China — “Geoscience Periodical Network of China”

  • Pages: 2485-2486
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