A review of calcareous nannofossil astrobiochronology encompassing the past 25 million years

I Raffi, J Backman, E Fornaciari, H Pälike, D Rio… - Quaternary Science …, 2006‏ - Elsevier
This paper presents a review of (astrobiochronological) calibration of Recent to late
Oligocene calcareous nannofossil datum events. Biohorizons included in the paper are …

Coccolith ultrastructure and biomineralisation

JR Young, SA Davis, PR Bown, S Mann - Journal of structural biology, 1999‏ - Elsevier
The relationship between calcite biomineralisation and coccolith ultrastructure is analysed
across the diversity of calcifying haptophytes. The emphasis is on integration of evidence …

A 40-million-year history of atmospheric CO2

YG Zhang, M Pagani, Z Liu… - … Transactions of the …, 2013‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The alkenone–p CO2 methodology has been used to reconstruct the partial pressure of
ancient atmospheric carbon dioxide (p CO2) for the past 45 million years of Earth's history …

Calcareous nannoplankton evolution and diversity through time

PR Bown, JA Lees, JR Young - … : from molecular processes to global impact, 2004‏ - Springer
Planktic microfossils arguably provide the most complete (stratigraphic and taxonomic)
record of biodiversity of any group of organisms. The phytoplankton record is of particular …

Biomineralization within vesicles: the calcite of coccoliths

JR Young, K Henriksen - Reviews in mineralogy and …, 2003‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Coccolithophores are a group of unicellular plant plankton, which produce exoskeletons of
minute calcite plates, called coccoliths. Despite their small size (1− 10 µm across), coccoliths …

Indonesian Throughflow drove Australian climate from humid Pliocene to arid Pleistocene

BA Christensen, W Renema… - Geophysical …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Late Miocene to mid‐Pleistocene sedimentary proxy records reveal that northwest
Australia underwent an abrupt transition from dry to humid climate conditions at 5.5 million …

Atlas of northwestern Mediterranean coccolithophores

L Cros, JM Fortuño - Scientia Marina, 2002‏ - scientiamarina.revistas.csic.es
The present Atlas contains a detailed study, based in scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
observations, of living coccolithophores from NW Mediterranean waters. The study contains …

Timing and pacing of Indonesian Throughflow restriction and its connection to Late Pliocene climate shifts

G Auer, D De Vleeschouwer, RA Smith… - Paleoceanography …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
The Pliocene was characterized by a gradual shift of global climate toward cooler and drier
conditions. This shift fundamentally reorganized Earth's climate from the Miocene state …

Australian shelf sediments reveal shifts in Miocene Southern Hemisphere westerlies

J Groeneveld, J Henderiks, W Renema… - Science …, 2017‏ - science.org
Global climate underwent a major reorganization when the Antarctic ice sheet expanded~
14 million years ago (Ma)(1). This event affected global atmospheric circulation, including …

Sedimentary record of the Cretaceous–Paleocene arc–continent collision in the northwestern Colombian Andes: Insights from stratigraphic and provenance …

A Pardo-Trujillo, A Cardona, AS Giraldo, S León… - Sedimentary …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The collision of intra-oceanic arcs with continental margins is a primary factor controlling the
evolution, modification, and growth of continental crust. Syn-to post-collisional basins are …