Wenkun Qie

Wenkun Qie
Nanjing Insititute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS · State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy

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Introduction
My academic research involves 1) Devonian-Carboniferous stratigraphic correlation, 2) paleoenvironmental and paleoecological evolution during major Late Paleozoic events, and 3) carbon cycle perturbations and their paleoclimate implications.

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The Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points (GSSPs) for the bases of all seven international Devonian stages have been formally defined and ratified by IUGS till 1996, and nowadays, the main tasks for Devonian stratigraphers include further subdivision of these standard stages, strictly constrained absolute ages for the boundaries, and preci...
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The Late Paleozoic (Early Devonian to Middle Permian) was an interval of profound changes in Earth-surface systems, reflected in dynamic interplay among the biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and geosphere. Major events transpired, including the colonization of landmasses by vascular plants, the assembly of the supercontinent Pangea, two first-ord...
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The Hangenberg Crisis coincided with a large decline of biodiversity and widespread anoxia in the end‐Devonian ocean. Previous research attributed marine anoxia to the spread of deeply‐rooted plants and/or increased volcanism on the continents, but crucial links have not been thoroughly explored. Herein, we propose enhanced weathering as a key trig...
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The Devonian System in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas is widely distributed, diverse in lithotypes and rich in fossils. It records the crucial processes of continuous subduction and reduction of the Paleo-Asian Ocean in the northern hemisphere and the transformation of the Proto-Tethys Ocean into the Paleo-Tethys Ocean in the...
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The regional Yangshuoan Stage, named after the Yangshuo County in Guilin, Guangxi, represents the penultimate Devonian stage in China and is approximately equivalent to the upper Famennian. Its base is defined by the first occurrence datum (FOD) of the index conodont Palmatolepis rugosa trachytera and its top by the FOD of the foraminifera Eoendoth...
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The onset of the late Paleozoic icehouse coincided with a large global carbon-cycle perturbation (represented by the mid-Tournaisian carbon isotope excursion [TICE]), although the underlying cause of this isotopic event remains uncertain. Zinc (Zn), an essential micronutrient for plankton, has an isotopic composition (δ66Zn) in seawater that is sen...
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真菌分布广泛,从地球表层到深达1.4 km的陆壳都可以找到它们的存在。根据它们的生态习性和营养方式,真菌可分为腐生、共生和寄生真菌。菌丝是真菌的基本结构单位。真菌的菌丝通过其顶端延长的生长方式和强大的代谢能力,在硅酸盐矿物的风化过程中发挥独特的作用,尤其是对含有营养元素的硅酸盐矿物。这一过程调控着成壤、成矿,以及元素的生物地球化学循环等重要地质与地球化学过程。但是,真菌在硅酸盐自然风化过程中发挥的作用一直没有受到足够的重视。本文首先梳理了真菌的生长方式,旨在阐明其促进硅酸盐矿物风化的速率、机制以及对硅酸盐矿物自然风化的贡献。通过文献回顾并结合全球变化的背景,本文提出了未来相关工作重点攻关方向;(i)进一步限定真菌在自然环境中对硅酸盐矿物风化的贡献;(ii)阐明真菌促进的硅酸盐矿物风化与地质、...
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Back-reef and lagoonal communities played an important role in the construction of global reef ecosystems and shallow water carbonate factories during the Devonian Period, but their reef-building significance is not fully understood. This study describes a previously undocumented Givetian stromatoporoid biostromal sequence, 12 m thick and comprisin...
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Understanding the spatial and temporal distribution of different paleontological communities in the southern South China Sea (SCS) is fundamental to explore its paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental changes. In this study, foraminifera, pollen and diatoms from 100 surface sediment samples covering 40 000 km2 of sea floor in the southern SCS were com...
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The paleogeographic position of the North Qiangtang Block, as well as the origin of the Central Qiangtang Metamorphic Belt (CQMB) have subjected to considerable debate that hampers the understanding of the early evolution of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean. This study reports a new radiolarian fauna of a Famennian age (Late Devonian) from the ophiolitic mél...
