Journal of Earth Science

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Special Volume on Permian and Triassic Worlds: A Thematic Issue Delicated to Professor Zunyi Yang's 110th Anniversary

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Special Volume on Permian and Triassic Worlds: A Thematic Issue Delicated to Professor Zunyi Yang's 110th Anniversary

Great Paleozoic-Mesozoic Biotic Turnings and Paleontological Education in China:A Tribute to the Achievements of Professor Zunyi Yang

Zhong-Qiang Chen, Laishi Zhao, Xiangdong Wang, Luo Mao, Zhen Guo

2018, 29(4): 721-732. doi: 10.1007/s12583-018-0797-1

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Professor Zunyi Yang is a pioneer paleontologist who established the earliest Paleontological education and research in China, and has contributed his lifetime to promotion of Chinese paleontological education and researches as well as the studies on the Permian-Triassic (P-Tr) mass extinction and i...

Final Results and Recommendations of the Last 10 Years IGCP 572 and 630 Field Workshops in South Turkey, Oman, India (Kashmir) and Armenia

Aymon Baud

2018, 29(4): 733-744. doi: 10.1007/s12583-018-0796-2

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Being involved in the organization of IGCP 572 field workshops in Turkey (2009), in Oman (2010), as in the following IGCP 630 field workshops in Kashmir (India, 2014) and in Armenia (2017), I co-wrote for each of them detailed guidebooks and extended reports that can be found and downloaded from Res...

Sequence Stratigraphic Model of Middle Permian Barakar Formation from a Marginal Gondwana Basin, India

Joyjit Dey, Souvik Sen

2018, 29(4): 745-754. doi: 10.1007/s12583-018-0791-7

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Gondwana deposits are extensively found across the continents. Here we study the Middle Permian Barakar Formation from the marginal Gondwana Basin, eastern India, being deposited in a normal fault setting. Availability of extensive cores as well as geophysical log suites (gamma-resistivity-density f...

Correlation of Lopingian to Middle Triassic Palynozones

Hendrik Nowak, Elke Schneebeli-Hermann, Evelyn Kustatscher

2018, 29(4): 755-777. doi: 10.1007/s12583-018-0790-8

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Terrestrial floras underwent important changes during the Lopingian (Late Permian), Early Triassic, and Middle Triassic, i.e., before, during, and after the end-Permian mass extinction. An accurate account of these developments requires reliable correlation. Macrofossils of land plants can only prov...

Permian-Triassic Charophytes:Distribution, Biostratigraphy and Biotic Events

Spencer G Lucas

2018, 29(4): 778-793. doi: 10.1007/s12583-018-0786-4

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Permian charophytes are known from the Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Germany, Saudi Arabia, China, the USA, Brazil, Paraguay and India. Most of these records are of Middle-Late Permian Age and are the basis of local biostratigraphic zonation in southern Russia and China. Development of a robust Permi...

A Griesbachian (Early Triassic) Mollusc Fauna from the Sidazhai Section, Southwest China, with Paleoecological Insights on the Proliferation of Genus Claraia (Bivalvia)

Yunfei Huang, Jinnan Tong, Margaret L Fraiser

2018, 29(4): 794-805. doi: 10.1007/s12583-017-0966-7

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After the end-Permian mass extinction, genus Claraia (Bivalvia) was the most abundant and most noticeable fossil during the survival and recovery stage. However, the reasons for the proliferation of Claraia are still debated. This paper describes a new Griesbachian (Early Triassic) mollusc fauna fro...

Western Tethyan Epeiric Ramp Setting in the Early Triassic:An Example from the Central Dinarides (Croatia)

Dunja Aljinović, Micha Horacek, Leopold Krystyn, Sylvain Richoz, Tea Kolar-Jurkovšek, Duje Smirčić, Bogdan Jurkovšek

2018, 29(4): 806-823. doi: 10.1007/s12583-018-0787-3

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In the central part of the External Dinarides in Plavno, Croatia, near Knin, a remarkably thick (927.5 m) Early Triassic depositional sequence was investigated. The Plavno sequence starts in the EarlyGriesbachian and ends with a continuous transition into the Anisian strata. A complete ¹³C isotope c...

