Ecology of extant nummulitids and other larger benthic foraminifera: applications in palaeoenvironmental analysis

SJ Beavington-Penney, A Racey - Earth-Science Reviews, 2004 - Elsevier
Larger benthic foraminifera (LBF) are important contributors to modern and ancient tropical,
shallow-marine sediments. Over the past 30 years, a substantial body of literature has built …

Paleobiogeography of scleractinian reef corals: changing patterns during the Oligocene–Miocene climatic transition in the Mediterranean

C Perrin, FR Bosellini - Earth-Science Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
During the Oligocene–Miocene Greenhouse-to-Icehouse climatic transition, the
biogeography of reef corals or zooxanthellate-like scleractinian corals was gradually …

Patterns of Phanerozoic carbonate platform sedimentation

W Kiessling, E Flügel, JAN Golonka - Lethaia, 2003 - idunn.no
Carbonate platforms changed substantially in spatial extent, geometry, composition and
palaeogeographical distribution through the Phanerozoic. Although reef construction and …

Carbonate ramp evolution during the late Oligocene (Chattian), Salento Peninsula, southern Italy

L Pomar, G Mateu-Vicens, M Morsilli… - Palaeogeography …, 2014 - Elsevier
Oligocene carbonate ramps and platforms are widespread and though they are important
carbonate reservoirs, detailed studies on the facies organization, platform type and internal …

Facies dynamics in Eocene to Oligocene circumalpine carbonates

JH Nebelsick, MW Rasser, D Bassi - Facies, 2005 - Springer
A new concept, termed 'Facies Dynamics'(defined as changes of specific carbonate facies
types in time and space, which are controlled by phylogenetic, ecological and geological …

Components, facies and ramps: redefining Upper Oligocene shallow water carbonates using coralline red algae and larger foraminifera (Venetian area, northeast Italy …

D Bassi, JH Nebelsick - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2010 - Elsevier
Chattian mixed carbonate-siliciclastic deposits from two palaeogeographic units of Southern
Alps, the Lessini Shelf and Venetian foreland basin of northeast Italy, are studied with …

Upper Eocene larger foraminiferal–coralline algal facies from the Klokova Mountain (southern continental Greece)

F Barattolo, D Bassi, R Romano - Facies, 2007 - Springer
Abstract Within the Gavrovo–Tripolitza area (southern continental Greece), marine
carbonate platforms existed from the Late Triassic to the Late Eocene. The Middle–Upper …

Diversity, growth forms and taphonomy: key factors controlling the fabric of coralline algae dominated shelf carbonates

JH Nebelsick, D Bassi - 2000 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The fabric of biogenic carbonate sediments can be differentiated (1) with respect to diversity
of constituent components,(2) using features pertaining to their growth forms and (3) upon …

Alpine tectonics north of the Alps

K Reicherter, N Froitzheim, M Jarosiński, J Badura… - 2008 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Cenozoic tectonic evolution of Central Europe was governed over long periods of time
by far-field stresses resulting from continent collision in the Alps (which is still ongoing) ridge …

Palaeogene and Neogene

MW Rasser, M Harzhauser, OY Anistratenko… - 2008 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Over the last 65 Ma, our world assumed its modern shape. This timespan is divided into the
Palaeogene Period, lasting from 65 to 23 Ma and the Neogene, which extends up to the …