Evidence for global cooling in the Late Cretaceous

C Linnert, SA Robinson, JA Lees, PR Bown… - Nature …, 2014‏ - nature.com
Abstract The Late Cretaceous 'greenhouse'world witnessed a transition from one of the
warmest climates of the past 140 million years to cooler conditions, yet still without …

A review of the embedded time scales of flood basalt volcanism with special emphasis on dramatically short magmatic pulses

V Courtillot, F Fluteau - 2014‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
There are at least a dozen Phanerozoic continental flood basalts and oceanic plateaus
(large igneous provinces) that roughly obey a “rule of two times one million”(volume of …

Emplacement characteristics, time scales, and volcanic gas release rates of continental flood basalt eruptions on Earth

S Self, A Schmidt, TA Mather - 2014‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Continental flood basalt provinces are the subaerial expression of large igneous province
volcanism. The emplacement of a continental flood basalt is an exceptional volcanic event in …

[HTML][HTML] Late Cretaceous calcareous nannofossil assemblages from Colombia: Biostratigraphic contributions to northwestern South American Basins

E Angulo-Pardo, F Vallejo-Hincapié… - Journal of South …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Upper Cretaceous deposits of northwestern Colombia accumulated in two
regions with distinct tectonic settings. The eastern deposits, consisting of Turonian …

Late Cretaceous (late Campanian–Maastrichtian) sea-surface temperature record of the Boreal Chalk Sea

N Thibault, R Harlou, NH Schovsbo… - Climate of the …, 2016‏ - cp.copernicus.org
The last 8 Myr of the Cretaceous greenhouse interval were characterized by a progressive
global cooling with superimposed cool/warm fluctuations. The mechanisms responsible for …

Astronomical calibration of the Maastrichtian (late Cretaceous)

D Husson, B Galbrun, J Laskar, LA Hinnov… - Earth and Planetary …, 2011‏ - Elsevier
Recent improvements to astronomical modeling of the Solar System have contributed to
important refinements of the Cenozoic time scale through astronomical calibration of …

Astronomical calibration of upper Campanian–Maastrichtian carbon isotope events and calcareous plankton biostratigraphy in the Indian Ocean (ODP Hole 762C) …

N Thibault, D Husson, R Harlou, S Gardin… - Palaeogeography …, 2012‏ - Elsevier
An integrated framework of magnetostratigraphy, calcareous microfossil bio-events,
cyclostratigraphy and δ13C stratigraphy is established for the upper Campanian …

Upheavals during the late Maastrichtian: Volcanism, climate and faunal events preceding the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

G Keller, J Punekar, P Mateo - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
The late Maastrichtian was a time of major climate, evolution and extinction extremes. Rapid
climate warming of 2–3° C in intermediate waters between 69.5 and 68 Ma (top C31r to …

Nacre tablet thickness records formation temperature in modern and fossil shells

PUPA Gilbert, KD Bergmann, CE Myers… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Nacre, the iridescent outer lining of pearls and inner lining of many mollusk shells, is
composed of periodic, parallel, organic sheets alternating with aragonite (CaCO 3) tablet …

The calcareous nannofossil response to the end-Cretaceous warm event in the Tropical Pacific

N Thibault, S Gardin - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2010‏ - Elsevier
The response of calcareous nannofossils to the end-Cretaceous warming is investigated in
the Tropical Pacific DSDP Site 577A (Shatsky Rise) through the record of species richness …