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Table of Contents - Special Paper 332:

Evolution of the Cretaceous Ocean-Climate System


Foreword v
Preface vii

Paleogeography
1. Alternative global Cretaceous paleogeography
William W. Hay, Robert M. DeConto, Christopher N. Wold, Kevin M. Wilson, Silke Voigt, Michael Schulz, Adrienne Wold-Rossby, Wolf-Christian Dullo, Alexander B. Ronov, Alexander N. Balukhovsky, and Emanuel S"ding
1

Paleoclimatology
2. Estimating the global thermal state from Cretaceous sea surface and continental temperature data
Larry A. Frakes
49
3. Lower Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) secular changes in the oxygen and carbon isotope record from high paleolatitude, fluvial sediments, southeast Australia: Comparisons to the marine record
Kurt M. Ferguson, Robert T. Gregory, and Andrew Constantine
59
4. Links between major climatic factors and regional oceanic circulation in the mid-Cretaceous
Chris J. Poulsen, Eric J. Barron, Claudia C. Johnson, and Peter Fawcett
73
5. Biogeographic distribution of late Early to Late Cretaceous rudist-reefs in the Mediterranean as climate indicators
Silke Voigt, William W. Hay, Richard Höfling, and Robert M. DeConto
91
6. Precessional cycles in the Upper Cretaceous pelagic sediments of the South Atlantic: Long-term patterns from high-frequency climate variations
Timothy D. Herbert, Jeff Gee, and Steve DiDonna
105

Paleoceanography
7. Warm, equable mid-Cretaceous: Stable isotope evidence
Michelle L. Fassell and Timothy J. Bralower
121
8. Coupled oceanic effects of climatic cycles from late Albian deep-sea sections of the North Atlantic
P. Hofmann, W. Ricken, L. Schwark, and D. Leythaeuser
143
9. Calcareous nannofossils as indicators of mid-Cretaceous paleofertility along an ocean front, U.S. Western Interior
Cynthia G. Fisher and William W. Hay
161
10. Circulation and stratification of the early Turonian Western Interior Seaway: Sensitivity to a variety of forcings
Lee R. Kump and Rudy L. Slingerland
181
11. Plate tectonic paleoceanographic hypothesis for Cretaceous source rocks and cherts of northern South America
Tomas Villamil, Claudia Arango, and William W. Hay
191
12. Factors influencing organic carbon and trace metal accumulation in the Upper Cretaceous La Luna Formation of the western Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela
Cara Davis, Lisa Pratt, William Sliter, Luis Mompart, and Bruno Murat
203
13. Deciphering Late Cretaceous subequatorial ocean-climate interactions in the Sergipe Basin, Brazil
Ana M. Carmo and Lisa M. Pratt
231
14. Evolution of late Campanian-Maastrichtian marine climates and oceans
Enriqueta Barrera and Samuel M. Savin
245
15. Comparison of modern and Late Cretaceous meridional energy transport and oceanology
William W. Hay and Robert M. DeConto
283

Paleobiology
16. Cretaceous paleoceanography: Evidence from planktonic foraminiferal evolution
Isabella Premoli Silva and William V. Sliter
301
17. Evolution of Cretaceous surface current circulation patterns, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico
Claudia C. Johnson
329
18. Repopulations from Cretaceous mass extinctions: Environmental/evolutionary controls?
Peter J. Harries
345
19. Cross correlation of paleoecological and geochemical proxies: A holistic approach to the study of past global change
Bradley B. Sageman and David J. Hollander
365
20. Global terrestrial productivity in the mid-Cretaceous (100 Ma): Model simulations and data
David J. Beerling, F. Ian Woodward, and Paul J. Valdes
385
21. Late Cretaceous climate and vegetation interactions: Cold continental interior paradox
Robert M. DeConto, William W. Hay, Starley L. Thompson, and Jon Bergengren
391
22. Terrestrial vegetation and its effects on climate during the latest Cretaceous
G. R. Upchurch, Jr., B. L. Otto-Bliesner, and C. R. Scotese
407

Color appendix

427
Index 437