Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Announces Papers to Be Presented at...

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  October 10, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Madagascar and India Work in the latest Cretaceous deposits in Madagascar...Antarctica and Madagascar in the latest Cretaceous. However, existing models...reconstructions for the latest Cretaceous in deep Gondwana, indicate...

Vertebrate faunal changes through Lancian and Puercan time in Southern...

Journal of Paleontology;  July 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......terrestrial vertebrates spanning Lancian (~latest Cretaceous) and Puercan (~earliest Paleocene...been the simplest questions about latest Cretaceous extinctions, survivals, and faunal...complete records of the terrestrial latest Cretaceous and earliest Paleocene yet discovered...

The role of the East Asian active margin in widespread extensional and...

Journal of the Geological Society;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......started earlier than the collision (latest Cretaceous to Palaeocene), suggesting that extrusion...started earlier than the collision (latest Cretaceous to Palaeocene (Northrup et al. 1995...subducting Pacific plate during the latest Cretaceous to Mid-Miocene reduced compressional...

Processes of late Cretaceous to late miocene episodic thrust-sheet...

Journal of the Geological Society;  September 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......from its autochthon and translated southeastwards between latest Cretaceous to Late Miocene times. A combination of structural analysis...geochemistry allows subdivision of this orogenic event into: (1) latest Cretaceous trench-passive margin collision causing ophiolite obduction...

Taxonomy and distribution of the buccinid gastropod Brachysphingus from...

Journal of Paleontology;  September 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......Brachysphingus gibbosus Nelson, 1925, ranges in age from latest Cretaceous or possibly earliest Paleocene to the late Paleocene. During...Brachysphingus is unusual in that it is one of the few latest Cretaceous to early Tertiary, shallow-marine gastropod genera seemingly...

The role of fault reactivation and growth in the uplift of western...

Journal of the Geological Society;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......topographic data suggest that the latest Cretaceous-Cenozoic uplift of western Norway...offshore post-rift basins in the Latest Cretaceous, Palaeogene and Neogene. The asymmetric...topographic data to further document latest Cretaceous and Cenozoic reactivation of the...

A juvenile specimen of the sauropod dinosaur Alamosaurus sanjuanensis from...

Journal of Paleontology;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......the most common fossils found in continental strata of latest Cretaceous (Middle to Late Maastrichtian) age in the southwestern...and this species characterizes a unique southern latitude latest Cretaceous fauna (distribution reviewed by Lehman, 1987). The purpose...

The Beysehir-Hoyran-Hadim Nappes: Genesis and emplacement of Mesozoic...

Journal of the Geological Society;  September 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......southwards onto the northern margin of the Tauride platform in latest Cretaceous time. The nappe pile and underlying platform (Hadim Nappe...the Anatolide-Tauride carbonate platform to the south in latest Cretaceous time (Sengor & Yilmaz 1981; Tekeli 1981; Robertson...

Ecological conservatism in the "living fossil" Ginkgo

Paleobiology;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......persist with little or no morphological change for over 100 Myr, we analyzed both sedimentological and floral data from 51 latest Cretaceous to middle Miocene Ginkgo-bearing fossil plant sites in North America and northern Europe. The resulting data indicate that...

A new, large acteonid gastropod (Mollusca) from the latest Cretaceous of...

Journal of Paleontology;  November 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...INTRODUCTION OPISTHOBRANCH GASTROPODS are rare in Mesozoic deposits of Antarctica. The first documented occurrence of opisthobranchs from this continent is from Cretaceous shallow-marine deposits of the James Ross Basin, Antarctic Peninsula, where Wilckens (1910, p. 95-96, pl. 4, fig. 19) described

Cavalli Seamount, Northland Plateau, SW Pacific Ocean: a Miocene...

Journal of the Geological Society;  November 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......dating of detrital zircons, and Sr and Nd isotopic composition collectively indicate a siliciclastic-carbonate protolith of latest Cretaceous to Paleogene stratigraphie age. Metamorphic index minerals are sillimanite, andesine, garnet, ilmenite and K-feldspar...

New sedimentological and structural data from the Ecemis Fault Zone,...

Journal of the Geological Society;  March 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......deposition on the northern passive margin of a Tauride microcontinent was followed by southward ophiolite emplacement in latest Cretaceous time. Late Eocene final closure of one, or several, ocean basins within Central Anatolia further north caused further deformation...

Mesozoic-Cenozoic evolution of the intraplate Euphrates fault system,...

Journal of the Geological Society;  July 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......experienced minor deposition compared to the Palmyride trough to its southwest, and the Sinjar trough to its northeast. During latest Cretaceous time, however, significant sinistral transtension occurred along the length of the Euphrates fault system in Syria, with...

Manumiella seymourensis new species, a stratigraphically significant...

Journal of Paleontology;  May 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......equated with environmental change, are apparent in specimens in the lowermost and uppermost parts of its range. INTRODUCTION LATEST CRETACEOUS palynological assemblages from Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula (Fig. 1) are characterized by peridiniacean dinoflagellate...

Regional Neogene exhumation of Britain and the western North Sea

Journal of the Geological Society;  March 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......offshore) and of fission tracks (onshore). It also does away with unlikely high burial rates which are implied in the latest Cretaceous-earliest Tertiary if removal of overburden from the Chalk is assumed to have occurred in the Palaeocene. Keywords: Neogene...