PERMIAN-TRIASSIC MICROBIALITES FROM EASTERN SICHUAN PROVINCE AND CHONGQING  SAR

This page authored by Steve Kershaw


This page gives details of earliest Triassic microbialites in Sichuan province and Chongqing SAR. The map below redrawn from Kershaw et al. (1999) shows localities for which there are details available.


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CREDITS:

Work in this area involved the following: Steve KERSHAW, MU Xinan, LI Yue, GUO Li, Andrew SWIFT, FAN Jiasong.

Additional essential field assistance and logistic support from GUO Yi, GUO Yong and WANG Hongbo.

Summary geological map of eastern Sichuan & Chongqing

CLICK ON THE NAMES BELOW TO GO TO LOCALITY PAGES

Local geology of Gaodingshan anticline located NE of Huaying City. It is a NNE-plunging anticline, around the nose of which are good microbialite exposures.