Table of Contents - SPE202: Correlation of the Silurian Rocks of China

Acknowledgments

Abstract

Introduction

Historical review

Lithofacies and biofacies

Introduction
Description of the lithofacies-biofacies units
Introduction
Yangtze Platform
Xizang (Tibet)-Western Yunnan
South China
Northwest China
Northernmost China
North China Platform

Division and correlation

Ordovician-Silurian boundary
Lower-Middle Silurian boundary
Middle-Upper Silurian boundary
Silurian-Devonian boundary
Top of the Lungmachi Formation
Correlation of the Shihniulan and Lojoping Formations
Age of the Siaohopa Formation
Correlation of the Rongxi and Wangjiawan Formations
Xiushan Formation, Ningqiang Formation, Upper Kaochaitien Group, and Fentou Formation problem
Age of the Takuan Formation
Huixingshao and Maoshan correlation problem

Sequence of the faunas

Graptolitic faunas
Brachiopod faunas
Coral faunas
Nautiloid faunas
Trilobite faunas
Crinoid faunas

Benthic Ecostratigraphy

Introduction
Lower Llandovery
Middle Llandovery
Upper Llandovery-low Wenlock
Ludlow-Pridoli of Southern China
Ludlow-Pridoli of Northern China
Graptolites
Mixed faunas

Paleogeography

Introduction
Early Silurian (Llandovery)
Middle Silurian (Wenlock)
Late Silurian (Ludlow-Pridoli)

Paleobiogeography

Marine redbeds of Southern China

Marine redbeds of Northern China

Mineral deposits

Long term geographic relations of the Chinese Silurian

The Yarlung Zangbo Suture Zone question

The Uralian-Mongolian ("Angara") Volcanic Belt and the carbonate belts on both sides

Vertical movement

Ichang Uplift

Japanese and Korean relations

Kwangsi Movement

Alphabetical listing of the Chinese Silurian stratigraphic units

References