Abstract The Sichuan Basin was a part of the Yangtze Carbonate Platform (YCP) during Cambrian–Ordovician, and marine carbonates were deposited in basin this interval. Although previous studies have evaluated paleogeography, paleoclimate paleoecology basin, they primarily focused on biological evolution basin; however, analysis paleogeography is lacking. This study integrated outcrop sedimentolo...

Selectivity patterns provide insights into the causes of ancient extinction events. The Late Ordovician mass extinction was related to Gondwanan glaciation; however, it is still unclear whether elevated extinction rates were attributable to record failure, habitat loss, or climatic cooling. We examined Middle Ordovician-Early Silurian North American fossil occurrences within a spatiotemporally ...

The Siluro-Ordovician Southern Uplands terrane occupies a key position in the Caledonian Orogen, yet its genesis is controversial. Marginal basin, back-arc and forearc tectonic regimes, operative at the Laurentian margin of the Iapetus Ocean, have all been invoked. Fresh andesitic detritus within turbidite sandstones has, until now, been assumed to provide evidence for an Ordovician, supra-subd...

Bivalves and gastropods are the two largest classes of extant molluscs. Despite sharing a huge number of features, they do not share a key ecological one: gastropods are essentially epibenthic, while most bivalves are infaunal. However, this is not the ancestral bivalve condition; Cambrian forms were surface crawlers and only during the Ordovician a fundamental infaunalization process took plac...

The Ordovician strike-slip faults system in the Tahe area of Tarim Basin provides an important opportunity for using 3D seismic data to document structural characteristics, formation, and evolution their relationship with oil gas. With high-resolution data, are interpreted, classified, described coherence technique. geometric active periods, process analyzed, between hydrocarbon accumulation ch...