An origin of ultraslow spreading ridges for the Yarlung-Tsangpo ophiolites by Chuan-Zhou Liu, Fu-Yuan Wu, Tong Liu, Chang Zhang, Wei-Qi Zhang, Zhen-Yu Zhang, Zhen Zhang, Wu Wei, Yin-Zheng Lin

“…They are characterized by an incomplete litho-stratigraphy, of which the mantle section is much thicker than the crustal section. Ocean crustal rocks outcropped in the Yarlung-Tsangpo ophiolites are much thinner than normal ocean crusts (~ 7 km) or even absent. …”
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Colloid Migration as a Reason for Porous Sandstone Permeability Degradation during Coreflooding by Evgenii V. Kozhevnikov, Mikhail S. Turbakov, Evgenii A. Gladkikh, Evgenii P. Riabokon, Vladimir V. Poplygin, Mikhail A. Guzev, Chengzhi Qi, Artem A. Kunitskikh

“…In the developed methodology, coreflooding conditions exclude the influence of other factors on permeability, such as creep, the chemical reactions of rocks and fluids, and chemical mobilization of colloids. …”
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3D S-wave velocity structure of the Ningdu basin in Jiangxi province inferred from ambient noise tomography with dense array by Long Teng, Xiangteng Wang, Chunlei Fu, Feng Bao, Jiajun Chong, Sidao Ni, Zhiwei Li

“…The results revealed obvious low-velocity anomalies in the center of the basin, consistent with the low-velocity Cretaceous sedimentary rocks. The basement and basin-controlling fault can also be depicted by the S-wave velocity anomalies. …”
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Behavioral and neural measures of infant responsivity increase with maternal multisensory input in non‐irritable infants by Mary Lauren Neel, Arnaud Jeanvoine, Alexandra Key, Ann R. Stark, Elizabeth S. Norton, Lance M. Relland, Krystal Hay, Nathalie L. Maitre

“…These interactions, including gazing, rocking, or singing, scaffold child development. Previous studies have examined infant neural processing during highly controlled sensory stimulus presentation paradigms. …”
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The reproductive biology of <em>Marathrum rubrum Novelo & C. T. Philbrick</em>: morphological and anatomical changes during flower development by Diana Guzmán-Merodio, Raúl Luna-Ramos, Juan Núñez-Farfán, Margarita Collazo-Ortega, Judith Márquez-Guzmán

“…Species of this family possess unusual morphological and reproductive characters, grow attached to rocks in rivers with strong currents, and have a life cycle tightly linked to seasonality. …”
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Application of Iolite in Data Reduction of Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry Line-scan Analysis by ZHU Bi, ZHU Zhi-yong, LÜ Miao, YANG Tao

“…Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) serves as an important tool for assessing variations in elemental/isotopic compositions of rocks and minerals. During LA-ICP-MS analysis, as spectrometric data acquired via mapping/line analysis are much more than those by single spot analysis, reduction and processing of the obtained data are critical. …”
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Iron Isotopes Reveal a Benthic Iron Shuttle in the Palaeoproterozoic Zaonega Formation: Basinal Restriction, Euxinia, and the Effect on Global Palaeoredox Proxies by Kaarel Mänd, Stefan V. Lalonde, Kärt Paiste, Marie Thoby, Kaarel Lumiste, Leslie J. Robbins, Timmu Kreitsmann, Alexander E. Romashkin, Kalle Kirsimäe, Aivo Lepland, Kurt O. Konhauser

“…Many of the data fall on a negative Fe/Al versus <i>δ</i>⁵⁶Fe trend, diagnostic of a benthic Fe shuttle, which implies that Zaonega Formation rocks formed in a redox-stratified and semi-restricted basin. …”
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Enhancement of gallium nitride on silicon (111) using pulse atomic-layer epitaxy (PALE) AlN with composition-graded AlGaN buffer by Marwan Mansor, Rizuan Norhaniza, Ahmad Shuhaimi, Muhammad Iznul Hisyam, Al-Zuhairi Omar, Adam Williams, Mohd Rofei Mat Hussin

“…The thickness of the PALE AlN layer substantially affected the crystallinity of the top GaN epilayer where the lowest value for symmetric (0 0 0 2) and asymmetric (1 0 -1 2) x-ray rocking curve analysis were achieved, indicating the reduction of threading dislocation density in the growth structure. …”
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Use of geoelectrical resistivity method for detecting near-surface groundwater potential zones at Riyadh city, Saudi Arabia by Hassan Alzahrani, Kamal Abdelrahman, Saddam Ali Hazaea

“…The two-dimensional (2-D) inversion results of the electrical resistivity data indicate three geoelectric zones; 1st zone of low resistivity values (<100 Ω.m), representing two groundwater-bearing potential zones from top to bottom as follows; the 1st one extends downwards to 10- and 15-meters depth, while the 2nd zone spreads between 15- and 30-meters depth, 2nd zone with resistivities ranging from 100 to 1000 Ω.m, which represent the highly fractures limestone; the 3rd zone with resistivities greater than 1000 Ω.m reflecting compacted limestone rocks. It is noticed also some of the low resistivity pockets are isolated through the subsurface geoelectrical cross-section indicating the presence of voids and/or cavities. …”
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From arc-continent collision to ocean closure: Lower Cretaceous Shamuluo Formation in the western segment of the Bangong–Nujiang suture zone, central Tibet by An-Bo Luo, Jian-Jun Fan, Bo-Chuan Zhang, Jian-Zhen Zhang, Hang Li, Meng-Long Duan

