This open access book presents new theory and methods on compiling lithofacies paleogeographic maps as key tool for guiding geological survey shale gas

Taking the Ordovician Wufeng Formation-Silurian Longmaxi Formation as an example of shale gas development in Southern Sichuan Basin and its periphery. According to guiding “Lithofacies paleogeographical research mapping compilation can be a guide for geological survey” methods area selection evaluation, lithofacies paleogeography basic conditions this have been carefully studied, potential area...

[1] Large fluctuations in continental configuration occur throughout the Mesozoic. While it has long been recognized that paleogeography may potentially influence atmospheric CO2 via the continental silicate weathering feedback, no numerical simulations have been done, because of the lack of a spatially resolved climate-carbon model. GEOCLIM, a coupled numerical model of the climate and global ...

Aspects of the paleogeography, stratigraphy, and glacial history of Beringia have been greatly revised over the past 15}20 yr. Access to North East Russia, in particular, has provided the opportunity to evaluate the Beringia landscape as a contiguous subcontinent during the Quaternary. For the "rst time, new research has made clearer the connection between tectonic forces and the submergence of...