The Great Oxidation Event (GOE) is one of the most significant changes in seawater and
atmospheric chemistry in Earth history. This rise in oxygen occurred between ca. 2.4 and 2.3 …

This paper reviews the state of the art in the concept as well as in the application of sediment
budgets in sedimentary research. Sediments are a product of mass dispersal at the Earth …

Abstract Ten Barnett Shale lithofacies have been recognized in a 223-ft (68-m)-long core
from Johnson County, Texas. Eight of these lithofacies match those previously identified in …

The degree to which Permo-Carboniferous cyclothemic successions archive evidence for
long-term variations in ice volume during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age is insufficiently …

The sequence-bounding unconformity bears the key defining traits of being “a surface
separating younger from older strata, along which there is evidence of subaerial erosional …

A high-resolution chemostratigraphic study of a 24-m-thick section at West Blind Fiord on
Ellesmere Island (Canadian Arctic) documents stepwise environmental deterioration in the …

This paper is the final description of the Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point
(GSSP) for the base of the Carnian Stage after its ratification in the Spring of 2008 by the …

The origin of a large field of sand ridges offshore from the north Jiangsu coast in the South
Yellow Sea has been investigated on the basis of bathymetry, seabed samples, high …

Laterally extensive outcrops in south-central Utah of the Turonian Ferron Notom Delta
Complex and its bounding shales contain numerous chronometrically age-dated bentonite …

The Upper Cretaceous paralic to nonmarine Horseshoe Canyon Formation (HCFm) of
southern Alberta is divided into seven mappable members: Strathmore, Drumheller …