Many aspects of Late Cretaceous eustasy, including timing, amplitudes, and forcing mechanisms, remain poorly understood. Recent studies suggest a possibility of Milankovitch forcing of the Cretaceous "greenhouse" eustasy (e.g. Plint, 1991; Fischer Hinnov, 2000; Gale et al., 2002), but stratigraphic data, which would exceed, in their temporal resolution, the constraints given by biostratigraphic...

The Aegean–Hellenic arc is a deformed sector of long heterogeneous orogenic system (Tethyan belt), constituted by an inner old metamorphic crystalline core flanked younger chains European and African affinity, running from the Anatolian to Pelagonian zones. Due convergence between Arabian promontory Eurasian continental domain, that belt has undergone westward extrusion, accommodated oroclinal ...

Field mapping and geochronologic and thermobarometric analyses of the Gurla Mandhata area, in southwest Tibet, reveal major middle to late Miocene, east-west extension along a normal-fault system, termed the Gurla Mandhata detachment system. The maximum fault slip occurs along a pair of low-angle normal faults that have caused significant tectonic denudation of the Tethyan Sedimentary Sequence,...

A new species of the macrourine genus Nezumia is described from specimens collected from the crest of Fieberling Guyot in the eastern North Pacific Ocean. The new species is distinguishable from all other Nezumia species chiefly on the basis of a high number of pelvic fin rays, a relatively high number of first dorsal fin soft rays, a steep blunt snout lacking scales ventrally, a relatively wea...

Stylophora pistillata is a widely used coral "lab-rat" species with highly variable morphology and a broad biogeographic range (Red Sea to western central Pacific). Here we show, by analysing Cytochorme Oxidase I sequences, from 241 samples across this range, that this taxon in fact comprises four deeply divergent clades corresponding to the Pacific-Western Australia, Chagos-Madagascar-South Af...

Thomas M. Iliffe Bermuda Biological Station for Research Ferry Reach GE 01, Bermuda Significant biological and geological discoveries have resulted from the use of specialized cave diving techniques for the exploration and study of anchialine caves. Many new and higher taxa of troglobitic organisms have been found, some of which are relic "living fossils". Marine troglobites have at least three...