-The Mesozoic to Eocene sedimentary succession of Hazara Basin dominated by carbonates is characterized by a distinct package of sediments punctuated by a number of diastems, hiatus and unconformities. The Hazara Basin evolved in Hettangian with the development of lagoonal to upper shoreface conditions on the northern margin of northward flying India. It was followed by a thick pile of middle J...

A microtectonic study was conducted in the Levac region of central Serbia. Here, tectonic contacts between Europe?derived units, including Serbo-Macedonian unit and Jurassic sedimentary cover European margin, Eastern Vardar Ophiolitic unit, are exposed at surface. The results indicate that contact zone underwent least two ductile contractional deformation phases. older contraction associated wi...

It updates the biostratigraphic refinement in the Indian Mesozoics with focus on the Triassic in Spiti, Jurassic in Kachchh, and Cretaceous in Kachchh and Cauvery. As an example, the ammonoid stratigraphic zonation in Kachchh basin inclusive of the new Oxfordian zones, as also the origin of the basin are developed at length. Also are touched upon the salient pre-sequence Paleozoic features as b...

The fossil record of cuttlefish, squid and octopus has received relatively little attention. Among malacologists, the opinion is widespread that these mainly softbodied coleoids have a poor fossil record. However, thanks to Konservat-Lagerst tten such as the Early Jurassic Posidonian Shales of Holzmaden (Germany), the Middle Jurassic La-Voulte-sur-Rh ne (France) and the Late Jurassic Limestones...

s Volume, 134 pp.Seibertz, E., Spaeth, C., 2008. Belemnites (Coleoid cephalopods) in Jurassic andCretaceous strata of Mexico: state of the art: II Simposio Geocientífico Internacional Linares, Resúmenes, 204-206. Sellwood, B., Valdes, P., Price, G., 2000, Geological evaluation of multiplegeneral circulation model simulations of Late Jurassic palaeoclimate:Palaeogeography, Palaeo...

three granitoid bodies, shirkuh batholith, kaffe abad and ader bolandan are exposed in nw yazd, cutting across the naiband formation (upper triassic), and overlain by cretaceous formations. shirkuh batholith is most likely of jurassic age. it seems to be the first and the most significant episode of magmatism in studied area which occurred in middle jurassic (late cimmerian) time. on the other ...

New coleoid cephalopods are described from statolith remains from the Middle Eocene (Middle Lutetian) of the Paris Basin. Fifteen fossil statoliths are identified and assigned to the Sepiidae (Sepia boletzkyi sp. nov.,? Sepia pira sp. nov.), Loliginidae (Loligo clarkei sp. nov.), and Ommastrephidae (genus indet.) families. The sediments containing these fossils indicate permanent aquatic settin...

The Toarcian Posidonia Shale and Hettangian/Sinemurian Formation are the two main Mesozoic source rocks of Upper Rhine Graben (URG). Their thermal maturities measured used to reconstruct history URG. However, maturity these was impacted by: 1) pre-rift burial which includes a 120 My hiatus from Jurassic Paleocene; 2) syn- post-rift histories; 3) current high geothermal gradients associated hydr...