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dc.contributor.authorYue, L-
dc.contributor.authorKershaw, S-
dc.date.accessioned2011-03-08T09:39:18Z-
dc.date.available2011-03-08T09:39:18Z-
dc.date.issued2003-
dc.identifier.citationFacies, 48(1): 269-284, Dec 2003en_US
dc.identifier.issn0172-9179-
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.springerlink.com/content/x5723234252776q7/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/4792-
dc.descriptionThe article can be obtained from the link below.en_US
dc.description.abstractEarly Silurian reef reconstruction on the Yangtze Platform, in the northern part of the South China Block, is preceded by a combination of regional and global processes. During most of Ashgill time (Late Ordovician), the area was dominated by Wufeng Formation deep water graptolitic black shales. Reefs largely disappeard in the middle of the Ashgill Stage, from the northwestern margin of Cathaysian Land (southeastern South China Block), in advance of the Late Ordovician glaciation and mass extinction, due to regional sea-level changes and regional uplift, unrelated to the mass extinction itselt. Late Ordovician microbial mudmound occurrence is also found in the western margin of the Yangtze Platform, its age corresponding to theDicellograptus complexus graptolite biozone of pre-extinction time. On the Yangtze Platform, a thin, non-reef-bearing carbonate, the Kuanyinchiao Formation (=Nancheng Formation in some sites), thickness generally no more than 1m, occurs near several landmasses as a result of Hirnantian regression. Reappearance of the earliest Silurian carbonates consisting of rare skeletal lenses in the upper part of Lungmachi Formation, are correlated to theacensus graptolite biozone, early Rhuddanian of Shiqian, northeastern Guizhou, near Qianzhong Land. Carbonate sediments gradually developed into beds rich in brachiopods and crinoids in the lower part of Xiangshuyuan Formation, middle Rhuddanian. In the middle part of Xiangshuyan Formation, biostromes, containing abundant and high diversity benthic faunas such as corals, crinoids and brachiopods, show beginnings of reconstruction of reef facies. Substantial reef recovery occurred in the upper part of Xiangshuyuan Formation, lower Aeronian, as small patch reefs and biostromes. During the late Aeronian, carbonate sediments, especially reefs and reef-related facies, expanded on the upper Yangtze Platform, and radiation of reefs occurred in Ningqiang Formation, upper Telychian. The long period of reef recovery, taking several million years, remains difficult to explain, because redistribution of any refugia faunas would be expected to take place soon after the extinction. Reefs and reef-related facies subsequently declined after Telychian time due to regional uplift of the major portion of the Yangtze Platform. Carbonate facies are therefore uncommon in South China during the rest of Silurian time.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research is supported by funding from State Key Laboratory of Paleobiotogy and Stratigraphy, Chinese Academy of Science (Grant No: 023109). Chinese National Natural Science Funding (Grant No: 49972007) and Special Research Support from Nanjing Institute of Geological and Paleontological and Knowledge Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Science.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSpringer Verlagen_US
dc.subjectMass extinctionen_US
dc.subjectReef recoveryen_US
dc.subjectYangtze platformen_US
dc.subjectSouth Chinaen_US
dc.subjectLlandovery-Silurianen_US
dc.titleReef reconstruction after extinction events of the latest ordovician in the Yangtze platform, South Chinaen_US
dc.typeResearch Paperen_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02667544-
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