A Taxonomic Re-Assessment of the Novispathodus waageni Group and Its Role in Defining the Base of the Olenekian (Lower Triassic)

Zhengyi Lyu, Michael J Orchard, Zhong-Qiang Chen, Laishi Zhao, Lei Zhang, Xiumei Zhang

2018, 29(4): 824-836. doi: 10.1007/s12583-018-0795-3

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Lower Triassic conodont biostratigraphy has been well studied around the world in the past decades, but the Induan-Olenekian boundary (IOB) remains undecided. The Novispathodus waageni group has been taxonomically re-assessed based on abundant new materials from the Jianshi and Chaohu sections, Sout...

Nitrogen and Carbon Isotope Data of Olenekian to Anisian Deposits from Kamenushka/South Primorye, Far-Eastern Russia and Their Palaeoenvironmental Significance

Yuri D Zakharov, Micha Horacek, Alexander M Popov, Liana G Bondarenko

2018, 29(4): 837-853. doi: 10.1007/s12583-018-0792-6

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The Kamenushka Formation, exposed in the northern part of South Primorye (Kamenushka-1 and Kamenushka-2 sections), is one of the few localities in the world with richly fossiliferous Lower-Upper Olenekian sedimentary successions. Lower to Middle Triassic ammonoid-, brachiopod-and conodont-bearing si...

Palaeoecological Analysis of Trace Fossil Sinusichnus sinuosus from the Middle Triassic Guanling Formationin Southwestern China

Mao Luo, Yi-Ming Gong, G.R. Shi, Zhong-Qiang Chen, Jinyuan Huang, Shixue Hu, Xueqian Feng, Qiyue Zhang, Changyong Zhou, Wen Wen

2018, 29(4): 854-863. doi: 10.1007/s12583-018-0794-4

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The Luoping Biota discovered from the early Middle Triassic (Anisian) Guanling Formation of southwestern China represents a fully recovered shallow marine ecosystem, marking the end point of Early Triassic biotic recovery following the end-Permian mass extinction. Contemporaneously preserved are pro...

Stratigraphic Definition and Correlation of Middle Triassic Volcaniclastic Facies in the External Dinarides:Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

Duje Smirčić, Tea Kolar-Jurkovšek, Dunja Aljinović, Uroš Barudžija, Bogdan Jurkovšek, Hazim Hrvatović

2018, 29(4): 864-878. doi: 10.1007/s12583-018-0789-1

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Middle Triassic volcaniclastic depositsin the External Dinarides of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina are related to the rifting of the Tethyan Ocean. Three localities in the External Dinarides:Donje Pazarište, Bosansko Grahovo and Zelovo were biostratigraphically analysed in this study. The Middle...

Paleoecological Response of Corals to the End-Triassic Mass Extinction:An Integrational Analysis

George D Stanley Jr, Hannah M E Shepherd, Autumn J Robinson

2018, 29(4): 879-885. doi: 10.1007/s12583-018-0793-5

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The end-Triassic (also Triassic-Jurassic) mass extinction severely affected life on planet Earth 200 million years ago. Paleoclimate change triggered by the volcanic eruptions of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) caused a great loss of marine biodiversity, among which 96% coral genera we...

Upper Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) Radiolarians and Ostracods from the Hulo Formation, Zhejiang Provicnce, South China

Yuhao Yi, Aihua Yuan, Jonathan C Aitchison, Qinglai Feng

2018, 29(4): 886-899. doi: 10.1007/s12583-017-0951-6

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Considerable research has been done on the Ordovician marine fossils from South China, including macrofossils such as brachiopods, graptolites, bivalves, trilobites, some microfossils like conodonts and acritarches. However, radiolarians and ostracods that are also important constituents of the Ordo...

