Sedimentary response to the early Silurian (Rhuddanian-Aeronian) post-glacial transgression and Kwangsian Orogeny in the Upper Yangtze region, South China

• Published in: Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology Vol. 623; p. 111639
• Main Authors: Lu, Yangbo, Yue, Yong, Lu, Yongchao, Jiang, Shu, Wang, Yuxuan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.08.2023
• Subjects: Archean eon; China; Chronology; Contourite; data collection; Detrital zircon; detritus; mudstone; palaeogeography; paleoclimatology; Paleocurrent direction; paleoecology; Silurian period; total organic carbon; Turbidite; zircon; China; Contourite; Detrital zircon; Paleocurrent direction; Chronology; Turbidite

Unlike the lowermost Silurian ‘hot’ shales deposited in many other regions of the world, the early Silurian (Rhuddanian-Aeronian) succession in South China exhibits a distinctive lithofacies transition from organic-rich black siliceous mudstone in the early Rhuddanian, to interlaminated siltstone an...