Intensifying aeolian activity following the end Permian mass extinction: Evidence from the Late Permian-Early Triassic terrestrial sedimentary record of the Ordos Basin, North China,Sedimentology

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Intensifying aeolian activity following the end Permian mass extinction: Evidence from the Late Permian-Early Triassic terrestrial sedimentary record of the Ordos Basin, North China
Sedimentology ( IF 2.6 ) Pub Date : 2020-04-12 , DOI: 10.1111/sed.12716
Zhicai Zhu ₁ , Hongwei Kuang ₁ , Yongqing Liu ₁ , Michael J. Benton ₂ , Andrew J. Newell ₃ , Huan Xu ₄ , Wei An ₅ , Shu'an Ji ₁ , Shichao Xu ₆ , Nan Peng ₁ , Qingguo Zhai ₁

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Sedimentary successions provide direct evidence of climate and tectonics, and these give clues about the causes of the mass extinction around the Permian–Triassic boundary. Terrestrial Permian–Triassic boundary strata in the eastern Ordos Basin, North China, include the Late Permian Sunjiagou, Early Triassic Liujiagou and late Early Triassic Heshanggou formations in ascending order. The Sunjiagou Formation comprises cross-bedded sandstones overlaid by mudstones, indicating meandering rivers with channel, point bar and floodplain deposits. The Liujiagou Formation was formed in braided rivers of arid sand bars interacting with some aeolian dune deposits, distinguished by abundant sandstones where diverse trough and planar cross-bedding and aeolian structures (for example, inverse climbing-ripple, translatent-ripple lamination, grainfall and grainflow laminations) interchange vertically and laterally. The Heshanggou Formation is a rhythmic succession of mudstones interbedded with thin medium-grained sandstones mainly deposited in a shallow lacustrine environment. Overall, the sharp meandering to braided to shallow lake sedimentary transition documents palaeoenvironmental changes from semi-arid to arid and then to semi-humid conditions across the Permian–Triassic boundary. The die-off of tetrapods and plants, decreased bioturbation levels in the uppermost Sunjiagou Formation, and the bloom of microbially-induced sedimentary structures in the Liujiagou Formation marks the mass extinction around the Permian–Triassic boundary. The disappearance of microbially-induced sedimentary structures, increasingly intense bioturbation from bottom to top and the reoccurrence of reptile footprints in the Heshanggou Formation reveal gradual recovery of the ecosystem after the Permian–Triassic boundary extinction. This study is the first to identify the intensification of aeolian activity following the end-Permian mass extinction in North China. Moreover, while northern North China continued to be uplifted tectonically from the Late Palaeozoic to Late Mesozoic, the switch of sedimentary patterns across the Permian–Triassic boundary in Shanxi is largely linked to the development of an arid and subsequently semi-humid climate condition, which probably directly affected the collapse and delayed recovery in palaeoecosystems. 2691 © 2020 The Authors. Sedimentology © 2020 International Association of Sedimentologists Sedimentology (2020) 67, 2691–2720 doi: 10.1111/sed.12716

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