Review
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Boheng Shen, Shuzhong Shen, Qiong Wu, Shuichang Zhang, Bin Zhang, Xiangdong Wang, Zhangshuai Hou, Dongxun Yuan, Yichun Zhang, Feng Liu, Jun Liu, Hua Zhang, Yukun Shi, Jun Wang, Zhuo Feng
Summary: This study critically reviews the chronostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the latest Carboniferous and Permian in the North China Block and provides insights into the stratigraphic correlation and geological events. The study also estimates the amplitude of sea-level changes and highlights the favorable period for coal accumulation during the late Carboniferous and early Permian. The climatic shift during the Permian is attributed to the northward migration of the Pangea and the closure of the Paleo Asian Ocean.
SCIENCE CHINA-EARTH SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Yukun Shi, Xiangdong Wang, Junxuan Fan, Hao Huang, Huiqing Xu, Yingying Zhao, Shuzhong Shen
Summary: Recent study revealed a rapid increase of marine fauna species and genus richness during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age, lasting 41.2 million years and named as Carboniferous-earliest Permian Biodiversification Event (CPBE). The event included a slow increase episode and a main radiation episode, with most distinct patterns in fusulinid foraminifera and decreasing trends in nektonic conodonts and cephalopods, possibly related to marine environmental shifts caused by the Rheic Ocean closure.
EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS
(2021)
Article
Geography, Physical
Yuan Wang, Jianghai Yang, Charles M. Henderson, Dongxun Yuan, Rui Ma, Jia Liu
Summary: This study establishes five conodont zones for the Taiyuan Formation in southern North China and determines a late Gzhelian to late Asselian age, which is consistent with high-precision zircon U-Pb ages. The study also combines conodont biostratigraphy with previously published U-Pb ages to construct a new chronostratigraphic framework for the Carboniferous-Permian strata across North China. It reveals an earlier initiation of climate aridification in the northern part compared to the southern part, possibly due to northward drift, increased atmospheric pCO2, and global warming.
PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Thermodynamics
Kai Wang, Tao Han, Jun Deng, Yanni Zhang
Summary: The study investigates the coal combustion characteristics and kinetic parameters of Chinese coals from different geological periods. The results show that the heating rate has an impact on the characteristic temperatures of coal samples. The Carboniferous-Permian coals have lower ignition temperatures, higher heat release, and lower activation energy compared to Jurassic coals, indicating superior combustion performance.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Donghai Zhang, Baochun Huang, Guochun Zhao, Joseph G. Meert, Simon Williams, Jie Zhao, Tinghong Zhou
Summary: Research indicates that the northward motion of North China and Mongolia paralleled Laurussia from the Late Carboniferous to Early Permian, with the Paleo-Asian Ocean in the east-central segment having a width of about 2,700 km. This wide ocean impeded floral and faunal exchange until the Guadalupian, prior to its final closure by approximately 250 Ma.
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Zhen Guo, Zhong-Qiang Chen, Zhuoting Liao
Summary: The brachiopod fauna from the Hongshanzui Formation in the Chinese Altai Mountains area is diverse, with a new species Xinjiangiproductus? junggarensis sp. nov. The fauna is correlated to be Tournaisian in age and shows similarities to the Kuznetsk Basin fauna. The Altai area may have accreted to the Siberian Craton prior to the Tournaisian, and the western Junggar terrane did not belong to the same palaeobiogeographic province.
GEOLOGICAL JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Jaime A. Poblete, Paul H. G. M. Dirks, Zhaoshan Chang, Jan Marten Huizenga, Martin Griessmann, Chris Hall
Summary: The Watershed tungsten deposit in the Mossman orogen is largely found in skarn-altered conglomerate, influenced by four deformation events that led to the formation of multistage quartz veins. Key controls on scheelite mineralization include early monzonite dikes enriched in scheelite, D-4 shear zones acting as fluid conduits, skarn-altered conglomerate providing a host for vein formation, and an extensional depositional environment.
Article
Biology
Xiao-Yuan He, Alan R. T. Spencer, Shi-Jun Wang, Jason Hilton
Summary: This study documents the hydrasperman ovule Conostoma cf. kestospermum from coal balls in the early Permian aged Taiyuan Formation of North China, providing additional information on their organization and structure, and considering their paleoecological and paleogeographical significance for the first time. Significant taxonomic filtering occurred in the migration of wetland plant species between Euramerica and Cathaysia in the late Pennsylvanian, with most hydrasperman pteridosperms going extinct in Euramerica at the end of the Carboniferous, while a few relict species persisted in the Permian equatorial wetland floras of Cathaysia.
