Milankovitch cyclicity and rock-magnetic signatures of palaeoclimatic change in the early cretaceous Biancone Formation of the Southern Alps, Italy

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 189-214

  Mayer, Helmut ^a,b,c   Appel, Erwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biancone Formation; Carbonate content; Hauterivian; Milankovitch cycles; Palaeoclimate; Rock magnetism; Southern Alps; Susceptibility; Valanginian

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; MAGNETIC MINERAL; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; PALEOCLIMATE;

ALPS; ITALY;

EID: 0033120414     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cres.1999.0145     Document Type: Article

References (219)

1. Adhémar, J. A. 1842. Révolutions de la Mer, Déluges Périodiques (privately published, Paris; 2nd ed. 1860).
2. Allemann, F., Catalano, R., Fares, F. & Remane, J. 1971. Standard calpionellid zonation (Upper Tithonian-Valanginian) of the Western Mediterranean Province. In Proceedings of the II Planktonic Conference Roma 1970 (ed. Farinacci, A.), vol. 2, pp. 1337-1340 (Edizioni Tecnoscienza, Roma).
3. Alvarez, W., Colacicchi, R. & Montanari, A. 1985. Synsedimentary slides and bedding formation in apennine pelagic limestones. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 55, 720-734.
4. Arthur, M. A., Dean, W. E., Bottjer, D. & Scholle, P. A. 1984. Rhythmic bedding in mesozoic-cenozoic pelagic carbonate sequences: The primary and diagenetic origin of Milankovitch-like cycles. In Milankovitch and climate. Understanding the response to astronomical forcing (eds Berger, A., Imbrie, J., Hays, J., Kukla, G. & Saltzman, B.), NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series C 126 (1), 191-222 (D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht).
5. Arthur, M. A. & Garrison, R. E. 1986. Cyclicity in the Milankovitch band through geologic time: An introduction. Paleoceanography 1, 369-372.
6. Aubouin, J. 1964. Essai sur la paléogéographie post-triasique et l'évolution secondaire et tertiaire du versant sud des Alpes orientales (Alpes méridionales; Lombardie et Vénétie, Italie; Slovénie occidentale, Yougoslavie). Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France (Series 7) 5 (for 1963), 730-766.
7. Barberis, A., Fossati, S., Bersezio, R. & Erba, E. 1992. Lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Maiolica formation from the Lombardy Basin (Southern Alps). Memorie della Società Geologica Italiana 45 (for 1990) (1), 111-117.
8. Barron, E. J. 1983. A warm, equable Cretaceous: The nature of the problem. Earth-Science Reviews 19, 305-338.
9. Barron, E. J. 1994. Chill over the Cretaceous. Nature 370, 415.
10. Barron, E. J., Arthur, M. A. & Kauffman, E. G. 1985. Cretaceous rhythmic bedding sequences: A plusible link between orbital variations and climate. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 72, 327-340.
11. Beerbower, J. R. 1966. Cyclothems and cyclic depositional mechanisms in alluvial plain sedimentation. In Symposium on cyclic sedimentation (ed. Merriam, D. F.), Kansas Geological Survey Bulletin 169 (for 1964), 1, pp. 31-42.
12. Bergen, J. A. 1994. Berriasian to Early Aptian calcareous nannofossils from the Vocontian trough (SE France) and Deep Sea drilling site 534: New nannofossil taxa and a summary of low-latitude biostratigraphic events. Journal of Nannoplankton Research 16, 59-69.
13. Berger, A. L. 1976. Obliquity and precession for the last 5 000 000 years. Astronomy and Astrophysics 51, 127-135.
14. Berger, A. L. 1977. Support for the astronomical theory of climatic change. Nature 269, 44-45.
15. Berger, A. L. 1978a. Théorie astronomique des paléoclimats, une nouvelle approche. Bulletin de la Société Belge de Géologie 87, 9-25.
16. Berger, A. L. 1978b. Long-term variations of caloric insolation resulting from the Earth's orbital elements. Quaternary Research 9, 139-167.
17. Berger, A. 1988. Milankovitch theory and climate. Reviews of Geophysics 26, 624-657.
18. Berger, A. 1989. The spectral characteristics of pre-quaternary climatic records, an example of the relationship between the astronomical theory and geosciences. In Climate and geo-sciences. A challenge for science and society in the 21st century (eds Berger, A., Schneider, S. & Duplessy, J. Cl.), NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series C 285, 47-76 (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht).
19. Berger, A. L. 1992. Astronomical theory of paleoclimates and the last glacial-interglacial cycle. Quaternary Science Reviews 11, 571-581.
20. Berger, A. & Guiot, J. 1981. The astronomical origin of the 100 000 yr cycle. Terra Cognita, 1981 (Spring, Special Issue First Meeting of the European Union of Geosciences, Strasbourg, 13-16 April 1981), 102.
21. Berger, A., Imbrie, J., Hays, J., Kukla, G. & Saltzman, B. (eds) 1984. Milankovitch and climate. Understanding the response to astronomical forcing. NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series C 126, part 1: i-xxxiv, 1-510, part 2: i-ix, 511-895 (D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht).
22. Berger, A. & Loutre, M. F. 1994. Astronomical forcing through geological time. In Orbital forcing and cyclic sequences (eds de Boer, P. L. & Smith, D. G.), Special Publication of the International Association of Sedimentologists 19, 15-24 (Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford).
23. Berger, A., Loutre, M. F. & Dehant, V. 1989. Astronomical frequencies for pre-quaternary palaeoclimate studies. Terra Nova 1, 474-479.
24. Berger, A., Loutre, M. F. & Laskar, J. 1992. Stability of the astronomical frequencies over the Earth's history for paleoclimate studies. Science 255, 560-566.
25. Berger, W. H. 1974. Deep-sea sedimentation. In The Geology of Continental Margins (eds Burk, C. A. & Drake, C. L.), pp. 213-241 (Springer-Verlag, New York).
