Upper Permian-Middle Triassic sections in Youjiang basin contain many volcanic tuff horizons. Zircon LA-ICP-MS U-Pb dating of 4 volcanic tuff samples from the bottom of the Luolou and Baifeng formations in the Jiuxu and Lizhou areas, Guangxi indicate that episodical volcanism occurred during Middle Permian Gudalupian and Middle Triassic Bithynian in southwestern