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The Stratigraphy and Tectonics of China

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The Ocean Basins and Margins

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Until the appearance in 1962 of a 12-volume series based on the first symposium on the stratigraphy of China (1959), the principal source of information was the 2-volume classic of Grabau (1924, 1928). That the latter is still an invaluable reference is a tribute to Grabau’s broad understanding. The information contained in the newer volumes reflects great advances since Grabau’s time, but the volumes are poorly disseminated outside China. The series covers all aspects of stratigraphy: distribution of beds, standard stratigraphie columns, biostratigraphic zonation and correlation, facies, change and depositional environment, paleogeography and correlations with other parts of the world, economic mineral deposits, and discussion of significant problems. In the post-Cultural Revolution period, further activity has been marked by a second symposium on stratigraphy and the meeting of the third general assembly of the Paleontological Society of China in 1979. Following the first of these meetings, an important series of correlation charts with explanatory notes was published by the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of Academia Sinica (Lu et al., 1974, 1976). English versions of studies on stratigraphy, paleontology, and biostratigraphy have been published by the International Union of Geological Societies (1980, 1981), the Geological Society of America (1981, 1984), Scientia Sinica (1973), and Geological Magazine (1981).

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Chen, C. (1988). The Stratigraphy and Tectonics of China. In: Nairn, A.E.M., Stehli, F.G., Uyeda, S. (eds) The Ocean Basins and Margins. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8041-6_4

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