Reply to Yin, J. Comment on “Zhang et al. New Age Constraints of the Bilong Co Oil Shale in the Qiangtang Basin, Northern Tibet: Evidence from In Situ U–Pb Dating and Palaeontology. Minerals 2024, 14, 246”

Zhang, Haowei; Wang, Jian; Mansour, Ahmed; Zhang, Jianyong; Wei, Hengye; Fu, Xiugen; Shen, Lijun; Xiong, Shaoyun; Ahmed, Mohamed S.; Gentzis, Thomas; Mu, Lin

doi:10.3390/min14080789

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Reply to Yin, J. Comment on “Zhang et al. New Age Constraints of the Bilong Co Oil Shale in the Qiangtang Basin, Northern Tibet: Evidence from In Situ U–Pb Dating and Palaeontology. Minerals 2024, 14, 246”

by

Haowei Zhang

^1,2,

Jian Wang

^1,2,3,*,

Ahmed Mansour

^1,2,4

,

Jianyong Zhang

⁵,

Hengye Wei

^1,2,

Xiugen Fu

^1,2,3,

Lijun Shen

^1,2,

Shaoyun Xiong

⁵,

Mohamed S. Ahmed

⁶

,

Thomas Gentzis

^7,*

and

Lin Mu

^8,*

¹

School of Geoscience and Technology, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, China

²

Qiangtang Institute of Sedimentary Basin, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, China

³

National Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610050, China

⁴

Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Minia University, Minia 61519, Egypt

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Key Laboratory of Carbonate Reservoirs, CNPC, Hangzhou 310023, China

⁶

Geology and Geophysics Department, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia

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Core Laboratories, 6316 Windfern Road, Houston, TX 77040, USA

⁸

Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS, Nanjing 210008, China

^*

Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Minerals 2024, 14(8), 789; https://doi.org/10.3390/min14080789

Submission received: 17 July 2024 / Accepted: 26 July 2024 / Published: 31 July 2024

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Abstract

The comment by Yin (2024) referred to the systematic morphology and identification of the newly recovered in situ ammonite assemblage Tiltoniceras sp. and Hildoceratidae sp. from the Bilong Co section in the Qiangtang Basin. Yin (2024) suggests that Tiltoniceras sp. should be assigned to Oxycerites aspidoides. Upon re-examination of our paper and the reply to the released comment, it is demonstrated that the morphologic characteristics of the recovered ammonites are more consistent with Tiltoniceras rather than Oxycerites aspidoides. These ammonites, along with in situ calcite U–Pb age (ca. 181 Ma), carbon isotope stratigraphy, and age-diagnostic palynomorphs, constrain the age of the Bilong Co oil shale to the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) with plausible credentials.

Keywords: ammonite biostratigraphy; oil shales; Quse Formation; Early Jurassic; Tibetan Plateau

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Zhang, H.; Wang, J.; Mansour, A.; Zhang, J.; Wei, H.; Fu, X.; Shen, L.; Xiong, S.; Ahmed, M.S.; Gentzis, T.; et al. Reply to Yin, J. Comment on “Zhang et al. New Age Constraints of the Bilong Co Oil Shale in the Qiangtang Basin, Northern Tibet: Evidence from In Situ U–Pb Dating and Palaeontology. Minerals 2024, 14, 246”. Minerals 2024, 14, 789. https://doi.org/10.3390/min14080789

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Zhang H, Wang J, Mansour A, Zhang J, Wei H, Fu X, Shen L, Xiong S, Ahmed MS, Gentzis T, et al. Reply to Yin, J. Comment on “Zhang et al. New Age Constraints of the Bilong Co Oil Shale in the Qiangtang Basin, Northern Tibet: Evidence from In Situ U–Pb Dating and Palaeontology. Minerals 2024, 14, 246”. Minerals. 2024; 14(8):789. https://doi.org/10.3390/min14080789

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Zhang, Haowei, Jian Wang, Ahmed Mansour, Jianyong Zhang, Hengye Wei, Xiugen Fu, Lijun Shen, Shaoyun Xiong, Mohamed S. Ahmed, Thomas Gentzis, and et al. 2024. "Reply to Yin, J. Comment on “Zhang et al. New Age Constraints of the Bilong Co Oil Shale in the Qiangtang Basin, Northern Tibet: Evidence from In Situ U–Pb Dating and Palaeontology. Minerals 2024, 14, 246”" Minerals 14, no. 8: 789. https://doi.org/10.3390/min14080789

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Zhang, H., Wang, J., Mansour, A., Zhang, J., Wei, H., Fu, X., Shen, L., Xiong, S., Ahmed, M. S., Gentzis, T., & Mu, L. (2024). Reply to Yin, J. Comment on “Zhang et al. New Age Constraints of the Bilong Co Oil Shale in the Qiangtang Basin, Northern Tibet: Evidence from In Situ U–Pb Dating and Palaeontology. Minerals 2024, 14, 246”. Minerals, 14(8), 789. https://doi.org/10.3390/min14080789

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