[PDF] Cretaceous Global Events And Correlation eBook

Author : M. Wagreich
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,22 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Science
ISBN : 1786204746

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Sea-level constitutes a critical planetary boundary for geological processes and human life. Sea-level fluctuations during major greenhouse phases are still enigmatic and strongly discussed in terms of changing climate systems. The geological record of the Cretaceous greenhouse period provides a deep-time view on greenhouse-phase Earthsystem processes that facilitates a much better understanding of the causes and consequences of global, geologically short-term, sea-level changes. In particualr, Cretaceous hothouse periods can serve as a laboratory to better understand a near-future greenhouse Earth. This volume presents high-resolution sea-level records from globally distributed sedimentary archives of the Cretaceous involving a large group of scientists from the International Geoscience Programme IGCP 609. Marine to non-marine sedimentary successions were analysed for revised age constraints, the correlation of global palaeoclimate shifts and sea-level changes, tested for climate-driven cyclicities, and correlated within a high-resolution stratigraphic framework of the Geological Timescale. For hothouse periods, the hypothesis of significant global groundwater-related sea-level change, i.e. aquifer-eustasy as a major process, is reviewed and substantiated.

Author : Graham Ryder
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 18,26 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813723075

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"This volume atempts to explore and clarify the relationship among the geological records, the extinctions, and the causes of catastrophes for life in Earth's history. Most of the papers address the geological record and the extinctions across the Cretaceou-Teriary boundary, and the buried Chicxulub structure that is now consensually deemed to be of impact origin and to be intimately related to that boundary." (GSA website).

Author : P. W. Skelton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 32,70 MB
Release : 2003-07-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521538435

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A colourful Earth System Science textbook on the Cretaceous world, with numerous learning features and website.

Author : Thierry Adatte
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 13,64 MB
Release : 2020-04-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 0813725445

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"This volume covers new developments and research on mass extinctions, volcanism, and impacts. It addresses the following topics: the Central Iapetus magmatic province; thermogenic degassing in large igneous provinces; global mercury enrichment in Valanginian sediments; Guerrero-Morelos carbonate platform response to the Caribbean-Colombian Cretaceous large igneous province; implications for the Cretaceous-Paleocene boundary event in shallow platform environments and correlation to the deep sea; environmental effects of Deccan volcanism on biotic transformations and attendant Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary mass extinction in the Indian subcontinent; Deccan red boles; and factors leading to the collapse of producers during the Chicxulub impact and Deccan Traps eruptions"--

Author : Robert N. Ginsburg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 49,96 MB
Release : 1990-02-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780792306306

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' this volume represents perhaps the best available report on state-of-the-science cretaceous research. Some may query the wisdom of grand schemes such as the GSGP, believing that science is best left to the imaginative individual. This useful volume offers a persuasive counter-argument. That it speaks with many voices (if not languages) is to be expected and indeed adds to its strength.' Cretaceous Research 11, 1990

Author : Otto H. Walliser
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 30,55 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642796346

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The existence of rapid and even catastrophic turnovers within the Phanerozoic ecosystems has been discussed controversially for more than 170 years. Since 1980 this discussion has become even more intensive after the hypothesis of Alvarez, explaining the end-Cretaceous mass extinction as the result of a huge asteroid impact on the Earth. This theory stimulated several thousand papers and is still controversial. The international research programme on "Global Biological Events in Earth History" attempts to bring the discussion back to the facts by using multidisciplinary investigations of the major Phanerozoic events. The results of an international group of experts are presented giving a wealth of information and a thorough discussion of the causes of the various global events.