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This paper presents a case study of shallow marine facies changes associated with reef development in the Middle Devonian of southern Guizhou. The sequence at Baoyang exhibits a close relationship between lithological and biotic changeovers in a nearshore belt, part of a sedimentary system on the southern margin of the Yangtze landmass. The Lower D...
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Podocopa ostracods have abounded in various marine and non‐marine habitats since the early Palaeozoic and left a diverse fossil record in strata worldwide. This is particularly useful for stratigraphic correlation and palaeoenvironmental and palaeogeographical reconstructions. However, despite being the most numerous ostracods during the Palaeozoic...
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We carried out, for the first time, detailed studies on the coral-stromatoporoid patch reefs from the Lazhuglung Formation near Shouxinghu in the Lazhuglung-Badangco area, Ngari Prefecture of Xizang (Tibet) Autonomous Region, China. On the basis of 1085 thin sections prepared from three patch reefs, the fossil components and reef structures are dep...
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Late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) ostracods are described from East Junggar in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (referred here as Xinjiang) of northwestern China. Twenty-one species belonging to 11 genera are recognized. Among them, two are new, Acratia xinjiangensis sp. nov. and Healdianella shiqianensis sp. nov. These species can be referred to...
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Climacostroma Yang and Dong, 1979, an endemic stromatoporoid genus, originally discovered in central Guangxi, South China, has remained enigmatic for over 40 years. Its validity and systematic position in the Order Stromatoporida (hypercalcified sponges) is here reinterpreted. In this study, the original collections of Climacostroma (including holo...
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In southwestern Mongolia, conodonts from the Indert Formation at its type locality in Shine Jinst were investigated to improve regional and global correlation of the uppermost Devonian-lowermost Carboniferous. The abundance and diversity of the conodont fauna is quite low in general, whereas representatives of Siphonodella, Protognathodus, Pseudopo...
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This study provides a comprehensive palaeontological and palaeoecological analysis of a middle Givetian (Middle Devonian) coral-stromatoporoid biostromal unit from the upper member of the Jinbaoshi Formation, northern Sichuan Province, Southwest China. The biostromal unit is 17.7 m of medium- to thick-bedded limestones, and lacks observable morphol...
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Stromatoporoids are the major constructors of a Givetian (Middle Devonian) fossil reef in shallow marine facies, in the Jiwozhai Member of the Dushan Formation, at Dahekou, near Dushan, Guizhou Province, South China. Stromatoporoids, together with other reef building and dwelling components (rugose corals, tabulates, chaetetids and others), form a...
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The Central Qiangtang Metamorphic Belt (CQMB) is a subject of long-standing controversy for decades with respect to its origin and tectonic evolution. In this study, two foraminiferal faunas are reported from the exotic limestone blocks in the Jiaomuchaka and Jiangaizangbu sections within the CQMB. In total, 9 species of fusulines and 32 species of...
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The Borkewehr section near Balve at the southeastern end of the Remscheid-Altena Anticline is currently the best and most complete Devonian/Carboniferous Boundary (DCB) succession of the Rhenish Massif, Germany. Based on a multidisciplinary approach, focusing on refined conodont and ammonoid biostratigraphy, microfacies analyses, sequence stratigra...
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Permineralised stems of Ductoagathoxylon tsaaganensis Cai, Zhang et Feng sp. nov. are described from the Upper Permian strata of the Tsaagan Tolgoy section, South Gobi Basin, Mongolia. The stems were preserved with pith and primary and secondary xylems. The pith is solid, heterocellular, and characterised by regularly arranged clusters of secretory...
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Reinvestigation of the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary sequence in Yalai village, Nyalam County, southern Tibet, enabled the recovery of well-preserved palynomorphs and conodonts in the Yali section. Based on quantitative analysis of the relative abundances of various palynomorphs, two palynological assemblages are recognized in the Famennian-Tourn...
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The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) contains rock successions that record the detailed history of the evolution of the Tethyan oceans. The purpose of this Special Issue is to improve understanding of the complex evolution of the blocks/terranes and oceans in the QTP. It comprises 21 papers covering diverse disciplines including stratigraphy, palaeontol...
