Early Miocene detrital zircon age from fluvial deposits of La Marcelina Formation in the Deseado Massif, Southern Patagonia, Argentina by Inés Aramendía, Sol Noetinger, Roberto Pujana, David Barbeu, Juan García-Massini, Sebastián Mirabelli

“…S) represents a 23 m thick sedimentary succession deposited within a low-energy fluvial paleoenvironment. The age of this unit, formerly considered as Eocene due to its palynological assemblage, is adjusted by zircon U-Pb Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) from a sandstone bed at the middle part of the unit. …”
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Coral Sr/Ca records provide realistic representation of eastern Indian Ocean cooling during extreme positive Indian Ocean Dipole events by Miriam Pfeiffer, Takaaki Konabe Watanabe, Hideko Takayanagi, Sri Yudawati Cahyarini, Dieter Garbe-Schönberg, Tsuyoshi Watanabe

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Paleoenvironmental Evaluation Using an Integrated Microfacies Evidence and Triangle Model Diagram: A Case Study from Khurmala Formation, Northeastern Iraq by Ali Ashoor Abid, Namam Muhammed Salih, Dmitriy A. Martyushev

“…The sequence of the Khurmala Formation located in northeastern Iraq was measured and sampled to evaluate its paleoenvironmental features, including sedimentological and microfacies analyses. …”
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Influence of land development on Holocene Porites coral calcification at Nagura Bay, Ishigaki Island, Japan. by Kohki Sowa, Tsuyoshi Watanabe, Hironobu Kan, Hiroya Yamano

“…To evaluate the relationships between coral calcification, thermal stress, and sedimentation and eutrophication linked to human impact (hereafter referred to as "land development") by river discharge, we analyzed growth characteristics in the context of a paleoenvironment that was reconstructed from geochemical signals in modern and fossil (1.2 cal kyr BP and 3.5 cal kyr BP, respectively) massive Porites corals from Nagura Bay ("Nagura") and from modern Porites corals from the estuary of the Todoroki River, Shiraho Reef ("Todoroki"). …”
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The first known fossil Uma: ecological evolution and the origins of North American fringe-toed lizards by Simon G. Scarpetta

“…The fossil is a partial premaxilla that was found in the Miocene strata of the Dove Spring Formation of southern California, dating to 8.77 Ma. The paleoenvironment of the Dove Spring Formation was semiarid and contained ephemeral streams that facilitated deposition, and there is no evidence of sand dune deposits in the strata containing the locality from which the Uma fossil was found. …”
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Livestock supply to an imperial sacrificial site of the early Chinese empires evidenced by strontium isotope ratios by Zihua Tang, Zihua Tang, Xueye Wang, Jun Xiao, Jun Xiao, Xianglong Chen, Songmei Hu, Miaomiao Yang, Yaqi Tian, Jing Yuan

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Aurignacian dynamics in Southeastern Europe based on spatial analysis, sediment geochemistry, raw materials, lithic analysis, and use-wear from Românești-Dumbrăvița by Wei Chu, Scott McLin, Luisa Wöstehoff, Alexandru Ciornei, Jacopo Gennai, João Marreiros, Adrian Doboș

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Lipid biomarker profile of the Permian organic-rich shales (Irati Formation) in the northernmost of Parana Basin, Brazil by LORENA TUANE G. DE ALMEIDA, AILTON S. BRITO, GIOVANI M. CIOCCARI, ALEXANDRE A. DE SOUZA, ANA MARIA P. MIZUSAKI, SIDNEY G. DE LIMA

“…For the first time, the distribution of oil shale biomarkers from an outcrop section (quarry) of the Irati Formation in the northernmost Paraná Basin was analyzed by GC-MS and GC-MS/MS to determine the thermal evolution, organic matter origin and the depositional paleoenvironment. The organic-rich shale at the northernmost border of the basin has high similarity with the central and southernmost areas, indicating a primary control able to induce cyclic sedimentation in a broad (106 km2) and restricted environment. …”
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Plant Macrofossils from the Takht Coal Mine, Minoodasht and its Dating, Relative abundance and Sørensen index in comparison with the other Florizones in Iran and Eurasia by Akbar Parvacideh, Fatemeh Vaez Javadi

“…Kerman Basin and Tabas Block) and two areas were palaeogeographically closely related, probably forming a uniform paleoenvironment. On the basis of relative abundances of taxa, Filicales, Bennettitales, Ginkgoales and Pinales were 42.02%, 38.11%, 7.17% and 6.51%, respectively. …”
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New records of immature aquatic Diptera from the Foulden Maar Fossil-Lagerstätte, New Zealand, and their biogeographic implications by Viktor O. Baranov, Joachim T. Haug, Uwe Kaulfuss

