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