Articles | Volume 8, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-361-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-361-2017
Research article
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30 Mar 2017
Research article |  | 30 Mar 2017

Precise age for the Permian–Triassic boundary in South China from high-precision U-Pb geochronology and Bayesian age–depth modeling

Björn Baresel, Hugo Bucher, Morgane Brosse, Fabrice Cordey, Kuang Guodun, and Urs Schaltegger

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This study re-evaluates the characterization of the Permian–Triassic boundary based on high-precision U-Pb geochronology from two marine sections (Dongpan and Penglaitan) with continuous and conformable stage boundaries in the Nanpanjiang Basin (southern China). These new dates provide the basis for a first proof-of-concept study utilizing a Bayesian statistic age–depth chronology comparing these two sections with the Global Stratotype Section and Point at Meishan (western China).