This study investigates the role of zooclasts in bulk organic matter composition, kerogen type, and hydrocarbon generation potential lower Paleozoic marine Alum shale Baltoscandia, northwestern Europe. The results show that graptolite periderm is composed non-granular cuticles granular filling. cuticle non-fluorescing has a well-polishing measurable surface, while fraction semi-translucent brow...

The Gucheng region is oil and gas accumulation area of Tarim Basin，dominated by beach controlled lithologic reservoirs，which has superior conditions broad exploration prospects. lower Paleozoic strata in the are Carboniferous, Ordovician, Cambrian systems from top to bottom. Silurian, Devonian, Permian missing. Ordovician – main target layers area. There four reservoirs: group, Yingshan Penglai...

A geophysical transect across the central Gulf of Mexico coastal plain shows that the early Paleozoic continental margin of southern Laurentia is preserved in a nearly pristine state beneath younger strata that were emplaced during the late Paleozoic Ouachita orogeny and formation of the modern Gulf of Mexico coastal plain. The thickness of the crystalline crust decreases abruptly across the ma...

Barite occurs throughout tlie gcologic ~.ecortl as massive beds, laminations, rosettes, and nodules. The niost importan( scientific and econo~iiic occurrences of barite are stratabound and stratifor~n massive betis from the Early Arcliean and tlie Early to Middle Paleozoic. Paleozoic beddecl barites are by far thc most volu~netricellp significant deposits in tlie geologic record. Additional occ...

For more than two decades, Jack Sepkoski’s hypothesis of three great ‘evolutionary faunas’ has dominated thinking about the Phanerozoic evolution of marine animals. This theory combines pattern description with process modelling: diversity trajectories of major taxonomic groups are sorted into three categories, and the trajectories are predicted by coupled logistic equations. Here I use a re-cr...