26. Berger, W. H. & Heath, G. R. 1968. Vertical mixing in pelagic sediments. Journal of Marine Research 26, 134-143.
27. Bernoulli, D. 1964. Zur geologie des Monte Generoso (Lombardische Alpen). Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der südalpinen Sedimente. Beiträge zur Geologischen Karte der Schweiz, Neue Folge 118, xvi+134 pp.
28. Bernoulli, D. & Jenkyns, H. C. 1974. Alpine, Mediterranean, and Central Atlantic facies in relation to the early evolution of the Tethys. In Modern and Ancient Geosynclinal Sedimentation (eds Dott, R. H. Jr & Shaver, R. H.), SEPM Special Publication 19, 129-160 (Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Tulsa, Oklahoma).
29. Bersezio, R. 1993. Sedimentary events and rhythms in an early Cretaceous pelagic environment: The Maiolica Fm. of the Lombardy Basin (Southern Alps). Giornale di Geologia (Series 3) 55, 5-20.
30. Bosellini, A., Masetti, D. & Sarti, M. 1981. A Jurassic 'tongue of the ocean' infilled with oolitic sands: The Belluno trough, Venetian Alps, Italy. In Carbonate platforms of the passive-type continental margins: present and past (eds Cita, M. B. & Ryan, W. B. F.), Marine Geology 44, 59-95.
31. Bosellini, A. & Winterer, E. L. 1975. Pelagic limestone and radiolarite of the Tethyan Mesozoic: A genetic model. Geology 3, 279-282.
32. Bottjer, D. J., Arthur, M. A., Dean, W. E., Hattin, D. E. & Savrda, C. E. 1986. Rhythmic bedding produced in Cretaceous pelagic carbonate environments: Sensitive recorders of climatic cycles. Paleoceanography 1, 467-481.
33. Bralower, T. J. 1987. Valanginian to Aptian calcareous nannofossil stratigraphy and correlation with the upper M-sequence magnetic anomalies. Marine Micropaleontology 11, 293-310.
34. Bralower, T. J., Monechi, S. & Thierstein, H. R. 1989. Calcareous nannofossil zonation of the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary interval and correlation with the geomagnetic polarity timescale. In Plankton biochronology (ed. Haq, B. U.), Marine Micropaleontology 14, 153-235.
35. 18 record in deep-sea cores. Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics 8, 169-198.
36. Broecker, W. S., Thurber, D. L., Goddard, J., Ku, T.-L., Matthews, R. K. & Mesolella, K. J. 1968. Milankovitch hypothesis supported by precise dating of coral reefs and deep-sea sediments. Science 159, 297-300.
37. Bulot, L. G., Thieuloy, J.-P., Blanc, E. & Klein, J. 1992. Le cadre stratigraphique du Valanginien supérieur et de l'Hauterivien du Sud-Est de la France: Définition de biochronozones et caractérisation de nouveaux biohorizons. Géologie Alpine 68, 13-56.
38. Cecca, F., Pallini, G., Erba, E., Premoli-Silva, I. & Coccioni, R. 1994. Hauterivian-barremian chronostratigraphy based on ammonites, nannofossils, planktonic foraminifera and magnetic chrons from the Mediterranean domain. Cretaceous Research 15, 457-467.
39. Channell, J. E. T., Bralower, T. J. & Grandesso, P. 1987. Biostratigraphic correlation of mesozoic polarity chrons CM1 to CM23 at Capriolo and Xausa (Southern Alps, Italy). Earth and Planetary Science Letters 85, 203-221.
40. Channell, J. E. T., Cecca, F. & Erba, E. 1995a. Correlations of Hauterivian and Barremian (early Cretaceous) stage boundaries to polarity chrons. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 134, 125-140.
41. Channell, J. E. T., Doglioni, C. & Stoner, J. S. 1992. Jurassic and Cretaceous paleomagnetic data from the Southern Alps (Italy). Tectonics 11, 811-822.
42. Channell, J. E. T. & Erba, E. 1992. Early Cretaceous polarity chrons CM0 to CM11 recorded in northern Italian land sections near Brescia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 108, 161-179.
43. Channell, J. E. T., Erba, E. & Lini, A. 1993. Magnetostratigraphic calibration of the late valanginian carbon isotope event in pelagic limestones from northern Italy and Switzerland. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 118, 145-166.
44. Channell, J. E. T., Erba, E., Nakanishi, M. & Tamaki, K. 1995b. Late Jurassic-early Cretaceous time scales and oceanic magnetic anomaly block models. In Geochronology Time Scales and Global Stratigraphic Correlation (eds Berggren, W. A., Kent, D. V., Aubry, M.-P. & Hardenbol, J.), SEPM Special Publication 54, 51-63 (SEPM, Society for Sedimentary Geology, Tulsa, Oklahoma).
45. Channell, J. E. T. & Grandesso, P. 1987. A revised correlation of Mesozoic polarity chrons and calpionellid zones. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 85, 222-240.
46. Channell, J. E. T., Lowrie, W. & Medizza, F. 1979. Middle and early Cretaceous magnetic stratigraphy from the Cismon section, northern Italy. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 42, 153-166.
47. Channell, J. E. T. & McCabe, C. 1994. Comparison of magnetic hysteresis parameters of unremagnetized and remagnetized limestones. Journal of Geophysical Research 99, 4613-4623.
48. Channell, J. E. T. & Medizza, F. 1981. Upper Cretaceous and Palaeogene magnetic stratigraphy and biostratigraphy from the Venetian (Southern) Alps. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 55, 419-432.
49. Cita, M. B. Sironi. 1964. Ricerche micropaleontologiche e stratigrafiche sui sedimenti pelagici del Giurassico superiore e del Cretaceo inferiore nella catena del Monte Baldo. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia Memoria 10, viii+183 pp.
50. Claps, M., Masetti, D., Pedrielli, F. & Lucchi Garavello, A. 1991. Analisi spettrale e cicli di Milankovitch in successioni cretaciche del sudalpino orientale. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 97, 153-174.
51. Cooper, M. K. E. 1984. Nannofossils across the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary in the Tethyan realm. In International Symposium on Jurassic Stratigraphy, Erlangen, September 1-8 1984 (eds Michelsen, O. & Zeiss, A.), vol. 2, pp. 429-443 (Geological Survey of Denmark, Copenhagen).
