Integrated Ediacaran (Sinian) chronostratigraphy of South China

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 254, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 7-61

  Zhu, Maoyan ^a   Zhang, Junming ^a   Yang, Aihua ^b  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; Chemostratigraphy; Ediacaran; Neoproterozoic; Palaeogeography; Sequence stratigraphy; Sinian; South China; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; EDIACARAN; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PARALLEL EVOLUTION; SINIAN;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

ACRITARCHA; ANIMALIA; METAZOA; SINIA;

EID: 34548701591     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.03.025     Document Type: Article

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