Review of Shabatai by johnbyrnes (0), 21 décembre 2007

Shabatai is a very nice place for coal, if you like coal.   The coal workings are along a narrow north-south zone, and the strata are good for looking for very early (Carboniferous) fossil plants.  [REF:  Coal-bearing strata and flora of Late Carboniferous and Early Permian in the Shabatai area area, Ningxia. Journal of China Coal Society, 23 (5): 461～465].   In 2004, following the work of Sun Keqin and Deng Sheng Hui it was envisaged by some that the Helan Shan areas of Late Carboniferous to Early Permian strata that are rich in plant fossils (especially the Late Carboniferous or Namurian stage) is such a continuous profile, and the evolutionary trends of the flora taxa so clear, that it could be a type or reference section for all the people who study such early plant evolution.  One fossil student even remarked remarked "I believe that Helan Mountain area can be regarded as the origin of Chinese flora Center".