OA Statement

Open access journal

GEOLOGICAL REVIEW  is an open access journal. All articles are available online at http://www.geojournals.cn/georeven/ch/index.aspx, and can be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.

License agreement

Permitted third party reuse is defined by the following user license: Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivs (CC BY-NC-ND). This license allows reusers to use, distribute, reproduce the article in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and further does not permit distribution of the article if it is changed or edited in any way. The details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

Copyright

The journal uses a copyright transfer agreement. Authors will transfer copyright to GEOLOGICAL REVIEW , but will have the right to share their article in the same ways permitted to third parties under the relevant user license, as well as certain scholarly usage rights.

Article charge

Article charges are required by the journal, for open access, manuscript processing and publishing materials. For accepted manuscripts should pay RMB 300 yuan/page, additional RMB 800 yuan per color page. For 6 or more color pages, the first 5 color pages are charged additional RMB 800 yuan per page, and each color page is charged additional RMB 300 yuan from the sixth color page.

Authors who need more information about the article charge (e.g., about waivers or discounts as provided by the journal), please contact the editorial office (E-mail: georeview@cags.ac.cn).