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Journal of Earth Science Vol Guest Editors: Zhong-Qiang Chen and Mao Luo Contents April 2018 Journal of Earth Science Vol. 29 No. 4 Special Volume on Permian and Triassic Worlds: A Thematic Issue Delicated to Professor Zunyi Yang’s 110th Anniversary Great Paleozoic-Mesozoic Biotic Turnings and Paleontological Education in China: A Tribute to the Achievements of Professor Zunyi Yang……………………………………………………………………………721 Zhong-Qiang Chen, Laishi Zhao, Xiangdong Wang, Mao Luo and Zhen Guo Final Results and Recommendations of the Last 10 Years IGCP 572 and 630 Field Workshops in South Turkey, Oman, India (Kashmir), and Armenia…………………………………………………………………………………………………733 Aymon Baud Sequence Stratigraphic Model of Middle Permian Barakar Formation from a Marginal Gondwana Basin, India…………………745 Joyjit Dey and Souvik Sen Correlation of Lopingian to Middle Triassic Palynozones……………………………………………………………………………755 Hendrik Nowak, Elke Schneebeli-Hermann and Evelyn Kustatscher Permian–Triassic Charophytes: Distribution, Biostratigraphy and Biotic Events…………………………………………………778 Spencer G Lucas A Griesbachian (Early Triassic) Mollusc Fauna from the Sidazhai Section, Southwest China, with Paleoecological Insights on the Proliferation of Genus Claraia (Bivalvia)……………………………………………………794 Yunfei Huang, Jinnan Tong and Margaret L Fraiser Western Tethyan Epeiric Ramp Setting in the Early Triassic: An Example from the Central Dinarides (Croatia)…………………806 Dunja Aljinović, Micha Horacek, Leopold Krystyn, Sylvain Richoz, Tea Kolar-Jurkovšek, Duje Smirčić and Bogdan Jurkovšek A Taxonomic Re-Assessment of the Novispathodus waageni Group and Its Role in Defining the Base of the Olenekian (Lower Triassic)……………………………………………………………………824 Zhengyi Lyu, Michael J Orchard, Zhong-Qiang Chen, Laishi Zhao, Lei Zhang and Xiumei Zhang Nitrogen and Carbon Isotope Data of Olenekian to Anisian Deposits from Kamenushka/South Primorye, Far-Eastern Russia and Their Palaeoenvironmental Significance……………………………………………………………………837 Yuri D Zakharov, Micha Horacek, Alexander M Popov and Liana G Bondarenko Palaeoecological Analysis of Trace Fossil Sinusichnus sinuosus from the Middle Triassic Guanling Formation in Southwestern China…………………………………………………………………………………………854 Mao Luo, Yi-Ming Gong, G. R. Shi, Zhong-Qiang Chen, Jinyuan Huang, Shixue Hu, Xueqian Feng, Qiyue Zhang, Changyong Zhou and Wen Wen Stratigraphic Definition and Correlation of Middle Triassic Volcaniclastic Facies in the External Dinarides: Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina…………………………………………………………………………………………………864 Duje Smirčić, Tea Kolar-Jurkovšek, Dunja Aljinović, Uroš Barudžija, Bogdan Jurkovšek and Hazim Hrvatović Paleoecological Response of Corals to the End-Triassic Mass Extinction: An Integrational Analysis………………………………879 George D Stanley Jr Upper Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) Radiolarians and Ostracods from the Hulo Formation, Zhejiang Provicnce, South China……………………………………………………………………………………………………886 Yuhao Yi, Aihua Yuan, Jonathan C Aitchison and Qinglai Feng The Upper Ordovician Microfossil Assemblages from the Pagoda Formation in Zigui, Hubei Province……………………………900 Ke Zhang, Aihua Yuan and Qinglai Feng New Siliceous Microfossils from the Terreneuvian (Cambrian) Yanjiahe Formation, South China: The Possible Earliest Radiolarian Fossil Record……………………………………………………………………………………912 Shan Chang, Qinglai Feng and Lei Zhang *********************************************************************************************************** U-Pb Geochronology, Elemental and Sr-Nd Isotopic Geochemistry of the Houyaoyu Granite Porphyries: Implication for the Genesis of Early Cretaceous Felsic Intrusions in East Qinling…………………………………………………920 Xiaohu He, Hong Zhong, Zhifang Zhao, Shucheng Tan, Weiguang Zhu, Siqi Yang, Wenjun Hu, Zhong Tang and Congfa Bao Petrogenesis and Ore Genesis of the Late Yanshanian Granites and Associated Porphyry-Skarn W-Mo Deposits from the Yunkai Area of South China: Evidence from the Zircon U-Pb Ages, Hf Isotopes and Sulfide S-Fe Isotopes……………………939 Xinyu Wang, Zhen Yang, Nengsong Chen and Rui Liu Two-Dimensional Ground Deformation Monitoring in Shanghai Based on SBAS and MSBAS InSAR Methods…………………960 Shaochun Dong, Sergey Samsonov, Hongwei Yin and Lulu Huang Temporal and Spatial Variations of Microbial Carbon Utilization in Water Bodies from the Dajiuhu Peatland, Central China…………………………………………………………………………………………………969 Rui-Cheng Wang, Hong-Mei Wang, Xing Xiang, Yu Gao, Qing-Wei Song and Lin-Feng Gong Cover: This image shows complicated burrow systems of ichnofossil Rhizocorallium commune var. irregular, which was collected from the Anisian (Middle Triassic) succession of the Shizong area, eastern Yunnan Province, SW China (Photo/Zhong-Qiang Chen). .
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