Depositional environments and cyclo- and chronostratigraphy of uppermost Carboniferous-Lower Triassic -lacustrine deposits, southern Bogda Mountains, NW China - A terrestrfluvialial paleoclimatic record of mid-latitude NE Pangea

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 73, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 15-113

  Yang, Wan ^a   Feng, Qiao ^b   Liu, Yiqun ^c   Tabor, Neil ^d   Miggins, Dan ^e   Crowley, James L ^f   Lin, Jinyan ^c   Thomas, Stephanie ^d  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Shangdong University of Science and Technology   (China)

^c NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^f BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Continental climate; Fluvial lacustrine; Permian Early Triassic; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CHINA; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATIC SHIFTS; CONTINENTAL CLIMATE; DATA POINTS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EAST COAST; END-PERMIAN; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EROSION AND DEPOSITION; EXPANSION AND CONTRACTION; FLUVIAL-LACUSTRINE; HIGH-ORDER; HUMID CLIMATES; LACUSTRINE DEPOSITS; LITHOFACIES; LOWER TRIASSIC; MASS EXTINCTION; NW CHINA; OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS; PALEO-TETHYS; PALEOCLIMATE CHANGE; PALEOCLIMATIC RECORD; PERMIAN; SEMI-ARID CONDITIONS; SUB-HUMID; SYSTEMATIC CHANGES; TRIASSIC;

CLIMATOLOGY; LANDFORMS; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ANISIAN; CARBONIFEROUS; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FLUVIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; FOSSIL RECORD; GRABEN; LITHOFACIES; LOPINGIAN; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEONTOLOGY; PALEOSOL; PANGAEA; SAKMARIAN; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TETHYS; UNCONFORMITY;

BOGDA MOUNTAINS; CHINA; TIEN SHAN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

ANISIA;

EID: 77956184023     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.03.008     Document Type: Article

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