On the role of tectonics in stimulating the Cretaceous diversification of mammals

LN Weaver, JR Kelson, RM Holder, NA Niemi… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Mammals rose to prominence in terrestrial ecosystems after the Cretaceous–Paleogene
mass extinction, but the mammalian lineages characteristic of Paleogene faunas began their …

The impact catastrophism and Alvarez theory of mass extinctions in a retrospective, perspective and prospective: towards the Phanerozoic impact event stratigraphy

G Racki, C Koeberl - Earth-Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite several, sometimes prominent propagators, meteorite impact research had a long
period of peripheral status until the 1980s. Since then there has been an intensive search for …

Cretaceous large igneous provinces: from volcanic formation to environmental catastrophes and biological crises

LME Percival, H Matsumoto, S Callegaro… - Geological Society …, 2025 - lyellcollection.org
Abstract The Cretaceous Period was marked by the formation of numerous large igneous
provinces (LIPs), several of which were associated with geologically rapid climate …

Triple oxygen isotopes in intertrappean fossil woods: Evidence of higher tropical rainfall during Deccan volcanism

S Ghoshmaulik, SK Bhattacharya, M Hazra, P Roy… - Chemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite several attempts, the effects of volcanism and greenhouse gas emission on climate
(eg, rainfall) over India across the Cretaceous/Palaeogene Boundary (66.1±0.01 Ma) remain …

Interlaboratory comparison of branched GDGT temperature and pH proxies using soils and lipid extracts

C De Jonge, F Peterse, KGJ Nierop… - Geochemistry …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Ratios of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGT), which are membrane lipids of bacteria
and archaea, are at the base of several paleoenvironmental proxies. They are frequently …

Intense changes in the main source of organic carbon to the Gulf Coastal Plain following the Cretaceous‐Paleogene boundary

C Sosa‐Montes de Oca, JD Witts… - Paleoceanography …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
To explore both environmental change and the response of non‐fossilizing phytoplankton
across the Cretaceous‐Paleogene (K‐Pg) boundary mass extinction event, we determined …

The Reconstruction of Climate in Beringia by analysis of Glycerol Dialkyl Glycerol Tetraether (GDGT) Distributions using High Performance Liquid Chromatography …

LB Pankhurst - 2024 - pearl.plymouth.ac.uk
The reconstruction of past environments, including temperatures, aids in the production of
climate models which predict how the Earth will respond to future climatic changes that are …

[PDF][PDF] Last∼ 100 Ka of the Cretaceous Characterised by Global Warming

L O'Connor, R Jerrett, G Price, S Lengger… - IMOG …, 2023 - researchgate.net
Bolide impact and volcanic outgassing are the main, and fiercely contested, contenders of
the cause of mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary. Models of the …