52. Cotillon, P. 1984. Tentative world-wide correlation of early Cretaceous strata by limestone-marl cyclicities in pelagic deposits. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 33, 91-102.
53. Cotillon, P., Arnaud-Vanneau, A., Arnaud, H., Boisseau, T., Busnardo, R., Charollais, J., Clavel, B., Combemorel, R., Conrad, M.-A., Darsac, C., Demay, J.-L., Ferry, S., Jardine, S., Le Hegarat, G., Magniez-Jannin, F., Manivit, H., Masse, J.-P., Medioni, R., Moullade, M., Oertli, H.-J., Peybernes, B., Raynaud, J.-F., de Reneville, P., Salvini, G., Sornay, J., Steinhauser, N., Thieuloy, J.-P., Tronchetti, G. & Vieban, F. 1984. Crétacé inférieur. In Synthèse géologique du Sud-Est de la France, vol. 1, Stratigraphie et paléogéographie (eds Debrand-Passard, S., Courbouleix, S. & Lienhardt, M.-J.), Mémoire du Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières 125, 287-338.
54. Cottle, R. A. 1990. Orbitally Induced Climatic Cycles from the Chalk of Southern England; Potential for High-resolution Stratigraphic Correlation and Palaeoenvironmental Studies. Doctoral thesis, University of Exeter, Exeter, 203 pp.
55. Croll, J. 1875. Climate and time in their geological relations. A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's Climate, xii+575 pp. (Daldy, Isbister & Co., London).
56. Crowley, T. J. 1983. The geologic record of climatic change. Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics 21, 828-877.
57. Dalfes, H. N., Schneider, S. H. & Thompson, S. L. 1984. Effects of bioturbation on climatic spectra inferred from deep sea cores. In Milankovitch and climate. Understanding the response to astronomical forcing (eds Berger, A., Imbrie, I., Hays, J., Kukla, G. & Saltzman, B.), NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series C 126 (1), 481-492 (D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht).
58. Day, R., Fuller, M. & Schmidt, V. A. 1977. Hysteresis properties of titanomagnetites: Grain-size and compositional dependence. In Paleomagnetic field intensity, its measurement in theory and practice (ed. Carmichael, C. M.), Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 13, 260-267.
59. Dean, W. E., Gardner, J. V., Jansa, L. F., Cepek, P. & Seibold, E. 1978. Cyclic sedimentation along the continental margin of Northwest Africa. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project 41, 965-989 (US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC).
60. de Boer, P. L. & Smith, D. G. (eds) 1994. Orbital forcing and cyclic sequences. Special Publication of the International Association of Sedimentologists 19, xi+559 pp. (Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford).
61. Doglioni, C. 1992. The Venetian Alps thrust belt. In Thrust Tectonics (ed. McClay, K. R.), pp. 319-324 (Chapman & Hall, London).
62. Doglioni, C. & Bosellini, A. 1987. Eoalpine and mesoalpine tectonics in the Southern Alps. Geologische Rundschau 76, 735-754.
63. Duff, P. McL. D., Hallam, A. & Walton, E. K. 1967. Cyclic sedimentation. Developments in Sedimentology 10, 280 pp.
64. Duff, P. McL. D. & Walton, E. K. 1962. Statistical basis for cyclothems: A quantitative study of the sedimentary succession in the East Pennine coalfield. Sedimentology 1, 235-255.
65. Eder, W. 1982. Diagenetic redistribution of carbonate, a process in forming limestone-marl alternations (Dedvonian and carboniferous, Rheinisches Schiefergebirge, W. Germany). In Cyclic and Event Stratification (eds Einsele, G. & Seilacher, A.), pp. 98-112 (Springer-Verlag, Berlin).
66. Eicher, D. L. & Diner, R. 1991. Environmental factors controlling Cretaceous limestone-marlstone rhythms. In Cycles and Events in Stratigraphy (eds Einsele, G., Ricken, W. & Seilacher, A.), pp. 79-93 (Springer-Verlag, Berlin).
67. Einsele, G. 1982. Limestone-marl cycles (periodites): Diagnosis, significance, causes - A review. In Cyclic and Event Stratification (eds Einsele, G. & Seilacher, A.), pp. 8-53 (Springer-Verlag, Berlin).
68. Einsele, G. & Ricken, W. 1991. Limestone-marl alternation - An overview. In Cycles and Events in Stratigraphy (eds Einsele, G., Ricken, W. & Seilacher, A.), pp. 23-47 (Springer-Verlag, Berlin).
69. Einsele, G., Ricken, W. & Seilacher, A. (eds) 1991. Cycles and Events in Stratigraphy, xix+955 pp. (Springer-Verlag, Berlin).
70. Einsele, G. & Seilacher, A. (eds) 1982. Cyclic and Event Stratification, xiv+536 pp. (Springer-Verlag, Berlin).
71. Emiliani, C. 1955. Pleistocene temperatures. Journal of Geology 63, 538-578.
72. Emiliani, C. 1966. Paleotemperature analysis of Caribbean cores P 6304-8 and P 6303-9 and a generalized temperature curve for the past 425,000 years. Journal of Geology 74, 109-126.
73. Emiliani, C. & Geiss, J. 1959. On glaciations and their causes. Geologische Rundschau 46 (for 1957), 576-601.
74. Erba, E., Cecca, F. & Hoedemaeker, P. 1995. Report on Early Cretaceous stratigraphy (IGCP 262 - Pelagic working group). TBC-Newsletter 5, 7-8.
75. Erba, E. & Quadrio, B. 1987. Biostratigrafia a Nannofossili calcarei, Calpionellidi e Foraminiferi planctonici della Maiolica (Titoniano superiore - Aptiano) nelle Prealpi Bresciane (Italia settentrionale). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 93, 3-107.
76. Fischer, A. G. 1966. The Lofer cyclothems of the Alpine Triassic. In Symposium on cyclic sedimentation (ed. Merriam, D. F.), Kansas Geological Survey, Bulletin 169 (for 1964), 1, 107-149.
