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Dissolved free amino acids and polyamines are two major dissolved organic nitrogen sources for marine bacterioplankton in the northern slope of the South China Sea
The northern slope water of the South China Sea (SCS) is oligotrophic. The regenerated nitrogen from dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) has been...
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Slope Instability Analysis of the Qiongdongnan Basin in the Northern Part of the South China Sea: Implications for the Risk Evaluation of Deepwater Drilling
The instability of continental slopes damages marine engineering equipment, such as submarine pipelines, resulting in the generation of tsunamis,...
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A database of potential paleoseismic evidence in Switzerland
Paleoseismological evidence is indispensable for the identification of large prehistoric earthquakes and the extension of the temporal coverage of...
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New Approach on the Quantitative Assessment of Geotouristic Potential: A Case Study in the Northern Area of the Rio De Janeiro Cliffs and Lagoons Geopark Project
As a trend in sustainable tourism, geotourism is being increasingly practiced, especially in territories that include geopark areas. The...
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Combining Landsat-8 spectral bands with ancillary variables for land cover classification in mountainous terrains of northern Pakistan
Landsat-8 spectral values have been used to map the earth’s surface information for decades. However, forest types and other land-use/land-cover...
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A new suction feeder and miniature teleosteomorph, Marcopoloichthys mirigioliensis, from the lower Besano Formation (late Anisian) of Monte San Giorgio
A new species ( Marcopoloichthys mirigioliensis ) of the stem teleosteomorph genus Marcopoloichthys is described from the lower Besano Formation (late...
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Seismicity in the Northern Rhine Area (1995–2018)
Since the mid-1990s, the local seismic network of the University of Cologne has produced digital seismograms. The data all underwent a daily routine...
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Fossil oceanic core complexes in the Alps. New field, geochemical and isotopic constraints from the Tethyan Aiguilles Rouges Ophiolite (Val d’Hérens, Western Alps, Switzerland)
Exhumation of basement rocks on the seafloor is a worldwide feature along passive continental margins and (ultra-) slow-spreading environments,...
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Microscopic weathering characteristics and deterioration mechanisms of sandstone in the Nankan Grotto, northern Sichuan, China
The mineralogy, micro-structure, geochemical mass balance, and porosity of sandstone in the Nankan Grotto were analyzed to explore the weathering...
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A reevaluation of the Late Jurassic dinosaur tracksite Barkhausen (Wiehengebirge, Northern Germany)
A restudy of the Barkhausen dinosaur tracksite shows that the track-bearing surface reveals considerably more detail than previously indicated, and a...
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A derived sauropodiform dinosaur and other sauropodomorph material from the Late Triassic of Canton Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Although sauropodomorph dinosaurs have been known for a long time from the Late Triassic of central Europe, sauropodomorph diversity and faunal...
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The first Cyclida from the Triassic of Italy
A well-preserved carapace of the crustacean Halicyne is here described. The finding comes from the Sostegno Basin (Piedmont, Italy). This is the...
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Capturing the structural and compositional variability of Opalinus Clay: constraints from multidisciplinary investigations of Mont Terri drill cores (Switzerland)
Opalinus Clay is considered a potential host rock for radioactive waste disposal. The Jurassic claystone formation is composed of several facies and...
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Callovian corals from the Swiss Jura
Twelve solitary and platy, colonial coral taxa assigned to the families Microsolenidae, Misistellidae, Montlivaltiidae, Rayasmiliidae, and...
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New trajectories or accelerating change? Zooarchaeological evidence for Roman transformation of animal husbandry in Northern Italy
Throughout the Western provinces of the Roman Empire, greater economic and political connectivity had a major impact on agricultural production,...
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Influence of plant coverage and environmental variables on pollen productivities: evidence from northern China
Pollen productivity is a critical parameter in the interpretation of pollen-vegetation relationships, and in the quantitative reconstructions of past...
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The anthracotheres from northern Junggar Basin and their palaeoclimatic significance in relation to the Tibetan Plateau
Anthracotheres were an environmentally sensitive group that were thought to have become extinct from the middle-high latitudes of the northern...
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The North Penninic Bündnerschiefer and Flysch of the Prättigau (Swiss Alps) revisited
During the re-map** of the area for the Geological Atlas of Switzerland, a significant stratigraphic unconformity was discovered in the North...
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Historical predictability of rainfall erosivity: a reconstruction for monitoring extremes over Northern Italy (1500–2019)
Erosive storms constitute a major natural hazard. They are frequently a source of erosional processes impacting the natural landscape with...
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The Kandersteg rock avalanche (Switzerland): integrated analysis of a late Holocene catastrophic event
In this study, we focus on the Kandersteg rock avalanche in the central Bernese Alps in Switzerland. We achieved an improved understanding of the...
