Stratigraphy Around The Permian Triassic Boundary Of South China

Download or read book Stratigraphy Around the Permian–Triassic Boundary of South China written by Wei-hong He and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book timely provides high-quality records of 32 PTB sections across different depositional settings from terrestrial to marine facies in South China, including descriptions of lithologies, high-resolution correlation of key boundaries and fossil occurrences at each section. This book also analyzes the patterns and processes of the community and ecosystem evolution over space and through time in the lead to the end-Permian mass extinction, and critically analyzes the mostly debated hypothesis, anoxia and volcanism, which were considered as the causes of mass extinction, based on the data from the studied sections of South China, together with materials from other regions of the world.