In order to decipher the paleo-depositional environments, during Late Jurassic Early Eocene syn-rift stage, at margins of Ionian basin, two different areas with exposed long sequences have been selected, Kastos Island (external margin) and Araxos peninsula (internal margin), were examined by means microfacies analysis biostratigraphy. On Island, based on lithological sedimentological features, ...

The Paleocene/Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) and associated carbon isotope excursion (CIE) are often touted as the best geologic analog for the current anthropogenic rise in pCO2. However, a causal mechanism for the PETM CIE remains unidentified because of large uncertainties in the duration of the CIE's onset. Here, we report on a sequence of rhythmic sedimentary couplets comprising the Paleoce...

[1] Previous workers identified a magnetically anomalous clay layer deposited on the northern United States Atlantic Coastal Plain during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM). The finding inspired the highly controversial hypothesis that a cometary impact triggered the PETM. Here we present ferromagnetic resonance (FMR), isothermal and anhysteretic remanent magnetization, first-order rev...

This monograph has been compiled by members of the Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group (hereafter referred to as the Working Group) of the International Subcommission on Paleogene Stratigraphy, International Union of Geological Sciences. It is the second such work in a projected series of three, the first being the Atlas of Paleocene Planktonic Foraminifera published by Smithsonian ...

The Paleocene/Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) was a time of rapid global warming in both marine and continental realms that has been attributed to a massive methane (CH4) release from marine gas hydrate reservoirs. Previously proposed mechanisms for this methane release rely on a change in deepwater source region(s) to increase water temperatures rapidly enough to trigger the massive thermal diss...

The article presents the results of lithological and petrophysical investigations reservoir rocks Eocene-Paleocene Formations, which is one main hydrocarbon prolific horizons in Central Eastern Ciscaucasia. These include characteristics pore space parameters for these stratigraphic intervals.

A large collection of dentigerous jaws quarried from the Gao Mine locality, late Paleocene, Paskapoo Formation, central Alberta, Canada, documents a new species early Paleogene phenacodontid “condylarth” Ectocion Cope, 1882. The species, stockeyae, smallest genus, occurs well before abrupt global warming at Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, an event purportedly causing rapid evolution “dwarfed”...