Carbon isotopic record from Upper Devonian carbonates at Dongcun in Guilin, southern China, supporting the worldwide pattern of carbon isotope excursions during Frasnian-Famennian transition

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1259-1264

  Xu, Bing ^a   Gu, Zhaoyan ^a   Liu, Qiang ^a   Wang, Chengyuan ^b   Li, Zhenliang ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^c Guangxi Geological Survey Research Institute   (China)

Author keywords

13C; F F event; Mass extinction; Positive excursion

Indexed keywords

PALMATOLEPIS LINGUIFORMIS;

EID: 33749656658     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/02wd0474     Document Type: Article

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