Mid-Cretaceous

Caldeira, K. and Rampino, M.R. (1991) The mid-Cretaceous super-plume, carbon dioxide and global warming. Geophys. Res. Lett., 18, 987-990. 

Mair, J.L, Hart, C.J.R., Stephens, J.R. 2006. Deformation history of the northwestern Selwyn Basin, Yukon, Canada implications for orogen evolution and mid-Cretaceous magmatism. GSA Bulletin, 118, 304-323. 

Selby, D. Creaser, R.A. 2001. Late and mId-Cretaceous mineralization in the northern Canadian Cordillera Constraints from Re-Os molybdenite dates. Economic Geology, 96, 1461-1467. 

The oldest unambiguous homobasidiomycete fossils are from the mid-Cretaceous, but indirect evidence, including molecular clock dating, suggests that the higher Hymenomycetes may have existed by the late Triassic (ca. 200 million years) [30, 387]. 

Brandon A. D. and Lambert R. StJ. (1994) Crustal melting in the Cordilleran interior the mid-Cretaceous White Creek batholith in the southern Canadian Cordillera. J. Petrol. 35, 239-269. 

Klaver, G. T. (1987) The Curasao lava formation an ophiolitic analogue of the anomalous thick layer 2B of the mid-Cretaceous oceanic plateaus in the western Pacific and central Caribbean. PhD Thesis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 

Tatsumi Y., Shinjoe H., Ishizuka H., Sager W. W., and Klaus A. (1998) Geochemical evidence for a mid-Cretaceous superplume. Geology 26, 151-154. 

Bralower T. J. and Thierstein H. R. (1984) Low productivity and slow deep water circulation in mid-Cretaceous oceans. Geology 12, 614—618. 

Bralower T. J. and Thierstein H. R. (1987) Organic-carbon and metal accumulation in Holocene and Mid-Cretaceous marine sediments palaeoceanographic significance. In Marine Petroleum Source Rocks. Geological Society of London Special Publication 26 (eds. J. Brooks and A. J. Fleet), pp. 345-369. 

Herbert T. D. and Fischer A. G. (1986) Milankovitch climatic origin of mid-Cretaceous black shale rhythms in central Italy. Nature 321, 739-743. 

Kuypers M. M. M (2001) Mechanisms and biogeochemical impheations of the mid-Cretaceous global organic carbon burial events. PhD Dissertation, Universitiet Utrecht, 135pp (unpubhshed). 

Kuypers M. M. M., Blokker P., Erbacher J., Kinkel H., Pancost R. D., Schouten S., and Sinninghe Damste J. S. (2001) Massive expansion of marine Archea during a Mid-Cretaceous oceanic anoxic event. Science 293, 92-94. 

Velde B., Raoult J. E., and Leikine M. (1974) Metamorphosed berthierine pellets in Mid-Cretaceous rocks from northeastern Algeria. J. Sedim. Petrol 44, 1275-1280. 

Only reported from a mid-Cretaceous oceanic anoxic event nonhyperthermophilic marine Crenarchaeota ... 

Hydrothermal reactions between seawater and young oceanic crust have been proposed as an influence on atmospheric O2 (Walker, 1986 Carpenter and Lohmann, 1999 Hansen and Wallmann, 2002). While specific periods of oceanic anoxia may be associated with accelerated hydrothermal release of mantle sulfide (i.e., the Mid-Cretaceous, see Sinninghe-Damste and Koster, 1998), long-term sulfur and carbon isotope mass balance precludes substantial inputs of mantle sulfur to the Earth s surface of a different net oxidation state and mass flux than what is subducted at convergent margins (Petsch, 1999 Holland, 2002). 

Follmi K. B. (1990) Condensation and phosphogenesis example of the Helvetic mid-Cretaceous (northern Tethyan margin). In Phosphorite Research and Development. Geol. Soc. Spec. Publ. No. 52 (eds. A. J. G. Notholt and I. Jarvis), pp. 237-252. 

Recently, a point of contention has arisen concerning the use of as a source indicator for mid-Cretaceous Inputs. Dean et... 

Lloyd, C.R. (1982) The mid-Cretaceous earth paleogeo-graphy, ocean circulation and temperature, and atmospheric circulation. J. Geol., 90, 393-413. 

In the Gidgealpa Field, temperatures were between 60 and 70°C from Mid-Cretaceous to Late Tertiary times in the Namur Sandstone (Fig. 5). In the last 10 Ma, and possibly as recently as the last 1 -2 Ma, a basinwide increase in thermal gradients occurred, probably in response to deep-seated igneous activity, as indicated by apatite fission track data (Gleadow et al., 1988). In the Namur Sandstone, present-day temperatures are between at least 80 and 105 C. 

The post-rift sedimentary history is recorded in the transgressive Upper Cretaceous Dawson Canyon and Tertiary Banquereau Formations above the mid-Cretaceous break-up unconformity. Shallowing occurred in Oligocene time, and may have led to subaerial exposure in the Miocene (Grant et al., 1986). 

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