Changing components, rock textures, lithofacies, platform types and architecture throughout
time are unique characteristics of carbonate rocks. Characterizing these attributes has been …

The early Paleogene experienced the most pronounced long-term warming trend of the
Cenozoic, superimposed by transient warming events such as the Paleocene–Eocene …

The PaleoReefs Database indicates that reef abundance increased profoundly during the
Triassic period, from a pronounced low in the Early Triassic to a major peak in the Norian …

Coralline red algae are common in Oligocene and Miocene marine shallow‐water
carbonate and siliciclastic rocks, as well as deep‐water re‐deposited sediments containing …

Platform carbonates are a major component of the Earth system, but their spatial distribution
through geological times is difficult to reconstruct, due to the incompleteness of geological …

ABSTRACT Late Paleozoic to Liassic reefs and shelf carbonates, forming at the time of
accretion and dispersal of Pangea, are specific because of the frequency of reef types other …

We distinguish three different stages in the evolution of the Tithonian (Late Jurassic) to
Aptian (Early Cretaceous) northern Tethyan carbonate platform:(1) carbonate production in …

Roughly 240 million years ago (Ma), scleractinian corals rapidly expanded and diversified
across shallow marine environments. The main driver behind this evolution is uncertain, but …

▪ Abstract Many groups of extinct and extant organisms have aggregated to form reefs for
over 3.5 billion yr (Ga). Most of these communities, however, grew under ecological and …

Following the major mass extinctions at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, reef ecosystems
slowly recovered and scleractinian corals appeared progressively as the most efficient …