Characteristics and Affecting Factors of K₂qn¹ Member Shale Oil Reservoir in Southern Songliao Basin, China by Zhongcheng Li, Zhidong Bao, Zhaosheng Wei, Hongxue Wang, Wanchun Zhao, Wentao Dong, Zheng Shen, Fan Wu, Wanting Tian, Lei Li

“…Member 1 of the Cretaceous Qingshankou Formation (K₂qn¹ Member) in the Southern Songliao Basin, composed of mainly semi-deep and deep lacustrine shale layers, is rich in shale oil. …”
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Constraints on Sandstone-Type Uranium Deposits by the Tectonic Uplift and Denudation Process in the Eastern Junggar Basin, Northwest China: Evidence from Apatite Fission Track and... by Zhangyue Liu, Suping Peng, Mingkuan Qin, Shaohua Huang, Yingying Geng, Zhongbo He

“…Uranium mineralization mainly occurred in the tectonic retreat period after the rapid uplifts of the Cretaceous and Paleogene. It was terminated by the intensive uplift-induced stratigraphic deformation in the Miocene.…”
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Tectono-magmatic evolution of Tethyan oceanic lithosphere in supra subduction zone fore arc regime: Geochemical fingerprints from crust-mantle sections of Naga Hills Ophiolite by Anisha Verencar, Abhishek Saha, Sohini Ganguly, C. Manikyamba

“…The Naga Hills Ophiolite (NHO) belt in the Indo-Myanmar range (IMR) represents a segment of Tethyan oceanic crust and upper mantle that was involved in an eastward convergence and collision of the Indian Plate with the Burmese Plate during the Late Cretaceous-Eocene. Here, we present a detailed petrological and geochemical account for the mantle and crustal sections of NHO, northeastern India to address (i) the mantle processes and tectonic regimes involved in their genesis and (ii) their coherence in terms of the thermo-tectonic evolution of Tethyan oceanic crust and upper mantle. …”
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Innovation and Emerging Roles of Populus trichocarpa TEOSINTE BRANCHED1/CYCLOIDEA/PROLIFERATING CELL FACTOR Transcription Factors in Abiotic Stresses by Whole-Genome Duplication by Shuo Wang, Yirong Shen, Liangyu Guo, Lingling Tan, Xiaoxue Ye, Yanmei Yang, Xijuan Zhao, Yuqi Nie, Deyin Deng, Shenkui Liu, Wenwu Wu

“…Comparative intra-genomes showed that such significant innovation was mainly due to the most recent whole genome duplication (rWGD) in Populus lineage around Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary after the divergence from Arabidopsis. …”
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The Formation of the North Qilian Shan through Time: Clues from Detrital Zircon Fission-Track Data from Modern River Sediments by Xu Lin, Marc Jolivet, Jing Liu-Zeng, Feng Cheng, Zhonghai Wu, Yuntao Tian, Lingling Li, Jixin Chen

“…In the late Paleozoic (275 Ma), the subduction of the Paleotethys Ocean led to extensive magmatic activity in the North Qilian Shan. During the Lower Cretaceous (145 Ma), the accretion of the Lhasa block to the south (and potentially the closure of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean to the northeast) triggered a renewed tectonic activity in the Qilian Shan. …”
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Re-Os Age and Stable Isotope (O-H-S-Cu) Geochemistry of North Eastern Turkey’s Kuroko-Type Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposits: An Example from Cerattepe-Artvin by Ali Ucurum, Cigdem Sahin Demir, Nazmi Otlu, Mustafa Erturk, Taner Ekici, Jason Kirk, Joaquin Ruiz, Ryan Mathur, Greg B. Arehart

“…The deposits are associated with Late Cretaceous felsic volcanics consisting mainly of dacitic and rhyolitic lavas and pyroclastics that outcrop within a narrow zone running parallel to the eastern Black Sea coast and represent the axial zone of a paleo-magmatic arc. …”
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Using Geochemical and Environmental Isotopic Tracers to Evaluate Groundwater Recharge and Mineralization Processes in Qena Basin, Eastern Nile Valley, Egypt by Amira Reda, Mustafa Eissa, Ibrahim El Shamy, Elissavet Dotsika, Mostafa Saied, Sayed Mosaad

