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Ichthyosaurs are a group of successful Mesozoic marine reptiles that have a worldwide distribution, but their evolutionary origin is still unclear. In recent years, many new marine reptiles related to ichthyosaurs, and called early ichthyosauromorphs, have been found in rocks of Early Triassic age and shed light on the origin of ichthyosaurs. These early ichthyosauromorphs have been discovered ...

Recently, the research team led by Prof. CHEN Jiehong in China University ofGeosciences,Wuhan, published new study associated with pre-earthquake anomalous phenomena in the Journal of Earth and Space Sciences. The results suggest that humanity would get a key to resolving the scientific issues of pre-earth quake anomalous phenomena. The team established a novel monitoring system, which is honor...

Recently, the research group led by Professor Timothy Kusky, director of the Central for Global Tectonics of our university, published a paper "Archean eclogite-facies oceanic crust indicates modern-style plate tectonics" in the prestigious top-rated journal PNAS(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America). The authors identified residual oceanic crust of eclogite-...

The research group led by Professor Tim Kusky, director of the Center for Global Tectonics, published a paper, "Alpine-style nappes thrust over ancient North China continental margin demonstrate large Archean horizontal plate motions ", on Nature communication.The first author is Zhong Yating, a doctoral student of the school of Geosciences of our university, and the co-corresponding authors ar...

Intensive volcanism has been considered a major driver of environmental/climatic changes through Earth history, including global warming due to volcanogenic CO2 emissions, ocean acidification, and atmospheric ozone depletion, which are regarded as potentially important killing mechanisms during mass extinctions of life. However, direct evidence of a linkage between volcanism and environmental/c...

Earth science has played and will continue to play a vital role in the development of human society. Scientific advances and techological developments in the past 70 years, led by the integration of interdiscipline research, has greatly promoted the growing field of Earth science. Some of the underlining research themes driving the recent advances have focused on the mecahnisms, processes, and ...

Distinguished Alumni, Dear All,As the country embarks on a new journey to build a modern socialist country in an all-round way, it will also be a new starting point for the China University of Geosciences (CUG), which will celebrate its 70th anniversary in 2022. Having been developing together with China, the 70-year journey for CUG was never smooth. Trials and hardships abounded. It boasts a h...

Title: Molecular determination of organic adsorption sites on smectite during Fe-redox processes using ToF-SIMS analysis.Authors: Huang, Liuqin; Yu, Qun; Liu, Wen; Wang, Jungang ; Guo, Wenxiao; Jia, Endong ; Zeng, Qiang; Qin, Ruijun ; Zheng, Jianqiu ; Hofmockel, Kirsten; Dong, Hailiang ; Jiang, Hongchen*; Zhu, Zihua*Source: Environmental Science & TechnologyPublication Date: April 26, 2021DOI: ...

Rates of soil erosion and alluvium accumulation in North America accelerated 10-fold after Europeans colonized the continent, according to new research carried out by scientists from China, Belgium, and USA.In a paper published today in Nature Communications, the researchers show how humans have altered the North American landscape at a rate far in excess of what nature alone can achieve. The r...

There is a team from the School of Environmental Studies, which focuses on groundwater and ecological environment in arid area, has been working in Xinjiang for 20 years. Overcoming the difficulties of time, space, climate, diet, etc., they provide technical support for efficient use of water resources of different types of water quality, improvement of living standard, and sustainable developm...