The inferred positions of global paleoshorelines through the 240 million years of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic are presented within this atlas. Thirty-one maps, generally corresponding to stratigraphic stages, provide a snapshot of the continents and their shorelines at approximately 8 million year intervals. The maps provide a representation of the gross changes in the distribution of land and sea throughout the Mesozoic and Cenozoic plotted on Mollweide projections of paleocontinental reconstruction. They do not distinguish between well and poorly defined shorelines, but the information sources are set out in a bibliography numbering more than 2000 primary paleographic references. This is a global compilation that presents the first attempt at delineating global shorelines at stage level, and which represents many years of work sponsored by British Petroleum International (BPI), and work by BPI themselves between 1981 and 1987.
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The positions of global paleoshorelines through the Mesozoic and Cenozoic are presented within this atlas. This is a unique global compilation that presents the first attempt at delineating global shorelines at stage level. The information sources are set out in a bibliography numbering more than 2000 primary paleographic references.
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A good starting place.,
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This review is from: Atlas of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Coastlines (Hardcover)
This thin book is a good reference book for the professional or academic geologist. The maps are very useful but the best parts of the book are the reference section and bibliography. I'd give it a five star rating if the references and bibliography were updated to include the last decade of literature. This is a great little book for starting some of your research in the available literature on this topic.
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This atlas is one outcome of a substantial research programme that was conducted under the sponsorship of British Petroleum International. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
les facies, des facies, tectonique des plaques, global geology, shoreline maps, des jura, saline deposits, global reconstructions, continental fragments, drilling results, mutual boundary, geologic framework, subsurface exploration, tectonic evolution, petroleum potential, marginal basins, numerical ages, depositional history, structural history, continental margins, petroleum geology, sedimentary basins, regional geology Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Upper Cretaceous, United States, Petrol Geol, Western Interior, North Sea, Upper Jurassic, New York, Editions Technip, German Cretaceous, Professeur Paul Fallot, Lower Jurassic, Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, South Atlantic, Golfe de Gascogne, Plenum Press, Rocky Mountain, Upper Triassic, Bull Soc, Kreide Europas, East Greenland, Gulf of Mexico, Hors Sir, Indian Ocean, Middle Triassic, British Columbia New!
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This atlas is one outcome of a substantial research programme that was conducted under the sponsorship of British Petroleum International. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
les facies, des facies, tectonique des plaques, global geology, shoreline maps, des jura, saline deposits, global reconstructions, continental fragments, drilling results, mutual boundary, geologic framework, subsurface exploration, tectonic evolution, petroleum potential, marginal basins, numerical ages, depositional history, structural history, continental margins, petroleum geology, sedimentary basins, regional geology Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Upper Cretaceous, United States, Petrol Geol, Western Interior, North Sea, Upper Jurassic, New York, Editions Technip, German Cretaceous, Professeur Paul Fallot, Lower Jurassic, Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, South Atlantic, Golfe de Gascogne, Plenum Press, Rocky Mountain, Upper Triassic, Bull Soc, Kreide Europas, East Greenland, Gulf of Mexico, Hors Sir, Indian Ocean, Middle Triassic, British Columbia New!
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- Boreal Lower Cretaceous by R. Casey on 5 pages
- Aspects of Mid-Cretaceous Regional Geology by Reyment on page 70, and page 95
- British Isles (Real Exploring Guides) by Cimino Publishing Group on page 89
- Palaeomagnetic Database by J. D. A. Piper on page 20
- The Rocky Mountains (World's Wild Places) by Bryce S. Walker on page 73
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- Lowly Origin: Where, When, and Why Our Ancestors First Stood Up by Jonathan Kingdon on page 71, page 93, and page 94
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- Tectonic Boundary Conditions for Climate Reconstructions (Oxford Monographs on Geology and Geophysics) by Thomas J. Crowley on page 164
- Colbert's Evolution of the Vertebrates: A History of the Backboned Animals Through Time by Edwin H. Colbert in Back Matter
- Biogeography: An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach by C. Barry Cox on page 135
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