The Permian-Triassic boundary records the most severe mass extinctions in Earth's history. Siberian flood volcanism, the most profuse known such subaerial event, produced 2 million to 3 million cubic kilometers of volcanic ejecta in approximately 1 million years or less. Analysis of (40)Ar/(39)Ar data from two tuffs in southern China yielded a date of 250.0 +/- 0.2 million years ago for the Per...

This issue of Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology is devoted to papers on the Permian– Triassic boundary crisis and Early Triassic biotic recovery. It is an outgrowth of the Symposium on Early Triassic Chronostratigraphy and Biotic Recovery that was held in Chaohu, China, on May 21st–23rd, 2005 under the auspices of IGCP Project 467 and attended by about 200 Earth scientists with a ...

The Pricaspian Depression in the southeast of the East European Platform is one of the deepest depressions formed over the Baikal folded basement. The sedimentary cover consists of four structural levels corresponding to the major stages of its formation. The Riphean and the Vendian beds constitute the first structural level. The second one comprises deposits from the Devonian to the Upper Tria...

A detailed magnetostratigraphic study, linked to a new latest Permian U–Pb ID-TIMS age, was undertaken on the continental Shichuanhe section (SCH) in North China order provide magnetic polarity scale for Late Permian–early Middle Triassic interval. Tilt-corrected mean directions of characteristic remanent magnetization pass reversal test and correspond site paleolatitude 18.1°N during Early Tri...

Palaeo-wildfire, which had an important impact on the end Permian terrestrial ecosystems, became more intense in latest globally, evidenced by extensive occurrence of fossil charcoals. In this study, we report abundant charcoals from upper part Xuanwei Formation and Permian–Triassic transitional Kayitou Lengqinggou section, western Guizhou Province, Southwest China. These are well-preserved wit...

A multidisciplinary approach integrating potential field analysis with geological and geochemical data provides new insights into the understanding of crustal structure evolution Mongolian collage. Magnetic gravity demonstrate inconsistency between geologically defined terranes geophysical domains in southwestern part The combination modelling whole rock geochemistry isotopic mapping Carbonifer...

a sequence of permian rocks crops out in northwest of khur in central alborz, north of iran. this sequence consists of the dorud (asselian-sakmarian), ruteh (artinskian-murgabian) and nesen (early djulfian) formations. the ruteh and nesen formations in alborz range were deposited in a shallow marine environment of the continental margin in the paleo-tethys. the ruteh formation with a thickness ...

Marine bivalves of the family Myalinidae are an important benthic constituent of the Permian Reef Complex of West Texas and New Mexico. We describe and summarize the myalinids from Lower and Middle Permian reef and near-reef settings and infer living habits as either epifaunal or semi-infaunal byssally attached suspension feeders. The six myalinid species described are exceptionally preserved a...