“…Based on the reconstructed paleoenvironment of Foulden Maar, we discuss taxonomic, ecological and taphonomic implications of this early Miocene fauna. …”
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Relationships between the lithology of purple rocks and the pedogenesis of purple soils in the Sichuan Basin, China by Shouqin Zhong, Zhen Han, Jing Du, En Ci, Jiupai Ni, Deti Xie, Chaofu Wei

“…The results showed the following: due to variability in the paleoenvironment, purple rocks mainly consist of sandstone and mudstone with various stratal thicknesses and various particle sizes. …”
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Quantifying calcium carbonate and organic carbon content in marine sediments from XRF-scanning spectra with a machine learning approach by An-Sheng Lee, Weng-Si Chao, Sofia Ya Hsuan Liou, Ralf Tiedemann, Bernd Zolitschka, Lester Lembke-Jene

“…Abstract Geochemical variations of sedimentary records contain vital information for understanding paleoenvironment and paleoclimate. However, to obtain quantitative data in the laboratory is laborious, which ultimately restricts the temporal and spatial resolution. …”
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Sedimentary Environment and Model for Organic Matter Enrichment: Chang 7 Shale of Late Triassic Yanchang Formation, Southern Margin of Ordos Basin, China by Yonggang Zhao, Chunyu Zhang, Jungang Lu, Xingcheng Zhu, Lei Li, Shanghua Si

“…This paper aims to reconstruct the paleoenvironment of Chang 7 shale in the southern margin of Ordos Basin and reveal the controlling factors of organic rich shale by organic and elemental analysis, X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis, thin section observation, and scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive spectrometer (SEM-EDS) analysis. …”
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The youngest occurrence of embolomeres (Tetrapoda: Anthracosauria) from the Sunjiagou Formation (Lopingian, Permian) of North China by J. Chen, J. Liu, J. Liu, J. Liu

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Tectonic Forcing of the Extreme Aridification of the East Asian Interior at Around 900 ka–Insights From the Spatially Inconsistent Magnetization of Chinese Loess by Xinbo Gao, Qingzhen Hao, Chunsheng Jin, Chenglong Deng, Shuzhen Peng, Long Han, Yu Fu, Xuechao Wu

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Understanding the characteristics of loess strata and quaternary climate changes in Luochuan, Shaanxi Province, China, through core analysis by Guo Jiao, Shi Jiansheng, Song Chao, Dong Qiuyao, Wang Wei

“…Our study provides a basis for accurately and comprehensively interpreting the paleoclimate and paleoenvironment during loess deposition formation.…”
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Application of Parameterized Grain-Size Endmember Modeling in the Study of Quaternary Oxbow Lake Sedimentation: A Case Study of Tövises Bed Sediments in the Eastern Great Hungarian... by Abdelrhim Eltijani, Dávid Molnár, László Makó, János Geiger, Pál Sümegi

“…Abandoned channels are essential in the Quaternary floodplains, and their infill contains different paleoenvironment recorders. Grain-size distribution (GSD) is one proxy that helps characterize the alluviation and associated sedimentological processes of the abandoned channels. …”
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Record of Early to Middle Eocene paleoenvironmental changes from lignite mines, western India by S. Khanolkar, J. Sharma

“…<p>Various Eocene hyperthermal events have been recorded from lignite sections of western India in the past decade. To infer the paleoenvironment, during a warm paleotropical climate of India, we have assessed multiple microfossil groups like pollen/spores, dinoflagellates and foraminifera from Early Eocene lignite mine sections from the Cambay (Surkha) and Barmer (Giral) basins and Middle Eocene sections from the Kutch Basin (Matanomadh and Panandhro mines) of western India. …”
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A New Genus of Spittlebugs (Hemiptera, Cercopidae) from the Eocene of Central Tibetan Plateau by Xiao-Ting Xu, Jacek Szwedo, Di-Ying Huang, Wei-Yu-Dong Deng, Martyna Obroślak, Fei-Xiang Wu, Tao Su

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Ordovician and Silurian Formations of the Baltic Syneclise (NE Poland): An Organic Geochemistry Approach by P. Kosakowski, A. Zakrzewski, M. Waliczek

“…The analyzed successions are dominated by immature/early mature, algal (oil-prone) type II, and mixed II/I kerogen deposited in a marine paleoenvironment with anoxic conditions at the bottom and oxic conditions in the photic zone. …”
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