A template for an improved rock-based subdivision of the pre-Cryogenian timescale

GA Shields, RA Strachan, SM Porter… - Journal of the …, 2022 - lyellcollection.org
The geological timescale before 720 Ma uses rounded absolute ages rather than specific
events recorded in rocks to subdivide time. This has led increasingly to mismatches between …

Sr/Ca and Ba/Ca ratios support trophic partitioning within a Silurian conodont community from Gotland, Sweden

DF Terrill, E Jarochowska, CM Henderson, B Shirley… - Paleobiology, 2022 - cambridge.org
Conodonts were a highly diverse and abundant vertebrate group whose fossils are found in
marine Paleozoic and Triassic strata around the world. They inhabited environments …

A new tiny fossil penguin from the Late Oligocene of New Zealand and the morphofunctional transition of the penguin wing

T Ando, JH Robinson, C Loch, T Nakahara… - Journal of the Royal …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Late Oligocene is a period of high penguin diversity, following major
changes in the marine environment at the Eocene/Oligocene boundary and prior to the …

A new high-resolution palaeotemperature record during the Middle–Late Ordovician transition derived from conodont 18O palaeothermometry

K Liu, M Jiang, L Zhang, D Chen - Journal of the Geological …, 2022 - lyellcollection.org
Climate cooling has been commonly considered as one of the most plausible triggers of the
Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE). However, the details of coeval sea …

Geochemistry and Sr, S, and O stable isotopes of Miocene Abu Dhabi evaporites, United Arab Emirates

A Gad, O Abdelghany, H Arman, B Mahmoud… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
This study investigates for the first time the subsurface Miocene evaporite facies (Gachsaran
Formation) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Forty-five evaporite rock samples were …

Insights into glendonite formation from the upper Oligocene Sagavanirktok Formation, North Slope, Alaska, USA

JW Counts, ML Vickers, MR Stokes… - Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The type locality for the upper Oligocene Nuwok Member of the Sagavanirktok Formation
(Carter Creek, North Slope, Alaska, USA) contains an abundant occurrence of glendonite, a …

Experience of Deep-Sea Drilling in the World Ocean: Methodical and Practical Significance for Stratigraphic Studies

AY Gladenkov, YB Gladenkov - Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation, 2021 - Springer
The results of stratigraphic studies carried out in the process of international deep-sea
drilling in the last fifty years are presented. They make a great contribution to development …

С, О, S, and Sr Isotopes in Rocks of the Lower Eifelian Osveya Horizon in Belarus

AA Makhnach, BG Pokrovsky, OV Murashko - Lithology and Mineral …, 2023 - Springer
Complex interpretation of the distribution of δ13C and δ18О values in carbonates, as well as
δ34S and 87Sr/86Sr values, in gypsum from the lower Eifelian Osveya horizon (Belarus) …