HISTORICAL BIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Renda Huang, Fujie Jiang, Di Chen, Ruoyuan Qiu, Tao Hu, Linhao Fang, Meiling Hu, Guanyun Wu, Chenxi Zhang, Jiahao Lv, Yuping Wu, Liliang Huang
Summary: By studying the Fengcheng Formation in northwest China, we have confirmed that it records the Carboniferous-Permian boundary. Through global carbon isotope data, we found the similarity of negative carbon isotope excursions in terrestrial and marine profiles, supporting their global synchrony and potential use for delimiting the Carboniferous-Permian boundary in terrestrial sections. This study contributes to understanding the Carboniferous-Permian global carbon cycle, high-latitude glaciation, eustatic fluctuations, global volcanism, and their potential relationships.
Article
Geography, Physical
Leifu Zhang, Dazhong Dong, Zhen Qiu, Chenjun Wu, Qin Zhang, Yuman Wang, Dexun Liu, Ze Deng, Shangwen Zhou, Songqi Pan
Summary: The study of the marine-continental transitional strata in the Upper Carboniferous to Lower Permian through high-resolution geochemical data integration reveals the characteristics of frequent sedimentary environment changes and the accumulation of organic-rich sediment under varied conditions.
PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Ana Simon-Muzas, Antonio M. Casas-Sainz, Ruth Soto, Emilio L. Pueyo, Elisabet Beamud, Belen Oliva-Urcia
Summary: This study presents a detailed paleomagnetic analysis of volcanic rocks and red beds from the Late-Carboniferous-Permian series in the Cadi Basin. The results provide reliable paleomagnetic directions and indicate the presence of magnetite and hematite in these rocks. The study also suggests that the main magnetization is of Permian age in the red beds and may represent primary magnetization or early remagnetization in the Late Carboniferous volcanic rocks.
Article
Geography, Physical
He Huang, Yuan Gao, Chao Ma, Lu Niu, Tian Dong, Xing Tian, Hu Cheng, Chenlu Hei, Huifei Tao, Chengshan Wang
Summary: This study conducts a comprehensive cyclostratigraphic analysis of the Fengcheng Formation using high-resolution downhole logs, revealing 405-kyr eccentricity cycles and reconstructing lake-level changes in the terrestrial Junggar Basin under a high-precision time framework. The high-frequency lake-level variations possibly relate to ice sheets periodic waxing and waning and/or low latitude monsoonal circulation, emphasizing the strong influence of astronomical forcing on sedimentary processes.
GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE
(2021)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Riza Nurbekova, Natalia Smirnova, Ivan Goncharev, Reinhard F. Sachsenhofer, Randy Hazlett, Gleb Smirnov, Talgat Yensepbayev, Shukhrat Mametov, Milovan Fustic
Summary: The Zaysan Basin in eastern Kazakhstan is a petroliferous basin with oil shale deposits in its upper Carboniferous-Permian sedimentary succession. These oil shale deposits are among the best source rocks in the world, with high total organic carbon contents, extract yields, and ultimate expulsion potential. The basin underwent an evolution from a deep/semi-deep lake to a deltaic setting. The study provides valuable information for petroleum exploration and development in the Zaysan Basin, emphasizing the importance of integrating data sources and weighing contradictory information.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COAL GEOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Junfeng Zhao, Yijun Zhou, Ke Wang, Xuan Li, Zhanrong Ma, Zhengzhong Ruan, Dong Wang, Rui Xue
Summary: The Bayanhot Basin in the eastern Alxa Block underwent a long-term depositional evolution process from transgression to retrogression during the Carboniferous-late Permian. The northwest North China Craton served as a paleo-uplift area and a sediment provenance area for the Alxa Block. The North China Craton, Bayanwula Mountain, and North Qilian Orogenic Belt acted as major provenances during the Carboniferous-Permian.
GEOSCIENCE FRONTIERS
(2021)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Hai Zhou, Guochun Zhao, Yigui Han, Donghai Zhang, Qian Zhao, Enkh-Orshikh Orsoo, Xianzhi Pei
Summary: The study presents geochemical, geochronological, and isotopic data of volcanic rocks in the Khan Bogd area, southern Mongolia, indicating arc-like magmatism during the Early Carboniferous and a mantle disturbance possibly induced by slab breakoff of the oceanic slab. The presence of younger intrusive rocks suggests a post-subduction setting linked to mantle disturbance.
