The origin of plants and their colonization of land fundamentally transformed the terrestrial
environment. Here we elucidate the basis of this formative episode in Earth history through …

Abstract The Deccan-associated sediments (Lameta Formation and intertrappean) hold
great potential for understanding the role of Deccan Volcanism in the Maastrichtian …

Previous tectonic studies have indicated that the peri-cratonic lithosphere, located away
from continental margins, is sensitive to far-field stresses propagating from active plate …

Abstract The Punta del Barco Formation is the uppermost unit of the upper Aptian
continental deposits of the Baqueró Group, cropping out in Argentinian Patagonia. These …

The origin, extent, and timing of intraplate contraction in Patagonia are among the least
understood geological processes of southern South America. Particularly, the intraplate …

With the break‐up of the continents of Africa and South America and the gradual opening of
the Atlantic Ocean in the late Aptian to early Albian, the global palaeoclimate and …

Background Even if they are considered the quintessential “living fossils”, the fossil record of
the extant genera of the Cycadales is quite poor, and only extends as far back as the …

We describe 21 silicified woods from the Kachaike Formation (Albian, mid-Cretaceous),
collected in the Tucu Tucu Ranch, west-central Santa Cruz Province, Argentinean …

The centres of diversification of the iconic family Proteaceae are in South Africa and
southern Australia. Since the ancestors of the family can be traced to NW Africa our task was …

A late Early Jurassic shortening event affected the southern end of the back-arc Chubut
Basin in southern Patagonia, interspersed within a general lithospheric extensional context …