Geology and climate drive alpine plant compositional variation among peaks in the Cascade Range of Washington. by Erik W Ertsgaard, Nicholas L Gjording, Jonathan D Bakker, Joseph A Kleinkopf, David E Giblin

“…A unique result was a distinct plant community in peaks with ultramafic geologic parent material formed in the Paleozoic Era, which has an extreme geochemistry that we found to form evolutionarily distinct lineages compared to all other peaks. …”
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Seismic prediction technology for thin reservoirs of tight gas in coal measure strata: a case study of Block L in the eastern margin of the Ordos Basin by Yu Qi, Kui Wu, Qixin Li, Xiaowen Zheng, Bo Wang, Dan Li, Wei Tang

“…This area, where tight sandstone gas deposits are widespread in the Upper Paleozoic, is characterized by coal seams that complicate seismic interpretation. …”
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Petrology and Tectonic Geophysics of Massive and Foliated Eclogites in the North Qilian Orogenic Belt: Changes in Mineral Composition, Oxygen Fugacity, and Fabric during Exhumation by Feng Wang, Daorong Zhou, Xunhua Zhang

“…The North Qilian orogenic belt is a typical area of “cold” subduction of the early Paleozoic oceanic plate, forming a series of high pressure and low temperature metamorphic rock assemblages. …”
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The main types and mineral composition of bauxites of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly by A.D. Savko, M.Yu. Ovchinnikova

“…The bauxite-bearing Paleozoic weathering crust of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly (KMA) is developed along the inter-ore schists of the ferruginous-siliceous formation of the Kursk series. …”
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Estimating Geomagnetically Induced Currents in Southern Brazil Using 3‐D Earth Resistivity Model by Karen V. Espinosa, Antonio L. Padilha, Livia R. Alves, Adam Schultz, Anna Kelbert

“…In this study, we simulate induced GICs in a hypothetical representation of a low‐latitude power transmission network located mainly over the large Paleozoic Paraná basin (PB) in southern Brazil. Two intense geomagnetic storms in June and December 2015 are chosen and geoelectric fields are calculated by convolving a three‐dimensional (3‐D) Earth resistivity model with recorded geomagnetic variations. …”
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The influence of diagenesis on the quality of tight sandstone reservoirs in Longdong, Ordos Basin by Gaixia Cui, Shouyu Xu, Qinlian Wei, Yimeng Yang, Jin Hu, Tuoping He

“…Abstract The Longdong region is a recently discovered area for exploring natural gas in the Upper Paleozoic era within the Ordos Basin. The primary layer that produces gas in this area is the Shan1 member of the Permian Shanxi Formation. …”
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Tracking Deep Meteoric Fluid Circulation Along a Regional Detachment Fault Using Field Infrared Spectroscopy by Tom Brikowski, Chinomso Madubuike, Jeremy McDowell, Greg Greywall

“…That history begins with Mesozoic regional burial metamorphism of Paleozoic sediments, minor late Mesozoic contact metamorphism by silicic intrusives, followed by upwelling of hot metamorphic fluids after detachment initiation (11 MYA), later circulation of moderate-temperature meteoric-geothermal fluids, and young (< 5 MYA) hot epithermal fluids upwelling along detachment-cutting normal faults. …”
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Late Pennsylvanian vegetation dynamics of the Donets Basin, Ukraine by Nataliya Boyarina

