between the lower and upper cretaceous there were some diastrophic movements, belonging to the austrain phase. these movements, which can be traced in many parts of north and central iran, caused extensive precenomanian erosion. even in southwest iran a wide spread discontinuity is reported at the base of the kazhdumi formation, which is possibly related to these movements. in the kopet - dagh ...

pillow basalts, belonging to late cretaceous yüksekova complex are extensivelly exposed around elazıg in eastern turkey. this unit is a part of southeastern anatolian ophiolite belt and the southern branch of the neotethys. it represents the products of intra- oceanic subduction volcanism and mainly comprises pillow lavas, dykes and associated with sedimentary rocks. pillow lavas and feeder dyk...

It has been proposed that extensive wildfires occurred after the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) impact event. An abundance of soot and pyrosynthetic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (pPAHs) in marine K-T boundary impact rocks (BIRs) have been considered support for this hypothesis. However, nonmarine K-T BIRs, from across North America, contain only rare occurrences of charcoal yet abundant noncharr...

The Eskay Creek gold-silver mine, located in northwest British Columbia, is the highest-grade precious-metal volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit in the world. The mining industry continues to spend more than $2 million each year on exploration for similar deposits in the area. The geologic setting at the minesite is well studied, but large tracts in north-central British Columbia require more...

The crab genus Rathhunopon is exclusively known from Cretaceous rocks, mainly from Europe. Here two new European localities are presented: one in the Albian/Cenomanian of northern Spain yielding well-preserved specimens of Rathhunopon ohesum, and one from the lower Aptian at the German-Austrian border yielding Rathhunopon schrattenkalkensis n. sp. Both are found in association with coral reefs....

of Wallowa terrane crust, as the Blue Mountains terrane assemblage The Cornucopia stock, in the Blue Mountains of northeastern collided with the continental margin during Early Cretaceous time. Oregon, is a small composite intrusion comprising five distinct Results of this study suggest that deformation and crustal melting intrusive units: a hornblende biotite tonalite, a biotite trondhjemite, ...

Cenomanian paralic deposits of Charentes (southwestern France) have yielded abundant vertebrate microremains, including rather diversified continental taxa (e.g., frogs, turtles, crocodilians, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, lizards, and mammals). In this preliminary report, the succession of faunal assemblages observed is briefly described in relation to palaeoenvironmental change resulting from the Ce...