77. Fischer, A. G. 1980. Gilbert-Bedding rhythms and geochronology. In The Scientific Ideas of G.K. Gilbert. An Assessment on the Occasion of the Centennial of the United States Geological Survey (1879-1979) (ed. Yochelson, E. L.), Geological Society of America, Special Paper 183, 93-104.
78. Fischer, A. G. 1986. Climatic rhythms recorded in strata. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Science 14, 351-376.
79. Fischer, A. G., de Boer, P. L. & Premoli Silva, I. 1990. Cyclostratigraphy. In Cretaceous Resources, Events and Rhythms. Background and Plans for Research (eds Ginsburg, R. N. & Beaudoin, B.), NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series C 304, 139-172 (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht).
80. Fischer, A. G. & Bottjer, D. J. (eds) 1991. Orbital forcing and sedimentary sequences. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 61, 1063-1269.
81. Fischer, A. G. & Schwarzacher, W. 1984. Cretaceous bedding rhythms under orbital control? in Milankovitch and Climate. Understanding the Response to Astronomical Forcing (eds Berger, A., Imbrie, J., Hays, J., Kukla, G. & Saltzman, B.), NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series C 126 (1), 163-175 (D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht).
82. Frakes, L. A. 1979. Climates Throughout Geologic Time, xii+310pp. (Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, Amsterdam).
83. Gaetani, M. 1975. Jurassic stratigraphy of the Southern Alps: A review. In Geology of Italy (ed. Squyres, C. H.), vol. 1, pp. 377-402 (The Earth Sciences Society of the Libyan Arab Republic, Tripoli).
84. Gilbert, G. K., 1895. Sedimentary measurement of Cretaceous time. Journal of Geology 3, 121-127.
85. Gilbert, G. K. 1900. Rhythms and geologic time. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Physical Education 49, 1-19.
86. Ginsburg, R. N. 1971. Landward movement of carbonate mud: New model for regressive cycles in carbonates. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin 55, 340.
87. Goldhammer, R. K., Dunn, P. A. & Hardie, L. A. 1987. High frequency glacio-eustatic sealevel oscillations with Milankovitch characteristics recorded in Middle Triassic platform carbonates in northern Italy. American Journal of Science 287, 853-892.
88. Gradstein, F. M., Agterberg, F. P., Ogg, J. G., Hardenbol, J., van Veen, P., Thierry, J. & Huang, Z. 1994. A Mesozoic time scale. Journal of Geophysical Research 99, 24051-24074.
89. Grotzinger, J. P. 1986. Upward shallowing platform cycles: A response to 2.2 billion years of low-amplitude, high-frequency (Milankovitch band) sea level oscillations. Paleoceanography 1, 403-416.
90. Guinasso, N. L. Jr & Schink, D. R. 1975. Quantitative estimates of biological mixing rates in abyssal sediments. Journal of Geophysical Research 80, 3032-3043.
91. Gwinner, M. P. 1971. Geologie der Alpen. Stratigraphie, Paläogeographie, Tektonik, viii+477 pp. [E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Nägele und Obermiller), Stuttgart].
92. Hallam, A. 1964. Origin of the limestone-shale rhythm in the blue lias of England: A composite theory. Journal of Geology 72, 157-169.
93. Hallam, A. 1985. A review of Mesozoic climates. Journal of the Geological Society, London 142, 433-445.
94. Hallam, A. 1986. Origin of minor limestone-shale cycles: Climatically induced or diagenetic? Geology 14, 609-612.
95. Hallam, A. 1987. Comment and reply on "Origin of minor limestone-shale cycles: Climatically induced or diagenetic?". Reply. Geology 15, 93-94.
96. Hallam, A., Hancock, J. M., LaBrecque, J. L., Lowrie, W. & Channell, J. E. T. 1985. Jurassic to Paleogene: Part I. Jurassic and Cretaceous geochronology and Jurassic to Paleogene magnetostratigraphy. In The Chronology of the Geological Record (ed. Snelling, N. J.), Geological Society, London, Memoir 10, 118-140 (Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford).
97. Haq, B. U., Hardenbol, J. & Vail, P. R. 1988, in collaboration with Stover, L. E., Colin, J. P., Ioannides, N. S., Wright, R. C., Baum, G. R., Gombos, A. M. Jr, Pflum, C. E., Loutit, T. S., Jan du Chene, R., Romine, K. K., Sarg, J. F., Posamentier, H. W. & Morgan, B. E. Mesozoic and Cenozoic chronostratigraphy and cycles of sea-level change. In Sea-level Changes: An Integrated Approach (eds Wilgus, C. K., Hastings, B. S., Kendall, C. G. St. C., Posamentier, H. W., Ross, C. A. & van Wagoner, J. C.), SEPM Special Publication 42, 71-108 (Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Tulsa, Oklahoma).
98. Harland, W. B. 1983. More time scales. Geological Magazine 120, 393-400.
99. Harland, W. B., Armstrong, R. L., Cox, A. V., Craig, L. E., Smith, A. G. & Smith, D. G. 1990. A Geologic Time Scale 1989, xvi+263 pp. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge).
100. Harland, W. B., Cox, A. V., Llewellyn, P. G., Pickton, C. A. G., Smith, A. G. & Walters, R. 1982. A Geologic Time Scale, xi+131 pp. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge).
101. Hart, M. B. 1987. Orbitally induced cycles in the chalk facies of the United Kingdom. Cretaceous Research 8, 335-348.
102. Hays, J. D., Imbrie, J. & Shackleton, N. J. 1976. Variations in the earth's orbit: Pacemaker of the ice ages. Science 194, 1121-1132.
103. Herbert, T. D. 1992. Paleomagnetic calibration of Milankovitch cyclicity in Lower Cretaceous sediments. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 112, 15-28.
104. Herbert, T. D. & Fischer, A. G. 1986. Milankovitch climatic origin of mid-Cretaceous black shale rhythms in central Italy. Nature 321, 739-743.
