I wish to express my sincere gratitude to all my colleagues and co-workers, too many to name individually, who have contributed to the generation of information summarised here. I am grateful to the Directors of NIO and the Director-Generals of CSIR who I worked under, as well as the funding agencies (especially the Ministry of Earth Sciences) for their support and encouragement throughout my career. I thank Don Canfield for kindly inviting me to contribute this article. He along with Bo Barker Jørgensen also spent lots of their time and energy to review the manuscript, offering very valuable suggestions that led to marked improvement in both its content and presentation.

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致谢

我要对我所有的同事和合作者表示衷心的感谢，他们为这里总结的信息的生成做出了贡献，他们太多了，无法一一列举。感谢在我手下工作的 NIO 理事和 CSIR 总干事，以及资助机构（特别是地球科学部）在我的职业生涯中对我的支持和鼓励。感谢 Don Canfield 盛情邀请我撰写这篇文章。他和 Bo Barker Jørgensen 还花费了大量时间和精力审阅手稿，提出了非常有价值的建议，从而显着改进了手稿的内容和表达方式。