Marine magnetic anomaly timescales for the Cenozoic and Late Cretaceous: a precis, critique, and synthesis

G Ness, S Levi, R Couch - Reviews of Geophysics, 1980 - Wiley Online Library
Anomaly timescales for the last 90 million years, derived from marine magnetic profiles and
published prior to mid‐1979, are summarized, illustrated for comparison, and critically …

Chronology of fluctuating sea levels since the Triassic

BU Haq, JAN Hardenbol, PR Vail - Science, 1987 - science.org
Advances in sequence stratigraphy and the development of depositional models have
helped explain the origin of genetically related sedimentary packages during sea level …

A revised Cenozoic geochronology and chronostratigraphy

WA Berggren, DV Kent, CC Swisher, MP Aubry - 1995 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Since the publication of our previous time scale (Berggren and others, 1985c= BKFV85) a
large amount of new magneto-and biostratigraphic data and radioisotopic ages have …

Cenozoic evolution of Antarctic glaciation, the circum‐Antarctic Ocean, and their impact on global paleoceanography

JP Kennett - Journal of geophysical research, 1977 - Wiley Online Library
Deep‐sea drilling in the Antarctic region (Deep‐Sea Drilling Project legs 28, 29, 35, and 36)
has provided many new data about the development of circum‐Antarctic circulation and the …

The Messinian salinity crisis in the Mediterranean: a review

MB Cita - Alpine‐Mediterranean Geodynamics, 1982 - Wiley Online Library
The present paper reviews published and unpublished results arising from the activities of
an Italian working group funded by CNR on the geodynamic significance of the Messinian …

Rifting process and thermal evolution of the continental margin of eastern Canada determined from subsidence curves

L Royden, CE Keen - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 1980 - Elsevier
The subsidence history of the Nova Scotia and Labrador shelves, determined from deep
exploratory well data, indicates that these regions underwent extension during rifting in the …

Flexure of the lithosphere and continental margin basins

AB Watts, WBF Ryan - Developments in geotectonics, 1976 - Elsevier
The accumulation of sediments at an Atlantic-type continental margin constitutes a load on
the lithosphere which simply sags due to its weight. Studies of the geometry of deformation …

Isotopic paleoceanography of the Caribbean and East Pacific: role of Panama uplift in late Neogene time

L Keigwin - Science, 1982 - science.org
Comparisons of carbon isotopic data on benthic foraminifera from Deep Sea Drilling Project
sites 502 (western Caribbean) and 503 (eastern Pacific) indicate that the difference between …

The Neogene: part 2 Neogene geochronology and chronostratigraphy

WA Berggren, DV Kent… - Geological Society …, 1985 - lyellcollection.org
We present a revised Neogene geochronology based upon a best fit to selected high
temperature radiometric dates on a number of identified magnetic polarity chrons (within the …

Mid‐Miocene isotope stratigraphy in the deep sea: High‐resolution correlations, paleoclimatic cycles, and sediment preservation

F Woodruff, S Savin - Paleoceanography, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
Mid‐Miocene pelagic sedimentary sections can be correlated using intermediate and high
resolution oxygen and carbon isotopic records of benthic foraminifera. Precision of a few …