PRE-COLLISIONAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE EUROPEAN DISTAL MARGIN: INFERENCES FROM THE HIGH-PRESSURE CONTINENTAL UNITS OF CENTRAL CORSICA (FRANCE)

Pre-collisional architecture of the European distal margin: Inferences from the high-pressure continental units of central Corsica (France)

The Lower Units of Alpine Corsica, France, are fragments of continental crust strongly deformed and metamorphosed under high-pressure metamorphic conditions.Three slices GENTLE RAIN LIP BALM of Lower Units are well exposed in the area between the Asco and Tavignano valleys, Central Corsica.Despite their complex structural setting, they provide the

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Cranial anatomy of Bellusaurus sui (Dinosauria: Eusauropoda) from the Middle-Late Jurassic Shishugou Formation of northwest China and a review of sauropod cranial ontogeny

Bellusaurus sui is an enigmatic sauropod dinosaur from the Middle-Late Jurassic Shishugou Formation of northwest China.Bellusaurus is known from a monospecific bonebed preserving elements from more than a dozen juvenile individuals, including numerous bones of the skull, providing rare insight into the cranial anatomy of juvenile sauropods.Here, we

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Biomass allocation and root topology alteration of an introduced amphibious plant in response to cultural eutrophication

Abstract Parrot feather (Myriophyllum aquaticum) is an introduced, noninvasive amphibious plant found in coastal provinces, but it has the potential to become an invasive species in China.The plant is heterophyllous, with both emergent (aerial) and submerged (aquatic) leaves, and has two distinct root types: aquatic (adventitious) and edaphic (sedi

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