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摘要

The Permianwas one of the feathers in Roderick Murchison’srnstratigraphic ‘cap’. It was in 1841 that he, with a littlernhelp from his friends and collaborators, applied the namern‘Permian System’ to the ‘vast series of beds of marls,rnschists, limestones, sandstones and conglomerates’ thatrnoverlie Carboniferous strata across a vast area of EuropeanrnRussia west of the Urals from the Caspian in the south to thernWhite Sea in the north. He named Permian after the regionalrncapital Perm.