The Paleoclimate of China"Paleoclimatology is a frontier science of geology and climatology. It involves many subjects such as mineralogy, sedimentology, petrology, lithofacies-paleogeography, paleontology, geochemistry and stmosperic physics. It not only serves the survey and exploration of mineral resources, but also provides evidences for the study of crustal evolution, especially of continental drift and plate tectonics ..." Pref |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
SINIAN CLIMATE 14 | 14 |
ORDOVICIAN CLIMATE 31 | 31 |
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Anhui arid climatic Basin belonged bivalves brachiopods broad-leaved Cambrian carbonate Carboniferous Cathaysian flora clastic rock climatic subregion coal bed coal streak coal-bearing cold climate contains cool temperate Cretaceous deposit Devonian distributed dolomite dominated dry climate eastern facies Formation fossil Gansu glacial glacier Gondwana greyish green Group Guizhou gypsum Hebei Holocene Hubei humid climatic region Hunan Inner Mongolia intercalated Junggar Jurassic Late latitude zone Liaoning limestone Loess low latitude lower mainly composed margin Middle Devonian mudstone North China plate Northeast China northern Ordovician paleoclimate Permian plants plateau Pleistocene pollen Proterozoic purplish red red bed reef reef-building region This region River sandstone sandy sedimentary sediments semi-humid Shaanxi shale showing Siberia Sichuan siltstone Silurian Sinian South Southern Tibet sporopollen assemblage stage stromatoporoids subtropical tabulate coral Tarim temperate climatic region temperate humid temperature Tethys Tianshan Tibet tillite Triassic upper warm climate warm temperate western Yunnan wet climate Xinjiang Yangtze Yunnan