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 …

This study presents a review on palaeogeographic implications and temporal variations of
glaucony covering both modern and ancient records. Phanerozoic glaucony preferably …

A widely accepted hypothesis proposes that the Early Aptian demise of carbonate platforms
in the northern Tethyan realm reflects the impact of environmental changes that eventually …

Carbonate platforms are highly sensitive ecological systems that typically show rapid and
characteristic response modes to environmental and climatic changes acting both on a …

The poor preservation of sedimentological and geochemical evidence often hampers the
identification of subaerial exposure surfaces in carbonate platform successions. Such …

Drowning unconformities are stratigraphic key surfaces in the history of carbonate platforms.
They mostly consist in the deposition of deep marine facies on top of shallow marine …

Shallow-water assemblages of transported (" freshly reworked") bioclasts (mainly
orbitolinids and dasycladales) are observed in the deeper facies of the" Vocontian …

The widespread demise of the Urgonian rudistid-platform ecosystem in the Mediterranean
Tethys was so far considered as a progressive phenomenon starting at the Barremian …

Lower Cretaceous carbonate deposits historically called “Urgonian limestones” are widely
exposed around the margins of the Vocontian basin in southeastern France and in the …

The recognition of regional ammonite bio-events spanning the late Barremian–early Aptian
interval in Provence invalidates previous chronostratigraphic models of the Urgonian …