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Tectono-sedimentary evolution of the Senhaja Basin (Western Meseta, Morocco) and its implication for understanding the late Variscan tectonic processes 摩洛哥西梅塞塔Senhaja盆地构造-沉积演化及其对认识晚瓦里斯坎构造过程的意义

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Proceedings of the Geologists Association Pub Date : 2025-08-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2025.101133

Amal Zouicha , Jamal El Kabouri , Roland Nádaskay , Tariq Zouheir , Hafid Saber , Ahmed El Attari , Khadra Zaid

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Dissolution as the origin of soft-sediment deformation structures in the Upper Cretaceous of the Noumerat area (Oued Mya Basin, Algerian Sahara) 阿尔及利亚撒哈拉Oued Mya盆地Noumerat地区上白垩统软沉积变形构造的溶蚀成因

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Proceedings of the Geologists Association Pub Date : 2025-08-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2025.101134

Mostapha Benzina , Abdelmalik Draoui , Małgorzata Pisarska-Jamroży , Hocine Guerradi , Hakim Hebib , Safa Maache

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Aspects of the deglaciation of the Lochaber Glacial Lakes area, western Scottish Highlands 苏格兰高地西部Lochaber冰川湖区冰川消融的各个方面

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Proceedings of the Geologists Association Pub Date : 2025-07-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2025.101131

J. Douglas Peacock , James Rose

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First report of neosuchian remains in Aptian–Albian marine deposits of southeastern France 法国东南部Aptian-Albian海相沉积物中首次发现新苏世遗迹

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Proceedings of the Geologists Association Pub Date : 2025-07-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2025.101132

Jeremy E. Martin , Romain Jattiot

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A night at the opera: the prestigious fate of green fluorite from the Voltennes mine, la Petite-Verrière, France 歌剧之夜：来自法国小verri<e:1> Voltennes矿的绿色萤石的命运

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Proceedings of the Geologists Association Pub Date : 2025-07-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2025.101130

Vincent Thiéry

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A new multituberculate (Mammalia, Allotheria) from the Lulworth Formation (Cretaceous, Berriasian) of Dorset, England 英国多塞特的Lulworth组（白垩纪，Berriasian）一种新的多结核动物（哺乳目，异源兽目）

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Proceedings of the Geologists Association Pub Date : 2025-07-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2025.101128

Benjamin T. Weston , Steven C. Sweetman , Jake Kean , Charles Wood , David M. Martill , Roy E. Smith

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A new modern Hydrolithon-like coralline red alga from the Upper Ordovician of Estonia 来自爱沙尼亚上奥陶统的一种新的现代类水螅状珊瑚红藻

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Proceedings of the Geologists Association Pub Date : 2025-06-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2025.101127

Olev Vinn , Anna Madison , Mare Isakar , Magdy El Hedeny , Abdullah A. Alkahtane , Saleh Alfarraj

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First record of serpulid aggregations and possible serpulid reefs from the Aptian (Cretaceous) of Algeria 阿尔及利亚阿普提亚（白垩纪）首次记录蛇形聚集体和可能的蛇形礁

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Proceedings of the Geologists Association Pub Date : 2025-06-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2025.101126

Olev Vinn , Imad Bouchemla , Madani Benyoucef , Magdy El Hedeny , Mansour I. Almansour , Saleh Alfarraj

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Review of Oxfordian (Upper Jurassic) sequence stratigraphy of England (Yorkshire to Dorset) and a comparison with the North Sea Basin 英国（约克郡-多塞特）牛津（上侏罗统）层序地层学综述及与北海盆地的比较

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Proceedings of the Geologists Association Pub Date : 2025-06-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2025.101125

John K. Wright

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New records of ammonites from the Lower Bajocian (Middle Jurassic) of England and Italy 英国和意大利下巴约西亚（中侏罗世）菊石的新记录

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Proceedings of the Geologists Association Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2025.101117

Robert Chandler , Stefano Cresta

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