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45
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7607
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Best Publications

  • The new chronostratigraphic classification of the Ordovician System and its relations to major regional series and stages and to δ13C chemostratigraphy

    Stig M. Bergström;Xu Chen;Juan Carlos Gutiérrez-Marco;Andrei Dronov

  • Facies patterns and geography of the Yangtze region, South China, through the Ordovician and Silurian transition

    Chen Xu;Rong Jia-yu;Li Yue;A.J. Boucot

  • 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

  • The status and stability of permafrost carbon on the Tibetan Plateau

    Cuicui Mu;Benjamin W. Abbott;Adam J. Norris;Mei Mu

  • Extending the timescale and range of ecosystem services through paleoenvironmental analyses, exemplified in the lower Yangtze basin

    John A. Dearing;Xiangdong Yang;Xuhui Dong;Enlou Zhang

  • Carbon burial by shallow lakes on the Yangtze floodplain and its relevance to regional carbon sequestration

    Xuhui Dong;N. John Anderson;Xiangdong Yang;Xu chen

  • The latest Ordovician Hirnantia Fauna (Brachiopoda) in time and space

    Rong Jia-Yu;Chen Xu;David A.T. Harper

  • 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

  • Nutrient dynamics linked to hydrological condition and anthropogenic nutrient loading in Chaohu Lake (southeast China)

    Xu Chen;Xiangdong Yang;Xuhui Dong;Xuhui Dong;Qian Liu;Qian Liu

  • Large perturbations of the carbon and sulfur cycle associated with the Late Ordovician mass extinction in South China

    Tonggang Zhang;Yanan Shen;Renbin Zhan;Shuzhong Shen

  • 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)

  • Environmental changes in Chaohu Lake (southeast, China) since the mid 20th century: The interactive impacts of nutrients, hydrology and climate

    Xu Chen;Xu Chen;Xiangdong Yang;Xuhui Dong;Enfeng Liu

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

    Xu Chen;JunXuan Fan;WenHui Wang;HongYan Wang

  • A proposed global boundary stratotype for the base of the Upper Series of the Ordovician System: The Fagelsang section, Scania, southern Sweden

    Stig M. Bergström;S. C. Finney;Chen Xu;Christian Pålsson

  • Paired δ13Ccarb and δ13Corg records of Upper Ordovician (Sandbian–Katian) carbonates in North America and China: Implications for paleoceanographic change

    Seth A. Young;Matthew R. Saltzman;Stig M. Bergström;Stephen A. Leslie

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Junxuan Fan
Junxuan Fan Nanjing University
Stig M. Bergström
Stig M. Bergström The Ohio State University
David A. T. Harper
David A. T. Harper Durham University
Michael J. Melchin
Michael J. Melchin St. Francis Xavier University
Ping'an Peng
Ping'an Peng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Axel Munnecke
Axel Munnecke University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

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