Phanerozoic paleotemperatures: The earth's changing climate during the last 540 million years

CR Scotese, H Song, BJW Mills, DG van der Meer - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
This study provides a comprehensive and quantitative estimate of how global temperatures
have changed during the last 540 million years. It combines paleotemperature …

An atlas of Phanerozoic paleogeographic maps: the seas come in and the seas go out

CR Scotese - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Paleogeography is the study of the changing surface of Earth through time. Driven by plate
tectonics, the configuration of the continents and ocean basins has been in constant flux …

[HTML][HTML] Cretaceous sea-surface temperature evolution: Constraints from TEX86 and planktonic foraminiferal oxygen isotopes

CL O'Brien, SA Robinson, RD Pancost… - Earth-Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
It is well established that greenhouse conditions prevailed during the Cretaceous Period (~
145–66 Ma). Determining the exact nature of the greenhouse-gas forcing, climatic warming …

The cretaceous period

AS Gale, J Mutterlose, S Batenburg, FM Gradstein… - Geologic time scale …, 2020 - Elsevier
The breakup of the former Pangea supercontinent culminated in the modern drifting
continents. Increased rifting caused the establishment of the Atlantic Ocean in the middle …

[HTML][HTML] Mid-Cretaceous marine Os isotope evidence for heterogeneous cause of oceanic anoxic events

H Matsumoto, R Coccioni, F Frontalini, K Shirai… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
During the mid-Cretaceous, the Earth experienced several environmental perturbations,
including an extremely warm climate and Oceanic Anoxic Events (OAEs). Submarine …

Glendonites throughout the Phanerozoic

M Rogov, V Ershova, C Gaina, O Vereshchagin… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ikaite is a metastable calcium carbonate hexahydrate (CaCO3· 6H2O), which naturally
occurs in environments characterized by temperatures of− 2 to+ 7° C. It is therefore …

The magnitude and cause of short-term eustatic Cretaceous sea-level change: A synthesis

DC Ray, FSP van Buchem, G Baines, A Davies… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
No consensus currently exists regarding the magnitude of Cretaceous short-term (less than
3 Ma in duration) eustatic sea-level change. The lack of a consensus limits the ability to …

[HTML][HTML] Extinction of fish-shaped marine reptiles associated with reduced evolutionary rates and global environmental volatility

V Fischer, N Bardet, RBJ Benson… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Despite their profound adaptations to the aquatic realm and their apparent success
throughout the Triassic and the Jurassic, ichthyosaurs became extinct roughly 30 million …

[HTML][HTML] Marine Os isotopic evidence for multiple volcanic episodes during Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 1b

H Matsumoto, J Kuroda, R Coccioni, F Frontalini… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Aptian–Albian boundary is marked by one of the major oceanic perturbations
during the Cretaceous, called Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE) 1b. Extensive volcanic episodes …

[HTML][HTML] Database of global glendonite and ikaite records throughout the Phanerozoic

M Rogov, V Ershova, O Vereshchagin… - Earth System …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
This database of Phanerozoic occurrences and isotopic characteristics of metastable cold-
water calcium carbonate hexahydrate (ikaite; CaCO 3· 6H 2 O) and their associated …