Winners of the Awards for excellent papers published in Journal of Palaeogeography during 2012-2018 (October 28, 2020)

21 winners, all awards according to the alphabetical order of the author’s surname

?Number Author Title Volume, issue, pages

1. Special prize (one winner)

Shanmugam, G.Submarine fans: A critical retrospective (1950-2015) 2016, 5(2): 110-184 The landslide problem 2015, 4(2): 109-166 The seismite problem 2016, 5(4): 318-362 Global case studies of soft-sediment deformation structures (SSDS): Definitions, classifications, advances, origins, and problems 2017, 6(4): 251-320 The hyperpycnite problem 2018, 7(3): 197-238

2. First prize (3 winners)

1) Banerjee, S., Bansal, U., Thorat, A.V. A review on palaeogeographic implications and temporal variation in glaucony composition 2016, 5(1): 43-71 2)Feng, Z.Z. ( 馮增昭), Zheng, X.J., Bao, Z.D., Jin, Z.K., Wu, S.H., He, Y.B., Peng, Y.M., Yang, Y.Q., Zhang, J.Q., Zhang, Y.S.Quantitative lithofacies palaeogeography 2014, 3(1): 1-34 3) Liu, Y.Q. (柳永清), Kuang, H.W., Peng, N., Xu, H., Zhang, P., Wang, N.S., An, W.Mesozoic basins and associated palaeogeographic evolution in North China 2015, 4(2): 189-202

3. Second prize (15 winners)

1) Fan, D.D. (范代讀) Classifications, sedimentary features and facies associations of tidal flats 2013, 2(1): 66-80 2) Fürsich, F.T., Uchman, A., Alberti, M., Pandey, D.K.Trace fossils of an amalgamated storm-bed succession from the Jurassic of the Kachchh Basin, India: The significance of time-averaging in ichnology 2018, 7(1): 14-31 3) Hu, X.M. ( 胡修棉), Garzanti, E., An, W.Provenance and drainage system of the Early Cretaceous volcanic detritus in the Himalaya as constrained by detrital zircon geochronology 2015, 4(1): 85-98 4) Jiang, Z.X. ( 姜 在 興), Guo, L., Liang, C.Lithofacies and sedimentary characteristics of the Silurian Longmaxi Shale in the southeastern Sichuan Basin, China 2013, 2(3): 238-251

5)Jin, Z.K. ( 金 振 奎), Gao, B.S., Wang, J.Y., Li, Y., Shi, L., Yu, K.H., Li, G.Z.Two new types of sandbars in channels of the modern Ganjiang Delta, Poyang Lake, China: Depositional characteristics and origin 2017, 6(2): 132-143 6) Kershaw, S. Modern Black Sea oceanography applied to the end-Permian extinction event 2015, 4(1): 52-62 7) Lucas, S.G., Tanner, L.H. End-Triassic nonmarine biotic events 2015, 4(4): 331-348 8) Moretti, M., van Loon, A.J. Restrictions to the application of ‘diagnostic’ criteria for recognizing ancient seismites 2014, 3(2): 162-173 9) Obrist-Farner, J., Yang, W.Nonmarine time-stratigraphy in a rift setting: An example from the Mid-Permian lower Quanzijie loworder cycle, Bogda Mountains, NW China 2015, 4(1): 27-51 10) Sarkar, S., Chakraborty, N., Mandal, A., Banerjee, S., Bose, P.K.Siliciclastic-carbonate mixing modes in the rivermouth bar palaeogeography of the Upper Cretaceous Garudamangalam Sandstone (Ariyalur, India)2014, 3(3): 233-256 11)Shao, L.Y. ( 邵龍義), Yang, Z.Y., Shang, X.X., Xiao, Z.H., Wang, S., Zhang, W.L., Zheng, M.Q., Lu, J.Lithofacies palaeogeography of the Carboniferous and Permian in the Qinshui Basin, Shanxi Province, China 2015, 4(4): 384-412 12)Somerville, I.D., Cózar, P., Said, I., Vachard, D., Medina-Varea, P., Rodríguez, S.Palaeobiogeographical constraints on the distribution of foraminifers and rugose corals in the Carboniferous Tindouf Basin, South Morocco 2013, 2(1): 1-18 13) Su, D.C. (蘇德辰), Sun, A.P.Typical earthquake-induced soft-sediment deformation structures in the Mesoproterozoic Wumishan Formation, Yongding River Valley, Beijing, China and interpreted earthquake frequency 2012, 1(1): 71-89 14)van Loon, A.J., Pisarska-Jamro?y, M., Narti?s, M., Krievāns, M., Soms, J.Seismites resulting from high-frequency, highmagnitude earthquakes in Latvia caused by Late Glacial glacio-isostatic uplift 2016, 5(4): 363-380 15) Vérard, C., Hochard, C., Baumgartner, P.O., Stampfli, G.M.3D palaeogeographic reconstructions of the Phanerozoic versus sea-level and Sr-ratio variations 2015, 4(1): 64-84

4. Young authors’ prize (2 winners)

1) Yang, J.H. (楊江海), Du, Y.S.Weathering geochemistry and palaeoclimate implication of the Early Permian mudstones from eastern Henan Province, North China 2017, 6(4): 370-380 2)Zhang, J.J. ( 張 佳 佳), Wu, S.H., Fan, T.E., Fan, H.J., Jiang, L., Chen, C., Wu, Q.Y., Lin, P.Research on the architecture of submarine-fan lobes in the Niger Delta Basin, offshore West Africa 2016, 5(3): 185-204