The East Greenland Rift Basin comprises a series of Jurassic subbasins with different crustal configurations, and somewhat tectonic histories styles. roughly N–S elongated basin is exposed in central northern over length more than 600 km width up to 250 km. southernmost exposures are found the largest subbasin Jameson Land, while northernmost on Store Koldewey Germania Land. focus present revis...

-The mid-Mesozoic time was characterized by massive reorganization of the ecological structure of benthic marine communities. Although the general pattern of this "Mesozoic Marine Revolution" has been extensively documented, little is known about how it affected the taxonomic and morphologic diversities of individual lineages of organisms. Here I document group-level dynamics of the Mesozoic ch...

Subduction zones are the primary regions on Earth today where crust recycling takes place, and through geological time they have been the sites of continent formation. Many of the key elements (e.g., Th, rare earth elements, Ba, and Be) that are important in understanding crustal growth are sequestered in the sedimentary column and in the uppermost oxidized portions of the volcanic section of o...