Succession and global correlation of late Tremadoc graptolite zones from South China

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 287-299

  Feng, HongZhen ^a   Li, Ming ^b   Zhang, YuanDong ^c   Erdtmann, Bernd D ^d   Li, LiXia ^a   Wang, WenHui ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^c NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^d TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biologic zonation; Global correlation; South China; Upper Tremadoc graptolites

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGIC ZONATION; DEEP-WATER FACIES; GLOBAL CORRELATION; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HUNAN PROVINCES; ORDOVICIAN; SCANDINAVIA; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH CHINA; TEMPORAL INTERVALS; UPPER TREMADOC GRAPTOLITES;

CORRELATION METHODS;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIOZONATION; GRAPTOLITE; ORDOVICIAN; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HUNAN;

ADELOGRAPTUS TENELLUS; AOROGRAPTUS VICTORIAE; ARANEOGRAPTUS MURRAYI; HUNNEGRAPTUS COPIOSUS; TETRAGRAPTUS APPROXIMATUS;

EID: 62949235396     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: 18622801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-009-0035-x     Document Type: Article

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