Phanerozoic tin and tungsten mineralization—Tectonic controls on the distribution of enriched protoliths and heat sources for crustal melting

RL Romer, U Kroner - Gondwana Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Phanerozoic primary tin and tungsten deposits and lithium–cesium–tantalum (LCT) type
pegmatites define discontinuous belts that reach several thousand kilometers length …

Cambrian integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China

M Zhu, A Yang, J Yuan, G Li, J Zhang, F Zhao… - Science China Earth …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract The Cambrian Period is the first period of the Phanerozoic Eon and witnessed the
explosive appearance of the metazoans, representing the beginning of the modern earth-life …

Greater Avalonia—latest Ediacaran–Ordovician “peribaltic” terrane bounded by continental margin prisms (“Ganderia,” Harlech Dome, Meguma): review, tectonic …

E Landing, JD Keppie, DF Keppie, G Geyer… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Distinctive uppermost Ediacaran–Ordovician rocks (Avalonian overstep sequence)
were key in definition of Avalonia, which comprises large areas of the NE Appalachians and …

Trilobite evolutionary rates constrain the duration of the Cambrian explosion

JR Paterson, GD Edgecombe… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Trilobites are often considered exemplary for understanding the Cambrian explosion of
animal life, due to their unsurpassed diversity and abundance. These biomineralized …

Early fossil record of Euarthropoda and the Cambrian Explosion

AC Daley, JB Antcliffe, HB Drage… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Euarthropoda is one of the best-preserved fossil animal groups and has been the most
diverse animal phylum for over 500 million years. Fossil Konservat-Lagerstätten, such as …

Chronology of early Cambrian biomineralization

A Kouchinsky, S Bengtson, B Runnegar… - Geological …, 2012 - cambridge.org
Data on the first appearances of major animal groups with mineralized skeletons on the
Siberian Platform and worldwide are revised and summarized herein with references to an …

The Cambrian-Early Ordovician rift stage in the Gondwanan units of the Iberian Massif

T Sánchez-García, M Chichorro, AR Solá… - The Geology of Iberia: A …, 2019 - Springer
A rifting stage initiated the Variscan cycle in NW Gondwana, lasted from Terreneuvian to
Early Ordovician times and culminated in opening of the Rheic Ocean. The result of …

The onset of the 'Ordovician Plankton Revolution'in the late Cambrian

T Servais, V Perrier, T Danelian, C Klug… - Palaeogeography …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The 'Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event'comprises the rapid diversification of
marine organisms during the Ordovician Period. It is now clear that this adaptive radiation …

The two phases of the Cambrian Explosion

AY Zhuravlev, RA Wood - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
The dynamics of how metazoan phyla appeared and evolved–known as the Cambrian
Explosion–remains elusive. We present a quantitative analysis of the temporal distribution …

[PDF][PDF] Global standard stratotype-section and point (GSSP) for the conterminous base of the Miaolingian Series and Wuliuan Stage (Cambrian) at Balang, Jianhe …

Y Zhao, JL Yuan, LE Babcock, Q Guo, J Peng, L Yin… - Episodes, 2019 - researchgate.net
The International Subcommission on Cambrian Stratigraphy (ISCS) has recommended a
subdivision of the Cambrian System into four series (Peng, 2004, 2006; Babcock et al …