Nitrogen isotopes are an important tool for evaluating past biogeochemical cycling from the paleoceanographic record. However, bulk sedimentary nitrogen isotope ratios, which can be determined routinely and at minimal cost, may be altered during burial and early sedimentary diagenesis, particularly outside of continental margin settings. The causes and detailed mechanisms...
Taiwan separated from China as the result of the 1949 political upheaval between Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist Government and Mao Tse-Tung's Communists Party which concluded
with the Chinese Communist take over of mainland China and the establishment of the People's Republic of China. Since then, Taiwan, ROC and the PRC have...
