Limestones designated the Štramberk-type are most common carbonate exotic clasts (exotics) embedded in uppermost Jurassic–Miocene flysch deposits of Polish Outer Carpathians. About 80% stratigraphically determinable exotics from Silesian, Sub-Silesian and Skole units (nappes) Tithonian (mostly)–Berriasian (sporadically Valanginian) age. A study these revealed eight main facies types: coral-micr...

The age of tuffaceous interlayers, represented by tuffs and tuffites, which are common in the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous deposits Western Siberia (the Bazhenovo, Tutleim Frolov Formations), is discussed. nature these interlayers associated with subglobal (transfer more than 1--2 thousand km) spread volcanic ash (0.001--0.1 mm) its sedimentation burial a vast epicontinental marine basin dur...

calcareous nannofossil assemblages recovered from a long, continuous section have been described from the sarayan region in lut block in east iran. the marine upper cretaceous sediments of this section yield medium diverse and well-preserved calcareous nannofossil assemblages. a structural analysis of upper cretaceous calcareous nannofloras has revealed 30 nannofossil species. a revised zonatio...

In the Makran area, a wide accretionary wedge is originated by north-dipping subduction of Neo-Tethyan oceanic lithosphere. The rear represented North Domain that consists an imbricate stack tectonic units derived from closure basin. This basin opened southward Eurasia continental margin during Early Cretaceous. Bajgan Complex interpreted as Paleozoic or older metamorphic basement representing ...

binaloud mountains formed during collision of iran and turan plate in the late triassic time and caused shortening of the sedimentary cover because of cimmerian and alpine orogeny. the thrust sheets with different generations formed as a results of the binalood and alborz fold- thrust belts. northeast of iran that was already south coast of the divergent margin of the paleothetys ocean at this ...

A new ichnospecies of a large theropod dinosaur, Megalosauripus transjuranicus, is described from the Reuchenette Formation (Early-Late Kimmeridgian, Late Jurassic) of NW Switzerland. It is based on very well-preserved and morphologically-distinct tracks (impressions) and several trackways, including different preservational types from different tracksites and horizons. All trackways were excav...

The Jurassic–Early Cretaceous was a time of variable organic carbon burial associated with fluctuations marine primary productivity, weathering intensity, and redox conditions in the pore bottom water at paleo-shelf areas north Egypt. This interval characterized deposition of, from old to young, Bahrein, Khatatba, Masajid, Alam El Bueib Formations Western Desert. Although several studies have b...

SYNOPSIS Recent discoveries and analyses have drawn increased attention to Ceratosauria, a taxonomically and morphologically diverse group of basal theropods. By the time of its first appearance in the Late Jurassic, the group was probably globally distributed. This pattern eventually gave way to a primarily Gondwanan distribution by the Late Cretaceous. Ceratosaurs are one of several focal gro...

The apatite fission track (FT) analysis of Jurassic sandstones from the Beipiao basin in the eastern China indicates a large variation in FT age peaks. The sandstone of the Beipiao Formation has two peak ages at 178.8 and 40.0 Ma, while the sandstone of the Tuchengzi Formation has three age peaks at 152.0, 77.5 and 32.5 Ma. This implies that the provenance of the Beipiao basin in the early Jura...