| Abstract: | In light of the principle of sequence stratigraphy, detailed analysis of depositionalsequences and systematical carbon isotope measurements were done for the Triticites zone ofthe typical Late Carboniferous section in the Dushan area of southern Guizhou. Two sequencesand seventeen parasequences, which can be correlated with the two sequences and seventeensubsequences in the North American Midcontinent, are distinguished in the Gzhelian, whichprovides convincing evidence of the global synchroneity of the depositional records. The inter-nal relations between carbon isotope evolution and eustasy were studied and the evolutionarycharacteristics of carbon isotopes in depositional sequences have been summarized. |
