Journal of the Geological Society: 178 (1)

January 2021, Volume 178, Issue 1

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Geological Society of London Scientific Statement: what the geological record tells us about our present and future climate
Caroline H. Lear, Pallavi Anand, Tom Blenkinsop, Gavin L. Foster, Mary Gagen, Babette Hoogakker, Robert D. Larter, Daniel J. Lunt, I. Nicholas McCave, Erin McClymont, Richard D. Pancost, Rosalind E.M. Rickaby, David M. Schultz, Colin Summerhayes, Charles J.R. Williams and Jan Zalasiewicz

Journal of the Geological Society, 178, jgs2020-239, 28 December 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-239

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The Shibantan Lagerstätte: insights into the Proterozoic–Phanerozoic transition
Shuhai Xiao, Zhe Chen, Ke Pang, Chuanming Zhou and Xunlai Yuan

Journal of the Geological Society, 178, jgs2020-135, 12 October 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-135

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Central sagging of a giant mafic intrusion: the Ediacaran Sept Îles Layered Intrusion (Québec, Canada)
O. Bolle, H. Diot, W. Fransen and M. D. Higgins

Journal of the Geological Society, 178, jgs2020-029, 17 September 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-029
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Late Silurian zircon U–Pb ages from the Ludlow and Downton bone beds, Welsh Basin, UK
Elizabeth J. Catlos, Darren F. Mark, Stephanie Suarez, Michael E. Brookfield, C. Giles Miller, Axel K. Schmitt, Vincent Gallagher and Anne Kelly

Journal of the Geological Society, 178, jgs2020-107, 17 September 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-107
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Expanding the toolbox for dating basaltic lava sequences: ⁴⁰Ar–³⁹Ar dating of silicic volcanic glass from interbeds
Simone Cogliati, Sarah C. Sherlock, Alison M. Halton, Alena Ebinghaus, Simon P. Kelley, David W. Jolley and Tiffany L. Barry

Journal of the Geological Society, 178, jgs2019-207, 17 September 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2019-207
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Brachiopod-dominated communities and depositional environment of the Guanshan Konservat-Lagerstätte, eastern Yunnan, China
Feiyang Chen, Glenn A. Brock, Zhiliang Zhang, Brittany Laing, Xinyi Ren and Zhifei Zhang

Journal of the Geological Society, 178, jgs2020-043, 18 September 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-043
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Subduction-related subcontinental lithospheric mantle metasomatism and crustal thickening: origin for superchondritic Nb/Ta in mafic dykes
Xiang Cui, Wenbin Zhu and F. Jourdan

Journal of the Geological Society, 178, jgs2020-120, 18 September 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-120
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Rapid cooling during late-stage orogenesis and implications for the collapse of the Scandian retrowedge, northern Scotland
B.M. Spencer, J.R. Thigpen, R.D. Law, C.A. Mako, C.S. McDonald, K.V. Hodges and K.T. Ashley

Journal of the Geological Society, 178, jgs2020-022, 23 September 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-022
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Volcanic spherules condensed from supercritical fluids in the Payenia volcanic province, Argentina
Linda A. Kirstein, Silvestar Kanev, J. Godfrey Fitton, Stephen J. Turner and EIMF

Journal of the Geological Society, 178, jgs2020-026, 8 October 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-026
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Clumped isotope geothermometry of an Ordovician carbonate mound, Hudson Bay Basin
Josué J. Jautzy, Martine M. Savard, Denis Lavoie, Omid H. Ardakani, Ryan S. Dhillon, William F. Defliese and Ariane Castagner

Journal of the Geological Society, 178, jgs2020-102, 8 October 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-102
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Nd isotope record of ocean closure archived in limestones of the Devonian–Carboniferous carbonate platform, Greater Karatau, southern Kazakhstan
Z. Belka, J. Dopieralska, M. Jakubowicz, S. Skompski, A. Walczak, D. Korn and M. Siepak

Journal of the Geological Society, 178, jgs2020-077, 12 October 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-077
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Evolution of a salt-rich transtensional rifted margin, eastern North Pyrenees, France
M. Ford and J. Vergés

