PART A; Microbialites from the Permian-Triassic Boundary
PART A; Microbialites from the Permian-Triassic Boundary
Click on the abbreviations on the map above. A1 - A11 are sites with microbialites; Aa - Az are sites lacking microbialites. Map derived from several sources combined.
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A1: South China; A2: Iran; A3: Turkey; A4: Japan; A5: Hungary; A6: Armenia; A7: Greenland; A8: Italy; A9: Tibet, Kashmir & Pakistan; A10: United Arab Emirates; A11: Madagascar
Aa: Slovenia
For a summary description of these sites in relation to post-extinction microbialites, please see the following reference:
Kershaw, S., Crasquin, S., Li, Y., Collin, P-Y., Forel, M-B., Mu, X., Baud, A., Wang, Y., Xie, S., Maurer, F. and Guo, L. 2012. Microbialites and global environmental change across the Permian-Triassic boundary: a synthesis. Geobiology, 10(1), 25–47.
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