The Upper Ordovician Microfossil Assemblages from the Pagoda Formation in Zigui, Hubei Province

Ke Zhang, Aihua Yuan, Qinglai Feng

2018, 29(4): 900-911. doi: 10.1007/s12583-017-0958-7

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The Pagoda Formation is a lithologically and biologically distinctive unit among the Upper Ordovician. The strata are characterized by a nodular limestone, which yields fossil assemblages of high diversity. Conodonts of 14 genera 20 species (6 undetermined species) and ostracods of 14 genera 26 spec...

New Siliceous Microfossils from the Terreneuvian Yanjiahe Formation, South China:The Possible Earliest Radiolarian Fossil Record

Shan Chang, Qinglai Feng, Lei Zhang

2018, 29(4): 912-919. doi: 10.1007/s12583-017-0960-0

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Radiolarians form an important part of the planktonic realm in the ocean of Early Paleozoic, but their origin and evolutionary processes has long been enigmatic. The ancestral representatives of radiolarians have been considered to belong to the order Archaeospicularia, whose unquestionable fossil r...

U-Pb Geochronology, Elemental and Sr-Nd Isotopic Geochemistry of the Houyaoyu Granite Porphyries:Implication for the Genesis of Early Cretaceous Felsic Intrusions in East Qinling

Xiaohu He, Hong Zhong, Zhifang Zhao, Shucheng Tan, Weiguang Zhu, Siqi Yang, Wenjun Hu, Zhong Tang, Congfa Bao

2018, 29(4): 920-938. doi: 10.1007/s12583-018-0788-2

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The Early Cretaceous Houyaoyu granite porphyries are located in the south margin of the North China Craton. Field observations, petrography, geochronology, major and trace elemental and Sr-Nd isotopic compositions are reported to elucidate the genesis of the Houyaoyu granite porphyries. SIMS zircon ...

Petrogenesis and Ore Genesis of the Late Yanshanian Granites and Associated Porphyry-Skarn W-Mo Deposits from the Yunkai Area of South China:Evidence from the Zircon U-Pb Ages, Hf Isotopes and Sulfide S-Fe Isotopes

Xinyu Wang, Zhen Yang, Nengsong Chen, Rui Liu

2018, 29(4): 939-959. doi: 10.1007/s12583-017-0901-1

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There are a wide range of magmatism and mineralization in the Yunkai area of South China during the Late Yanshanian Period, including the newly discovered Michang, Youmapo, Sanchachong and Songwang porphyry-skarn W-Mo deposits. In this study, we obtained zircon U-Pb ages of the ore-bearing biotite g...

Two-Dimensional Ground Deformation Monitoring in Shanghai Based on SBAS and MSBAS InSAR Methods

Shaochun Dong, Sergey Samsonov, Hongwei Yin, Lulu Huang

2018, 29(4): 960-968. doi: 10.1007/s12583-017-0955-x

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Shanghai has experienced the greatest land subsidence in China in the past sixty years and produced undesirable environmental impact. However, horizontal ground deformation has not been understood yet. Therefore ground deformation monitoring together with the analysis of its driving forces are criti...

Temporal and Spatial Variations of Microbial Carbon Utilization in Water Bodies from the Dajiuhu Peatland, Central China

Rui-Cheng Wang, Hong-Mei Wang, Xing Xiang, Yu Gao, Qing-Wei Song, Lin-Feng Gong

2018, 29(4): 969-976. doi: 10.1007/s12583-017-0818-5

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To investigate the microbial utilization of organic carbon in peatland ecosystem, water samples were collected from the Dajiuhu Peatland and nearby lakes, central China across the year of 2014. The acridine orange (AO) staining and Biolog Eco microplates were used to numerate microbial counts and de...