Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

High-resolution cyclostratigraphy of geochemical records from Permo-Triassic boundary section of Dongpan, southwestern Guangxi, South China

  • Published:
Science in China Series D: Earth Sciences Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Spectral analysis is applied to geochemical data from a deep-water Permian-Triassic Boundary (PTB) section across PTB in Dongpan, Guangxi for high-resolution cyclostratigraphic research. The characteristics of the Milankovitch Cycles have been well recorded in the strata of the Dongpan section. Spectrum on Ce/La records shows especially that the ratios among its three preponderant cycles in the section are 5:2:1, which well displays the phenomenon of the sedimentary cycles driven by orbital force. The Milankovitch theory is further confirmed by the Paleozoic records.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Hays J D, Imbrie J, Shackleton N J. Variations in the earth’s orbit: Pacemaker of the ice ages. Science, 1976, 194: 1121–1132

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Anderson R Y. A long geoclimatic record from the Permian. J Geophys Res, 1982, 87: 7285–7294

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Anderson R Y. Orbital forcing of evaporite sedimentation. In: Berger A, Imbrie J, Hays J, et al, eds. Milankovitch and Climate. Dordrecht: Dordrecht Reidel Publication Company, 1984. 147–162

    Google Scholar 

  4. Fischer A G, Herbert T D. Stratification rhythms: Italo-American studies in the Umbrian facies. Mem Soc Geol It, 1986, 31: 45–51

    Google Scholar 

  5. Goldhammer R K, Dunn P A, Hardie L A. High frequency glacio-eustatic sealeval oscillations with Milankovitch characteristics recorded in Middle Triassic plateform carbonates in northern Italy. Am J Sci, 1987, 287: 853–892

    Article  Google Scholar 

  6. Goldhammer R K, Lehmann P J, Dunn P A. The orgin of high-frequency platform carbonate cycles and third-order sequence (Lower Ordovician EL Paso Group, West Texas) constrants from outcrop data and stratigraphic modeling. J Sediment Petrol, 1993, 63(3): 318–359

    Google Scholar 

  7. Hinnov L A, Goldhammer R K. Spectral analysis of Middle Triassic Latemar limestone. J Sediment Petrol, 1991, 61: 1173–1193

    Google Scholar 

  8. Osleger D A. Subtidal carbonate cycles: Implications for allocyclic versus autocyclic controls. Geology, 1991, 19: 917–920

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. House M R. Devonian sedimentary microrhythms and a Givetian time scale. Proceedings of Ussher Society, 1991, 7: 392–395

    Google Scholar 

  10. Hansen H J, Lojen S, Toft P, et al. Magnetic susceptibility and organic carbon isotopes of sediments across some marine and terrestrial Permo-Triassic boundaries. In: Yin H, Dickins J M, Shi G R, et al, eds. Permian-Triassic Evolution of Tethys and Western Circum Pacific. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1999. 271–289

    Google Scholar 

  11. Rampino M R, Prokoph A, Adler A. Tempo of the end-Permian event: High-resolution cyclostratigraphy at the Permian-Triassic boundary. Geology, 2000, 28: 643–646

    Article  Google Scholar 

  12. Dolenec T, Lojen S, Ramovs A. The Permian-Triassic boundary in Western Slovenia (Idrijca Valley section): Magnetostratigraphy, stable isotopes, and elemental variations. Chem Geol, 2001, 175: 175–190

    Article  Google Scholar 

  13. Bai S L. Milankovitch cyclicity and time scale of the Middle and Upper Devonian. Int Geol Rev, 1995, 37: 1109–1114

    Google Scholar 

  14. Jiang D Y, Hao W C, Bai S L. Relationships between eccentricity and chemo-stratigraphical cycles from the Devonian upper Givetian of Guangxi. Chin Sci Bull (in Chinese), 1999, 44(9): 989–992

    Google Scholar 

  15. Gong Y M, Xu R, Tang Z D, et al. Relationships between bacterial-algal proliferating and mass extinction in the late Devonian Frasnian-Famennian transition: Enlightening from carbon isotopes and molecular fossils. Sci China Ser D-Earth Sci, 2005, 48(10): 1656–1665

