• journal_title：Geology
• Contributor：Matthew R. Saltzman ; Alexa R.C. Sedlacek
• Publisher：Geological Society of America
• Date：2013-04-01
• Format：text/html
• Language：en
• Identifier：10.1130/G33906.1
• journal_abbrev：Geology
• issn：0091-7613
• volume：41
• issue：4
• firstpage：399
• section：Articles

Although the latest Permian mass extinction and associated δ¹³C excursion are well documented from the Tethys Ocean, carbonate rocks preserving these events in the eastern Panthalassic Ocean (western Pangea) are unknown. We present δ¹³C_carb from the Gerster and Thaynes (Permian and Triassic) Formations in the western United States and document a negative excursion with no evidence for major breaks in continuity. To further constrain the age of the δ¹³C_carb excursion in the absence of index fossils, we analyzed the same samples for ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr. When examining our new carbon and Sr data in the context of biostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy, we conclude that parts of the western United States may preserve carbonate successions that span the latest Permian extinction.