105. Herbert, T. D., Stallard, R. F. & Fischer, A. G. 1986. Anoxic events, productivity rhythms, and the orbital signature in a mid-Cretaceous deep-sea sequence from central Italy. Paleoceanography 1, 495-506.
106. Herzfeld, U. C. 1990. Cova functions for unevenly and non-correspondingly spaced processes. Computers & Geosciences 16, 733-749.
107. Herzfeld, U. C. 1992. Least-squares collocation, geophysical inverse theory and geostatistics: A bird's eye view. Geophysical Journal International 111, 237-249.
108. Hilgen, F. J. 1991. Astronomical calibration of Gauss to Matuyama sapropels in the Mediterranean and implication for the geomagnetic polarity time scale. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 104, 226-244.
109. Hinnov, L. A. & Goldhammer, R. K. 1991. Spectral analysis of the middle triassic latemar limestone. In Orbital forcing and sedimentary sequences (eds Fischer, A. G. & Bottjer, D. J.), Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 61, 1173-1193.
110. House, M. R. 1985. A new approach to an absolute timescale from measurements of orbital cycles and sedimentary microrhythms. Nature 315, 721-725.
111. Huang, Z., Ogg, J. G. & Gradstein, F. M. 1993. A quantitative study of Lower Cretaceous cyclic sequences from the Atlantic Ocean and the Vocontian Basin (SE France). Paleoceanography 8, 275-291.
112. Imbrie, J. 1992. Editorial. A good year for Milankovitch. Paleoceanography 7, 687-690.
113. Imbrie, J., Berger, A., Boyle, E. A., Clemens, S. C., Duffy, A., Howard, W. R., Kukla, G., Kutzbach, J., Martinson, D. G., McIntyre, A., Mix, A. C., Molfino, B., Morley, J. J., Peterson, L. C., Pisias, N. G., Prell, W. L., Raymo, M. E., Shackleton, N. J. & Toggweiler, J. R. 1993. On the structure and origin of major glaciation cycles. 2. The 100,000-year cycle. Paleoceanography 8, 699-735.
114. Imbrie, J., Boyle, E. A., Clemens, S. C., Duffy, A., Howard, W. R., Kukla, G., Kutzbach, J., Martinson, D. G., McIntyre, A., Mix, A. C., Molfino, B., Morley, J. J., Peterson, L. C., Pisias, N. G., Prell, W. L., Raymo, M. E., Shackleton, N. J. & Toggweiler, J. R. 1992. On the structure and origin of major glaciation cycles. 1. Linear responses to Milankovitch forcing. Paleoceanography 7, 701-738.
115. 18O record. In Milankovitch and Climate. Understanding the Response to Astronomical Forcing (eds Berger, A., Imbrie, J., Hays, J., Kukla, G. and Saltzman, B.), NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series C 126 (1), 269-305 (D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht).
116. Imbrie, J. & Imbrie, J. Z. 1980. Modeling the climatic response to orbital variations. Science 207, 943-953.
117. Imbrie, J. & Imbrie, K. P. 1979. Ice ages. Solving the Mystery, 224 pp. (Enslow Publishers, Short Hills, New Jersey). [2nd ed. paperback 1986 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts)]
118. Jackson, M. 1990. Diagenetic sources of stable remanence in remagnetized Paleozoic cratonic carbonates: A rock magnetic study. Journal of Geophysical Research 95, 2753-2761.
119. Journel, A. G. & Huijbregts, Ch. J. 1978. Mining Geostatistics, x+600 pp. (Academic Press, London). [4th printing with corrections, 1989]
120. Kelly, S. B. & Cubitt, J. M. 1993. Milankovitch cyclicity in the stratigraphic record - A review. In Computers in Geology - 25 Years of Progress (eds Davis, J. C. & Herzfeld, U. C.), International Association for Mathematical Geology Studies in Mathematical Geology 5, 133-144 (Oxford University Press, New York).
121. Kemper, E. 1983. Über Kalt- und Warmzeiten der Unterkreide. Zitteliana 10, 359-369.
122. Kent, D. V. & Gradstein, F. M. 1985. A Cretaceous and Jurassic geochronology. Geological Society of America Bulletin 96, 1419-1427.
123. King, J. W. & Channell, J. E. T. 1991. Sedimentary magnetism, environmental magnetism, and magnetostratigraphy. Reviews of Geophysics 29 (Supplement, Part 1), 358-370. [US National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1987-1990]
124. Köppen, W. & Wegener, A. 1924. Die Klimate der Geologischen Vorzeit, iv+256 pp. (Verlag von Gebrüder Borntraeger, Berlin).
125. Kominz, M. A. & Bond, G. C. 1990. A new method of testing periodicity in cyclic sediments: Application to the Newark Supergroup. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 98, 233-244.
126. Larson, R. L. & Hilde, T. W. C. 1975. A revised time scale of magnetic reversals for the Early Cretaceous and Late Jurassic. Journal of Geophysical Research 80, 2586-2594.
127. Le Treut, H. & Ghil, M. 1983. Orbital forcing, climatic interactions, and glaciation cycles. Journal of Geophysical Research 88, 5167-5190.
128. Lini, A., Weissert, H. & Erba, E. 1992. The Valanginian carbon isotope event: A first episode of greenhouse climate conditions during the Cretaceous. In Global change special issue (ed. Wezel, F.-C.), Terra Nova 4, 374-384.
129. Liu, H.-S. 1995. A new view on the driving mechanism of Milankovitch glaciation cycles. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 131, 17-26.
130. Lowrie, W. 1982. A revised magnetic polarity timescale for the Cretaceous and Cainozoic. In The earth's core: its structure, evolution and magnetic field (eds Runcorn, S. K., Creer, K. M. & Jacobs, J. A.), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A 306, 129-136.
131. Lowrie, W. & Alvarez, W. 1984. Lower Cretaceous magnetic stratigraphy in Umbrian pelagic limestone sections. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 71, 315-328.
132. Lowrie, W., Alvarez, W., Premoli Silva, I. & Monechi, S. 1980a. Lower Cretaceous magnetic stratigraphy in Umbrian pelagic carbonate rocks. Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 60, 263-281.
