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LATE MESOZOIC VOLCANISM IN THE GREAT XING'AN RANGE (NE CHINA): TIMING AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE DYNAMIC SETTING OF NE ASIA

Wang F.; Zhou X.-H.; Zhang L.-C.; Ying J.-F.; Zhang Y.-T.; Wu F.-Y.; Zhu R.-X. (2006)

Mesozoic volcanism is widespread throughout northeastern China, but precise geochronological constraints were previously lacking. Twenty samples, including basalt and basaltic andesites, from the Great Xing'an Range were ...

LATE MESOZOIC-CENOZOIC SEDIMENTARY BASINS OF ACTIVE CONTINENTAL MARGIN OF SOUTHEAST RUSSIA: PALEOGEOGRAPHY, TECTONICS, AND COAL-OIL-GAS PRESENCE

Kirillova G.L. (2003)

Various settings took place during the Late Mesozoic: divergent, convergent, collisional, and transform. After mid-Jurassic collision of the Siberian and Chinese cratons, a latitudinal system of post-collision troughs ...

LATE MIOCENE - PLIOCENE MAMMALIAN FAUNAS OF RUSSIA AND NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES

Vislobokova I.; Sotnikova M.; Dodonov A. (2001)

The data on the successions of the Late Miocene - Pliocene mammalian faunas from the territory of the former Soviet Union and Mongolia are summarised. The main characteristics of the MN zone for these territories are given.

LATE MIOCENE AND PLIOCENE LARGE LAND MAMMALS AND CLIMATIC CHANGES IN EURASIA

Fortelius M.; Eronen J.; Liu L.; Pushkina D.; Zhang Z.; Tesakov A.; Vislobokova I. (2006)

The fossil teeth of land mammals offer a powerful tool to map the regional details of past climate change in the terrestrial realm. We use mean plant-eater hypsodonty (molar crown height) of late Neogene mammal localities ...

LATE MIOCENE CLIMATE IN THE CIRCUM-ALPINE REALM-A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF TERRESTRIAL PALAEOFLORAS

Bruch A.A.; Mosbrugger V.; Utescher T.; Gabrielyan I.; Ivanov D.A. (2006)

Selected mega- and microfloras from Central and Southern Europe have been analysed for the time interval Tortonian/Pannonian (MN 9-12) with the Coexistence Approach to obtain quantitative palaeoclimate data. The results ...

LATE MIOCENE FISH OTOLITHS FROM THE COLOMBACCI FORMATION (NORTHERN APENNINES, ITALY): IMPLICATIONS FOR THE MESSINIAN 'LAGO-MARE' EVENT

Carnevale G.; Landini W.; Caputo D. (2006)

A fish otolith assemblage from the Messinian 'Lago-mare' deposits of the Colombacci Formation cropping out in the Montecalvo in Foglia Syncline, Marche, central Italy, is described. The assemblage displays a low diversity ...

LATE MIOCENE TO PLIOCENE PALAEOGEOGRAPHY OF THE PARATETHYS AND ITS RELATION TO THE MEDITERRANEAN

Popov S.V.; Ilyina L.B.; Nevesskaya L.A.; Paramonova N.P.; Shcherba I.G.; Khondkarian S.O.; Magyar I. (2006)

The palaeogeographic evolution of the Paratethyan and Mediterranean realms are reconstructed with three maps ranging from the Late Miocene to the Middle-Late Pliocene. The maps are based on the facial analysis of selected ...

LATE MIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE RECORDS FROM BAIKAL SEDIMENTS: MARKERS FOR PALEOCLIMATIC AND BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTIONS

Williams D.F.; Karabanov E.B.; Prokopenko A.A.; Kuz'min M.I.; Khursevich G.K.; Gvozdkov A.N.; Bezrukova E.V.; Solotchina E.P. (2001)

The decade of scientific drilling and multidisciplinary studies of lacustrine sedimentary sequences on Lake Baikal has contributed greatly to expansion of our knowledge on the Asian continent response to global climate and ...

LATE MIOCENE-PLIOCENE BASALTIC VOLCANISM IN THE SOUTH OF THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST AS AN INDICATOR OF THE LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE HETEROGENEITY IN THE CONTINENT-OCEAN TRANSITION ZONE

Martynov Yu.A.; Chashchin A.A.; Rasskazov S.V.; Saranina E.V. (2002)

Geochemical data on Late Cenozoic within-plate basalts from the southern part of the Russian Far East are utilized to demonstrate the main features of the lithospheric structure in the continent-ocean transition zone and ...

LATE NEOPROTEROZOIC DOKHAN VOLCANICS, NORTH EASTERN DESERT, EGYPT: GEOCHEMISTRY AND PETROGENESIS

Eliwa H.A.; Kimura J.-I.; Itaya T. (2006)

Origin and tectonic setting of the late Neoproterozoic Dokhan Volcanics (ca. 610–560 Ma by whole rock Rb–Sr and ca. 600–590 Ma by SHRIMP U–Pb zircon) in the Egyptian Eastern Desert is debated. Debate concerns the tectonic ...

