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33
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3958
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National Ranking
540

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Correlation of the Ordovician rocks of China: charts and explanatory notes

    Chen Xu (陈旭);Rong Jiayu (戎嘉余);Wang Xiaofeng;Wang Zhihao (王志浩)

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

    Xu Chen;YuanDong Zhang;JunXuan Fan;Lan Tang

  • 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)

  • Stable carbon isotope stratigraphy in the Ordovician of South China

    Axel Munnecke;Yuandong Zhang;Xiao Liu;Junfeng Cheng

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

    Xu Chen;YuanDong Zhang;JunXuan Fan;JunFeng Cheng

  • Ordovician integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China

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  • 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

  • Ordovician stable carbon isotope stratigraphy in the Tarim Basin, NW China

    Yuandong Zhang;Axel Munnecke

  • No (Cambrian) explosion and no (Ordovician) event: A single long-term radiation in the early Palaeozoic

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  • Huaiyuan Epeirogeny—Shaping Ordovician stratigraphy and sedimentation on the North China Platform

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  • The Central Guizhou and Yi-chang uplifts, Upper Yangtze region, between Ordovician and Silurian

    Xu Chen;Jiayu Rong;Zhiyi Zhou;Yuandong Zhang

  • A new conodont biozone classification of the Ordovician System in South China

    Zhi-Hao (王志浩) Wang;Yong Yi Zhen;Stig M. Bergstrom;Rong-Chang (吴荣昌)) Wu

  • Upper Darriwilian graptolite and conodont zonation in the global stratotype section of the Darriwilian stage (Ordovician) at Huangnitang, Changshan, Zhejiang, China

    Xu Chen;Yuan-Dong Zhang;S.M. Bergström;Hong-Gen Xu

  • Flourishing Sponge-Based Ecosystems after the End-Ordovician Mass Extinction

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  • The Furongian (late Cambrian) Biodiversity Gap: Real or apparent?

    David A. T. Harper;David A. T. Harper;Timothy P. Topper;Timothy P. Topper;Borja Cascales-Minana;Thomas Servais

  • Moss biocrusts buffer the negative effects of karst rocky desertification on soil properties and soil microbial richness

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  • Ordovician and Silurian Rocks of Northwest Zhejiang and Northeast Jiangxi Provinces, SE China

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  • A regional tectonic event of Katian (Late Ordovician) age across three major blocks of China

    Xu Chen;Stig M. Bergström;YuanDong Zhang;ZhiHao Wang

  • Biostratigraphic correlation of the Ordovician black shales in Tarim Basin and its peripheral regions

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