Biostratigraphy and geography of the Ordovician-Silurian Lungmachi black shales in South China

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1854-1863

  Fan, JunXuan ^a   Melchin, Michael J ^b   Chen, Xu ^a   Wang, Yi ^a   Zhang, YuanDong ^a   Chen, Qing ^a   Chi, ZhaoLi ^a,c   Chen, Feng ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^b ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Algeria Branch of International Oil and Development Company   (China)

Author keywords

graptolitic black shales; Lungmachi Formation; Ordovician Silurian; petroleum source bed; South China

Indexed keywords

BIOZONES; BLACK SHALES; CHONGQING; ICE SHEET; LUNGMACHI FORMATION; ORDOVICIAN; ORDOVICIAN-SILURIAN; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SOUTH CHINA; SOUTH POLE; SUBSEQUENT REDUCTION; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TWO STAGE;

SEA LEVEL; SUBMARINES;

SHALE;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BLACK SHALE; GRAPTOLITE; ORDOVICIAN-SILURIAN BOUNDARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRATIGRAPHIC BOUNDARY; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

CHINA;

NORMALOGRAPTUS PERSCULPTUS;

EID: 82955243736     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-011-4301-3     Document Type: Article

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