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Resources and geology of coalbed methane in China: a review by Qin, Yong, Moore, Tim A., Shen, Jian, Yang, Zhaobiao, Shen, Yulin, Wang, Geoff

“…China produced 17.1 billion cubic meters (BCM) of methane sourced from coal seams in 2015, of which 4.43 BCM is from wells drilled from the surface. This level…”
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Valuable elements in Chinese coals: a review by Dai, Shifeng, Yan, Xiaoyun, Ward, Colin R., Hower, James C., Zhao, Lei, Wang, Xibo, Zhao, Lixin, Ren, Deyi, Finkelman, Robert B.

“…China is, and in the coming decades should continue to be, the largest producer and user of coal in the world. The high volume of coal usage in China has…”
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CO2 storage in coal to enhance coalbed methane recovery: a review of field experiments in China by Pan, Zhejun, Ye, Jianping, Zhou, Fubao, Tan, Yuling, Connell, Luke D., Fan, Jingjing

“…Coal reservoirs especially deep unminable coal reservoirs, are viable geological target formations for CO 2 storage to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. An…”
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Subduction initiation and ophiolite crust: new insights from IODP drilling by Reagan, Mark K., Pearce, Julian A., Petronotis, Katerina, Almeev, Renat R., Avery, Aaron J., Carvallo, Claire, Chapman, Timothy, Christeson, Gail L., Ferré, Eric C., Godard, Marguerite, Heaton, Daniel E., Kirchenbaur, Maria, Kurz, Walter, Kutterolf, Steffen, Li, Hongyan, Li, Yibing, Michibayashi, Katsuyoshi, Morgan, Sally, Nelson, Wendy R., Prytulak, Julie, Python, Marie, Robertson, Alastair H.F., Ryan, Jeffrey G., Sager, William W., Sakuyama, Tetsuya, Shervais, John W., Shimizu, Kenji, Whattam, Scott A.

“…International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 352 recovered a high-fidelity record of volcanism related to subduction initiation in the Bonin…”
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Late Carboniferous intrusions along the Kalamaili suture zone, southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB): implications for a tectonic switch from subduction to collision by Song, Peng, Wang, Tao, Tong, Ying, Zhang, Jianjun, Huang, He

“…A tectonic switch from subduction to collision and/or arc-arc collision is a key issue for understanding accretionary orogenic processes. We present new U-Pb…”
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Evolutionary geological models of the central-western peri-Mediterranean chains: a review by Guerrera, Francesco, Martín-Martín, Manuel, Tramontana, Mario

“…Two main groups of geological models presented over the last four decades on the palaeogeographic, paleotectonic and geodynamic eo-Alpine and neo-Alpine…”
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Late Mesozoic extensional tectonics in the North China Craton and its adjacent regions: a review and synthesis by Lin, Wei, Wei, Wei

“…The late Mesozoic tectonics of the North China Craton (NCC) and its adjacent regions were characterized by a general lithospheric extension and remarked by…”
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History of western Tethys Ocean and the birth of the circum-mediterranean orogeny as reflected by source-to-sink relations by Critelli, Salvatore, Martín-Martín, Manuel

“…A broad region of Mesozoic to Cenozoic tectonism along the western and central Circum-Mediterranean (CM) margins, from southern Spain (Betic Cordillera) to the…”
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Coal production in China: past, present, and future projections by Bai, Xiangfei, Ding, Hua, Lian, Jinjing, Ma, Dong, Yang, Xiaoyu, Sun, Nanxiang, Xue, Wenlin, Chang, Yijun

“…General information of China's coal production, processing, and standardization of coal quality management over the past 30 years is introduced in this…”
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Stone coal in China: a review by Dai, Shifeng, Zheng, Xue, Wang, Xibo, Finkelman, Robert B., Jiang, Yaofa, Ren, Deyi, Yan, Xiaoyun, Zhou, Yiping

“…Stone coal is defined as a combustible, low-heat value, high-rank black shale of early Paleozoic (in a few cases, Permian) age, widely distributed in southern…”
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The health impacts of coal use in China by Finkelman, Robert B., Tian, Linwei

“…Each year China burns as much coal as the rest of the world. The coal use results in many benefits such as electricity, industrial heat, coke for steel…”
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Triassic granitoids in the East Kunlun Orogenic Belt, Northwestern China: magmatic source and implications for geodynamic evolution by Xu, Zhi-He, Xin, Wei, Zhou, Xiao-Dong, Xu, Qing-Lin, Li, Fu-Wen, Song, Zhao-Jun

“…Granitoids, an important part of the continental crust, are the direct and indelible evidence of the accretion and reworking process of the continental crust…”
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Tectonic evolution of the southern margin of Laurasia in the Black Sea region by Okay, Aral I., Nikishin, Anatoly M.

“…The Black Sea region comprises Gondwana-derived continental blocks and oceanic subduction complexes accreted to Laurasia. The core of Laurasia is made up of an…”
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Anatomy of a subduction complex: architecture of the Franciscan Complex, California, at multiple length and time scales by Wakabayashi, John

“…The Franciscan Complex of California records over 150 million years of continuous E-dipping subduction that terminated with conversion to a dextral transform…”
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Large geographic and temporal extensions of the Río de la Plata Craton, South America, and its metacratonic eastern margin by Santos, João O.S., Chernicoff, Carlos J., Zappettini, Eduardo O., McNaughton, Neal J., Hartmann, Léo A.

“…Integration of existing isotopic and geological data allows a reconsideration of the distribution and age of the Río de la Plata Craton within South America…”
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A review of research on adakites by Zhang, Lingyu, Li, Shichao, Zhao, Qingying

“…Taking account of their importance in inferring continental geodynamic processes, adakites have been the subject of considerable research since their discovery…”
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Evaluation of two multidimensional discrimination diagrams from beach and deep-sea sediments from the Gulf of Mexico and their application to Precambrian clastic sedimentary rocks by Armstrong-Altrin, John S.

“…Two discriminant-function-based multidimensional major-element diagrams for the tectonic discrimination of siliciclastic sediments were recently published from…”
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Assembly, accretion, and break-up of the Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic Columbia supercontinent: record in the North China Craton revisited by Zhao, Guochun, Li, Sanzhong, Sun, Min, Wilde, Simon A.

“…Columbia is a Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic supercontinent that was assembled during global 2.0-1.8 Ga collisional events, underwent long-lived, subduction-related…”
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Spatial-temporal distribution and tectonic setting of gold deposits in the Northern margin gold belt of the North China Craton by Zeng, Qingdong, Wang, Yongbin, Yang, Jinhuii, Guo, Yunpeng, Yu, Bing, Zhou, Lingli, Qiu, Haicheng

“…The North China Craton contains voluminous gold deposits, which occur within the Northern Margin Gold Belt, the Southern Margin Gold Belt, and the Jiaodong…”
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Diachronous initiation of Arabia-Eurasia collision from eastern Anatolia to the southeastern Zagros Mountains since middle Eocene time by Darin, Michael H., Umhoefer, Paul J.

“…The persistent debate over the timing of initial Arabia-Eurasia collision has eluded consensus for decades, with most estimates ranging widely from ~50 to…”
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