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The Baoshan, Tengchong, Lhasa, South Qiangtang, and Sibumasu terranes were part of Gondwana prior to rifting and drifting from the northern margin since the Early Permian. However, paleopositions of these terranes during the late Paleozoic remain controversial, which hinders better understanding the tectonic evolution of the Paleo-Tethys and glacie...
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Mercury (Hg) concentrations and isotopes are widely used as proxies for volcanic inputs to paleode-positional systems. Enhanced volcanism during the Late Devonian was previously mainly inferred in the western Paleo-Tethys Ocean region from high Hg enrichments around the Upper Kellwasser horizon (UKW) and Frasnian-Famennian Boundary (FFB). In this s...
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The overall occurrence, stratigraphical distribution, palaeoenvironmental and palaeobiogeo-graphical significances of the ostracod faunas from the Silurian Pulu Formation in the Yalai West II section, Nyalam region, southern Tibet, China, are documented for the first time. Thirty-two species belonging to 19 genera are identified and figured herein....
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Ostracods of the Devonian–Carboniferous transitional interval in the Lhasa Block are described for the first time at the stratotype section of the Chaguoluoma Formation, Xainza, Tibet. Fifty-three ostracod species of 19 genera are identified and figured including a new species Bairdiacypris xainzaensis n. sp. The ostracod fauna in the Chaguoluoma s...
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The Silurian conodont biozonation has been well established in many areas of the world, but not yet in China. The Nyalam region of southern Xizang (Tibet) is one of the best locations for studying Silurian conodonts in China. In this paper, we establish five conodont biozonal units from the Pulu Formation: the Ozarkodina sagitta sagitta Biozone, th...
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The Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) conodont biostratigraphy in China is poorly known, and conodont-based subdivision schemes for the Lochkovian in peri-Gondwana (the Spanish Central Pyrenees, the Prague Synform, Sardinia, and the Carnic Alps) have not been tested in China. Therefore, we studied conodonts from the lower part (Bed 9 to Bed 13) of the Sh...
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A new Devonian oxygen isotope record based on 180 measurements of conodont apatite is reported from South China. The comparison with published Devonian δ¹⁸Oapatite data shows a considerable offset between records from different paleocontinents. This difference can be interpreted by regional variations in salinity, with the epicontinental seas havin...
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The Devonian Heyuanzhai Formation was re-investigated in its type area in Shidian, Baoshan Block, western Yunnan, China. The sequences crop out at the Douyashan section adjacent to the Heyuanzhai village where they were measured. They are represented by thick fossiliferous successions of carbonate deposits interbedded with calcareous shale and muds...
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The expansion of land plants is considered to have played a key role in triggering the Late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA), but evidence linking climatic events to terrestrial floral changes is limited. Here, we generated bulk carbonate δ13C, conodont δ18O and 87Sr/86Sr profiles from the lowermost Carboniferous of South China and Vietnam in order to inve...
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The Devonian-Carboniferous transition is marked by major perturbations to the Earth’s climate system and marine redox conditions, a first-order mass extinction, and the succeeding marine ecosystem recovery, recording a sequence of environmental and biotic events. In South China, there exist numerous well-preserved and continuous Devonian-Carbonifer...
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Lime mud (i.e., micrite) is a major component of carbonate deposits. Various mechanisms (biotic versus abiotic) have been proposed for the formation of lime mud in Earth’s history. However, the detailed role that microbes play in the nucleation and subsequent precipitation of micrites remains to be resolved. Herein we undertook a detailed geobiolog...
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Late Devonian ostracods are described for the first time from the Frasnian–Famennian (F–F) transition of the Zengpiyan section, Guangxi, South China. Forty‐five ostracod species belonging to 25 genera are identified and figured and one is new: Jenningsina guilinensis sp. nov. The Frasnian–Famennian boundary (F–FB) in the Zengpiyan section is coinci...
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The Guadalupian Epoch is marked by the formation of the Pangean supercontinent, global sea-level change, rifting and drifting of the Cimmerian continents, formation of large igneous provinces and dramatic biotic changes. A high-resolution biostratigraphic, chemostratigraphic and high-precision geochronologic framework of this critical transition is...
