Facies changes and diagenetic processes across the Permian-Triassic boundary event horizon, Great Bank of Guizhou, South China: a controversy of erosion and dissolution

• Published in: Sedimentology Vol. 56; no. 3; pp. 677 - 693
• Main Authors: COLLIN, PIERRE-YVES, KERSHAW, STEVE, CRASQUIN-SOLEAU, SYLVIE, FENG, QINGLAI
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.04.2009; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Wiley
• Subjects: Conodonta; Earth Sciences; Hindeodus; Marine; Marine dissolution; microbialite; Paleontology; Permian-Triassic boundary; Sciences of the Universe; South China; sub-aerial exposure; China, People's Rep., Nanpanjiang Basin, Great Bank of Guizhou

The Permian-Triassic boundary interval in shallow shelf seas of South China shows Upper Permian limestones overlain by lowermost Triassic microbialites. Global sea-level rose across the Permian-Triassic boundary, but an irregular top-Permian erosion surface across a 10 km north-south transect of the...