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Carbon isotope development in the Ordovician of the Yangtze Gorges region (South China) and its implication for stratigraphic correlation and paleoenvironmental change

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China

    Yuandong Zhang  (张元动), Junfeng Cheng  (成俊峰) & Chuanming Zhou  (周传明)

  2. GeoZentrum Nordbayern, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

    Axel Munnecke

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This study was supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. KZCX2-YW-122), the Ministry of Science and Technology (Nos. 2006CB806402, 2006FY1203000-4), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40532009).

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Zhang, Y., Cheng, J., Munnecke, A. et al. Carbon isotope development in the Ordovician of the Yangtze Gorges region (South China) and its implication for stratigraphic correlation and paleoenvironmental change. J. Earth Sci. 21 (Suppl 1), 70–74 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12583-010-0172-3

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