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The lower/upper Emsian boundary witnessed prominent diversification of biostratigraphically important genera Polygnathus Hinde, Caudicriodus Bultynck, and Latericriodus Müller. In contrast, conodonts previously reported around this boundary from the South China Block were characterized by relatively low species or subspecies diversity, and only a f...
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To date, 37 species and 2 subspecies (36 species plus 1 species that with 2 subspecies) of the ostracode genus Cribroconcha Cooper, 1941 have been reported worldwide, ranging in age from the Middle Devonian to the Early Permian with an acme during the Carboniferous. Based on the geographical distribution and morphological characteristics of Cribroc...
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An integrated study of biostratigraphy, microfacies, and stable carbon isotope stratigraphy was carried out on the late Famennian-early Asselian carbonates of the Long’an section in Guangxi, South China. Stable carbon isotope studies in the Long’an section have revealed four major positive shifts of δ13C values in the Carboniferous strata in South...
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A new species of rugose coral, Sanidophyllum dubium n. sp., and the typical Emsian (Early Devonian) rugose coral Xystriphylloides nobilis are described from the Mia Le Formation in northern Vietnam. The lower Emsian index conodonts ranging from the Polygnathus excavatus zone to the P. nothoperbonus zone are illustrated. The biostratigraphic correla...
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Carboniferous conodonts from the candidate GSSPs of the four stages Serpukhovian, Moscovian, Kasimovian and Gzhelian in the Naqing and the adjacent sections of South China have been intensely studied in recent decades. The Carboniferous conodont zonation of China is updated based on the conodont material from South China; 39 conodont zones includin...
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The end-Devonian mass extinction (~359 Ma) substantially impacted marine ecosystems and shaped the roots of modern vertebrate biodiversity. Although multiple hypotheses have been proposed, no consensus has been reached about the mechanism inducing this extinction event. In this study, I/Ca ratio of carbonate was used to unravel the changes in local...
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Mercury (Hg) chemostratigraphy is an efficient tool for tracing distal volcanism, as suggested in many recent studies. In our research, we focused on Hg and other trace element contents in two Devonian-Carboniferous boundary sections from two different and spatially distant areas. The Lesní lom section (Czech Republic) was located in the south-east...
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Devonian is generally portrayed as a time of rapid evolution of marine organisms, characterized by the development of the largest Phanerozoic reef ecosystem and its complete collapse. Devonian reefs thrived during the Givetian-Frasnian and Famennian, and they were dominated by coral-stromatoporoid and microbe-algae, respectively. Meanwhile, extinct...
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The Carboniferous period lasted about 60 Myr, from ~358.9 Ma to ~298.9 Ma. According to the International Commission on Stratigraphy, the Carboniferous System is subdivided into two subsystems, i.e., Mississippian and Pennsylvanian, including 6 series and 7 stages. The Global Stratotype Sections and Points (GSSPs) of three stages have been ratified...
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Syringoporoid tabulate corals are one of the most common benthic sessile organisms in the upper Famennian Etoucun Formation at the Huilong section, Guilin, South China. A multivariate morphometric analysis based on five morphological characters was applied to 29 coralla from three intervals in the formation. Cluster analysis, principal coordinate a...
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The Early Carboniferous was a climatic transition interval from a mid-Paleozoic greenhouse world into the Late Paleozoic Ice Age. It was marked by a long-term cooling trend that was punctuated by short glaciations in the Tournaisian and Visean (early to mid-Early Carboniferous). Here, we generated organic carbon and nitrogen isotope profiles for tw...
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The Late Devonian biotic crisis has been studied for a long time mainly on the basis of its taxonomic severity, but with little attention paid on the relationship between biogeography and evolutionary dynamics. In this study, brachiopod faunas across the biotic crisis are surveyed based on revised data compiled from 15 sections in South China. Data...
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Offshore benthic communities were sparse after the end-Ordovician mass extinction. The recent discovery of diverse, abundant sponges in south-eastern China (Anhui and Zhejiang provinces) that flourished during the Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) post-extinction interval raises questions over the extent and ecological significance of the sponge communi...
