A detailed field study of Jurassic tectono-stratigraphic architecture the southwestern part Corbières-Languedoc Transfer Zone (CLTZ, NE-SW oriented), between Pyrenean and Provençal orogenic segments (N110 oriented) in SE France, document for first time variations thickness stratigraphic geometries relation to oblique extensional cover structures (NE-SW N110 oriented). These (low-dip normal faul...

Interbasinal stratigraphic correlation provides the foundation for all consequent continental-scale geological and paleontological analyses. Correlation requires synthesis of lithostratigraphic, biostratigraphic and geochronologic data, and must be periodically updated to accord with advances in dating techniques, changing standards for radiometric dates, new stratigraphic concepts, hypotheses,...

The integration between new technologies (Natural Gamma-ray Spectrometry log tool, magnetic resonance, etc.), characterization methodologies (probabilistic evaluation, crossplots analysis) and core data (petrophysical and petrological data and sedimentologic description) is very important to identify diagenetic constraints for reservoir quality in shaly-sand reservoirs in order to build a more ...

During the early Maastrichtian (ca. 71 Ma), important changes occurred in climate, weathering, sea level, biota, and the global carbon cycle. Global climate was characterized by rapid cooling within the long-term post-Santonian refrigeration of high-latitude surface and intermediate waters (Barrera, 1994; Huber et al., 1995). The intensity of continental weathering increased, as inferred from t...

Highlighting how crustal shortening is accommodated in space and time fold-thrust belts a major issue for understanding the long-term tectonic evolution of orogenic systems. In this study, we combine surface subsurface data to build 150 km-long sequentially restored balanced cross-section across two superimposed foreland southeastern France: upper Cretaceous-Eocene Provençal belt Oligocene-Neog...

Diatoms are the most diverse group of algae, playing a major role in global carbon and silicon cycles (Kidder and Erwin, 2001; Armbrust, 2009) and inhabiting virtually any environment that provides moisture and sunlight (Mann, 1999). Thus, they offer important information to help reconstruct paleoen-vironments and clarify stratigraphic relationships. Their strati-graphic range extends down at l...

Abstract. The Polish Basin is a part of trans-European sedimentary basin comprising the Central European System and stretching from Denmark through Germany to southeastern Poland, even further south into Ukraine. It experienced uplift during Late Cretaceous, which consequently resulted in inversion its axial (i.e., Mid-Polish Trough) development Anticlinorium. In many existing paleotectonic int...

The evolution of Tethyan phosphogenesis during the Cretaceous–Eocene is examined to try to explain fluctuations of phosphogenesis through time, and whether or not they reflect long-term changes in ocean circulation or in continental weathering. Twenty-seven time-stratigraphic phosphate levels in various Tethyan sites, covering a time span of about 90 Myr from the Hauterivian to the Eocene, were...