Marine Shales: Depositional Mechanisms and Environments of Ancient Deposits ADS
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Early Cretaceous life and the environment were strongly influenced by the accelerated
break up of Pangaea, which was associated with the formation of a multitude of rift basins …

Organic matter constitutes a minor fraction of marine and freshwater sediments, yet its
important contribution to the sedimentary record can be used to reconstruct marine and …

Whole genome duplication (WGD) is often considered to be mechanistically associated with
species diversification. Such ideas have been anecdotally attached to a WGD at the stem of …

The prevailing explanation for the origin of organic-rich sediments and rocks invokes
deposition under conditions of anoxia. However, recent research suggests that high primary …

Variations in the 13C/12C value of total dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) in the world's
oceans through time have been documented through stratigraphic study of marine …

Variations in the carbon isotopic compositions of marine carbonate and organic carbon
provide a record of changes in the fraction of organic carbon buried through time and may …

Growth rates of corals on Holocene reefs indicate that carbonate platforms should easily
keep pace with long-term subsidence and sea-level changes, yet drowned reefs and …

The Cretaceous is characterized by unusually widespread distribution of “black shales”--
sequences of variable lithology containing numerous beds with organic-carbon (OC) …

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 …