A review of calcareous nannofossil astrobiochronology encompassing the past 25 million years

I Raffi, J Backman, E Fornaciari, H Pälike, D Rio… - Quaternary Science …, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper presents a review of (astrobiochronological) calibration of Recent to late
Oligocene calcareous nannofossil datum events. Biohorizons included in the paper are …

A revised Cenozoic geochronology and chronostratigraphy

WA Berggren, DV Kent, CC Swisher, MP Aubry - 1995 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Since the publication of our previous time scale (Berggren and others, 1985c= BKFV85) a
large amount of new magneto-and biostratigraphic data and radioisotopic ages have …

Biozonation and biochronology of Miocene through Pleistocene calcareous nannofossils from low and middle latitudes

J Backman, I Raffi, D Rio, E Fornaciari… - Newsletters on …, 2012 - diva-portal.org
Calcareous nannofossils are widely used in Cenozoic marine biostratigraphy. At present,
the two most widely used calcareous nannofossil biozonations were established …

[PDF][PDF] Neogene nannofossils

JR Young - Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy, 1998 - researchgate.net
The Neogene comprises the Miocene and Pliocene, that is the 22 million years of earth
history between the Oligocene and Pleistocene. Throughout this interval nannofossils …

Paleoceanographic perturbations and the marine carbonate system during the middle to late Miocene carbonate crash—a critical review

I Preiss-Daimler, SD Zarkogiannis, G Kontakiotis… - Geosciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
This study intends to review and assess the middle to late Miocene Carbonate Crash (CC)
events in the low to mid latitudes of the Pacific, Indian, Caribbean and Atlantic Oceans as …

Revised technique for calculation of calcareous nannofossil accumulation rates

JA Flores, FJ Sierro - Micropaleontology, 1997 - JSTOR
A rapid and easy settling technique designed to estimate quantitative abundances of
calcareous nannofossils is described. Compared with other methods, the time spent in …

The Abad composite (SE Spain): a Messinian reference section for the Mediterranean and the APTS

FJ Sierro, FJ Hilgen, W Krijgsman, JA Flores - Palaeogeography …, 2001 - Elsevier
A high-resolution integrated stratigraphy is presented for the Abad marls of the Sorbas and
Nijar basins in SE Spain (pre-evaporitic Messinian of the Western Mediterranean). Detailed …

The latest Miocene–early Pliocene biogenic bloom: a revised Indian Ocean perspective

GR Dickens, RM Owen - Marine Geology, 1999 - Elsevier
Numerous investigations of Neogene sediment sequences from the Indian and Pacific
Oceans have led to a paleoceanographic hypothesis that recently has been coined the …

The last 100,000 years in the western Mediterranean: sea surface water and frontal dynamics as revealed by coccolithophores

JA Flores, FJ Sierro, G Francés, A Vázquez… - Marine …, 1997 - Elsevier
A quantitative analysis was carried out on coccolith assemblages from two Pleistocene
cores (K1 and K10) from the western Mediterranean. The distribution of selected …

Late Miocene calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and astrobiochronology for the Mediterranean region

I Raffi, C Mozzato, E Fornaciari… - …, 2003 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Results are presented of a quantitative biostratigraphic study of the calcareous nannofossils
from the upper Miocene Metochia section (Gavdos Island, Greece) located in the eastern …