Doctoral Dissertations
Keywords and Phrases
Biomarkers; Lacustrine deposits; Lithofacies; Permian; Stable organic carbon isotope
Abstract
"The overall objective of this study is to understand physical and chemical responses of Earth Systems to environmental and climatic perturbations of diverse magnitudes and time scales in Bogda Mountains, NE Pangea. Field investigations, petrographic observations, and geochemical analyses have been used to interpret paleoenvironment and paleoclimate in cm-m-scale high-order cycles (HCs: 0.1-100 kyrs), low-order cycles (LCs: 1-10 Myr), and critical events of late Paleozoic ice age (LPIA: 320-260 Myr ago). Four organo-facies are one-to-one correlated with the four lithofacies in the meter-scale HCs, suggesting litho- and organo-facies are genetically linked and fundamentally controlled by environmental changes associated with lake contraction and extension. The coincidence of climatic changes in mid-latitude northeast Pangea and Gondwanan glacial-interglacial in mid Sakmarian-early Kungurian provides clues that glaciation may have exerted a substantial control on climatic changes in mid-latitude Northern Hemisphere"--Abstract, page iv.
Advisor(s)
Yang, Wan
Committee Member(s)
Gao, Stephen S.
Wronkiewicz, David J.
Obrist-Farner, Jonathan
Wan, Mingli
Tabor, Neil J.
Department(s)
Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering
Degree Name
Ph. D. in Geology and Geophysics
Publisher
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Publication Date
Fall 2019
Journal article titles appearing in thesis/dissertation
- One-to-one relationship between litho- and organo-facies in cyclic lacustrine deposits of lower-Permian Lucaogou low-order cycle, Bogda Mountains, NW China
- Enhanced aridity and seasonality of mid-latitude northeast Pangaea induced by late Paleozoic deglaciation
Pagination
xi, 127 pages
Note about bibliography
Includes bibliographic references.
Geographic Coverage
Bogda Mountains, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Northwestern China
Time Period
Permian; Paleozoic
Rights
© 2019 Xin Zhan, All rights reserved.
Document Type
Dissertation - Open Access
File Type
text
Language
English
Thesis Number
T 11658
Electronic OCLC #
1139525680
Recommended Citation
Zhan, Xin, "Paleoenvironment and paleoclimate of NE Pangea in early Permian-linking chemo- and cyclo-stratigraphy, Bogda Mountains, NW China" (2019). Doctoral Dissertations. 2856.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/doctoral_dissertations/2856
Comments
This research was partially supported by four student research grants from Geological Society of America, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, and Chinese Academy of Sciences (grant no. SKLOG-201603), and NSF GEOSCI grant (1714749) and NSF China grant (41428201).