Abstract In Egypt, Wadi Qena Middle Eastern Desert, Paleogene successions exposed at Hawashiya and Abu Had sections from north to south were measured comprehensively investigated for their foraminiferal content. The Dakhla, Tarawan, Esna formations make up the sections. studied are subdivided into six biozones; they five zones of Late Paleocene ( Igorina albeari subzone (P3b), G. Globanomalina ...

The Cenozoic succession of the East Pisco Basin preserves sedimentary record several episodes deformation forearc crust along Peruvian margin. 1:50,000 scale geological map presented here encompasses an area about 1,000 km2 lying astride Ica River, and contributes to our understanding timing mode basin filling deformation. Our novel two-fold megasequence framework provides a sound basis for est...

calcareous nannofossil assemblages of the boundary paleocene-eocene deposits (pabdeh formation) of the zagros, dezful embayment-mansouri oilfield have been studied in detail. it consists of shale and grey marlstone with inter layers of calcareous argillites and marly claystone. we present a study focused on changes in calcareous nannofossils of the pabdeh formation during the paleocene/eocene b...

Culiseta kishenehn, sp. n. and Cs. lemniscata, sp. n. (Diptera: Culicidae: Culisetini) are described from compression fossils from the 46 million year old Kishenehn shale deposits in Montana, USA. The new species appear to share features with extant species of subgenera Climacura and Culicella, respectively. The antiquity of Culiseta is examined and previously described Eocene fossil species ar...

The spectacularly preserved Metasequoia wood excavated from the Fossil Forest site of Axel Heiberg Island (Canadian High Arctic) provides a unique window into the δ18O value of Eocene meteoric water via the analysis of fossil cellulose. Seventeen fossilized Metasequoia individuals yielded cellulose with δ18O (Vienna standard mean ocean water [VSMOW]) values ranging from 17.1‰ to 21.4‰ and with ...

[1] Eocene Thermal Maximum 2 (ETM2 or H1; 53.7 Ma) represents a short-lived warming episode, associated with the injection of a large mass of C-depleted carbon into the ocean-atmosphere system. The mass of injected carbon, the extent of deep sea dissolution, and the amount of warming during ETM2 appear to be approximately half of those documented for the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM, ...

Abundant and clearly exposed relationships between structures and syntectonic sedimentary rocks in the southern Pyrenees make this area particularly suitable for detailed studies of the sequential development of a collisional orogenic belt. During the Pyrenean orogeny, major shortening occurred in the eastern Pyrenees in Eocene and early Oligocene times. Unto now, individual tectonic and deposi...

Four new scorpionfly species of the family Cimbrophlebiidae (Mecoptera) are described in the genus Cimbrophlebia Willmann from two localities of the far-western North American Early Eocene Okanagan Highlands: C. flabelliformis sp. n. and C. leahyi sp. n. from McAbee, British Columbia, Canada; and C. brooksi sp. n. and C. westae, sp. n. from Republic, Washington, U.S.A. A further, partially pres...