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Open Journal of Geology (OJG) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in geology. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of geology. All manuscrip…
Tiiu Elbra, Petr Schnabl, Šimon Kdýr, Miroslav Bubík
A new multidisciplinary study is being carried out in several localities from Outer Carpathians of Central Europe. Outer Carpathians allow studying the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) interval of the oceanic facies, including lower bathyal-abyssal sub-CCD turbidi…
Jun Chen, Shengxian Du, Cheng Chen, Fengchen Liu, Zhengguo Ning, Xiangsuo Song, Shucai Liu, Huinan Lu, Yongqing Liu, Hongwei Kuang
The Bianqiao Formation (in the Pingyi Basin, Shandong Province, China) is a typical set of continuous lacustrine carbonate deposits during the Cretaceous-Paleogene period, which is considered as an ideal stratigraphic unit for KPB research. This study is base…
Zijie Wu, Longwei Qiu, Haipeng Wang
The Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation in western Liaoning is the most important fossil production horizon of the Jehol Biota, which is widely distributed in the Mesozoic basins of western Liaoning. Due to the influence of historical data, previous scholars…
Petr Schnabl, Gang Li, Šimon Kdýr, Gunther Kletetschka, Petr Skupien, Andrea Svobodová, Karolína Hladíková, Meizhen Cao, William A. P. Wimbledon
The Purbeck beds in Dorset, the Tuchengzi Formation in western Liaoning Liaoning Province or the Houcheng Formation in northern Hebei Province are non-marine Jurassic/Cretaceous (J/K) boundary sequences. A Czech-China Inter-Governmental S&T Cooperation Projec…
Hongwei Kuang, Yongqing Liu, Kemin Xu, Zhenguo Ning, Nan Peng
The terrestrial upper Jurassic-Cretaceous (upper and lower)-Cenozoic stratigraphic succession developed continuously in Shandong province. There are intact and continuous terrestrial paleoecosystems dominated by dinosaurs, including five vertebrate fauna (bon…
Yongqing Liu, Hongwei Kuang, Kemin Xu, Zhenguo Ning, Nan Peng, Shengxian Du, Jun Chen
A well preserved terrestrial Cretaceous succession outcrops in Shandong Province. Although previous studies have conducted much work on the geochronology, subdivision of stratigraphic units, regional correlation and paleontology, high controversies remain abo…
Muhammad Sadiq Malkani
Vitakrisaurus saraiki abelisauroid theropod dinosaurs reported from Pakistan and extended distribution into India. Vitakrisaurus saraiki is medium to large sized theropod which is represented by associated vertebral and limb elements and especially hand eleme…
Dhananjay M. Mohabey, Bandana Samant
Eruptions of lava flows of Deccan large igneous province straddled the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary (K-Pg). Sediments associated at different stratigraphic levels within the lava piles of Deccan volcanic sequences (DVS) are mainly terrestrial. We studied th…
Muhammad Sadiq Malkani
Indo-Pakistan subcontinent is lucky to host the smallest, medium and large sized titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs. Saraikimasoom is the smallest sized, and Gspsaurus is the medium sized transversely stocky, Pakisaurus and Isisaurus are the large sized titanos…
Muhammad Sadiq Malkani
Recently, four coexisted titanosaurs from latest Maastrichtian Vitakri Lameta Formation of Indo-Pakistan are recognized as Isisaurus and Pakisaurus of large-sized slender pakisaurids, Saraikimasoom and Gspsaurus of the smallest and medium sized transversely s…
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Open Journal of Geology (OJG) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in geology. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of geology. All manuscrip… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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