Cretaceous eustasy revisited

• Published in: Global and planetary change Vol. 113; pp. 44 - 58
• Main Author: Haq, Bilal U.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.02.2014; Elsevier
• Subjects: Amplitude of sea-level changes; Amplitudes; Antarctica; basins; Cretaceous eustasy; Cretaceous period; Earth sciences; Earth, ocean, space; Estimates; Eustatic sea level; Exact sciences and technology; ice; Marine; mass flow; Mathematical models; Orbitals; periodicity; Regional; Sea level; Stratigraphy; Tanzania; terminology; Time; Topography; variance; polar regions; Antarctica; PS, Antarctica; ISW, Tanzania; Tanzania; Eustatic sea level; Cretaceous eustasy; Amplitude of sea-level changes; Senonian; Mesozoic; O-18/O-16; changes of level; stratigraphy; nomenclature; amplitude; dynamics; Upper Cretaceous; oxygen; eustacy; stable isotopes; Campanian; paleorelief; Coniacian; topography; Barremian; eccentricity; Cretaceous; revision; Turonian; ice sheets; Albian; Lower Cretaceous; periodicity; Aptian; Earth orbit; Phanerozoic; Valanginian; sea level

Eustatic sea-level changes of the Cretaceous are reevaluated based on a synthesis of global stratigraphic data. A new terminology for local/regional or relative sea-level changes (eurybatic shifts) is proposed to distinguish them from global (eustatic) sea-level changes, with the observation that al...