Abstract King George Island (South Shetland Islands, Antarctic Peninsula) is renowned for its terrestrial palaeoenvironmental record, which includes evidence potentially up to four Cenozoic glacial periods. An advantage of the glacigenic outcrops on island that they are associated with volcanic formations can be isotopically dated. As a result new mapping and chronological study, it now shown p...

This work introduces one of the first palynostatigraphic study conducted on formations from Eocene and overlying lowermost Miocene successions (Cunga Quifangondo formations) exposed in Onshore Kwanza Basin, Angola. To improve Cunga age, new biostratigraphic correlations palaeoenvironmental interpretations based qualitative quantitative analyses organic walled dinoflagellate cysts sedimentary ro...

BACKGROUND The family Phyllanthaceae has a predominantly pantropical distribution. Of its several genera, Bridelia Willd. is of a special interest because it has disjunct equally distributed species in Africa and tropical Asia i.e. 18-20 species in Africa-Madagascar (all endemic) and 18 species in tropical Asia (some shared with Australia). On the basis of molecular phylogenetic study on Bridel...

Abstract. Intrusion of deep saline waters into freshwater aquifers does not only endanger the regional drinking water supply, but also rivers and stagnant their fauna are threatened by salinisation. The upwelling highly mineralised in large parts North German Basin is favoured presence Elsterian glacial erosion windows Lower Oligocene Rupelian Clay, most important hydraulic confining unit this ...

Abstract In contrast to other kinds of biological interactions, symbiosis is a scarcely investigated aspect the fossil record. This largely due taphonomic biases that often frustrate any attempt make strong case two organisms shared an intimate association in life. Among extant marine vertebrates, sea turtles (Cheloniidae and Dermochelyidae) bear broad diverse spectrum epibiotic symbionts, incl...

Changes in sedimentary profiles and stratigraphic architecture over time lake basins are shown to be relevant markers of climate changes terrestrial palaeoenvironments. The the Priabonian (late Eocene)–early Rupelian (early Oligocene) Alès–Saint-Chaptes–Issirac saline system has been reconstructed from sedimentological, biostratigraphic magnetostratigraphic analysis outcrops well cores. As a fu...