Composition and significance of the Katian (Upper Ordovician) conodont fauna of the Vaux Limestone (‘Calcaire des Vaux’) in Normandy, France by Annalisa Ferretti, Andrea Messori, Stig M. Bergström

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Reservoir characteristics and main controlling factors of the fourth member of Ordovician Majiagou Formation in the central and eastern Ordos Basin by Chunguo MOU, Jie XU, Yonghong GU, Jianpeng JIA, Wenxiong WANG, Xiucheng TAN

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The Armorican Quartzite: when trilobites ruled the Ordovician seas of the Villuercas-Ibores-Jara UNESCO Global Geopark, Spain by Ivan Cortijo, Sören Jensen, Manolo Garcia, Teodoro Palacios, José María Barrera

“…The Lower to Middle Ordovician Armorican Quartzite Formation of southern Europe contains well-preserved examples of the Cruziana rugosa Group. …”
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Ordovician graptolites from the basal part of the Palaeozoic transgressive sequence in the Karadere area, Zonguldak Terrane, NW Turkey by M. Cemal Göncüoglu, Valeri Sachanski, Juan Carlos Gutiérrez-Marco, Cengiz Okuyucu

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The Strike-Slip Fault Effects on Tight Ordovician Reef-Shoal Reservoirs in the Central Tarim Basin (NW China) by Yawen Zhao, Guanghui Wu, Yintao Zhang, Nicola Scarselli, Wei Yan, Chong Sun, Jianfa Han

“…The largest carbonate condensate field in China has been found in the central Tarim Basin. Ordovician carbonate reservoirs are generally attributed to reef-shoal microfacies along a platform margin. …”
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Developing a phylogenetic framework for tiny Ordovician brachiopods (Atrypida: Anazyginae and Catazyginae) from the eastern United States by Mariana Vilela-Andrade, Alycia L. Stigall

“…By the Middle to Late Ordovician, the brachiopod order Atrypida was no exception. …”
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Gas-bearing characteristics and preservation conditions of Upper Ordovician Wufeng-Lower Silurian Longmaxi shale in western Hubei by Lulu XU, Yaru WEN, Yanlin ZHANG, Zhijun REN, Jie YANG, Jianhang WEN, Wei CHEN, Fan LUO, Ke DUAN

“…The Upper Ordovician Wufeng to Lower Silurian Longmaxi formations are important exploration targets for shale gas in the western Hubei province. …”
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Source rock potential, thermal maturity, and depositional environment of the Ordovician Ra’an Shale Member, central Saudi Arabia by Faisal AlGhamdi, Lamidi Babalola, Abdullah Alqubalee, Israa S. Abu-Mahfouz, Bandar Alotaibi, Mohammed Abouelresh

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Groundwater Pollution Model and Diffusion Law in Ordovician Limestone Aquifer Owe to Abandoned Red Mud Tailing Pit by Yueming Qi, Pei Zhou, Junping Wang, Yipeng Ma, Jiaxing Wu, Chengzhi Su

“…The high-concentration pollution plume was mainly distributed in the Ordovician limestone fractured aquifer in the northeast. …”
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Cyclostratigraphy of the Middle to Upper Ordovician successions of the Armorican Massif (western France) using portable X-ray fluorescence by M. Sinnesael, M. Sinnesael, M. Sinnesael, A. Loi, M.-P. Dabard, T. R. A. Vandenbroucke, P. Claeys

“…Our case study focuses on the Middle to Upper Ordovician siliciclastic successions of the Armorican Massif (western France) that are well-studied examples in terms of sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy. …”
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Multi-Factor Controlling Diversity of the Ordovician Hydrocarbon Phase in the Tazhong I Block, Tarim Basin, NW China by Yifeng Wang, Weibing Shen, Jian Li, Chen Zhang, Hongzhe Xie, Shuo Chen, Quzong Baima, Chunhong Wang

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Solutan echinoderms from the Fezouata Shale Lagerstätte (Lower Ordovician, Morocco): diversity, exceptional preservation, and palaeoecological implications by Christophe Dupichaud, Bertrand Lefebvre, Claire H. Milne, Rich Mooi, Martina Nohejlová, Renaud Roch, Farid Saleh, Samuel Zamora, Samuel Zamora

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Genetic mechanism of inner reservoirs of Yingshan Formation of Middle-Lower Ordovician in Tahe Oil Field, Tarim Basin by Yanping LÜ, Jing LÜ, Xiangdong XU, Guangxiao DENG, Yongli LIU, Cunge LIU, Zhenzhe ZHANG, Yongqiang HAN

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Geochemical Characteristics of Late Ordovician Shales in the Upper Yangtze Platform, South China: Implications for Redox Environmental Evolution by Donglin Lin, Shuheng Tang, Zhaodong Xi, Bing Zhang, Yapei Ye

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Chemical Characteristics of Ordovician Formation Water and Its Relationship with Hydrocarbons in Halahatang Depression, Tarim Basin, NW China by Tong Xu, Chuanqing Zhu, Xiaoxue Jiang, Boning Tang, Xiang Wang, Haizu Zhang, Baoshou Zhang

“…The chemical characteristics of Ordovician formation water and its relationship with hydrocarbons in the Halahatang depression (Tabei Uplift, Tarim Basin, NW China) were analyzed on the basis of the detailed formation water test data. …”
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Palaeogeography and palaeoecology of early Floian (Early Ordovician) cephalopods from the Upper Fezouata Formation, Anti-Atlas, Morocco by B. Kröger, B. Lefebvre

“…In the central Anti-Atlas (Morocco), the Early Ordovician succession consists of about 1000 m of fossiliferous argillites and siltstones. …”
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Using chemostratigraphy and biostratigraphy methods to define the unconformity underlying the Upper Ordovician Pagoda Formation in the Upper Yangtze Platform by Xueying Ma, Shenghui Deng, Yuanzheng Lu, Ru Fan, Fenglian Zhang, Yanqi Sun, Xu Li, Zhengyang Qu

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Multiple-Stage Injection of Deep Hydrothermal Fluids in the Dolostone Reservoirs of Ordovician Majiagou Formation, Southern Ordos Basin by Zhaolin Yang, Zhaolin Yang, Xinshe Liu, Xinshe Liu, Xu Han, Xu Han, Hu Zhou, Hu Zhou, Sha Zhan, Sha Zhan, Xiaojun Gui, Xiaojun Gui, Jihong Niu, Jihong Niu, Ke Wang

“…The Middle Ordovician Majiagou Formation in the southern Ordos Basin develops a set of sub-and peri-tidal carbonate successions that were extensively dolomitized. …”
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Development characteristics of Ordovician ancient subterranean river system in thrust anticline area of Tahe Oilfield, Tarim Basin by Changjian ZHANG, Lin JIANG, Huan WEN, Jing LÜ, Qi CHANG

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Significance of paleo-fluid in the Ordovician–Silurian detachment zone to the preservation of shale gas in western Hunan–Hubei area by An Liu, Wenjia Ou, Huilan Huang, Kai Wei, Hai Li, Xiaohong Chen

“…The studies on the paleo-fluid in the Ordovician–Silurian detachment zone in the Middle–Upper Yangtze area focus on the origin of high-density methane inclusions and the evolution process of formation pressure, but rarely deal with the significance of paleo-fluid to shale gas preservation. …”
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