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Devonian Frasnian-Famennian transitional event deposits of Guangxi, South China and their possible tsunami origin

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A suite of event deposits, isochronous and interrelated in origin, occurs widely near the Frasnian-Famennian boundary in Guangxi, South China. It is mainly distributed in the facies areas of the platform-margin slope and inter-platform rift-trough. The rudstone or calcirudite occur in the Liujing section of Hengxian and Luoxiu and Baqi sections of Xiangzhou in the facies area of platform-margin slope. The turbidites are observed in the sections of Yangdi and Baisha of Guilin, Du’an of Debao, Nandong and Sanli of Wuxuan, Xiangtian, Ma’anshan of Xiangzhou, Nayi of Chongzuo, Yunpan of Shanglin in the facies area of inter-platform rift-trough. The massive homogenites occur in sections of Mangchang, Luofu and Road from Nandan to Tian’e and Ma’anshan etc in the facies area of inter-platform rift-trough. Herein event deposits can be correlated in stratohorizon to the turbidite in the bottom of the Lower triangularis Zone in Hony railroad cut of Belgium, Devils Gate of Nevada, USA, Atrous of Morocco, South Urals and Fore-Kolyma of northeastern Siberia of Russia, and erosional discontinuities and brecciation in the Frasnian-Famennian boundary in South Polish-Moravian shelf. The event deposits could be caused by a violent tsunami related to bolide impacts into ocean.

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Du, Y., Gong, Y., Zeng, X. et al. Devonian Frasnian-Famennian transitional event deposits of Guangxi, South China and their possible tsunami origin. Sci. China Ser. D-Earth Sci. 51, 1570–1580 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-008-0117-1

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