Negative carbon isotopic excursion on the Lower-Middle Cambrian boundary of Kaili formation, Taijiang County, Guizhou Province, China: Implications for Mass extinction and stratigraphic division and correlation

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 872-881

  Yang, Ruidong ^a,b   Zhu, Lijun ^b   Wang, Shijie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b GUIZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Extinction; Guizhou Province; Lower Middle Cambrian boundary; Negative carbon isotopic excursion

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CORRELATION METHODS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; ISOTOPES;

PALEONTOLOGY;

STRATIGRAPHY;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAMBRIAN; CARBON ISOTOPE; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUIZHOU; TAIJIANG COUNTY;

EID: 0346911973     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/01yd0416     Document Type: Article

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