133. Lowrie, W. & Channell, J. E. T. 1984. Magnetostratigraphy of the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary in the Maiolica limestone (Umbria, Italy). Geology 12, 44-47.
134. Lowrie, W., Channell, J. E. T. & Alvarez, W. 1980b. A review of magnetic stratigraphy investigations in Cretaceous pelagic carbonate rocks. Journal of Geophysical Research 85, 3597-3605.
135. Lowrie, W. & Heller, F. 1982. Magnetic properties of marine limestones. Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics 20, 171-192.
136. Lowrie, W. & Ogg, J. G. 1986. A magnetic polarity time scale for the Early Cretaceous and Late Jurassic. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 76, 341-349.
137. Márton, E. 1986. The problems of correlation between magnetozones and calpionellid zones in Late Jurassic - Early Cretaceous sections. Acta Geologica Hungarica 29, 125-131.
138. Mayer, H. 1992. Cyclic carbonate fluctuations in the Early Cretaceous Tethys - Paleoceanographic considerations. In Fourth International Conference on Paleoceanography ICP IV, Short- and Long-term Global Change: Records and Modelling, 21-25 September 1992, Kiel/germany, Program & Abstracts (eds Sarnthein, M., Thiede, J. & Zahn, R.), GEOMAR Report 15/Berichte-Reports, Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut, Universität Kiel 57, 192.
139. Mayer, H. 1993. Time-series analysis in cyclic stratigraphy: An example from the Cretaceous of the Southern Alps, Italy. In Special issue. Mathematical and statistical analysis of geological data (ed. Merriam, D. F.), Mathematical Geology 25, 975-1001.
140. Mayer, H. 1994. Cyclostratigraphic calibration of Cretaceous magnetic polarity events (Cismon, Southern Alps, Italy). In Special issue. Quantitative stratigraphy (ed. Agterberg, F. P.), Mathematical Geology 26, 783-798.
141. Mayer, H. 1995. High-resolution magnetostratigraphy of an Early Cretaceous pelagic carbonate sequence (Maiolica of the Southern Alps, Italy) and implications for paleoclimate, tectonics and the geologic time scale. XXI General Assembly International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Boulder, Colorado, July 2-14, 1995, Abstracts A, P. A161 (American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC).
142. Mayer, H. 1996. Magnetostratigraphic and cyclostratigraphic investigations of the Early Cretaceous Biancone formation at Cismon and Pra da Stua (Southern Alps, Italy) with palaeoclimatical, geochronological and geomathematical implications. Tübinger Geowissenschaftliche Arbeiten A28, 1-127. [Doctoral thesis]
143. Mayer, H. 1997. Magnetostratigraphy of Early Cretaceous Maiolica sections of the Southern Alps (Cismon and Pra da Stua, Italy). Geophysical Journal International 131, 387-400.
144. Mayer, H. (in press). Calibration of the Early Cretaceous time scale by integration of magnetostratigraphy and cyclostratigraphy: Study of the Cismon section (Southern Alps, Italy) and review. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen.
145. Mayer, H. & Appel, E. 1995. Magnetic susceptibility logs from Early Cretaceous pelagic carbonates of the Southern Alps (Italy) and their paleoclimatic significance. XXI General Assembly International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Boulder, Colorado, July 2-14, 1995, Abstracts A, P. A95 (American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC).
146. Merriam, D. F. (ed.) 1966. Symposium on cyclic sedimentation. Kansas Geological Survey, Bulletin 169 (for 1964), vol. 1, i-viii, 1-380; vol. 2, 381-636.
147. Merriam, D. F. (ed.) 1966. Symposium on cyclic sedimentation. Kansas Geological Survey, Bulletin 169 (for 1964), vol. 1, i-viii, 1-380; vol. 2, 381-636.
148. Merriam, D. F. (ed.) 1967. Computer applications in the earth sciences: Colloquium on time-series analysis. Computer Contribution 18, 77 pp. (State Geological Survey, The University of Kansas, Lawrence).
149. Mesolella, K. J., Matthews, R. K., Broecker, W. S. & Thurber, D. L. 1969. The astronomical theory of climatic change: Barbados data. Journal of Geology 77, 250-274.
150. Micarelli, A., Potetti, M. & Chiocchini, M. 1977. Ricerche microbiostratigrafiche sulla maiolica della regione umbro-marchigiana. Studi Geologici Camera 3, 57-86.
151. Milankovitch, M. 1930. Mathematische klimalehre und astronomische theorie der klimaschwankungen. In Handbuch der Klimatologie (eds Köppen, W. & Geiger, R.), vol. 1, part A, i-iv, A1-A176 (Verlag von Gebrüder Borntraeger, Berlin).
152. Milankovitch, M. 1941. Kanon der Erdbestrahlung und seine Anwendung auf das Eiszeitenproblem. Académie Royale Serbe Editions Spéciales 132, Section des Sciences Mathématiques et Naturelles 33, 633 pp. [English translation: Canon of insolation and the Ice-Age problem, xxiii+484 pp. (Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem, 1969)]
153. Morley, J. J. & Shackleton, N. J. 1984. The effect of accumulation rate on the spectrum of geologic time series: Evidence from two South Atlantic sediment cores. In Milankovitch and Climate. Understanding the Response to Astronomical Forcing (eds Berger, A., Imbrie, J., Hays, J., Kukla, G. & Saltzman, B.), NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series C 126 (1), 467-480 (D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht).
154. Mutterlose, J. 1995. Preliminary conclusions of the report of the Hauterivian stage working group after the Brussels symposium (22-11-1995). TBC-Newsletter 6, 6-7.
155. Odin, G. S. 1985. Concerning the numerical ages proposed for the Jurassic and Cretaceous geochronology. In The Chronology of the Geological Record (ed. Snelling, N. J.), Geological Society, London, Memoir 10, 196-198 (Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford).
156. Odin, G. S., Curry, D., Gale, N. H. & Kennedy, W. J. 1982. The Phanerozoic time scale in 1981. In Numerical Dating in Stratigraphy (ed. Odin, G. S.), Part II, pp. 957-960 (John Wiley & Sons, Chichester).