“…The studied basin comprises three main groundwater aquifers: the Quaternary aquifer, the Post-Nubian aquifer (PNA) of the Paleocene-Eocene age, and the Nubian Sandstone aquifer (NSA) of the Lower Cretaceous age. Groundwater types vary from fresh to brackish groundwater. …”
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Constraining the links between the Himalayan belt and the Central Myanmar Basins during the Cenozoic: An integrated multi-proxy detrital geochronology and trace-element geochemistr... by F. Arboit, M. Min, D. Chew, A. Mitchell, K. Drost, E. Badenszki, J.S. Daly

“…In this contribution, we present geochronological, isotopic and geochemical analysis from 2500 zircon, 1700 titanite, 700 rutile and 850 apatite detrital grains from fifteen Cenozoic siliciclastic samples and one Cretaceous igneous rock. The samples were collected within the fore- and back-arc basins of the Central Myanmar Basin domain (CMB) to constrain the provenance, maximum depositional ages, and depositional environments of the west Burma terrane. …”
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Structural diagenesis in ultra-deep tight sandstones in the Kuqa Depression, Tarim Basin, China by J. Lai, J. Lai, D. Li, Y. Ai, H. Liu, D. Cai, K. Chen, Y. Xie, G. Wang, G. Wang

“…<p>The Lower Cretaceous Bashijiqike Formation of the Kuqa Depression is made up of ultra-deeply buried sandstones in fold-and-thrust belts. …”
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A comparative study of geological conditions of tight oils in China and USA by Qun LUO, Yang GAO, Zeyuan ZHANG, Shichen WANG, Lan HONG, Wenyu MA, Qian XU

“…From the western tectonic area to the central and then to the eastern one, the distribution scale of tight oil changes from small to large and then to middle, and the number of tight oil distribution horizon decreases from the Upper Permian to the Middle Jurassic and finally to the Lower Cretaceous. The generation conditions of tight oil changed from bad to good and to relatively good. …”
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Classification of reservoir quality using unsupervised machine learning and cluster analysis: Example from Kadanwari gas field, SE Pakistan by Nafees Ali, Jian Chen, Xiaodong Fu, Wakeel Hussain, Muhammad Ali, Sayed Muhammad Iqbal, Aqsa Anees, Mazahir Hussain, Muhammad Rashid, Hung Vo Thanh

“…The cluster analysis approach has been utilized to categorize the reservoir rock groups in the Cretaceous reservoir for the Kadanwari gas field by analyzing the variance of reservoir properties data that are forecast by examining well log dimensions. …”
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Benchmark study using a multi-scale, multi-methodological approach for the petrophysical characterization of reservoir sandstones by P. Haruzi, P. Haruzi, R. Katsman, M. Halisch, N. Waldmann, B. Spiro, B. Spiro

“…This approach is applied to the study of samples from three consecutive sandstone layers of Lower Cretaceous age in northern Israel. These layers differ in features observed at the outcrop, hand specimen, petrographic microscope and micro-CT scales. …”
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The Bawang Member, a unique unit of Belaga Formation in the Miri Zone, Central Sarawak, NW Borneo Malaysia: Revised stratigraphic and sedimentological characteristics by Nisar Ahmed, Numair A. Siddiqui, Muhammad Sanaullah, Muhammad Jamil, Muhammad Armaghan Faisal Miraj, Zulqarnain Sajid, Zain Gul, Sani Ado Kasim, Qazi Sohail Imran

