Foraminifers from the upper Oligocene, lower Miocene, and Pleistocene at Site 270 in the southern Ross Sea, Antarctica, are discussed and illustrated. The total fauna comprises 74 genera and 163 species. A small number of taxa are recycled from Cretaceous and older Paleogene sediments. Four assemblage zones are proposed, the age of informal lithologic units discussed, and potentially important ...

Climatic and environmental shifts have had profound impacts on faunal and floral assemblages globally since the end of the Miocene. We explore the regional expression of these fluctuations in southwestern Europe by constructing long-term records (from ~11.1 to 0.8 Ma, late Miocene-middle Pleistocene) of carbon and oxygen isotope variations in tooth enamel of different large herbivorous mammals ...

In one of the first papers documenting active east-west extension in Tibet, Molnar and Tapponnier (1978) attributed the extension to gravitational spreading of its thick crust. England and Houseman (1989) related extension to rapid uplift of the Tibetan plateau caused by convective removal of the lower mantle lithosphere. Other workers have argued that east-west extension in southern Tibet refl...

Neogene cooling and aridifi cation in the Northern Hemisphere have long been recognized, but there are no studies comparing patterns of aridity gradients or differences between North America and Eurasia. Large herbivorous mammals are an excellent source for understanding large-scale environmental and climatic patterns because their molar crown height (hypsodonty) refl ects both habitat and prec...

For 50 years the existence of sapropels (organic-carbon-rich sediments) deposited within Plio–Pleistocene sediments of the Mediterranean Sea has been known. Initially, research concentrated on material recovered in relatively short gravity=piston cores taken from the eastern basins where sequences were found to be well developed=preserved and had extensive spatial coverage. In the main, previou...

APPROACH In July-August 1998 aboard the USNS Bowditch, we collected sediment cores, CTDs and XBTs, 3.5 kHz subbottom profiles, and high-resolution 48-channel seismic profiles. This survey covered as much of the Gulf as possible given the restrictions that reefs, oil fields and territorial limits have on ship operations. The approach was to seismically map Neogene stratigraphy and tie this struc...

We analyzed the tectonics and stratigraphy of Southern Great Tarakan Basin to determine its tectonic evolution during Mesozoic-Cenozoic Eras, basin geometry, potential hydrocarbon using integrated surface subsurface data. can be divided into three sub-basins, Berau, Muara, South Tarakan. They comprise deposits Jurassic Quaternary age, which assigned five mega sequences based on their lithologic...

This work describes three newly discovered species of Rhophitulus Ducke, 1907: R. labiosus n. sp. from Minas Gerais (Brazil), R. mimus n. sp. from Salta (Argentina), and R. xenopalpus n. sp. from Catamarca and Tucumán (Argentina). Photographs of the holotype of Rhophitulus steinbachi (Friese, 1916) are provided, and modifications in the morphology of a female of R. xenopalpus n. sp. when parasi...