The rise and fall of the Cretaceous Hot Greenhouse climate

BT Huber, KG MacLeod, DK Watkins… - Global and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
A compilation of foraminiferal stable isotope measurements from southern high latitude
(SHL) deep-sea sites provides a novel perspective important for understanding Earth's …

An early Cambrian greenhouse climate

TW Hearing, THP Harvey, M Williams, MJ Leng… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
The oceans of the early Cambrian (~ 541 to 509 million years ago) were the setting for a
marked diversification of animal life. However, sea temperatures—a key component of the …

Evaluating Late Cretaceous OAEs and the influence of marine incursions on organic carbon burial in an expansive East Asian paleo-lake

MM Jones, DE Ibarra, Y Gao, BB Sageman… - Earth and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Expansive Late Cretaceous lacustrine deposits of East Asia offer unique
stratigraphic records to better understand regional responses to global climate events, such …

Export Depth of the TEX86 Signal

YG Zhang, X Liu - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
TEX86 is widely used for evaluating ancient ocean temperatures. However, the debate on
the export depth of the TEX86 signal in the water column has not been settled …

Late Maastrichtian carbon isotope stratigraphy and cyclostratigraphy of the Newfoundland Margin (Site U1403, IODP Expedition 342)

SJ Batenburg, O Friedrich, K Moriya… - Newsletters on …, 2018 - oro.open.ac.uk
Earth's climate during the Maastrichtian (latest Cretaceous) was punctuated by brief
warming and cooling episodes, accompanied by perturbations of the global carbon cycle …

Seismic stratigraphy of a Lower Cretaceous prograding carbonate platform (Oman) and implications for the eustatic sea-level curve

E Dujoncquoy, C Grélaud, P Razin… - AAPG …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT The Lower Cretaceous of northern Oman consists of a large carbonate platform
that prograded over a distance of 280 km (174 mi) in approximately 23 my The seismic …

Nitrogen cycle dynamics in the Late Cretaceous Greenhouse

CK Junium, SR Meyers, MA Arthur - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2018 - Elsevier
Great attention has been paid to the origin of anomalously low nitrogen isotope values
during the Late Cretaceous. Nitrogen isotope values are often as low as− 3‰ and are …

Turonian sea level and paleoclimatic events in astronomically tuned records from the Tropical North Atlantic and Western Interior Seaway

MM Jones, BB Sageman… - Paleoceanography and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Multiple hiatuses punctuate the Middle to Upper Turonian Substages of the Western Interior
Basin (WIB, USA), interrupting an otherwise highly resolved and relatively conformable …

The Cenomanian–Turonian transition in the carbonate platform facies of the Western Saharan Atlas (Rhoundjaïa formation, Algeria)

M Benadla, M Reolid, A Marok, N El Kamali - Journal of Iberian Geology, 2018 - Springer
Microfacies, fossil macroinvertebrates and microfossil assemblages (foraminifera and
ostracods) and δ 13 C from the Rhoundjaïa Formation (Ksour Mountains, Western Saharan …

High-resolution chronostratigraphy of palaeoecologic and isotopic changes in shallow-marine carbonates: deciphering the completeness of the Aptian record in the …

R Graziano, A Raspini - Cretaceous Research, 2018 - Elsevier
We present here a companions study dealing with the chemostratigraphy, palaeocology,
chronostratigraphy and palaeoclimate of the upper Barremian-lower Aptian in the Mt. Faito …