Pyrite framboids in the Permian-Triassic boundary section at Meishan, China: Evidence for dysoxic deposition

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 253, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 323-331

  Shen, Wenjie ^a,b   Lin, Yangting ^c   Xu, Lin ^d   Li, Jianfeng ^a   Wu, Yasheng ^c   Sun, Yongge ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Dysoxia; Mass extinction; Permian Triassic boundary; Pyrite framboid

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; MASS EXTINCTION; OXYGEN; PERMIAN; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; PYRITE; REDOX CONDITIONS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; MEISHAN; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 34548532114     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.06.005     Document Type: Article

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