Geodiversity in Khorat Geopark, Thailand: Approaches to geoconservation and sustainable development by Jaroon Duangkrayom, Pratueng Jintasakul, Wickanet Songtham, Parichat Kruainok, Wilailuck Naksri, Nattinee Thongdee, Paul J. Grote, Tharapong Phetprayoon, Krongkaew Janjitpaiboon, Rapeepan Meepoka

“…On the four corners of Nakhon Ratchasima City, there are numerous fossils of outstanding Early Cretaceous dinosaurs and other reptiles and Cenozoic fossils of both flora and fauna, mainly mammalian remains and, in particular, ancient elephants. …”
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Reservoir characteristics and controlling factors of physical properties of Jurassic Toutunhe Formation in the eastern segment of the southern margin of Junggar Basin by Ke LIU, Chonglong GAO, Jian WANG, Ming LIU, Zhengjiang LUO, Ke WANG, Yi DENG, Ying REN

“…The lower assemblage (from Jurassic to Cretaceous) on the southern margin of Junggar Basin is rich in oil and gas resources, and the Jurassic Toutunhe Formation in the eastern segment is an important horizon for reservoir development. …”
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Predominantly Eastward Long-Distance Dispersal in Pantropical Ochnaceae Inferred From Ancestral Range Estimation and Phylogenomics by Julio V. Schneider, Julio V. Schneider, Tanja Jungcurt, Tanja Jungcurt, Domingos Cardoso, André M. Amorim, André M. Amorim, Juraj Paule, Juraj Paule, Georg Zizka, Georg Zizka

“…While Ochnaceae most likely originated in West Gondwana during the Late Cretaceous, all crown-group disjunctions are inferred as dispersal-based, most of them as transoceanic long-distance dispersal (LDD) during the Cenozoic. …”
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Hydrocarbon prospectivity of the southern Bida and northern Anambra basins, Nigeria using palynological and geochemical studies by Godwin Okumagbe Aigbadon, Atabo Nathaniel Odoma, Ikenna Arisi Obasi, Simon Dalom Christopher, Changde A. Nanfa, Mu'awiya B. Aminu, Obinna Chigoziem Akakuru

“…Dinocysts belonging to the Spiniferites, and Deflandreacean dinoflagellate, and Acritaarchs of Polipodiaceosporite retigularis, Acripite sp., which were analyzed from the shale intervals in the basins; suggest a Cretaceous age, marginal marine-continental environments, paleovegetation, and humid climate. …”
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Magmatic-Hydrothermal Processes of Vein-Type Haman-Gunbuk-Daejang Copper Deposits in the Gyeongnam Metallogenic Belt in South Korea by Tong Ha Lee, Jung Hun Seo, Bong Chul Yoo, Bum Han Lee, Seung Hee Han, Yun Seok Yang, Yun Seok Yang, Jun Hee Lee

“…These three deposits are formed by magmatic-hydrothermal activity associated with a series of Cretaceous granodioritic intrusions of the Jindong Granitoids, which have created a series of veins and alterations in a hornfelsed shale formation. …”
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La Peña de Santana (Segovia, España): cazadores-recolectores magdalenienses en el interior de la península ibérica by David Álvarez-Alonso, María De Andrés-Herrero, Andrés Díez Herrero

“…From a geomorphological point of view, the site is located in a flat area at eh base of a Cretaceous dolomite escarpment of the fluviokarstic canyon formed by the vertical embedding and lateral movement of the Eresma River throughout the Quaternary as it crosses the Mesozoic fringe of the northern foothills of the Central Sierra de Guadarrama. …”
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Main technical innovations of Songke Well No.2 Drilling Project by Yong-yi Zhu, Wen-shi Wang, Xiao-ming Wu, Heng-chun Zhang, Jie Xu, Jia Yan, Long-long Cao, Heng-qian Ran, Jin-chang Zhang

