期刊
JOURNAL OF PALAEOGEOGRAPHY-ENGLISH
卷 7, 期 2, 页码 117-129出版社
PUSHPA PUBLISHING HOUSE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jop.2018.01.002
关键词
PTB mass extinction; C-1 coal seam; SHRIMP U-Pb isotope age; Xuanwei County; Yunnan Province
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41572090, 41602123]
- Doctor Foundation of Henan Polytechnic University [B2016-72]
- Open Fund of Key Laboratory of Biogenic Traces and Sedimentary Minerals of Henan Province [OTMP1407]
The first SHRIMP zircon U-Pb ages from coal beds close to the end-Permian mass extinction are reported from the C-1 coal seam in the Yantang Mine in Laibin Town, Xuanwei County, eastern Yunnan Province. Zircons were extracted from kaolinite claystone layers, defined as tonsteins (volcanic ash deposits), in the sub-seam B-1 and B-3 of the coal seam C-1. The U-Pb ages are 252.0 +/- 2.3 Ma and 250.3 +/- 2.1 Ma for the sub-seam B-1 and B-3, respectively. Within analytical uncertainties, these U-Pb ages include the time period of the onset of the mass extinction at 251.941 +/- 0.037 Ma, which was obtained from the marine Meishan section in Zhejiang Province, similar to 1600 km away from the Yantang Mine. These new ages represent not only the first and closest ages to the PTB mass extinction in terrestrial coal beds, but also ages from the nearest site to the Emeishan volcanoes investigated so far. Therefore these new data provide the most accurate stratigraphic horizon of terrestrial facies of the end-Permian extinction in South China. The Emeishan volcanoes were likely the source of volcanic ash in the coal seams at the Xuanwei County and broader areas in South China. Furthermore, the minerals and geochemistry characteristics of the C-1 coal seam also implied the influences of contemporaneous volcanic activities.
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