Warm tropical ocean surface and global anoxia during the mid-Cretaceous period

PA Wilson, RD Norris - Nature, 2001 - nature.com
The middle of the Cretaceous period (about 120 to 80 Myr ago) was a time of unusually
warm polar temperatures, repeated reef-drowning in the tropics and a series of oceanic …

Plio-Pleistocene palaeogeography of the southern North Sea basin (3.75-0.60 Ma)

BM Funnell - Quaternary Science Reviews, 1996 - Elsevier
Palaeogeographical maps are presented for the southern North Sea basin, from
approximately 1° W to 7° E, and 51–55° N, for the period from approximately 3.75-0.60 Ma …

Astronomical calibration of the Paleocene time

T Westerhold, U Röhl, I Raffi, E Fornaciari… - Palaeogeography …, 2008 - Elsevier
The first complete cyclic sedimentary successions for the early Paleogene from drilling
multiple holes have been retrieved during two ODP expeditions: Leg 198 (Shatsky Rise, NW …

New techniques in sediment core analysis: an introduction

RG Rothwell, FR Rack - Geological Society, London, Special …, 2006 - lyellcollection.org
Marine sediment cores are the fundamental data source for information on seabed
character, depositional history and environmental change. They provide raw data for a wide …

[PDF][PDF] A new late Neogene time scale: application to Leg 138 sites

NJ Shackleton, S Crowhurst, T Hagelberg… - Proc. ODP, Sci …, 1995 - www-odp.tamu.edu
The sediments recovered during Leg 138 provide a remarkable opportunity to improve the
geological time scale of the late Neogene. We have developed new time scales in the …

Fe–Ni–Co–O–S phase relations in peridotite–seawater interactions

F Klein, W Bach - Journal of Petrology, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Serpentinization of abyssal peridotites is known to produce extremely reducing conditions
as a result of dihydrogen (H2, aq) release upon oxidation of ferrous iron in primary phases to …

[PDF][PDF] A review of CORK designs and operations during the Ocean Drilling Program

K Becker, EE Davis - Proc. IODP| Volume, 2004 - iodp.tamu.edu
This paper provides a review of 1989–2003 designs and operations of the 20 Circulation
Obviation Retrofit Kit (CORK) long-term subseafloor hydrogeological observatories installed …

Timing and nature of the deepening of the Tasmanian Gateway

CE Stickley, H Brinkhuis, SA Schellenberg… - …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Tectonic changes that produced a deep Tasmanian Gateway between Australia and
Antarctica are widely invoked as the major mechanism for Antarctic cryosphere growth and …

Timing and origin of the South Atlantic pre-salt sag basins and their capping evaporites

GD Karner, LAP Gambôa - Geological Society, London, Special …, 2007 - lyellcollection.org
Abstract Continental extension between West Africa and Brazil was responsible, directly or
indirectly, for the development of the pre-salt sag basins and the evaporites of the South …

On the duration of magnetochrons C24r and C25n and the timing of early Eocene global warming events: Implications from the Ocean Drilling Program Leg 208 …

T Westerhold, U Röhl, J Laskar, I Raffi… - …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Five sections drilled in multiple holes over a depth transect of more than 2200 m at the
Walvis Ridge (SE Atlantic) during Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 208 resulted in the first …