LATE NEOPROTEROZOIC PROTO-ARC OCEAN CRUST IN THE DARIV RANGE, WESTERN MONGOLIA: A SUPRA-SUBDUCTION ZONE END-MEMBER OPHIOLITE

Dijkstra A.H.; Buchan C.; Brouwer F.M.; Cunningham W.D.; Badarch G.; Mason P.R.D. (2006)

An unusual late Neoproterozoic (c. 572 Ma) ophiolite is exposed in the Dariv Range (western Mongolia, which contains intermediate to acidic lavas and sheeted dykes, and an igneous layered complex consisting of gabbro-norites, ...

LATE NEOPROTEROZOIC, ORDOVICIAN AND CARBONIFEROUS EVENTS RECORDED IN MONAZITES FROM SOUTHERN-CENTRAL MADAGASCAR

Berger A.; Gnos E.; Schreurs G.; Fernandez A.; Rakotondrazafy M. (2006)

The evolution of the basement of southern Madagascar north and south of the Ranotsara shear zone was investigated using (U + Th)/Pb electron probe monazite age dating in combination with petrographic constraints. Several ...

LATE OLIGOCENE-EARLY MIOCENE INITIATION OF SHORTENING IN THE SOUTHWESTERN CHINESE TIAN SHAN: IMPLICATIONS FOR NEOGENE SHORTENING RATE VARIATIONS

Sobel E.R.; Chen J.; Heermance R.V. (2006)

The Cenozoic Tian Shan is one of the preeminent examples of an intracontinental orogen. However, there remains a significant controversy over when deformation related to the India-Asia collision commenced and therefore how ...

LATE ORDOVICIAN BRACHIOPODS FROM THE DULANKARA FORMATION OF THE CHU-ILI RANGE, KAZAKHSTAN: THEIR SYSTEMATICS, PALAEOECOLOGY AND PALAEOBIOGEOGRAPHY

Popov L.E.; Cocks L.R.M. (2006)

Brachiopods from the late Ordovician (late Caradoc) Dulankara Formation of the Chu-Ili Range, Kazakhstan, are reviewed. Those from the upper two members of the formation, the Degeres and Akkol members, are systematically ...

LATE OROGENIC, LARGE-SCALE ROTATIONS IN THE TIEN SHAN AND ADJACENT MOBILE BELTS IN KYRGYZSTAN AND KAZAKHSTAN

Van der Voo R.; Bazhenov M.L.; Levashova N.M.; Kara T.V.; Skrinnik L.I. (2006)

Most of Kazakhstan belongs to the central part of the Eurasian Paleozoic mobile belts for which previously proposed tectonic scenarios have been rather disparate. Of particular interest is the origin of strongly curved ...

LATE PALAEOCENE-EARLY EOCENE DINOFLAGELLATE CYSTS FROM THE TURGAY STRAIT, KAZAKHSTAN; CORRELATIONS ACROSS ANCIENT SEAWAYS

Iakovleva A.I.; Cavagnetto C.; Brinkhuis H. (2001)

The results of a quantitative palynological analysis, emphasizing organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts (dinocysts), of Palaeocene–Eocene deposits exposed in the Sokolovsky Quarry (Turgay Trough, Northern Kazakhstan) are ...

LATE PALEOCENE-EARLY EOCENE DINOFLAGELLATE CYST RECORDS FROM THE TETHYS: FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON THE GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION OF APECTODINIUM

Crouch E.M.; Brinkhuis H.; Visscher H.; Adatte T.; Bolle M.-P. (2003)

To further understand the distribution and abundance of Apectodinium through space and time, dinoflagellate cyst (dinocyst) records from two well-calibrated Paleogene sections in the Tethys (Tunisia and Uzbekistan) have ...

LATE PALEOPROTEROZOIC EXTENSION AND A PALEOSTRESS FIELD RECONSTRUCTION OF THE NORTH CHINA CRATON

Hou G.; Wang C.; Li J.; Qian X. (2006)

Mafic dyke swarms and aulacogens are major anorogenic extensional events in the Late Paleoproterozoic North China Craton (NCC). The N-NNW mafic dyke swarms are widespread in the NCC, whose ages span between 1.83 and 1.77 ...

LATE PALEOZOIC FAULTS OF THE ALTAI REGION, CENTRAL ASIA: TECTONIC PATTERN AND MODEL OF FORMATION

Buslov M.M.; Smirnova L.V.; Safonova I.Yu; Semakov N.N.; Kiryanova A.P.; Watanabe T.; Fujiwara Y.; Iwata K. (2004)

The present kinematic and dynamic analysis of large-scale strike-slip faults, which enabled the formation of a collage of Altai terranes as a result of two collisional events. The Late Devonian–Early Carboniferous collision ...

LATE PALEOZOIC ICE AGE: OCEANIC GATEWAY OR PCO2?

Saltzman M.A. (2003)

The cause of the late Paleozoic (ca. 355 255 Ma) ice age remains uncertain. A lowering of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels near the beginning of this time period occurred in response to the rise of land plants and likely ...

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