Location: Home > News Center > Highlights
Highlights

Age determination of nephrite by in-situ SIMS U–Pb dating syngenetic titanite: A case study of the nephrite depo...[06 29, 2015]

Nephrite jade (nephrite) is a kind of valuable jade, which forms during metamorphism under greenschist facies conditions. Despite being rare in quantity, nephrite occurrences are found worldwide. Precise dating of nephrite is helpful for understan...

W020150615360716127113.jpg

A Paleozoic Japan-type subduction-accretion system in the Beishan orogenic collage, China[06 17, 2015]

Accretionary orogenic belts are complicated collages composed of magmatic arcs, accretionary complexes, ophiolitic mélanges, fore-arc/ back-arc basins and microcontinents, which are key sites of continental growth. The Central Asian Orogenic Belt...

W020150430368971509062.jpg

JAAS:Measurements of water content and D/H ratio in apatite and silicate glasses using a NanoSIMS 50L[06 12, 2015]

Water plays an important role in the evolution of Earth, Mars, the Moon and other planets, and hydrogen isotopes can be used as a crucial tracer for fractionation processes and water reservoirs. For Martian and Lunar samples, there are two ways to...

New U–Pb zircon ages of the Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary[06 08, 2015]

The Ediacaran–Cambrian (E–C) transition is a critical interval marking one of the most drastic biological, oceanic and geochemical co-evolutions in geological history. The E–C boundary is defined by the first appearance datum (FAD) of trace fos...

Bats Respond to Very Weak Magnetic Fields[05 26, 2015]

The geomagnetic field is one of the most important of Earth’s geophysical fields: All organisms living on Earth have evolved in the geomagnetic field. The geomagnetic field can protect Earth’s organisms from the solar wind and other harmful cosm...

W020150416320484048027.jpg

High-precision constant energy MD simulations show the formation of structure-I methane hydrate with a high degre...[05 18, 2015]

Gas hydrates are multi-component crystalline compounds made from space-filling cages of water molecules that accommodate small guest molecules such as methane, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen. Gas hydrates have received recent attention bec...

Crustal Structure of Bohai Sea and adjacent area (North China) from two onshore-offshore wide-angle seismic surve...[05 08, 2015]

The Bohai Sea and adjacent area is not only an important window for understanding the destruction process of the North China Craton (NCC), but also a key area for the comparative study of Chinese and Korean geology. Bohai is also one of the most i...

W020150414357181841871.jpg

PNAS: Volcanic history of the Imbrium basin revealed by the lunar rover Yutu[04 29, 2015]

The moon is the only satellite of Earth, which is the outpost and transfer station for the human’s further space exploration. On December 14, 2013, Chang’e-3 successfully landed on the young and high-Ti lava flow in the northeastern Mare Imbrium...

COPYRIGHT @ INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (IGGCAS)
No. 19, Beitucheng Western Road, Chaoyang District, 100029, Beijing, P.R.China
Tel:010-82998001 Fax:010-62010846 Email:suoban@mail.iggcas.ac.cn