“…ABSTRACT: Songke Well No.2, one of the main part of the scientific drilling project in Songliao Basin, which was drilled 7018 m and acquired the part of cores continuously from the Low Cretaceous to the Carboniferous and the Permian from the 2843 m deep, can be considered as the deepest continental drilling project in Asia. …”
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Influencing factors and significance of organic and inorganic nitrogen isotopic compositions in lacustrine sedimentary rocks by Juan Chen, Jianfa Chen, Lipeng Yao, Qingyong Luo, Shengbao Shi, Jianping Chen, Lei Zhu, Zeya Chen

“…Comprehensive nitrogen biogeochemical cycle has been reconstructed for representative lacustrine organic-rich sedimentary rock in China, namely the Triassic Yanchang Formation (YF, 199–230 Ma) in Ordos and the Cretaceous Qingshankou Formation (QF, 86–92 Ma) in Songliao basins, by evaluating the organic and inorganic nitrogen isotopic compositions rather than only organic or bulk nitrogen isotopic compositions. …”
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Phylogenetic conservation in plant phenological traits varies between temperate and subtropical climates in China by Khurram Shahzad, Mengyao Zhu, Lijuan Cao, Yulong Hao, Yu Zhou, Wei Liu, Junhu Dai, Junhu Dai

“…Based on the findings of molecular dating, it was suggested that the Guiyang species split off from their relatives around 46.0 mya during the middle Eocene of the Tertiary Cenozoic Era, while Xi’an species showed a long evolutionary history and diverged from their relatives around 95 mya during the late Cretaceous Mesozoic Era. First leaf dates (FLD) indicative of spring phenology, show that Xi’an adjourned the case later than Guiyang. …”
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Disintegration and strength weakening characteristics of red-bed soft rock in the Shengzhou-Xinchang area under dry-wet cycles by Zhixiang DU, Dingwei BAI, Bujiong SHI, Rui XU, Shenggen HUANG

“…Methods Investigating the three groups of red-bed soft rock formations within the Lower Cretaceous Chaochuan Formation situated in the Shengzhou-Xinchang region of Zhejiang Province, this study delves into the disintegration and strength attention tendencies inherent in these formations. …”
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Geochemistry and petrogenesis of Rajahmundry trap basalts of Krishna-Godavari Basin, India by C. Manikyamba, Sohini Ganguly, M. Santosh, Abhishek Saha, G. Lakshminarayana

“…The Rajahmundry Trap Basalts (RTB) are erupted through fault-controlled fissures in the Krishna-Godavari Basin (K-G Basin) of Godavari Triple Junction, occurring as a unique outcrop sandwiched between Cretaceous and Tertiary sediments along the east coast of India. …”
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Thermal evolution characteristics of Triassic source rocks and their petroleum geological significance on the southern slope of Kuqa Depression, Tarim Basin by Tan ZHANG, Yukai QI, Wei YAO, Yongqiang ZHAO, Jingxiang GUO, Huixi LIN, Bo HAN, Hongcai YANG, Liang LUO

“…During the Triassic period, the strata were deposited stably and the burial depth was small. From Cretaceous to Paleogene, continental clastic rocks were mainly deposited, and the strata continued to deposit. …”
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Petrology of Mafic Dykes from the Njimom Area (West-Cameroon): A Contribution to the Characterization of Late Paleozoic and Mesozoic Magmatism in the Southern Continental Part of t... by Noël-Aimée Kouamo Keutchafo, Nicole Armelle Wambo Simeni, Brillant Kandzi Nforba, Agathe Arrissa Noucoucouk, Josiane Demlabin Sonmo, Depesquidoux Tchato Tchaptchet, Jean Pierre Tchouankoue, Ciro Cucciniello

“…These dykes intrude the Precambrian basement in the southern continental part of the Cretaceous Cameroon Volcanic Line. In the Njimom area, two groups of mafic dykes that crosscut the Neoproterozoic basement rocks have been observed. …”
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Strategy of micro-environmental adaptation to cold seep among different brittle stars’ colonization by Zelin Chen, Zelin Chen, Shaobo Ma, Shaobo Ma, Geng Qin, Geng Qin, Meng Qu, Meng Qu, Bo Zhang, Qiang Lin, Qiang Lin, Qiang Lin

