The enigmatic geodynamic processes involved in the India-Asia collision shape our understanding of uplift and deformation Tibetan Plateau subsequent changes land-sea distribution pattern, monsoon-arid environments biotic evolution Central-Eastern Asia. However, current models dealing with history exhibit significant discrepancies how, when where exactly India Asia occurred. Recently, we propose...

The Pliocene epoch from about 5.3 million to 2.6 years before present is the most recent period of sustained global warmth similar near future projections. restriction Indonesian Passages, closure Panama Seaway and declining atmospheric CO 2 -concentration are suggested have caused climate evolution present-day condition. Here, we sea surface temperature (SST) reconstructions along with sensiti...

Abstract Recent discovery of a previously unknown outcrop in the vicinity Zengővárkony lime-kilns (Mecsek Mountains, Hungary) provided few identifiable upper Oxfordian brachiopods that exhibit truly Mediterranean (Tethyan) character. Dating is based on rich ammonite fauna: Benetticeras benettii; Trimarginites ex gr. trimarginatus; Orthosphinctes (Orthosphinctes) tiziani clearly indicate Late Ox...

chaldoran area in nw of iran has mesozoic oceanic crust basement. the studied rocks of this region can be divided into three groups: ophiolitic gabbros and pillow lavas, ophiolitic volcanoclastics and eocene lava flows. ophiolitic mafic rocks show continental volcanic arc natures and eocene lava flow shows oib-like nature. during the mesozoic,the chaldoran region was situated in the active cont...

The Red Bird section of the Pierre Shale in eastern Wyoming contains a relatively complete sequence of fine-grained marine clastics that were deposited between 81 and 69 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous epicontinental seaway of the US Western Interior. These units not only contain a well-studied, high-resolution ammonite biostratigraphic sequence, by which the far-flung exposures of the...