Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 1-26., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Richard E. Ernst +8 more
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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 ...
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Shiyou shiyan dizhi, 2021 Researches on the depositional characteristics, evolution and constraining factors of deep-water channel systems are the key factors to reveal the "source-sink" process at continental margin and make big breakthroughs in deep-water hydrocarbon ...
Hua CHEN +8 more
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Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration, 2023 Anatolia’s geographical location as a land bridge between Europe, Asia, and Africa, makes it an important passage for mammal migrations, with a rich fossil potential.
Şakir Önder Özkurt, Hasan Vural
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New records of marsupials from the Miocene of Western Amazonia, Acre, Brazil [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2023 The Amazonian region covers a significant part of the South American continent and harbors outstanding biodiversity. However, much of its history is still unknown.
Narla S. Stutz +12 more
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A mid-miocene age for the Slanci formation near Belgrade (Serbia), based on a record of the primitive antelope Eotragus cf. Clavatus from Višnjica [PDF]
Geološki Anali Balkanskoga Poluostrva, 2007 In a borhole at Veliko Selo near Belgrade in the Miocene lacustrine sediments Slanci, which are locally known as the Slanačka Serija, a mammal tooth was found. The age of these deposits is under discussion.
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Reassessment of amber-bearing deposits of Provence, southeastern France
BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin, 2021 The presence of “geological” amber (or “succin” in old French monographs) has been reported for several centuries in the Mesozoic deposits of Provence, southeastern France.
Saint Martin Jean-Paul +9 more
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Tracking a “Prehistoric Pompeii” , Rhinoland and Crocodilia: New Discoveries And Interpretations Of Ipolytarnóc (N Hungary) Lower Miocene Track Site [PDF]
Geoconservation Research, 2021 The transnational Novohrad-Nógrád Geopark situated in Northern Hungary and Southern Slovakia has several important Neogene fossil sites developed for geotourism. One of them is the lower Miocene paleontological locality complex at Ipolytarnóc , which has
Laszlo Kordos +2 more
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Protein and chitin preservation in polymeric sheets in Miocene Ecphora gardnerae shells from Maryland, USA [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica PolonicaThe shells of muricoid gastropod Ecphora gardnerae from the Miocene St. Marys Formation of Maryland, USA, have been shown to contain polymeric sheets within the calcareous matrix. These membranes were found to have amino acids and complex sugar compounds.
Timothy P. Cleland +5 more
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Geochemistry and petrogenesis of mafic and intermediate dyke swarms in eastern Tafresh (Urumieh-Dokhtar magmatic belt) [PDF]
پترولوژیIntroductionThe Urumieh-Dokhtar magmatic belt is one of the most active magmatic regions of Iran during the Cenozoic era. There are differing views regarding the tectonomagmatic setting of this magmatism; some attribute it to active continental margin ...
Ahmadreza Ahmadi, Behnaz Hosseini
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