“…The dynamics of the Late Pennsylvanian vegetation cover of the Donets Basin is represented by a succession of formations of new plant communities (phytocoenogenesis) of a wetland forest and woodland biome and a seasonally dry woodland biome because of the changing landscape and climate conditions resulting from the glacio-eustatic changes during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age. The Late Pennsylvanian vegetation consisted of plant communities of wetland marattialean fern-dominated forests on coastal lowlands and wetland lycopsid-fern forests on deltaic plains in the Kasimovian as well as wetland marattialean fern-dominated forests with new dominants on coastal lowlands and wetland lycopsid-pteridosperm-calamitalean-fern forests with new dominants on deltaic plains in the early Gzhelian that were formed according to the evolutionary progressive model of phytocoenogenesis under conditions of an expansion of coastal lowlands and deltaic plains inthe long-term period of a relatively stable higher sea level with frequent sea level fluctuations during the late Kasimovian–early-mid-Gzhelian interglacial interval. …”
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The Penha Garcia Ichnological Park at Naturtejo UNESCO Global Geopark (Portugal): a Geotourism Destination in the Footprint of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event by Carlos Neto de Carvalho, Andrea Baucon, Aram Bayet-Goll, João Belo

“…They are among the largest fossils found anywhere in the Lower Paleozoic, not uncommonly several meters long and over 20 cm wide, covering large bedding planes almost completely. …”
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Estimation of the Oil-in-Place Resources in the Liquid-Rich Shale Formations Exploiting Geochemical and Petrophysical Data in a 3D High-Resolution Geological Model Domain: Baltic B... by Krzysztof Sowiżdżał, Tomasz Słoczyński, Weronika Kaczmarczyk

“…The paper discusses the issue of oil-in-place estimation for liquid-saturated shales in Lower Paleozoic (Silurian and Ordovician) organic-rich formations of the Baltic Basin in North Poland. …”
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Preliminary Results of the Kuznetsk Coal Basin Cover Deposits Radon Hazard Assessment by Timofey Leshukov, Konstantin Legoshchin, Elizaveta Baranova, Aleksey Larionov

“…The cover deposits in the study area are represented by loamy and clayey strata overlying the Paleozoic sedimentary cycles. The radon field was estimated based on the radon flux density (RFD) and radon activity concentration (RAC) in the soil gas. …”
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Triassic evolution of the Adriatic-Dinaridic platform’s continental margins—insights from rare dolerite subvolcanic intrusions in External Dinarides, Croatia by Slovenec, Damir, Belak, Mirko, Badurina, Luka, Horvat, Marija, Šegvić, Branimir

“…The second one proposes a melting of the subduction-altered heterogeneous lithospheric (subcontinental) mantle contaminated and/or metasomatized during an earlier Variscan subduction in the Late Paleozoic. Accordingly, two geodynamic interpretations are suggested: (i) Middle Triassic north-vergent active subduction of the Paleotethys beneath the Andean-type active Laurasian continental margin coupled by the formation of a pericontinental volcanic arc and subsequent extension and back-arc rifting, within the Adria Plate, which led to the formation of locally aborted rift systems and subsidence of the platform, and (ii) Middle Triassic extension, unaffected by contemporaneous active subduction, of the High Karst nappe unit of the Greater Adria as a result of an ephemeral syn-rift volcanic stage, which featured the formation of the Dinaridic aborted rift system followed by the platform subsidence and emergence of local sedimentary basins.…”
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Late Ediacaran juvenile magmatism in the Variscan Monts-du-Lyonnais metamorphic complex (Massif Central, France) by Couzinié Simon, Laurent Oscar, Bouilhol Pierre, Chelle-Michou Cyril, Ganzhorn Anne-Céline, Gardien Véronique, Moyen Jean-François

“…The identification of oceanic sutures is key to understanding the evolution of the Paleozoic Variscan belt and the structure of the West European lithosphere. …”
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Antimicrobial Properties of α-MSH and Related Synthetic Melanocortins by A. Catania, G. Colombo, C. Rossi, A. Carlin, A. Sordi, C. Lonati, F. Turcatti, P. Leonardi, P. Grieco, S. Gatti

