The Miocene Petrified Forest of Lesvos, Greece: Research and Geoconservation Activities [PDF]
Geoconservation Research, 2021 The Petrified Forest of Lesvos is a Protected Natural Monument showing standing and lying petrified tree trunks, preserved by intense volcanic activity in the early Miocene.
Nickolas Zouros
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The beaver Steneofiber depereti from the lower Upper Miocene hominid locality Hammerschmiede and remarks on its ecology [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2022 Dental remains of a medium sized beaver from the early Late Miocene Hammerschmiede locality (MN 7/8) in the Northern Alpine Foreland Basin (Southern Germany, Bavaria) are described and assigned to Steneofiber depereti.
THOMAS LECHNER, MADELAINE BÖHME
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MANAS: Journal of Engineering, 2021 This study aimed to find the depositional environment and formation conditions of the gypsum-dominated Miocene succession alternated and intercalated with clastics and carbonates in the southwestern part of the Erzincan Basin.
Pelin Güngör Yeşilova, Şeyma Yavuz
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Petrography, geochemistry and petrogenesis of high-silica Adakitic rocks from Bayram Abad area in the northwest Neyshabour (Northeast of Iran) [PDF]
پترولوژی, 2021 The volcanic rocks of Bayram Abad area, located 12 km northwest of Neyshabour, are dominated by the Paleogene units composing of dacite and andesite rocks.
mohammad ebrahim fazel valipour
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Геохімія техногенезу, 2022 Brief information on the geological structure of the Medvynska and Strokivska areas is given, within which, in the deposits of the Novopetrivska suite of the Poltava series of the Neogene, placers of zirconium-titanium minerals are located.
Yu.V. Kroshko, M.S. Kovalchuk
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A new species of Proegernia from the Namba Formation in South Australia and the early evolution and environment of Australian egerniine skinks [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 The diverse living Australian lizard fauna contrasts greatly with their limited Oligo-Miocene fossil record. New Oligo-Miocene fossil vertebrates from the Namba Formation (south of Lake Frome, South Australia) were uncovered from multiple expeditions ...
K. M. Thorn +5 more
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First Deep-Sea Shark Fossil Teeth from the Miocene of South Korea
Zoodiversity, 2021 Important vertebrate fossil records have been collected in the Pohang Basin in South Korea for many decades, but only a few were described in literature.
Chan-gyu Yun
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Stable isotope analysis of middle Miocene mammals from the Siwalik sub-Group of Pakistan [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2021 Stable isotope analysis is pivotal for investigating the paleodiet and paleoecology of past mammals. In this paper, we analyzed thirty fossil enamel samples belonging to the families Suidae, Rhinocerotidae, and Deinotheriidae for δ13Cenamel and ...
Muhammad Tahir Waseem +6 more
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Аlternative local stratigraphical scales of the Upper Miocene of the Rostov Dome
Известия высших учебных заведений: Геология и разведка, 2023 Background. Definition of local stratigraphical units, the main of which are formations, is important for geological mapping and correct understanding of the composition of sedimentary complexes. This task is yet to be solved for some territories.
D. A. Ruban
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A new fossil dolphin Dilophodelphis fordycei provides insight into the evolution of supraorbital crests in Platanistoidea (Mammalia, Cetacea) [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Many odontocete groups have developed enlarged facial crests, although these crests differ in topography, composition and function. The most elaborate crests occur in the South Asian river dolphin (Platanista gangetica), in which they rise dorsally as ...
Alexandra T. Boersma +2 more
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