The best–documented example of rapid climate change that characterized the so–called
'greenhouse world'took place at the time of the Palaeocene–Eocene boundary: introduction …

Astronomical insolation forcing is well established as the underlying metronome of
Quaternary ice ages and Cenozoic climate changes. Yet its effects on earlier eras …

The Geologic Time Scale 2012, winner of a 2012 PROSE Award Honorable Mention for Best
Multi-volume Reference in Science from the Association of American Publishers, is the …

Mudstone is the most abundant sedimentary rock and variously acts as sources, seals, and
shale gas reservoirs in petroleum systems. Many important physicochemical properties of …

Construction and assembly of the Geologic Time Scale involves:(a) constructing a relative
(chronostratigraphic) standard scale for key periods in the Earth's rock record;(b) identifying …

Analyses of organic-rich mudstones from wells that penetrated the Upper Jurassic
Kimmeridge Clay Formation, offshore United Kingdom, were performed to evaluate the …

Increasingly, environmental scientists, palaeoceanographers and geologists are collecting
quantitative records of environmental changes (time series) from sediments, ice cores, cave …

Mass extinction at the Triassic-Jurassic (Tr-J) boundary occurred about the same time (200
Ma) as one of the largest volcanic eruptive events known, that which characterized the …

Global perturbations to the Early Jurassic environment (∼ 201 to∼ 174 Ma), notably during
the Triassic–Jurassic transition and Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event, are well studied and …

Astronomically calibrated cyclostratigraphy relies on correct matching of observed
sedimentary cycles to predicted astronomical drivers such as eccentricity, obliquity, and …