157. Ogg, J. G. 1995. Magnetic polarity time scale of the Phanerozoic. In Global Earth Physics: A Handbook of Physical Constants (ed. Ahrens, T. J.), AGU Reference Shelf 1, 240-270 (American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC).
158. Ogg, J. G., Haggerty, J., Sarti, M. & von Rad, U. 1987. Lower Cretaceous pelagic sediments of deep sea drilling project Site 603, western North Atlantic: A synthesis. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project 93 (2), 1305-1331 (US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC).
159. Osleger, D. 1991. Subtidal carbonate cycles: Implications for allocyclic vs. Autocyclic controls. Geology 19, 917-920.
160. Park, J. & Herbert, T. D. 1987. Hunting for paleoclimatic periodicities in a geologic time series with an uncertain time scale. Journal of Geophysical Research 92, 14 027-14 040.
161. Pestiaux, P. & Berger, A. 1984. Impacts of deep-sea processes on paleoclimatic spectra. In Milankovitch and Climate. Understanding the Response to Astronomical Forcing (eds Berger, A., Imbrie, J., Hays, J., Kukla, G. & Saltzman, B.), NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series C 126 (1), 493-510 (D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht).
162. Pollard, D. 1983. A coupled climate - Ice sheet model applied to the quaternary ice ages. Journal of Geophysical Research 88, 7705-7718.
163. Praturlon, A. & Sirna, G. 1975. The stratigraphy and paleontology of the Cretaceous in Italy. In Geology of Italy (ed. Squyres, C. H.), vol. 2, pp. 1-47 (The Earth Sciences Society of the Libyan Arab Republic, Tripoli).
164. Prell, W. L. & Kutzbach, J. E. 1987. Monsoon variability over the past 150,000 years. Journal of Geophysical Research 92, 8411-8425.
165. Premoli Silva, I. & Luterbacher, H. P. 1966. The Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the Southern Alps (Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 72, 1183-1267.
166. Premoli Silva, I., Ripepe, M. & Tornaghi, M. E. 1989. Planktonic foraminiferal distribution record productivity cycles: Evidence from the Aptian-Albian Piobbico core (central Italy). Terra Nova 1, 443-448.
167. Rawson, P. F. 1983. The Valanginian to Aptian stages - Current definitions and outstanding problems. Zitteliana 10, 493-500.
168. Read, J. F., Grotzinger, J. P., Bova, J. A. & Koerschner, W. F. 1986. Models for generation of carbonate cycles. Geology 14, 107-110.
169. Remane, J. 1986. Calpionellids and the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary. Acta Geologica Hungarica 29, 15-26.
170. Reynolds, R. L. & King, J. W. 1995. Magnetic records of climate change. Reviews of Geophysics 33 (Supplement, Part 1), 101-110. [US National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994]
171. Ricken, W. 1985. Epicontinental marl-limestone alternations: Event deposition and diagenetic bedding (Upper Jurassic, southwest Germany). In Sedimentary and evolutionary cycles (eds Bayer, U. & Seilacher, A.), Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 1, 127-162 (Springer-Verlag, Berlin).
172. Ricken, W. 1986. Diagenetic bedding. A model for marl-limestone alternations. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 6, x+210 pp. (Springer-Verlag, Berlin).
173. Ricken, W. & Eder, W. 1991. Diagenetic modification of calcareous beds - An overview. In Cycles and Events in Stratigraphy (eds Einsele, G., Ricken, W. & Seilacher, A.), pp. 430-449 (Springer-Verlag, Berlin).
174. Robertson, T. 1952. Rhythm in sedimentation and its interpretation: With particular reference to the carboniferous sequence. Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society 14 (for 1945), 141-175.
175. Ruddiman, W. F. & McIntyre, A. 1981. Oceanic mechanisms for amplification of the 23,000-year ice-volume cycle. Science 212, 617-627.
176. Ruddiman, W. F. & Wright, H. E. Jr 1987. Introduction. In North America and adjacent oceans during the last deglaciation (eds Ruddiman, W. F. & Wright, H. E. Jr), The Geology of North America, Vol. K-3, pp. 1-12 (Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado).
177. Sarti, M., Bosellini, A. & Winterer, E. L. 1992. Basin geometry and architecture of a Tethyan passive margin, Southern Alps, Italy. Implications for rifting mechanisms. In Geology and Geophysics of Continental Margins. Proceedings of the M. T. Halbouty Continental Margins Conference (eds Watkins, J. S., Zhiqiang, F. & McMillen, K. J.), AAPG Memoir 53, 241-258 (American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa, Oklahoma).
178. Schiffelbein, P. & Dorman, L. 1986. Spectral effects of time-depth nonlinearities in deep sea sediment records: A demodulation technique for realigning time and depth scales. Journal of Geophysical Research 91, 3821-3835.
179. Schwarzacher, W. 1947. Über die sedimentäre Rhythmik des Dachsteinkalkes von Lofer. Verhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 1947 (10-12), 175-188.
180. Schwarzacher, W. 1954. Die großrhythmik des Dachsteinkalkes von Lofer. Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen (Series 3) 4, 44-54.
181. Schwarzacher, W. 1964. An application of statistical time-series analysis of a limestone-shale sequence. Journal of Geology 72, 195-213.
182. Schwarzacher, W. 1975. Sedimentation models and quantitative stratigraphy. Developments in Sedimentology 19, xi+382 pp. (Elsevier, Amsterdam).
183. Schwarzacher, W. 1987a. The analysis and interpretation of stratification cycles. Paleoceanography 2, 79-95.
184. Schwarzacher, W. 1987b. Astronomical cycles for measuring geological time. Modern Geology 11, 375-381.
185. Schwarzacher, W. 1987c. Astronomically controlled cycles in the lower Tertiary of Gubbio (Italy). Earth and Planetary Science Letters 84, 22-26.
186. Schwarzacher, W. 1989. Milankovitch cycles and the measurement of time. Terra Nova 1, 405-408.
187. Schwarzacher, W. 1991. Milankovitch cycles and the measurement of time. In Cycles and Events in Stratigraphy (eds Einsele, G., Ricken, W. & Seilacher, A.), pp. 855-863 (Springer-Verlag, Berlin).
