New simplified tectonic models and depositional history of Late Cretaceous rocks are established in a part of Zagros Orogenic Belt that is located in the Northeastern Iraq. These rocks constutes the most important Cretaceous oil reservoir in the Middle East. The dependent tools are petrography, field study and the concept of drowning phases. This concept is relatively new and accurate in explan...

Climatic variability and silicate weathering are remarkable features throughout the Late Cretaceous period. Campanian black shale is considered most significant source rock in southern Tethys. Here, we used mineralogical geochemical data to evaluate continental intensity climatic changes as well their impact on deposition of Western Desert Egypt. The studied has a relatively high concentration ...

The tectonic opening of the Tasmanian Gateway and Drake Passage represented crucial geographic requirements for Cenozoic development Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC). Particularly complexity has hampered exact dating deepening phases, consequential onset throughflow ACC. One obstacles is putting key regional events, recorded in southern Patagonian sediments, absolute time. For that purpose, ...

Speed estimations from trackways of Titanopodus mendozensis González Riga and Calvo provide information about the locomotion of titanosaurian sauropods that lived in South America during the Late Cretaceous. Titanopodus ichnites were found at Agua del Choique, a newly discovered track site in the Loncoche Formation, Late Campanian-Early Maastrichtian of Mendoza, Argentina. This speed study foll...

Prior studies of Mesozoic biodiversity document a diversity peak for dinosaur species in the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous, yet have failed to provide explicit causal mechanisms. We provide evidence that a marked increase in North American dinosaur biodiversity can be attributed to dynamic orogenic episodes within the Western Interior Basin (WIB). Detailed fossil occurrences document a...

Testing models of macroevolution, and especially the sufficiency of microevolutionary processes, requires good collaboration between molecular biologists and paleontologists. We report such a test for events around the Late Cretaceous by describing the earliest penguin fossils, analyzing complete mitochondrial genomes from an albatross, a petrel, and a loon, and describe the gradual decline of ...

The biostratigraphy of the Outer Carpathians is based mainly on ranges agglutinated foraminifera. Species acmes provide opportunity to enhance and support existing biozonations. Assemblages foraminifera from Campanian Eocene various tectonic-structural units were analyzed in terms their qualitative quantitative occurrence. In this stratigraphic interval, 19 species display significantly increas...

The majority of environments are dominated by flowering plants today, but it is uncertain how this dominance originated. This increase in angiosperm diversity happened during the Cretaceous period (ca. 145-65 Ma) and led to replacement and often extinction of gymnosperms and ferns. We propose a scenario for the rise to dominance of the angiosperms from the Barremian (ca. 130 Ma) to the Campania...

The present work focuses on the upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-early Campanian) carbonate successions in selected wells from northwestern Iraq. These are represented by Gir Bir Turonian), Wajna (late Santonian) and Mushorah (early Formations. succession has affected early burial near-surface, unconformity-related deep diagenesis cementation, neomorphism, dolomitization, dedolomitization, silicifi...