Terrestrial Paleoclimatology and Paleohydrology of the Cretaceous Greenhouse World
A special issue of Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263). This special issue belongs to the section "Climate".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 January 2022) | Viewed by 31938
Special Issue Editors
Interests: stratigraphy; stable isotopes; paleoclimatology
Interests: stratigraphy; sedimentology; paleosols; landforms; surficial processes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Cretaceous Period (~145–66 Ma) is a subject of scientific interest as an analogue state for modern climate change. The Greenhouse World of the Cretaceous is noted for higher pCO2 levels than present, with shorter-term carbon cycle perturbations related to Ocean Anoxic Events. Much of our current scientific understanding of the period is informed by long-term investments in ocean drilling programs with attendant paleo-oceanographic studies. Improved scientific understanding of the terrestrial paleoclimatic impacts of Cretaceous global change is urgently needed for improved forecasting of the human prospect. Cretaceous terrestrial paleoclimatology and paleohydrology are rapidly developing fields of study, with major advances in carbon isotope chemostratigraphy, chronostratigraphic resolution, and a plethora of new and more refined proxy measurements of terrestrial climate parameters. These advancements have been highlighted in recent international conferences, and this Special Issue will feature late-breaking scientific results in this dynamic field of study.
Over the last decade, published scientific investigations on the topic of Cretaceous terrestrial paleoenvironments have undergone a rapid expansion in volume. This Special Issue will draw contributions from an international group of active researchers to discuss current topics in Cretaceous terrestrial stratigraphy, depositional systems, paleopedology, biostratigraphy, paleontology and paleoecology, chronostratigraphy and geochronology, stable isotope chemostratigraphy, and paleoclimatology. The unique insights derived from studies of Cretaceous terrestrial systems are critical components for broad scientific understanding of Cretaceous Earth Systems, and the contributed papers in this Special Issue will seek to share viewpoints developed from these approaches with the wider geoscience research community.
Prof. Dr. Gregory A. Ludvigson
Prof. Dr. R. M. Joeckel
Dr. Marina B. Suarez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Carbon isotope chemostratigraphy
- Uranium–lead geochronology
- Marine–terrestrial Correlations
- Stable-isotope paleohydrology
- Clumped isotope paleothermometry
- Ocean Anoxic Events
- Greenhouse gas geobarometry
- Paleopedology
- Paleoclimate modeling
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