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The Permian–Triassic boundary Lung Cam expanded section, Vietnam, as a high-resolution proxy for the GSSP at Meishan, China

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Brooks B. Ellwood Open the ORCID record for Brooks B. Ellwood [Opens in a new window] ,
Galina P. Nestell ,
Luu Thi Phuong Lan ,
Merlynd K. Nestell ,
Jonathan H. Tomkin ,
Kenneth T. Ratcliffe ,
Wei-Hsung Wang ,
Harry Rowe ,
Thanh Dung Nguyen  and
Chien Thang Nguyen
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Brooks B. Ellwood*
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State University, E235 Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
Galina P. Nestell
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA
Luu Thi Phuong Lan
Affiliation:
Institute of Geophysics, Vietnamese Academy for Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
Merlynd K. Nestell
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA
Jonathan H. Tomkin
Affiliation:
School of Earth, Society, and Environment, University of Illinois, 428 Natural History Building, 1301 W. Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
Kenneth T. Ratcliffe
Affiliation:
Chemostrat Inc., 3760 Westchase Drive, Houston, Texas 77042, USA
Wei-Hsung Wang
Affiliation:
Center for Energy Studies, Louisiana State University, 112 Nuclear Science Building, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
Harry Rowe
Affiliation:
Premier Oilfield Laboratories, 11335 Clay Road, Suite #180, Houston, Texas 77041, USA
Thanh Dung Nguyen
Affiliation:
Institute of Geophysics, Vietnamese Academy for Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
Chien Thang Nguyen
Affiliation:
Institute of Geophysics, Vietnamese Academy for Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
Tran Huyen Dang
Affiliation:
Vietnam Union of Geological Sciences, Hanoi, Vietnam
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*Author for correspondence: Brooks B. Ellwood, Email: ellwood@lsu.edu
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Abstract

The Lung Cam expanded stratigraphic succession in Vietnam is correlated herein to the Meishan D section in China, the GSSP for the Permian–Triassic boundary. The first appearance datum of the conodont Hindeodus parvus at Meishan defines the Permian–Triassic boundary, and using published graphic correlation, the Permian–Triassic boundary level has been projected into the Lung Cam section. Using time-series analysis of magnetic susceptibility (χ) data, it is determined that H. parvus arrived at Lung Cam ∼18 kyr before the Permian–Triassic boundary. Data indicate that the Lung Cam section is expanded by ∼90 % relative to the GSSP section at Meishan. Given the expanded Lung Cam section, it is possible to resolve the timing of significant events during the Permian–Triassic transition with high precision. These events include major stepped extinctions, beginning at ∼135 kyr and ending at ∼110 kyr below the Permian–Triassic boundary, with a duration of ∼25 kyr, followed by deposition of Lung Cam ash Bed + 13, which is equivalent to Siberian Traps volcanism is graphically correlated to a precession Time-series model, placing onset of this major volcanic event at ~242 kyr before the PTB. The Meishan Beds 25 and 26, at ∼100 kyr before the Permian–Triassic boundary. In addition, the elemental geochemical, carbon and oxygen isotope stratigraphy, and magnetostratigraphy susceptibility datasets from Lung Cam allow good correlation to other Permian–Triassic boundary succession. These datasets are helpful when the conodont biostratigraphy is poorly known in sections with problems such as lithofacies variability, or is undefined, owing possibly to lithofacies exclusions, anoxia or for other reasons. The Lung Pu Permian–Triassic boundary section, ∼45 km from Lung Cam, is used to test these problems.

Keywords

Permian–Triassic boundarytime-series analysisstable isotopic analysismagnetic susceptibilityelemental geochemistrygraphic correlation
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Geological Magazine , Volume 157 , Special Issue 1: SPECIAL ISSUE: Commemorating the 155th anniversary of Geological Magazine , January 2020 , pp. 65 - 79
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