Report of the restudy of the defined global stratotype of the base of the Silurian System

Rong Jiayu, Michael J. Melchin, S. Henry Williams, Tatyana N. Koren, Jacques Verniers

Episodes · 2008 · 41 citations · 12 references

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The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Silurian System was defined in 1985. Since that time, a number of researchers have suggested that this section has serious deficiencies for use as a GSSP.

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