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Volume 12 Issue 1
Mar 2001
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Mingxiang Mei, Yongsheng Ma, Hongrui Zhou, Benming Du, Zhiqing Luo, Qingyin Guo. Fischer Plots of Wumishan Cyclothems, Precambrian Records of Third-Order Sea-Level Changes. Journal of Earth Science, 2001, 12(1): 1-10.
Citation: Mingxiang Mei, Yongsheng Ma, Hongrui Zhou, Benming Du, Zhiqing Luo, Qingyin Guo. Fischer Plots of Wumishan Cyclothems, Precambrian Records of Third-Order Sea-Level Changes. Journal of Earth Science, 2001, 12(1): 1-10.

Fischer Plots of Wumishan Cyclothems, Precambrian Records of Third-Order Sea-Level Changes

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the National Natural Science Foundation of China 49802012

the Ministry of Science and Technology (SSER) 

  • Received Date: 20 Dec 2000
  • Accepted Date: 10 Feb 2001
  • The Mesoproterozoic Wumishan Formation ((1310 ± 20) Ma - (l 207 ± 10) Ma) in Jixian, Tianjin represents a succession of 3 300 meter thick carbonate strata where are the best developed stromatolite biostromes and thrombolite bioherms. These biostromes and bioherms, together with tidal-flat dolomites and muddy dolostones, form Wumishan cyclothems with approximately symmetrical faciessuccession fabrics, which belong to carbonate meter-scale cyclic sequences of peritidal type. These cyclothems are overlain by lagoon dolomitic mudstones and shales and by frequently developed paleosol layers, indicating that the boundary of Wumishan cyclothems is marked by an instantaneously-exposed punctuated surface. Viewed form the regularly vertical stacking patterns of Wumishan cyclothems in long-term sequences, 26 third-order sequences may be discerned in Wumishan Formation. These thirdorder sequences may also be incorporated into six second-order sequences. In order to study the variation range of third-order sea-level changes and the formation period of third-order sequence, 626 cyclothems are discerned in the middle and upper parts of Wumishan Formation where the outcrops are well developed. In terms of the total thickness and the formation period of Mesoproterozoic Wumishan Formation, the crust subsidence rate in the sedimentary period of Wumishan Formation is supposed to be 3 meters at each interval of 100 thousands years. Based on this assumption, Fischer plot might be designed to simulate the third-order sea-level changing pattern.

     

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