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The Yujiang Event is reported here as a newly recognized event that occurred during the deposition of the Early Devonian Yukiang Formation in Liujing, Guangxi, and its equivalents in South China. The first episode of the Yujiang Event is characterized by the extinction of biostrome that is constructed mainly by colonies of rugose coral, tabulatimor...
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The age of the Yukiang (Yujiang) Formation has been shrouded in controversy for more than 75 years. New investigation at the Liujing section, Hengxian County, Guangxi, has revealed a conodont sequence assignable to two Early Devonian conodont zonations: the Eognathodus kindlei?–Polygnathus pireneae Zone and the Polygnathus nothoperbonus Zone from o...
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The Pennsylvanian to lower Permian succession at Madiyi, South China, represents a nearshore mixed siliciclastic‐carbonate system characterized by cyclic sedimentation patterns along a depth gradient from continental siliciclastics to marine open platform carbonates. Various palaeokarst features related to subaerial exposure are widely distributed....
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LU, J.-F., QIE, W.-Q. & CHEN, X.-Q., July 2016. Pragian and lower Emsian (Lower Devonian) conodonts from Liujing, Guangxi, South China. Alcheringa 40, xxx–xxx. ISSN 0311-5518. Lower Devonian (Pragian and Emsian) conodonts are described from the Liujing section in Guangxi, South China, highlighting the phylogeny of early polygnathids and establishin...
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A high-resolution and continuous conodont apatite oxygen isotope record spanning the late Viséan to Middle Permian is reported from South China, which is interpreted with respect to the ice volume and/or tropical sea water temperature history of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA). The presented δ18O record shows significant fluctuations in δ18O from...
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A middle Viséan (Mississippian) coral biostrome is reported for the first time from the Shangsi Formation in Yashui area, central Guizhou Province, southwestern China (palaeogeographically located in eastern Palaeotethys). The biostrome, which is about 500 m across and 2.5–3.9 m thick, is laterally variable and composed of rugose and tabulate coral...
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To improve regional and intercontinental correlation of the uppermost Devonian–lowermost Carboniferous, we examined the conodont faunas and carbon isotopic records of the Tangbagou Formation in the Qilinzhai section, southern Guizhou, South China. The Tangbagou Formation is a succession of mixed carbonate–siliciclastic rocks that accumulated on a s...
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The conodont faunas of Tournaisian shallow-water carbonates from central Guangxi are described mainly for biostratigraphic purposes. A complete series of samples was collected from the Long’an and Du’an formations in the Long’an section. These formations are characterized by lime-mudstone, skeletal and peloidal wackestone, packstone and grainstone...
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An integrated study of the litho-, bio-, and chemostratigraphy of the Devonian–Carboniferous boundary at four sections (Qilinzhai, Malanbian, Gedongguan and Long'an) in South China was undertaken in order to better understand paleoenvironmental changes and controls on δ13Ccarb variation during the Hangenberg Crisis. Sedimentological data record a m...
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The sedimentary successions and four fossil groups, including rugose corals, brachiopods, fusulinaceans and conodonts, from the Carboniferous and Lower Permian of South China have been studied in order to reveal the sedimentary characteristics and evolutionary pattern of main biological groups in the East Tethyan region during the Late Palaeozoic I...
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Analyses of stratigraphic succession and sedimentary characteristics of the Carboniferous-Early Permian deep-water facies in northern margin of the Dian-Qian-Gui Basin enable us to reconstruct the sedimentary history and its control factors. The Carboniferous-Lower Permian, which includes totally nine lithostratigraphic units, the Luzhai Fm. (C1lz)...
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Evaluating the pre-Jurassic marine source rocks in China has been difficult because these rocks are generally too high- or over-maturated for most traditional methods to work. As to the remaining parameter TOC (%), its lower limit for recognizing the carbonate source rocks in China has been in dispute. Nineteen Phanerozoic sections in the Middle-Up...
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Studies on carbon isotopes of bulk carbonates from Longan and Baping sections of Lower Carboniferous in Guangxi of China show that the stable carbon isotope compositions in carbonate rocks of the isolated platform and deep slope facies were resistant to the influence of early meteoric diagenesis and late burial diagenesis. Three major positive carb...