Early Cretaceous climate for the southern Tethyan Ocean: Insights from the geochemical and paleoecological analyses of extinct cephalopods

T Wang, R Hoffmann, S He, Q Zhang, G Li… - Global and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Reconstructing temperatures of ancient oceans is important for understanding Earth's
climate in deep time. Belemnites have been used widely to estimate Mesozoic seawater …

[HTML][HTML] The late Eocene rise of SE Tibet formed an Asian 'Mediterranean'climate

C Zhao, Z Xiong, A Farnsworth, RA Spicer, S He… - Global and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Southeastern (SE) Tibet forms the transition zone between the high interior Tibetan Plateau
and the lowlands of southwest China. So understanding the elevation history of SE Tibet, a …

Absolute age and temperature of belemnite rostra: Constraints on the Early Cretaceous cooling event

T Wang, P Yang, S He, R Hoffmann, Q Zhang… - Global and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Assessing the climatic perturbations during the Cretaceous when atmospheric CO 2 levels
were high is critical for understanding the nature of environmental responses to greenhouse …

Were Late Jurassic climatic fluctuations responses to Pangea breakup? Evidence from isotopic analyses of belemnite rostra from the eastern Tethyan Ocean

T Wang, S He, Y Chen, JC Aitchison… - Geological …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Late Jurassic paleogeographic patterns were influenced by the growth of the Pacific plate
and the breakup of Pangea, impacting the global paleoclimate during this warm and …

Late Jurassic to early Cretaceous radiolarian faunas from Changku, Gyangze, southern Tibet: Implications for the evolution of the Neo-Tethys

W Zhang, G Li, X Ma, T Wang, F Xiong, Y Li… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2024 - Elsevier
Radiolarians found in siliceous sediments within the Yarlung-Tsangpo Suture Zone in
southern Tibet contain valuable geochronological and tectonic information for the evolution …

Sedimentary deposits and bioturbation in an Early Cretaceous subarctic stormy greenhouse shelf environment

S Leszczyński, MJ Warchoł, W Nemec - Environmental Earth Sciences, 2023 - Springer
This study of the Aptian lower part of the Carolinefjellet Formation in Svalbard, Norwegian
high Arctic, is based on well cores and outcrop section in the Adventdalen area of …

The response to and rejection of Brian Ford's Too Big to Walk, a 21st century effort to reinstate the aquatic dinosaur hypothesis

D Naish - Historical Biology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In magazine articles, a BBC Radio 4 interview and the book Too Big To Walk, Brian Ford
argued that the dinosaurs of the Mesozoic were not adapted for terrestrial life, but were …

Linking high-frequency lacustrine sequences to orbitally-induced cyclicity (Lower Cretaceous, Iberian Basin)

N Illueca, CL Liesa, AR Soria - Geologica acta, 2024 - ddd.uab.cat
The lacustrine El Castellar Formation in the Castillo de Aliaga section (Early Cretaceous
Galve sub-basin, eastern Spain) features two carbonate successions of marl and limestone …