1. Some new plant finds from the Posongchong Formation of Yunnan, and consideration of a phytogeographic similarity between South China and Australia during the Early Devonian

   • Hao Shougang
   • Patricia G. Gensel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 13

2. The oldest angiosperm—a tricarpous female reproductive fossil from western Liaoning Province, NE China

   • Duan Shuying

   OriginalPaper Pages: 14 - 20

3. Paleoceanographic implications of Radiolaria in the southern Okinawa Trough over the last 20 000 years

   • Wang Rujian
   • Jian Zhimin
   • Chen Ronghua

   OriginalPaper Pages: 21 - 27

4. Late Quaternary eolian records in the northwest Pacific with glacial cycles: a comparison

   • Wang Huizhong
   • Zhao Quanhong
   • Zhang Weiguo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 28 - 34

5. Western Pacific in glacial cycles:Seasonality in marginal seas and variabilities of Warm Pool

   • Wang Pinxian

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 41

6. Vertical transferring process of rare elements in coral reef lagoons of Nansha Islands, South China Sea

   • Song Jinming
   • Li Pengcheng

   OriginalPaper Pages: 42 - 48

7. Genetic relationship of metamorphic reaction and dehydration-melting

   • Liu Fulai
   • Shen Qihan
   • Ma Rui

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 56

8. Different dynamics and routes of modern pollen transport in the northern and southern parts of the South China Sea

   • Sun Xiangjun
   • Li Xun

   OriginalPaper Pages: 57 - 61

9. Paleogeothermal gradient and geologic thermal history of the Turpan-Hami Basin, Xinjiang

   • Liu Yiqun
   • Wu Tao
   • Feng Qiao

   OriginalPaper Pages: 62 - 68

10. The date of last large eruption of Changbaishan-Tianchi volcano and its significance

    • Liu Ruoxin
    • Qiu Shihua
    • Zhong Jian

    OriginalPaper Pages: 69 - 74

11. Thallium pollution associated with mining of thallium deposits

    • Zhang Zhong
    • Zhang Baogui
    • Chen Guoli

    OriginalPaper Pages: 75 - 81

12. Geochemical significance of hydrocarbons desorbed from asphaltenes

    • Pan Changchun
    • Xiao Zhongyao

    OriginalPaper Pages: 82 - 86

13. Modern hot spring geochemistry at the Tanlu fault and Jiaoliao block in eastern China

    • Shangguan Zhiguan
    • Du Jikui
    • Gao Songsheng

    OriginalPaper Pages: 87 - 94

14. Oxygen isotope fractionation in mantle minerals

    • Zheng Yongfei
    • Wei Chunsheng
    • Xu Baolong

    OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 103

15. The processes of tropical semi-geostrophic adaptation

    • Lin Yonghui
    • Chao Jiping

    OriginalPaper Pages: 104 - 112