LATE ALBIAN-CENOMANIAN PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERAL BIOSTRATIGRAPHY, TAXONOMY AND PALEOCEANOGRAPHIC INFERENCES

• Main Author: GILARDONI, SILVIA ELENA
• Other Authors: tutor: M. R. Petrizzo, coordinator: E. Erba, S.E. Gilardoni, PETRIZZO, MARIA ROSE, ERBA, ELISABETTA
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Università degli Studi di Milano 2017
• Subjects: micropalaeontology; planktonic foraminifera; taxonomy; biostratigraphy; paleoceanography; Albian-Cenomanian; Settore GEO/01 - Paleontologia e Paleoecologia; Leckie; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2434/479427; https://doi.org/10.13130/gilardoni-silvia-elena_phd2017-02-24

The mid-Cretaceous period (about 120 Ma to 80 Ma) was characterized by unusually warm climate, low thermal gradient between latitudes and by a series of Oceanic Anoxic Events (OAEs) promoting deposition of black shales (e.g. Bréhéret, 1988; Gale et al., 1996; Coccioni, 2001; Bornemann et al., 2005...