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Late Ordovician Reefs and the Biological Crisis at the Ordovician–Silurian Boundary

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Reef formation in the Late Ordovician was relatively widespread in the Sandbian and Katian times. In the late Katian, it gradually reduced and ended in the Hirnantian, before the end… Click to show full abstract

Reef formation in the Late Ordovician was relatively widespread in the Sandbian and Katian times. In the late Katian, it gradually reduced and ended in the Hirnantian, before the end of the Ordovician. In parallel, reef-building skeleton frame-building biota disappeared and was replaced with algae and calcimicrobes.

Keywords: late ordovician; biological crisis; ordovician reefs; crisis ordovician; reefs biological; ordovician silurian

Journal Title: Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation
Year Published: 2018

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