A New Discovery of ~2.7 Ga Granitic Magmatism in Southeastern Jilin Province, China

Objective The North China Craton（NCC）is characterized by widespread tectono-thermal events at ca.2.5 Ga,which differs from many other older cratons on Earth,which usually record tectono-thermal events at-2.7 Ga.Therefore,the search for early crustal material,especially rocks within the NCC that record the 2.7 Ga event,

A New Discovery on the Deformation Behavior of Shale Gas Reservoirs Affecting Pore Morphology in the Juhugeng Coal Mining Area of Qinghai Province, Northwest China

Objective The Juhugeng mining area in Qinghai Province of northwest China has attracted wide attention among geologists for it hosts typical coal measure gases.The shale gas reservoirs were reformed by intensive structural movements during geological periods,

A new discovery of The Early Cretaceous Supercritical Hyperpycnal Flow Deposits on Lingshan Island,East China

Objective Understanding the dynamics of sediment gravity flows is of great importance to correctly interpret their related deposits. The discovery of supercritical sediment gravity flows provides some new viewpoints for the explanation of controversial sediment gravity flow deposits. However, the dynamics, formation, evolution processes of supercritical sediment gravity flows and their recognition criteria from their associated deposits are still worldwide controversial. The supercritical hyperpycnal flow deposits recognized in the upper part of Early Cretaceous Lingshandao Formation provide a rare opporttmity to understand their sedimentary characteristics. This work is aimed at documenting the typical sedimentary structures associated with the supercritical hyperpycnal flow, and discussing the vertical stacking and its relationship with flow evolution.

A New Discovery of ～3.0 Ga Tonalitic Gneiss in Northern Liaoning Province, China

Objective The North China Craton,bounded by the Paleozoic Central Asian Orogenic Belt on the north and by the Qinling–Dabie–Su–Lu Orogenic Belt on the south,is one of the oldest continental nuclei on Earth as a consequence of its preservation of some of the oldest rock records ranging up to ca.3.85 Ga and mineral older than 4.0 Ga（Li et al.,2016,2017）.

A New Discovery of Deep-Water Benthic Organisms from the Southwestern Dongsha Area,South China Sea

Dongsha waters are poorly studied for gas hydrates. Previous multi-channel seismic reflection and Chirp sub- bottom profiles show that numerous submarine mounds stand up to 100 m high above the seafloor over the continental slope of the SW Dongsha Island in northern margin of the South China Sea （SCS）. These mounds are characterized by hardened seabed, seafloor gas venting and folded structures, which implies the existence of active mud volcanoes. This work aims to confirm this speculation by seafloor sample dredging and to explore the potential of gas hydrates.

A New Discovery in Science: Far-Reaching Effects of the Hawaiian Islands on the Pacific Ocean-Atmosphere

Dr. Shangping Xie (EPRC, Hawaii University, USA), Dr. W. Timothy Liu (J.P.L. California Institute of Technology, USA), Professor Qinyu Liu (Ocean U-niversity of Qingdao, China) and Masami Nonaka (IPRC, Hawaii University, USA) discovered a phe-

Discovery of a new type of auriferous ore deposit in Jiao-Lai Basin

An auriferous ore deposit of industrial scale was discovered by the authors in carbon-aceous rock series or the Jiao-Lai Basin on the North China Platform. The carbonaceousrock series is developed at the bottom of the Cretaceous Laiyang Group which is over 270mthick, and overlies unconformably the Archaean-Proterozoic metamorphic rocks. The