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Geosphere,
posts articles online regularly. Topics for articles posted for
Geosphere this month include a tale of five enclaves ; evidence
for mantle and Moho in the Baltimore Mafic Complex (Maryland, USA); and the
after effects of the 1964 Mw 9.2 megathrust rupture, Alaska.
From Ordovician nascent to early Permian mature arc in the southern
Altaids: Insights from the Kalatage inlier in the Eastern Tianshan, NW
China
Qigui Mao; Jingbin Wang; Wenjiao Xiao; Brian F. Windley; Karel Schulmann
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Abstract:
The Kalatage inlier in the Dananhu-Haerlik arc is one of the most important
arcs in the Eastern Tianshan, southern Altaids (or Central Asian orogenic
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The word fossil tends to evokes calcified bones or shells the hard body parts of an animal that died long ago. That s partially because it is very rare for soft tissue literal flesh making up organs to be preserved for millions of years. Soft tissue tends to decompose, be eaten by predators or scavengers, or get destroyed through forces of geology and/or nature over time.
Yet every so often, some soft tissue does get preserved in fossil form. And when it does, it s an exciting opening for biologists in that it helps them understand how ancient lifeforms functioned.