Age and Paleoenvironmental Significance of the Frazer Beach Member—A New Lithostratigraphic Unit Overlying the End-Permian Extinction Horizon in the Sydney Basin, Australia

Age and Paleoenvironmental Significance of the Frazer Beach Member—A New Lithostratigraphic Unit Overlying the End-Permian Extinction Horizon in the Sydney Basin, Australia

The newly defined Frazer Beach Member of the Moon Island Beach Formation is identified widely across the Sydney Basin in both outcrop and exploration wells. This thin unit was deposited immediately after extinction of the Glossopteris flora (defining the terrestrial end-Permian extinction event). Th...

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Main Authors: Stephen McLoughlin, Robert S. Nicoll, James L. Crowley, Vivi Vajda, Chris Mays, Christopher R. Fielding, Tracy D. Frank, Alexander Wheeler, Malcolm Bocking
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Earth Science
Subjects:
Permian‐Triassic
mass extinction
CA-IDTIMS
plant fossils
palynology
fluvial sedimentology
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2020.600976/full

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