Allogenic succession in Late Ordovician reefs from southeast China: a response to the Cathaysian orogeny

Several Late Ordovician (late Katian) reef complexes are known from the border area of Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces in southeast China. We studied two coral–stromatoporoid reefs exposed in the Xiazhen Formation at Zhuzhai (Yushan, Jiangxi). The reefs have a combined thickness of 7.4 m and are meta...

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Main Authors: Qijian Li, Yue Li, Wolfgang Kiessling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Estonian Academy Publishers 2015-02-01
Series:Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.kirj.ee/public/Estonian_Journal_of_Earth_Sciences/2015/issue_1/earth-2015-1-68-73.pdf