Quantitative stratigraphy of the Wufeng and Lungmachi black shales and graptolite evolution during and after the Late Ordovician mass extinction

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 389, Issue , 2013, Pages 96-114

  Fan, Junxuan ^a   Chen, Qing ^a,b,c   Melchin, Michael J ^b   Sheets, H David ^d   Chen, Zhongyang ^a,c   Zhang, Linna ^a,b,c   Hou, Xudong ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^b ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Graptolites; Late Ordovician mass extinction; Quantitative stratigraphy; Rarefaction; South China

Indexed keywords

BLACK SHALE; GLACIATION; GRAPTOLITE; HIATUS; HIRNANTIAN; MASS EXTINCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TECTONIC ROTATION; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY;

CHINA; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

DICELLOGRAPTUS; DIPLOGRAPTINA; PARAKIDOGRAPTUS ACUMINATUS;

EID: 84886288271     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.08.005     Document Type: Article

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