“…In general, the Late Cretaceous to Late Eocene turbidite sequence of Rajang Group in the lower Rajang area (Central Sarawak) is characterized by Belaga Formation. …”
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The propylitic alteration in the Ponce Enriquez Gold Mining district, Azuay province, Ecuador: genetic constraints from a mineral chemistry and fluid inclusions study by Paolo Fulignati, Maurizio Mulas, Michelle Del Pilar Villalta Echeverria, Silvia Fornasaro, Erwin Larreta, Erwin Larreta, Pierina Lisbeth Mendoza Arteaga, Melanie Annabela Menoscal Menoscal, Paola Romero-Crespo, Anna Gioncada

“…Wide areas of the Southern sector of Ecuador are characterized by Cretaceous mafic volcanic rocks, pervasively altered by a propylitic mineralogical assemblage with epidote, chlorite, and quartz with minor titanite, illite and prehnite. …”
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Complete Mitogenomes of Three Carangidae (Perciformes) Fishes: Genome Description and Phylogenetic Considerations by Zhenhai Li, Min Li, Shannan Xu, Li Liu, Zuozhi Chen, Keshu Zou

“…The divergence time analyses showed that Carangidae evolved during three geological periods, the Cretaceous, Paleogene, and Neogene. <i>A. indicus</i> began to differentiate from other species about 27.20 million years ago (Mya) in the early Miocene, while <i>D. tabl</i> (21.25 Mya) and <i>A. djedaba</i> (14.67 Mya) differentiated in the middle Oligocene.…”
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Deformation of the Cambro-Ordovician Amdeh Formation (Members 1 and 2): Characteristics, Origins, and Stratigraphic Significance (Wadi Amdeh, Saih Hatat Dome, Oman Mountains) by Frank Mattern, Andreas Scharf, Pu-Jun Wang, Ivan Callegari, Iftikhar Abbasi, Saja Al-Wahaibi, Bernhard Pracejus, Katharina Scharf

“…The folds in Am 1 and 2 are related to the Late Cretaceous&#8722;Cenozoic Semail Orogeny (term introduced here). …”
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The complete mitogenome of Arion vulgaris Moquin-Tandon, 1855 (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): mitochondrial genome architecture, evolution and phylogenetic considerations within Sty... by Özgül Doğan, Michael Schrödl, Zeyuan Chen

“…Initial diversification time of the Stylommatophora was estimated as 138.55 million years ago corresponding to Early Cretaceous. The divergence time of A. vulgaris and Arion rufus (Linnaeus, 1758) was estimated as 15.24 million years ago corresponding to one of Earth’s most recent, global warming events, the Mid-Miocene Climatic Optimum. …”
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Concentric Structures and Hydrothermal Venting in the Western Desert, Egypt by Adriano Mazzini, Matteo Lupi, Alessandra Sciarra, Alessandra Sciarra, Mohamed Hammed, Susanne T. Schmidt, Annette Suessenberger

“…The Bahariya fault, which activity initiated during the Late Cretaceous, provided pathways for Miocene magma ascent toward the surface and for the development of a network of subsurface intrusions in the organic-rich sedimentary rocks of the Bahariya Formation. …”
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Micro characteristics and formation mechanism of low-quality gas reservoirs in Taiyuan Formation of Shenmu Gas Field, Ordos Basin by Tao ZHANG, Xiaoke GONG, Chao HUANG, Qingyun CAO, Fengming MENG, Zhanmin DONG, Zhaobing CHEN, Hengli WANG

“…At the end of the Late Cretaceous, the late Yanshan movement led to the structural inversion of the Ordos Basin, the readjustment of gas and water, and the escape of natural gas along the fault in the eastern part of the basin. …”
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Valorization of coffee waste with Moroccan clay to produce a porous red ceramics (class BIII) by Ahmed Manni, Abdelilah El Haddar, Iz-Eddine El Amrani El Hassani, Abdeslam El Bouari, Chaouki Sadik

“….%) as a secondary material with clay (Cretaceous deposit of Moroccan Meseta) to produce porous lightweight ceramics (class BIII) whose quality is similar to that of ceramic materials with insulating character. …”
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