Article
Paleontology
Yang Zhang, Sangmin Lee, Hui-Ting Wu, Wei-Hong He
Article
Paleontology
Huiting Wu, Weihong He, G. R. Shi, Kexin Zhang, Tinglu Yang, Yang Zhang, Yifan Xiao, Bing Chen, Shunbao Wu
Article
Geography, Physical
Huiting Wu, Weihong He, Elizabeth A. Weldon
GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE
(2018)
Article
Paleontology
Tamara T. A. Camilleri, Mark T. Warne, David J. Holloway, Elizabeth A. Weldon
Review
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Huiting Wu, G. R. Shi, Yuanlin Sun
EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS
(2019)
Article
Evolutionary Biology
Weihong He, Elizabeth A. Weldon, Tinglu Yang, Han Wang, Yifan Xiao, Huiting Wu, Kexin Zhang, Yongbiao Wang, Shunbao Wu
JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY
(2020)
Article
Paleontology
Huiting Wu, Yang Zhang, Thomas L. Stubbs, Yuanlin Sun
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Hui-Ting Wu, Yang Zhang, Yuan-Lin Sun
Summary: A new brachiopod fauna from the late Permian to early Induan in northern Guizhou, China is reported, showing three different communities representing the extinction stage, survival stage, and survival-initial recovery stage based on cluster analysis of species occurrence data. The extinction stage saw the disappearance of most brachiopod species, while the survival stage was dominated by Lingularia in shallow-water environments. Mesozoic-type brachiopods appeared during the survival-initial recovery stage.
GEOLOGICAL JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Paleontology
An-Feng Chen, Yang Zhang, Zheng-Yi Lyu, Hui-Ting Wu, Ke-Xin Zhang
Summary: The study of Triassic conodonts in the Himalaya Terrane of southern Tibet sheds light on the geological evolution of the northern margin of the Indian Plate.
Article
Paleontology
G. R. Shi, Ian Metcalfe, Sangmin Lee, Daoliang Chu, Huiting Wu, Tinglu Yang, Yuri D. Zakharov
Summary: This study describes marine macroinvertebrate fossils from two petroleum exploration cores, identifying two separate assemblages. The age of one assemblage is interpreted as Changhsingian, while the other is considered to be of the earliest Triassic (Griesbachian) age.
Article
Geography, Physical
An-feng Chen, Yang Zhang, Dong-xun Yuan, Hui-ting Wu, Jing Dou, Jing-qi Liu
Summary: This study presents an integrated conodont succession from the Bozhou section, northern Guizhou Province, southwestern China, identifying 22 conodont species and establishing the ages of members in the Yelang Formation for the first time. The conodont successions at Bozhou can be well correlated with other sections worldwide, providing valuable insights into the Permian-Triassic boundary and the Induan-Olenekian boundary.
PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Paleontology
Huiting Wu, Yang Zhang, Thomas L. Stubbs, Anfeng Chen, Pengcheng Zhai, Yuanlin Sun
Summary: A diverse Wuchiapingian brachiopod fauna with 57 species in 28 genera was discovered in the Shuizhutang Formation in Liannan, Guangdong province, southeastern China. Four new species were proposed, and the study provided revised characteristics of shell microstructures in Permianella and muscle scars in Permophricodothyris. The Liannan fauna exhibited higher alpha diversity compared to other Wuchiapingian brachiopod faunas in South China and shared more similarities with faunas from southeastern China. The dominant genera in the Liannan fauna were larger and more ornate than their Changhsingian counterparts. The study also highlighted the significance of genus-level recovery and subsequent rapid radiation at both genus and species levels.
JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Biology
Huiting Wu, Yang Zhang, Anfeng Chen, Thomas L. Stubbs
Summary: This study reports the most diverse Olenekian brachiopod fauna so far, containing 14 species with nine genera, including three new species and six genera found in the Early Triassic for the first time. The findings suggest that the diversity of Olenekian brachiopod fauna has been underestimated. Based on precise age constraints and quantitative data, it is inferred that brachiopod recovery in the studied section occurred in the latest Spathian when the environment started to ameliorate.
Article
Paleontology
Huiting Wu, Yang Zhang, Thomas L. Stubbs, Jingqi Liu, Yuanlin Sun
Summary: This paper presents a detailed description and quantitative analysis of the Changhsingian brachiopod fauna in southeastern China for the first time, including new species and genera reported for the first time. By comparing this fauna with contemporaneous brachiopod fauna from the Yangtze area, it reveals some differences between the brachiopod faunas from Fujian and the shallow-water clastic shelf in the Yangtze area.
PAPERS IN PALAEONTOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Geology
Hui-Ting Wu, Yang Zhang, Yuan-Lin Sun
RIVISTA ITALIANA DI PALEONTOLOGIA E STRATIGRAFIA
(2019)