“…Provenance analysis indicates that the Berriasian–Hauterivian subunit was mainly derived from the Jurassic southern Qiangtang magmatic arc, while the Albian subunit was derived from the coeval volcanic rocks and the Upper Carboniferous–Upper Permian strata in the southern Qiangtang terrane. …”
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Secondary Minerals from Minothem Environments in Fragnè Mine (Turin, Italy): Preliminary Results by Yuri Galliano, Cristina Carbone, Valentina Balestra, Donato Belmonte, Jo De Waele

“…The entire mining area is part of a structural complex in the Lower Piedmont Unit of the Western Alps, characterized by the presence of amphibolite, metabasite (“prasinite”), and metagabbroic rocks. In particular, the pyrite ore deposit occurs as massive mineralizations within interlayered metabasites and amphibolites. …”
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Patterns of spatial and temporal dynamics of mixed Mytilus edulis and M. trossulus populations in a small subarctic inlet (Tyuva Inlet, Barents Sea) by Julia Marchenko, Vadim Khaitov, Vadim Khaitov, Marina Katolikova, Marat Sabirov, Sergey Malavenda, Michael Gantsevich, Larisa Basova, Evgeny Genelt-Yanovsky, Petr Strelkov, Petr Strelkov

“…Their characteristic habitats were sandbanks, littoral rocks, sublittoral kelp forests and “the habitat of the mussel bed” in the freshened top of the inlet. …”
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The Mid-Cretaceous Tectonothermal Evolution of the Zhangbaling Tectonic Belt, East China: Evidence from Zircon (U–Th)/He and Detrital Zircon U–Pb Dating by Yongsheng Wang, Qiao Bai, Weiwei Ma, Juanhao Yang, Zhensheng Li

“…Detailed field observation showed that the orthogneiss of the Feidong Complex experienced sinistral strike–slip activities, while the marbles underwent thrusting; thrust faults were developed in the Early Cretaceous plutons and volcanic rocks, and normal faults were superimposed on thrust or strike–slip faults. …”
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Geological significance of karst section of Lower Triassic Feixianguan Formation in Puguang area, Northeast Sichuan by Xinyang Liang, Dekui Fu, Ning Zhang, Qiuling Gao, Xionghua Zhang, Jian Chen

“…Reservoir strata with carbonate rocks of Feixianguan Formation are the main output horizons of natural gas in Puguang Gas Field, Northeast Sichuan. …”
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Magnetotelluric investigation of lithospheric electrical structure beneath the Dharwar Craton in south India: Evidence for mantle suture and plume-continental interaction by D. Malleswari, K. Veeraswamy, K.K. Abdul Azeez, A.K. Gupta, Narendra Babu, Prasanta K. Patro, T. Harinarayana

“…The 2-D resistivity model shows moderately conductive features that intersperse a highly resistive background of crystalline rocks and spatially connect to the exposed schist belts or granitic intrusions in the DC. …”
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Molecular dynamics simulations and experimental studies on low-temperature growth of GaN by Xiang Li, Yi Luo, Lai Wang, Jian Wang, Zhibiao Hao, Changzheng Sun, Yanjun Han, Bing Xiong, Hongtao Li

“…Additionally, GaN film with the optimized surface morphology exhibits high c -axis and in-plane orientations, and the full width half maximums of (002) and (102) x-ray diffraction rocking curves are 0.25° and 0.32°, respectively. …”
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Prospects of Using Hydrocarbon Deposits from the Autochthonous Miocene Formation (Eastern Carpathian Foredeep, Poland) for Geothermal Purposes by Anna Chmielowska, Anna Sowiżdżał, Barbara Tomaszewska

“…Considering oil and gas settings, insights into reservoir rocks, hydrocarbon traps and migration paths issues were created. …”
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The Origin of the Caiyuanzi Pb–Zn Deposit in SE Yunnan Province, China: Constraints from In Situ S and Pb Isotopes by Yongguo Jiang, Yinliang Cui, Hongliang Nian, Changhua Yang, Yahui Zhang, Mingyong Liu, Heng Xu, Jinjun Cai, Hesong Liu

“…All the ore bodies occur in the siliceous rocks of the Lower Devonian Pojiao Formation (D₁<i>p</i>). …”
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Innovative Solutions for Improving the Heat Exchange in Closed-Loop Shallow Geothermal Systems by Giovanni Floridia, Federica Blandini, Salvatore Iuculano, Giuseppe M. Belfiore, Marco Viccaro

“…Although the efficiency of a shallow geothermal installation is chiefly based on chemical and physical characteristics of rocks and hydrogeological aspects of the subsurface, the total heat extracted from the subsoil also depends on the intrinsic thermal characteristics of probes. …”
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Paleogene Sedimentary Records of the Paleo‐Jinshajiang (Upper Yangtze) in the Jianchuan Basin, Yunnan, SW China by Mengying He, Hongbo Zheng, Peter D. Clift, Zixuan Bian, Qing Yang, Bihui Zhang, Lei Xia

“…In this study, we carried out provenance analysis on Paleogene sedimentary rocks in the Jianchuan Basin, composed of the Baoxiangsi, Jinsichang, and Shuanghe formations. …”
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