From Snowball Earth to the Cambrian Explosion - PDU2 Adelaide 2016

From Snowball Earth to the Cambrian Explosion: recent research advances from China

Prof. Maoyan ZHU
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, PR China
Tuesday 12 July, 9:00 am – Cambrian

Title: "From Snowball Earth to the Cambrian Explosion: recent research advances from China"

Maoyan is a research professor at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS). He studied geology at the Changchun College of Geology and received his PhD in 1992 from NIGPAS. He was elected as an international corresponding member of the Academy of Science Göttingen, voting member of the International Subcommissions on Cambrian Stratigraphy (ISCS) and Ediacaran Stratigraphy (ISES), and chairman of the International Working Group on the Terreneuvian Series and Fortunian Stage (ISCS). His research interests have been in the area of the origin and early evolution of animals, focusing on Neoproterozoic and Cambrian palaeobiology, stratigraphy, sedimentology and palaeoenvironments.

Abstract: The Cryogenian to Cambrian time interval (720-520 Ma) records a critical transition in the evolutionary history of the Earth-Life system, which is marked by an extreme climatic event, the ‘snowball earth’, at the beginning; and a remarkable life evolutionary event, the ‘Cambrian explosion’, at the end. Successive, well exposed late Neoproterozoic to early Cambrian strata of South China, which yield numbers of extraordinarily well preserved fossil lagerstätten, provide invaluable information to unravel the evolutionary progress of the Earth-Life system during this critical interval. The talk will summarise recent research highlights in this field based on data from South China.

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