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Earth Science

D-Index
36
Citations
8479
World Ranking
7051
National Ranking
453

Best Publications

  • The ICS International Chronostratigraphic Chart

    K.M. Cohen;S.C. Finney;P.L. Gibbard;J.-X. Fan

  • A high-resolution summary of Cambrian to Early Triassic marine invertebrate biodiversity

    Jun-xuan (樊隽轩) Fan;Jun-xuan (樊隽轩) Fan;Shu-zhong (沈树忠) Shen;Shu-zhong (沈树忠) Shen;Douglas H. Erwin;Douglas H. Erwin;Peter M. Sadler

  • Late Ordovician to earliest Silurian graptolite and brachiopod biozonation from the Yangtze region, South China, with a global correlation

    Chen Xu;Rong Jiayu;Charles E. Mitchell;David A. T. Harper

  • The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Hirnantian Stage (the uppermost of the Ordovician System)

    Xu Chen;Jiayu Rong;Junxuan Fan;Renbin Zhan

  • Carbon isotopes and event stratigraphy near the Ordovician-Silurian boundary, Yichang, South China

    Junxuan Fan;Ping'an Peng;M.J. Melchin

  • Toward a stepwise Kwangsian Orogeny

    Xu Chen;Jun Xuan Fan;Qing Chen;Lan Tang

  • Onset of the Kwangsian Orogeny as evidenced by biofacies and lithofacies

    Xu Chen;YuanDong Zhang;JunXuan Fan;Lan Tang

  • PATTERNS AND PROCESSES OF LATEST ORDOVICIAN GRAPTOLITE EXTINCTION AND RECOVERY BASED ON DATA FROM SOUTH CHINA

    Chen Xu;Michael J. Melchin;H. David Sheets;Charles E. Mitchell

  • Biostratigraphy and geography of the Ordovician-Silurian Lungmachi black shales in South China

    Fan JunXuan (樊隽轩);Michael J. Melchin;Chen Xu (陈旭);Wang Yi (王怿)

  • Paleo-environmental cyclicity in the Early Silurian Yangtze Sea (South China): Tectonic or glacio-eustatic control?

    Zhanhong Liu;Zhanhong Liu;Thomas J. Algeo;Thomas J. Algeo;Xusheng Guo;Junxuan Fan

  • Stage-progressive distribution pattern of the Lungmachi black graptolitic shales from Guizhou to Chongqing, Central China

    Xu Chen;JunXuan Fan;WenHui Wang;HongYan Wang

  • Ordovician graptolite-bearing strata in southern Jiangxi with a special reference to the Kwangsian Orogeny

    Xu Chen;YuanDong Zhang;JunXuan Fan;JunFeng Cheng

  • HIRNANTIAN (LATEST ORDOVICIAN) GRAPTOLITES FROM THE UPPER YANGTZE REGION, CHINA

    Chen Xu;Fan Jun-Xuan;M. J. Melchin;C. E. Mitchell

  • Early Permian (Cisuralian) global brachiopod palaeobiogeography

    Shu-zhong Shen;Hua Zhang;G.R. Shi;Wen-zhong Li

  • The Deep-Time Digital Earth program: data-driven discovery in geosciences.

    Chengshan Wang;Robert M Hazen;Qiuming Cheng;Michael H Stephenson

  • Timing and patterns of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event and Late Ordovician mass extinction: Perspectives from South China

    Yiying Deng;Yiying Deng;Junxuan Fan;Shuhan Zhang;Xiang Fang

  • Global and regional controls on marine redox changes across the Ordovician-Silurian boundary in South China

    Yu Liu;Yu Liu;Chao Li;Thomas J. Algeo;Thomas J. Algeo;Junxuan Fan

  • Marine anoxia linked to abrupt global warming during Earth’s penultimate icehouse

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  • Geoscience knowledge graph in the big data era

    Chenghu Zhou;Hua Wang;Chengshan Wang;Zengqian Hou

  • Silurian integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China

    Jiayu Rong;Yi Wang;Renbin Zhan;Junxuan Fan

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