Citation: | Jingxun Zuo, Shanchi Peng, Xuejian Zhu, Yuping Qi, Huanling Lin, Xianfeng Yang. Evolution of Carbon Isotope Composition in Potential Global Stratotype Section and Point at Luoyixi, South China, for the Base of the Unnamed Global Seventh Stage of Cambrian System. Journal of Earth Science, 2008, 19(1): 9-22. |
This work deals with the evolution of carbon isotope composition in the Luoyixi (罗依溪) Section, a candidate of the Global Standard Stratotype-section and Point (GSSP), defining the base of the as-yet-undefined seventh stage of Cambrian System at the first appearance of the cosmopolitan agnostoid
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