Journal of the Geological Society, 178, jgs2019-157, 15 October 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2019-157
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The Mesoproterozoic Stac Fada Member, NW Scotland: an impact origin confirmed but refined
G. R. Osinski, L. Ferrière, P. J. A. Hill, A. R. Prave, L. J. Preston, A. Singleton and A. E. Pickersgill

Journal of the Geological Society, 178, jgs2020-056, 16 October 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-056
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Outcrop-scale manifestations of reactivation during multiple superimposed rifting and basin inversion events: the Devonian Orcadian Basin, northern Scotland
A.M. Dichiarante, R.E. Holdsworth, E.D. Dempsey, K.J.W. McCaffrey and T.A.G. Utley

Journal of the Geological Society, 178, jgs2020-089, 22 October 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-089
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Uncharted Permian to Jurassic continental deposits in the far north of Victoria Land, East Antarctica
Benjamin Bomfleur, Thomas Mörs, Jan Unverfärth, Feng Liu, Andreas Läufer, Paula Castillo, Changhwan Oh, Tae-Yoon S. Park, Jusun Woo and Laura Crispini

Journal of the Geological Society, 178, jgs2020-062, 23 October 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-062
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Late Carboniferous dextral transpressional reactivation of the crustal-scale Walls Boundary Fault, Shetland: the role of pre-existing structures and lithological heterogeneities
Timothy B. Armitage, Lee M. Watts, Robert E. Holdsworth and Robin A. Strachan

Journal of the Geological Society, 178, jgs2020-078, 23 October 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-078
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Linking surface and subsurface volcanic stratigraphy in the Turkana Depression of the East African Rift system
Nick Schofield, Richard Newton, Scott Thackrey, Douglas Watson, David Jolley and Chris Morley

Journal of the Geological Society, 178, jgs2020-110, 23 October 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-110
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A revised age-model for the Eocene deep-marine siliciclastic systems, Aínsa Basin, Spanish Pyrenees
Blanca Cantalejo, Kevin T. Pickering, Conall McNiocaill, Paul Bown, Kyrre Johansen and Melissa Grant

Journal of the Geological Society, 178, jgs2019-131, 8 October 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2019-131
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Chasing the 400 kyr pacing of deep-marine sandy submarine fans: Middle Eocene Aínsa Basin, Spanish Pyrenees
Blanca Cantalejo, Kevin T. Pickering, Ken G. Miller and Conall Mac Niocaill

Journal of the Geological Society, 178, jgs2019-173, 28 October 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2019-173
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Stress fields of ancient seismicity recorded in the dynamic geometry of pseudotachylyte in the Outer Hebrides Fault Zone, UK
L.R. Campbell, G.E. Lloyd, R.J. Phillips, R.C. Walcott and R.E. Holdsworth

Journal of the Geological Society, 178, jgs2020-101, 4 November 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-101
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Sedimentology of the modern seasonal lower Ganges River with low inter-annual peak discharge variance, Bangladesh
Xin Shan, Xuefa Shi, Peter D. Clift, Ashraf Ali Seddique, Shengfa Liu, Chengpeng Tan, Jianguo Liu, Rased Hasan, Jingrui Li and Zhaojun Song

Journal of the Geological Society, 178, jgs2020-094, 4 November 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-094
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Brittle–ductile fabrics and P–T conditions of deformation in the East Pernambuco shear zone (Borborema Province, NE Brazil)
Paulo Castellan, Gustavo Viegas and Frederico M. Faleiros

Journal of the Geological Society, 178, jgs2020-109, 6 November 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-109
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Timing of slip across the South Tibetan detachment system and Yadong–Gulu graben, Eastern Himalaya
Hanwen Dong, Kyle P. Larson, Dawn A. Kellett, Zhiqin Xu, Guangwei Li, Hui Cao, Zhiyu Yi and Lingsen Zeng

Journal of the Geological Society, 178, jgs2019-197, 6 November 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2019-197
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Stable isotopes (δ¹³C, δ¹⁸O) and element ratios (Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca) of Jurassic belemnites, bivalves and brachiopods from the Neuquén Basin (Argentina): challenges and opportunities for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions
Matthias Alberti, Horacio Parent, Alberto C. Garrido, Nils Andersen, Dieter Garbe-Schönberg and Silvia Danise

Journal of the Geological Society, 178, jgs2020-163, 10 November 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-163

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