Mid-cretaceous Carbonate Platform Evolution, South-central Pyrenees,Spain
Author : Peter Anthony Drzewiecki
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Page : 726 pages
File Size : 45,82 MB
Release : 1996
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Author : Peter Anthony Drzewiecki
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Page : 726 pages
File Size : 45,82 MB
Release : 1996
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Author : Debora Rodrigues de Miranda
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Page : 402 pages
File Size : 32,66 MB
Release : 1994
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Page : 17 pages
File Size : 36,19 MB
Release : 1994
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Author : M. Wagreich
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Science
ISBN : 1786204746
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 : Cecilio Quesada
Publisher : Springer
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 30,49 MB
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030111903
Pursuing an innovative, global approach, this unique book provides an updated review of the geology of Iberia and its continental margins from a geodynamic perspective. Owing to its location close to successive plate margins, Iberia has played a pivotal role in the geodynamic evolution of the Gondwanan, Rheic, Pangea, Tethys and Eurasian plates over the last 600 Ma of Earth’s history. The geological record starts with the amalgamation of Gondwana in the Neoproterozoic, which was succeeded by the rifting and spreading of the Rheic ocean; its demise, which led to the amalgamation of Pangea in the late Paleozoic; the rifting and spreading of several arms of the Neotethys ocean in the Mesozoic Era and their ongoing closure, which was responsible for the Alpine orogeny. The significant advances in the last 20 years have increasingly attracted international interest in exploring the geology of the Iberian Peninsula. This volume focuses on the Cenozoic basins of the Iberian Geology and consequently the most recent sedimentary features in the Iberian Geology apart of the active ones. In this book, you will find a detailed explanation of the alpine foreland basins, the extension of the west Mediterranean as well as the latest magmatism in Iberia.
Author : Andrea Catalina Gebhardt
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Page : 46 pages
File Size : 12,93 MB
Release : 2001
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Author : Catherine Homberg
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 18,70 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Geochemistry
ISBN : 9781862393066
With original data in various fields from the offshore Levant Basin and adjacent continental slopes and platforms, these papers document the tectonic structures and sedimentological patterns associated with the development of the Levant Basin.
Author : Karl B. Föllmi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 1989-08-09
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Paleoceanographic conditions which led to the formation of the "mid"-cretaceous triad along the northern Tethys margin are elucidated. In the first part, the evolution of this sequence is traced from the demise of the platform to the return of the detritus dominated deposition. The second part includes a discussion of the reconstructed paleoceanographic and tectonic variables, their possible interaction as well as their influence on sediment properties.
Author : J.H. Powell
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File Size : 46,43 MB
Release : 2011
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Author : Eulàlia Gili
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401000158
This volume arises from the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on 'North African Cretaceous rudist and coral formations and their contributions to carbonate platform development , which was held in Tunisia, on 13-18 May, 2002. It was convened by M. El Hedi Negra (Universite 7 Novembre de Carthage, now Universite de Tunis El Manar, Tunisia) and Eulalia Gili (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain). The aims of the ARW were: (1) to review and critically assess currently available data on rudist/coral formations in North African Cretaceous carbonate platforms, and their correlations, and to integrate these data with other studies around the Mediterranean; (2) to place the findings in a global context, noting both similarities with other regions of platform development as well as local differences, and (3) exploring possible reasons for these; and to help promote the creation of a vibrant peri-Mediterranean collaborative research community, embracing researchers from the entire region, to carry forward this ambitious research programme. Twenty-two presentations (oral and poster) provided both topical reviews (covering rudist evolution, and ecology, mineralogical changes, applications of strontium isotope, and graphic correlation methods, and platform typology) as well as regional syntheses (Tunisian reservoirs, Moroccan platform history, Tunisian platforms and rudist/coral facies, Algerian platforms, and Egyptian platforms). Fifteen of these presentations are expanded here as papers. The workshop was attended by 24 academic staff, 4 geologists from the oil industry, plus several observers and students.