188. Schwarzacher, W. 1993a. Cyclostratigraphy and the Milankovitch theory. Developments in Sedimentology 52, xi+225 pp. (Elsevier, Amsterdam).
189. Schwarzacher, W. 1993b. Can the ginsburg model generate cycles? in Computers in Geology - 25 Years of Progress (eds Davis, J. C. & Herzfeld, U. C.), International Association for Mathematical Geology, Studies in Mathematical Geology 5, 145-153 (Oxford University Press, New York).
190. Schwarzacher, W. & Fischer, A. G. 1982. Limestone-shale bedding and perturbations of the Earth's orbit. In Cyclic and Event Stratification (eds Einsele, G. & Seilacher, A.), pp. 72-95 (Springer-Verlag, Berlin).
191. Sellwood, B. W., Price, G. D. & Valdes, P. J. 1994. Cooler estimates of Cretaceous temperatures. Nature 370, 453-455.
192. 2: natural variations Archean to Present (eds Sundquist, E. T. & Broecker, W. S.), Geophysical Monograph 32, 303-317 (American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC).
193. Sigal, J. 1977. Essai de zonation du Crétacé méditerranéen à l'aide des foraminifères planctoniques. Géologie Méditerranéenne 4, 99-107.
194. Smith, D. G. 1989. Milankovitch cyclicity and the stratigraphic record. Terra Nova 1, 402-404.
195. Suarez, M. J. & Held, I. M. 1976. Modelling climatic response to orbital parameter variations. Nature 263, 46-47.
196. Sujkowski, Z. L. 1958. Diagenesis. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin 42, 2692-2717.
197. Thierstein, H. R. 1971. Tentative lower cretaceous calcareous nannoplankton zonation. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 64, 459-488.
198. Thierstein, H. R. & Roth, P. H. 1991. Stable isotopic and carbonate cyclicity in Lower Cretaceous deep-sea sediments: Dominance of diagenetic effects. Marine Geology 97, 1-34.
199. Thompson, R. & Oldfield, F. 1986. Environmental Magnetism, xii+227 pp. (Allen & Unwin, London).
200. Trauth, M. H. 1995. Bioturbate Signalverzerrung hochauflösender paläoozeanographischer Zeitreihen. Berichte - Reports Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut, Universität Kiel 74, 167 pp.
201. van Bemmelen, R. W. 1966. The structural evolution of the Southern Alps. Geologie en Mijnbouw 45, 405-444.
202. van den Heuvel, E. P. J. 1966. On the precession as a cause of pleistocene variations of the Atlantic Ocean water temperatures. Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 11, 323-336.
203. van Hinte, J. E. 1976. A cretaceous time scale. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin 60, 498-516.
204. Verosub, K. L. & Roberts, A. P. 1995. Environmental magnetism: Past, present, and future. Journal of Geophysical Research 100, 2175-2192.
205. Volat, J.-L., Pastouret, L. & Vergnaud-Grazzini, C. 1980. Dissolution and carbonate fluctuations in Pleistocene deep-sea cores: A review. Marine Geology 34, 1-28.
206. Weedon, G. P. 1986. Hemipelagic shelf sedimentation and climatic cycles: The basal Jurassic (Blue Lias) of South Britain. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 76, 321-335.
207. Weedon, G. P. 1987. Comment and reply on "Origin of minor limestone-shale cycles: Climatically induced or diagenetic?". Comment. Geology 15, 92-93.
208. Weedon, G. P. 1989. The detection and illustration of regular sedimentary cycles using walsh power spectra and filtering, with examples from the Lias of Switzerland. Journal of the Geological Society, London 146, 133-144.
209. Weedon, G. P. 1991. The spectral analysis of stratigraphic time series. In Cycles and Events in Stratigraphy (eds Einsele, G., Ricken, W. & Seilacher, A.), pp. 840-854 (Springer-Verlag, Berlin).
210. Weertman, J. 1976. Milankovitch solar radiation variations and ice age ice sheet sizes. Nature 261, 17-20.
211. Weissert, H. 1981. Depositional processes in an ancient pelagic environment: The Lower Cretaceous Maiolica of the Southern Alps. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 74, 339-352.
212. Weissert, H. 1991. Siliciclastics in the Early Cretaceous Tethys and North Atlantic Oceans: Documents of periodic greenhouse climate conditions. In Proceedings of the International Conference, Geology of the Oceans, Terrasini (Palermo), May 14-16 1990 (ed. Cita, M. B.), Memorie della Società Geologica Italiana 44 (for 1990), 59-69.
213. Weissert, H. & Lini, A. 1991. Ice age interludes during the time of Cretaceous greenhouse climate? In Controversies in Modern GeolOgy: Evolution of Geological Theories in Sedimentology, Earth History and Tectonics (eds Müller, D. W., McKenzie, J. A. & Weissert, H.), pp. 173-191 (Academic Press, London).
214. 2: natural variations Archean to Present (eds Sundquist, E. T. & Broecker, W. S.), Geophysical Monograph 32, 531-545 (American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC).
215. Weller, J. M. 1930. Cyclical sedimentation of the Pennsylvanian period and its significance. Journal of Geology 38, 97-135.
216. Weller, J. M. 1966. Development of the concept and interpretation of cyclic sedimentation. In Symposium on cyclic sedimentation (ed. Merriam, D. F.), Kansas Geological Survey, Bulletin 169 (for 1964), vol. 2, 607-621.
217. Wigley, T. M. L. 1976. Spectral analysis and the astronomical theory of climatic change. Nature 264, 629-631.
218. Winterer, E. L. & Bosellini, A. 1981. Subsidence and sedimentation on Jurassic passive continental margin, Southern Alps, Italy. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin 65, 394-421.
219. Zeller, E. J. 1966. Cycles and psychology. In Symposium on cyclic sedimentation (ed. Merriam, D. F.), Kansas Geological Survey, Bulletin 169 (for 1964), vol. 2, 631-636.