Cretaceous Climate Events and Short-Term Sea-Level Changes (Geological Society of London Special Publications)

Edited by M. Wagreich, M. B. Hart, B. Sames, I. O. Yilmaz

ISBN 10: 1786204746 / ISBN 13: 9781786204745

Published by London ; Geological Society, 2020

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266 pages. Sea-level constitutes a critical planetary boundary for geological processes and human life. Sea-level fluctuations during major greenhouse phases are still enigmatic and strongly discussed in terms of changing climate systems. The geological record of the Cretaceous greenhouse period provides a deep-time view on greenhouse-phase Earthsystem processes that facilitates a much better understanding of the causes and consequences of global, geologically short-term, sea-level changes. In particular , Cretaceous hothouse periods can serve as a laboratory to better understand a near-future greenhouse Earth. This volume presents high-resolution sea-level records from globally distributed sedimentary archives of the Cretaceous involving a large group of scientists from the International Geoscience Programme IGCP 609. Marine to non-marine sedimentary successions were analysed for revised age constraints, the correlation of global palaeoclimate shifts and sea-level changes, tested for climate-driven cyclicities, and correlated within a high-resolution stratigraphic framework of the Geological Timescale. For hothouse periods, the hypothesis of significant global groundwater-related sea-level change, i.e. aquifer-eustasy as a major process, is reviewed and substantiated.

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• Title: Cretaceous Climate Events and Short-Term Sea-Level Changes (Geological Society of London Special Publications)
• Publisher: London ; Geological Society
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786204746
• ISBN 13: 9781786204745
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
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Sea-level constitutes a critical planetary boundary for both geological processes and human life. Sealevel fluctuations during major greenhouse phases are still enigmatic and widely discussed in terms of changing climate systems. The geological record of the Cretaceous greenhouse period provides a deeptime view on greenhouse-phase Earth system processes that facilitates a much better understanding of the causes and consequences of global, geologically short-term, sea-level changes. In particular, Cretaceous hothouse periods can serve as a laboratory to better understand a near-future greenhouse Earth. This volume presents high-resolution sea-level records from globally distributed sedimentary archives of the Cretaceous involving a large group of scientists from the International Geoscience Programme IGCP 609.