?Microbialites in the Permian-Triassic boundary interval in central China: Structure, age and distribution

Facies

Volumn , Issue 47, 2002, Pages 83-90

  Kershaw, Steve ^a   Guo, Li ^a   Swift, Andrew ^a   Fan, Jiasong ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Hindeodus parvus; Mass extinction; Microbialites; Permian Triassic boundary; Stromatolite; Thrombolite

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; MASS EXTINCTION; MICROBIALITE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY;

CHINA; SICHUAN PROVINCE;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS; CONODONTA; HINDEODUS PARVUS;

EID: 0036903708     PISSN: 01729179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02667707     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Baud, A., Cirilli, S. and Marcoux, J. (1997): Biotic response to mass extinction: the lowermost Triassic microbialites. - In: F. Neuweiler, R.J. and C. Monty (eds.): Biosedimentology of Microbial Buildups. - Facies, 238-242.
2. Grotzinger, J.P. and Knoll, A.H. (1995): Anomalous carbonate precipitates: is the Precambrian the key to the Permian ? - Palaios, 10, 578-596.
3. Hallam, A. and Wignall, P.B. (1999): Mass extinctions and sealevel changes. - Earth Science Reviews, 4, 217-250.
4. Heydari, E., Wade, W.J. and Hassanzadeh, J. (2001): Diagenetic origin of carbon and oxygen isotope compositions of Permian-Triassic boundary strata. - Sedimentary Geology, 143, 191-197.
5. Jin, Y.G., Zhang, J. and Shang, Q. (1994): Two phases of the end-Permian mass extinction. - In: Embry, A. F., Beauchamp, B. and Glass, D. J. (eds.): Pangea: global environments and resources. - Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Memoir 17, 813-822.
6. Kershaw, S. (2000): Quaternary reefs of northeastern Sicily: structure and growth controls in an unstable tectonic setting. - Journal of Coastal Research, 16, 1037-1062.
7. Kershaw, S., Zhang, T. and Lan, G. (1999): A ?microbialite carbonate crust at the Permian-Triassic boundary in South China, and its palaeoenvironmental significance. - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 146, 1 - 18.
8. Kozur, H.W. (1998): Some aspects of the Permian-Triassic boundary (PTB) and of the possible causes for the biotic crisis around this boundary. - Palaeoecology, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 143, 227-272.
9. Lai, X. and Mei, S. (1999): On zonation and evolution of Permian and Triassic conodonts. - In: Yin, H., Dickins, J. M., Shi, G. R. and Tong, J. (eds.): Permian-Triassic evolution of Tethys and Western Circum-Pacific. - Developments in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, 18, 371-392, Amsterdam (Elsevier).
10. Lehrmann, D.J. (1999): Early Triassic calcimicrobial mounds and biostromes of the Nanpanjiang Basin, South China. - Geology, 27, 359-362.
11. Lehrmann, D.J., Wan, Y., Wei, J., Yu, Y. and Xiao, J. (2001): Lower Triassic peritidal cyclic limestone: an example of anachronistic carbonate facies from the Great Bank of Guizhou, Nanpanjiang Basin, Guizhou Province, South China. - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoclimatology. Palaeoecology, 173, 103-123.
12. Lei, B. and Qiang, Z., (1991): Diagenesis and pore evolution of Upper Permian reefs, eastern Sichuan Province. Oil and Gas Geology, 12/4, 364-375.
13. Mu, X., Guo, L. Kershaw, S. and Qi, Y. 2001. The microbialite crust at Permian/Triassic boundary interval in E. Sichuan, China. 4Th Regional Symposium of the International Fossil Algae Association, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 29 August - 5 September 2001, Abstracts, 38-39.
14. Paull, R.K. and Paull, R.A. (1994): Hindeodus parvus - proposed index fossil for the Permian-Triassic boundary. -Lethaia, 27, 271-272.
15. Rampino, M., Prokoph, A. and Adler, A. (2000): Tempo of the end-Permian event: high-resolution cyclostratigraphy at the Permian-Triassic boundary. - Geology, 28/7, 643-646.
16. Reinhardt, J.W. (1988): Uppermost Permian reefs and Permo-Triassic sedimentary facies from the southeastern margin of the Sichuan Basin, China. - Facies, 18, 231-286.
17. Reinhardt, J.W. (1991): Eastern Tethyan sponge buildups at the close of the Palaeozoic (Uppermost Permian, Sichuan/China). In: Reitner, J. and Keupp, H. (eds.): Fossil and Recent Sponges. - 456-464, Berlin (Springer).
18. Riding, R. (1999): The term stromatolite: towards and essential definition. - Lethaia, 32, 231-330.
19. Riding, R. (2000): Microbial carbonates: the geological record of calcified bacterial-algal mats and biofilms. - Sedimentology 47 (Suppl. 1), 179-214.
20. Sano, H. and Nakashima, K. (1997): Lowermost Triassic (Griesbachian) microbial bindstone-cementstone facies, southwest Japan. Facies, 36, 1-24.
21. Schubert, J.K. and Bottjer, D.J. (1992): Early Triassic stromatolites as post-mass extinction disaster forms. - Geology, 20, 883-886.
22. Soja, C.M. et al. (2000): Development and decline of a Silurian stromatolite reef complex, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska. - Palaios, 15, 273-292.
23. Twitchett, R.J., Looy, C.V., Morante, R., Visscher, H. and Wignall, P.B. (2001): Rapid and synchronous collapse of marine and terrestrial ecosystems during the end-Permian biotic crisis. - Geology, 29/4, 351-354.
24. Wang, S., Qiang, Z., Wen, Y. and Tao, Y. (1994): Petrology and origin of the calcareous crusts capping the Permian reefs in Huaying Mountains, Sichuan, China. - Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, 14/4, 59-68.
25. Webb, G.E. (1996): Was Phanerozoic reef history controlled by the distribution of non-enzymatically secreted reef carbonates (microbial carbonate and biologically induced cement)? - Sedimentology, 43, 947-971.
26. Webb, G. E. (2001): Biologically induced carbonate precipitation in reefs through time. - In: Stanley, G. D. Jr. (ed.): The History and Sedimentology of Ancient Reef Systems. - 159-203 (Kluwer/Plenum).
27. Wignall, P.B. and Hallam, A. (1996): Facies change and the end-Permian mass extinction in S.E. Sichuan, China. - Palaios, 11, 587-596.
28. Wignall, P.B., Kozur, H. and Hallam, A. (1996): On the timing of palaeoenvironmental changes at the Permo-Triassic (P/TR) boundary using conodont biostratigraphy. - Historical Biology, 12, 39-62.
29. Yin, H. and Tong, J. (1998): Multidisciplinary high-resolution correlation of the Permian-Triassic boundary. - Palaeoecology, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 143/4, 199-211.