Tectonic-driven climate change and the diversification of angiosperms

AC Chaboureau, P Sepulchre… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
In 1879, Charles Darwin characterized the sudden and unexplained rise of angiosperms
during the Cretaceous as an “abominable mystery.” The diversification of this clade marked …

Comprehensive stable isotope investigation of marine biogenic apatite from the late Cretaceous–early Eocene phosphate series of Morocco

L Kocsis, E Gheerbrant, M Mouflih, H Cappetta… - Palaeogeography …, 2014 - Elsevier
Fossil biogenic apatites were studied for their geochemical composition across the late
Cretaceous–early Eocene Moroccan phosphate series in the Ouled Abdoun and Ganntour …

Sea surface temperature contributes to marine crocodylomorph evolution

JE Martin, R Amiot, C Lécuyer, MJ Benton - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract During the Mesozoic and Cenozoic, four distinct crocodylomorph lineages
colonized the marine environment. They were conspicuously absent from high latitudes …

[PDF][PDF] 6.13–Greenhouse Climates

M Pagani, M Huber, B Sageman - Treatise Geochem, 2014 - people.earth.yale.edu
The state of Earth's climate, viewed dimly through bits of dirt and bone, appears to have
waxed and waned, shifted and flipped, since the start of its long history. Celestial, tectonic …

Oxygen isotope composition of vertebrate phosphates from Cherves-de-Cognac (Berriasian, France): environmental and ecological significance

J Pouech, R Amiot, C Lecuyer, JM Mazin… - Palaeogeography …, 2014 - Elsevier
The European record of continental vertebrates during the Earliest Cretaceous (Berriasian)
is usually based on accumulation assemblages in littoral localities where faunas of various …

A 100 Myr history of the carbon cycle based on the 400 kyr cycle in marine δ13C benthic records

D Paillard, Y Donnadieu - Paleoceanography, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Documenting the past coevolution of Earth temperatures and of the carbon cycle is of
paramount importance for our understanding of climate dynamics. Atmospheric CO2 is well …

Geographically different oceanographic responses to global warming during the Cenomanian–Turonian interval and Oceanic Anoxic Event 2

DJ Thomas, DS Tilghman - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE) 2 coincided with the Cenomanian–Turonian
boundary~ 93.9 Ma, and was one of the two most prominent and globally significant of the …

Controls on reservoir quality in Early Cretaceous carbonate oil fields and implications for basin modelling

DT Thorpe - 2014 - era.ed.ac.uk
Carbonate reservoirs hold more than 50% of Earth's remaining conventional hydrocarbon.
However, recovery from these reservoirs is notoriously difficult due to the complex and …

[引用][C] A 100 Myr history of the carbon cycle based on the 400 kyr cycle in marine δ13C benthic records, Paleoceanography, 29, doi: 10.1002/2014PA002693

D Paillard, Y Donnadieu - Received, 2014