“…We found that the split events of the seep and non-seep species were as ancient as the Cretaceous period (∼148–98 Mya). O. serratus and H. haimaensis display rapid residue mutation and mitogenome rearrangements compared to their shallow or deep-sea relatives, in contrast, Amphiura sp. only show medium, regardless of nucleotide mutation rate or mitogenome rearrangement, which may correlate with their adaptation to one or two micro-ecosystems. …”
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Oblique reactivation of lithosphere-scale lineaments controls rift physiography – the upper-crustal expression of the Sorgenfrei–Tornquist Zone, offshore southern Norway by T. B. Phillips, C. A.-L. Jackson, R. E. Bell, O. B. Duffy

“…These E–W-striking upper-crustal faults are later obliquely reactivated under a dextral stress regime during the Early Cretaceous, with new faults also propagating away from pre-existing ones, representing a switch to a predominantly dextral sense of motion. …”
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Authigenic silica in continental lacustrine shale and its hydrocarbon significance by Bin BAI, Chaocheng DAI, Xiulin HOU, Xianyang LIU, Rui WANG, Liang YANG, Shixiang LI, Junling HE, Ruojing DONG

“…Taking lake basin shales of the Triassic Yanchang Formation in the Ordos Basin, NW China and the Cretaceous Qingshankou Formation in the Songliao Basin, NE China as research objects, the characteristics and origins of different types of silica in the shales have been studied by means of core observation, thin section identification, cathodoluminescence, X-ray diffraction analysis, scanning electron microscope (SEM), electron probe and rock pyrolysis. …”
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Iron and sulfur cycling in the cGENIE.muffin Earth system model (v0.9.21) by S. J. van de Velde, S. J. van de Velde, S. J. van de Velde, D. Hülse, C. T. Reinhard, A. Ridgwell

“…Even after atmospheric oxygen concentrations rose to modern-like values, the ocean episodically continued to develop regions of euxinic or ferruginous conditions, such as those associated with past key intervals of organic carbon deposition (e.g. during the Cretaceous) and extinction events (e.g. at the Permian–Triassic boundary). …”
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Phylogenomic analysis of Apoidea sheds new light on the sister group of bees by Manuela Sann, Oliver Niehuis, Ralph S. Peters, Christoph Mayer, Alexey Kozlov, Lars Podsiadlowski, Sarah Bank, Karen Meusemann, Bernhard Misof, Christoph Bleidorn, Michael Ohl

“…We estimate the origin of bees to be in the Early Cretaceous (ca. 128 million years ago), a time period during which angiosperms rapidly radiated. …”
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Cladistic classification of Mecyclothorax Sharp (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Moriomorphini) and taxonomic revision of the New Caledonian subgenus Phacothorax Jeannel by James K. Liebherr

“…Based on sister-group status of subgenus Phacothorax and subgenus Mecyclothorax, and occupation of Lord Howe Island–an island originating no earlier than 6 Ma–by the earliest divergent lineage within subgenus Mecyclothorax, the ancestor of present-day Phacothorax spp. is hypothesized to have colonized New Caledonia 6 Ma, subsequent both to Cretaceous Gondwanan vicariance as well as any Oligocene submergence. …”
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Geodynamic seawater-sediment porewater evolution of the east central Atlantic Paleogene ocean margin revealed by U-Pb dating of sedimentary phosphates by Jérémie Aubineau, Fleurice Parat, Ernest Chi Fru, Radouan El Bamiki, Olivia Mauguin, Fabien Baron, Marc Poujol, Michel Séranne

“…However, U-Pb dating of exquisitely preserved carbonate fluorapatite (CFA) is rare. The Upper Cretaceous/Paleogene marine sedimentary rocks of the Moroccan High Atlas host phosphate-rich sediments bracketed by calcareous nannofossil Zones (NP4-NP9) of late Danian to Thanetian age. …”
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