    Article  Google Scholar 

  16. Meng Y Y, Zhou Q E, Li Y K. The characteristics and controlling sedimentary facies and granitoid analysis of the middle part of Pingxing-Dongmeng large fault: An example of Ningming-Banli regions. Guangxi Geol (in Chinese), 2002, 15(4): 1–4

    Google Scholar 

  17. Meng Y Y, Feng Q L, He W H, et al. Sedimentological characteristics of the deep-water Paleozoic-Mesozoic interval in the Liuqiao region of Guangxi and its signification. Earth Sci—J Chin Univ Geosci (in Chinese), 2004, 29 (Suppl): 25–36

    Google Scholar 

  18. Tong J N, Yin H F. A study on the Griesbachian cyclostratigraphy of Meishan Section, Changxing, Zhejiang Province. J Stratigr (in Chinese), 1999, 23(2): 22–26

    Google Scholar 

  19. Meng Y Y, Feng Q L, He W H, et al. A unique deep-water Permian-Triassic boundry section from the Liuqiao region in southwestern Guangxi, South China. J Stratigr (in Chinese), 2005, 29(4): 323–332

    Google Scholar 

  20. Nussbaumer H J, ed. Hu G R, tran. Fast Fourier Transform and Convolution Algorithms (in Chinese). Shanghai: Shanghai Scientific and Technical Documents Publishing House, 1984. 98–130

    Google Scholar 

  21. Cara M. Time-frequency analysis. EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 1982, 63(51): 12–20

    Google Scholar 

  22. Li Z. A method of realizing spectrum analysis by using Fast Fourier Transform. J Nanchang Junior College (in Chinese), 2002, (2): 58–60

  23. Arthur M A, Dean W E. A holistic geochemical approach to cyclomania: examples from Cretaceous pelagic limestone sequences. In: Einsele G, Ricken W, Seilacher A, eds. Cycles and Events in Stratigraphy. Berlin: Springer, 1991. 126–166

    Google Scholar 

  24. Berger A L, Loutre M F, Laskar J. Stability of the astronomical frequencies over the earth’s history for paleoclimate studies. Science, 1992, 255: 560–566

    Article  Google Scholar 

  25. Schwarzacher W. Cyclostratigraphy and the Milankovitch Theory. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1993. 29–48

    Google Scholar 

  26. Berger A, Loutre M F. Astronomical Forcing Through Geological Time. In: De Boer P L, Smith D G, eds. Orbital Forcing and Cyclic Sequences. Oxford: Blackwell Science Publications, 1994. 15–24

    Google Scholar 

  27. Bai S L, Bai Z Q, Ma X P, et al. Devonian Events and Biostratigraphy of South China. Beijing: Peking University Press, 1994. 13–45, 62–75

    Google Scholar 

  28. Hao W C, Bai S L, Jiang D Y. Uniformity of the upper Framennian Milankovitch cycles in China. Chin Sci Bull (in Chinese), 2000, 45(15): 1654–1660

    Google Scholar 

  29. Berger A L. Milankovitch theory and climate. Rev Geophys, 1988, 26: 624–657

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. MOE Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Peng XingFang & Feng QingLai

  2. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Li ZhouBo

  3. Guangxi Geological Survey Research Institute, Nanning, 530031, China

    Meng YouYan

Authors
  1. Peng XingFang
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Feng QingLai
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Li ZhouBo
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Meng YouYan
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Feng QingLai.

Additional information

Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40621002) and Program for Changjiang Scholar and Innovative Research Team in University (Grant No. 20060491502)

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Peng, X., Feng, Q., Li, Z. et al. High-resolution cyclostratigraphy of geochemical records from Permo-Triassic boundary section of Dongpan, southwestern Guangxi, South China. Sci. China Ser. D-Earth Sci. 51, 187–193 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-008-0001-z

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-008-0001-z

Keywords

Search

Navigation