The breakup of the former Pangea supercontinent culminated in the modern drifting
continents. Increased rifting caused the establishment of the Atlantic Ocean in the middle …

Early Cretaceous sedimentary basins on the South Atlantic continental margins of South
America and Africa are closely related with the Gondwana break-up, and record coeval …

A combined biostratigraphic and palaeoecological study of foraminifera, ostracodes and
microfacies was carried out on the Aptian in the Sítio Sobradinho section of the Araripe …

There is an abundance of evidence for short intervals of cold climatic conditions during the
Early Cretaceous. However, the lack of a high-resolution, long-term Early Cretaceous …

The break-up of Gondwana in the latest Jurassic and earliest Cretaceous and the
subsequent opening and evolution of the South Atlantic Ocean as a new widening seaway …

The Aptian was characterized by dramatic tectonic, oceanographic, climatic and biotic
changes and its record is punctuated by Oceanic Anoxic Events (OAEs). The timing and …

The mid-Cretaceous was marked by emplacement of large igneous provinces (LIPs) that
formed gigantic oceanic plateaus, affecting ecosystems on a global scale, with biota forced …

Abstract The Aptian–Albian boundary is marked by one of the major oceanic perturbations
during the Cretaceous, called Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE) 1b. Extensive volcanic episodes …

Several studies have been conducted to reconstruct temperature variations across the
Aptian Stage, particularly during early Aptian Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE) 1a. There is a …

Abstract The Santana Group, consisting of the Barbalha, Crato, Ipubi and Romualdo
formations, records the post-rift sequence of the Gondwana break-up in the Araripe Basin …