“…Several properties of α-melanocyte stimulating hormone (α-MSH) suggested that it could be a natural antimicrobial peptide. α-MSH is a primordial peptide that appeared during the Paleozoic era, long before adaptive immunity developed and, like natural antimicrobial molecules, is produced by barrier epithelia, immunocytes, and within the central nervous system. α-MSH was discovered to have antimicrobial activity against two representative pathogens, Staphylococcus aureus and Candida albicans. …”
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Daedalus Mega-ichnosites: The Armorican Quartzite Bridge between Villuercas-Ibores-Jara and Naturtejo UNESCO Global Geoparks by Carlos Neto de Carvalho, Andrea Baucon, Ivan Cortijo, Soren Jensen, Jose Maria Barrera, Javier Lopez Caballero

“…The Early Paleozoic oceans were generally characterized by short trophic chains and simple ecological tiering dominated by suspension-feeding organisms. …”
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Comparative Study on the Reservoir Characteristics and Development Technologies of Two Typical Karst Weathering-Crust Carbonate Gas Reservoirs in China by Haijun Yan, Ailin Jia, Fankun Meng, Qinyu Xia, Wei Xu, Qingfu Feng, Wenjun Luo, Xinyu Li, Xun Zhu, Yicheng Liu

“…The high-efficiency development of carbonate reservoirs is of great significance to assure the stability of national energy supply. The Lower Paleozoic reservoir in Jingbian gas field and the Sinian reservoir in Anyue gas field are two typical carbonate gas reservoirs, and their successful development experiences can provide significant references for other similar carbonate gas reservoirs. …”
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Insights on the Permian tuff beds from the Saint-Affrique Basin (Massif Central, France): an integrated geochemical and geochronological study by Poujol, Marc, Mercuzot, Mathilde, Lopez, Michel, Bourquin, Sylvie, Bruguier, Olivier, Hallot, Erwan, Beccaletto, Laurent

“…In the Eastern Pangea intertropical domain (i.e. the present-day Western Europe), the late-Paleozoic (i.e. uppermost Carboniferous–Permian) history remains poorly constrained due to the lack of precise radiometric data. …”
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Water–rock interaction in the geothermal systems related to post-collision zone volcanism: A case study based on multivariate statistical analysis from the Kavak geothermal field (... by Gündüz, Mesut, Bozdağ, Ayla, Bayram, Ali Ferat, Bozdağ, Ali, Asan, Kürşad, Sardini, Paul

“…In this study, we re-evaluate the published data, including water chemistry and volcanic and metamorphic whole-rock geochemistry from the Kavak geothermal field (Konya, Turkey) by using multivariate statistical analysis (e.g. factor analysis and clustering analysis) to research possible interaction between the thermal waters and surrounding rocks.The Kavak geothermal field (KGF) overlies a metamorphic basement composed of the Paleozoic metacarbonates and metaclastic rocks, yet is located near the Erenlerdağ–Alacadağ volcanic complex (ErAVC). …”
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Assessment of Chaves Low-Temperature CO2-Rich Geothermal System (N-Portugal) Using an Interdisciplinary Geosciences Approach by J. M. Marques, P. M. Carreira, L. A. Aires-Barros, F. A. Monteiro Santos, M. Antunes da Silva, P. Represas

“…The study region is situated in the tectonic unit of the Middle Galicia/Trás-os-Montes subzone of the Central Iberian Zone of the Hesperic Massif comprising mainly Variscan granites and Paleozoic metasediments. Chaves low-temperature CO2-rich geothermal waters belong to the Na-HCO3-CO2-rich-type waters, with pH≈7. …”
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Geochronology and geochemistry of the Neoproterozoic–Mesozoic intrusive rocks in the Xinlin area, northeastern China: new constraints on the tectonic evolution of the Erguna block... by Sheng Lu, Sheng Lu, Sheng Lu, Sheng Lu, Chenglu Li, Masroor Alam, Zhichao Song, Xiannan Zhu, Anzong Fu, Wenpeng Yang

“…Our findings, along with previous studies, suggest that Neoproterozoic intrusive rocks were formed during the breakup of the Rodinia supercontinent. The Paleozoic intrusive rocks are associated with the collision and amalgamation of the Erguna and Xing’an blocks, as well as the Songnen and Xing’an blocks. …”
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