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Abstract The drift history of the Tethyan Himalaya provides key constraints on the India‐Asia collision, Himalayan‐Tibetan orogenesis, and associated global climate change. Here we present rock magnetic, petrographic, geochronologic, and paleomagnetic results of the Bolinxiala Formation limestones in the western Tethyan Himalaya.
Siqi Wang +12 more
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Bending the Sierra Madre Oriental: A Paleocene Orocline
Abstract The Sierra Madre Oriental belt of the Mexican thin‐skinned fold‐and‐thrust belt, which formed during the Late Cretaceous due to the subduction of the Farallon Plate beneath North America, exhibits a pronounced curvature of approximately 100°, concave to the southwest.
Rafael Guerra Roel +5 more
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In this study we introduce teaching proposals to “inject” ammonite fossils, in the Geography syllabus, as evidence of Greek paleoenvironment, which at the moment is the only existing geoscience subject of Greek primary curriculum.
Stiliani Fragouli +2 more
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Depuis la fin du 19ème siècle, l'intervalle comprenant l'Albien supérieur élevé, le Cénomanien, le Turonien et le Coniacien basal a été subdivisé d'abord en zones d'ammonites puis, à partir du milieu du 20ème siècle, en zones de foraminifères ...
Amédro Francis, Robaszynski Francis
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Cenomanian Ammonite Zones [PDF]
A preliminary statement is made concerning the ammonite genera which have been used in defining the upper Cenomanian (Cretaceous) in Britain. The relations, positions, and characteristics of species of Mantelliceras, Metoicoceras, Utaturiceras, and Protacanthoceras are briefly explained and the need for a change in zonal nomenclature of the uppermost ...
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Darwin's Geological Research in Argentina [PDF]
On the occasion of the 200th. anniversary of Charles Darwin´s birth, the Asociación Geológica Argentina decided to prepare a special issue devoted to the geological research undertaken by Darwin in Argentina.
Aguirre-Urreta, Maria Beatriz +2 more
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On the Kimmeridgian (Jurassic) succession of the Normandy coast, northern France [PDF]
Kimmeridgian rocks crop out on the Normandy coast north and south of the Seine Estuary at Le Havre in a series of small foreshore and cliff exposures separated by beach deposits and landslips.
Gallois, R.W.
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Jurassic jeopardy—life and death on an ancient seafloor
The Lower Jurassic Down Cliff Sand Member of the Dorset coast, southern England, is a rich source of marine invertebrate fossils. Among these are echinoderms and less common arthropods. Despite having multi‐component skeletons that are prone to disarticulation, remains of some of these are remarkably complete.
Andrew J. Webster +3 more
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OCCURRENCE OF LIASSIC FAUNAS AT WAANEY (UANEI) PROVINCE OF BAY, SOUTH—WESTERN SOMALIA
The sequence exposed at Waaney (South—western Somalia) consists, from bottom to top, of the following horizons: A) Blackish marly limestones, thickness 20 m; B) Grey and greenish marls and shales, thickness 10 m; C) Vacuolar yellowish—grey limestone ...
PAOLO CANUTI +3 more
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Euthymi, Crassicostatum and Callisto ammonite subzones, correlable with Paramimounum, Picteti, and Alpillensis subzones and probably with the Late Berriasian Otopeta Subzone of the Boissieri Standard Zone have been recognized in calcareous clays of the ...
Arkadiev Vladimir V. +6 more
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