Long-term shoreline shifts on continental blocks during the Bajocian: an updated interpretation based on synthetic stratigraphical and palaeogeographical developments on regional scales

Abdelhady, A.A. & Fürsich, F.T., 2015. Sequence architecture of a Jurassic ramp succession from Gebel Maghara (North Sinai, Egypt): Implications for eustasy. Journal of Palaeogeography 4, 305–330.10.1016/j.jop.2015.08.008Search in Google Scholar

Basavaraju, M.H., Jaiprakash, B.C., Chidambaram, L. & Ayyadurai, M., 2016. Biostratigraphy and depositional environments of subsurface sediments in well Arani-A, Palar basin, Tamil Nadu. Journal of the Geological Society of India 88, 407–420.10.1007/s12594-016-0504-8Search in Google Scholar

Boulila, S., Laskar, J., Haq, B.U., Galbrun, B. & Hara, N., 2018. Long-term cyclicities in Phanerozoic sea-level sedimentary record and their potential drivers. Global and Planetary Change 165, 128–136.10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.03.004Search in Google Scholar

Catuneanu, O., 2006. Principles of Sequence Stratigraphy. Elsevier, Amsterdam. 375 pp.Search in Google Scholar

Cogné, J.-P., Humler, E. & Courtillot, V., 2006. Mean age of oceanic lithosphere drives eustatic sea-level change since Pangea breakup. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 245, 115–122.10.1016/j.epsl.2006.03.020Search in Google Scholar

Conrad, C.P., 2013. The solid earth’s influence on sea level. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 125, 1027–1052.10.1130/B30764.1Search in Google Scholar

Gradstein, F.M., Ogg, J.G., Schmitz, M. & Ogg, G. (Eds), 2012. The Geologic Time Scale 2012. Vols. 1–2. Elsevier, Oxford, 1176 pp.10.1127/0078-0421/2012/0020Search in Google Scholar

Guiraud, R., Bosworth, W., Thierry, J. & Deplanque, A., 2005. Phanerozoic geological evolution of Northern and Central Africa: An overview. Journal of African Earth Sciences 43, 83–143.10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2005.07.017Search in Google Scholar

Hallam, A., 1978. Eustatic cycles in the Jurassic. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 23, 1–32.10.1016/0031-0182(78)90079-2Search in Google Scholar

Hallam, A., 1988. A re-evaluation of Jurassic eustasy in the light of new data and the revised Exxon curve. SEPM Special Publications 42, 261–273.10.2110/pec.88.01.0261Search in Google Scholar

Hallam, A., 2001. A review of the broad pattern of Jurassic sea-level changes and their possible causes in the light of current knowledge. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 167, 23–37.10.1016/S0031-0182(00)00229-7Search in Google Scholar

Haq, B.U., 2018. Jurassic sea-level variations: a reappraisal. GSA Today 28, doi: 10.1130/GSATG359A.1.10.1130/GSATG359A.1Open DOISearch in Google Scholar

Haq, B.U. & Al-Qahtani, A.M., 2005. Phanerozoic cycles of sea-level change on the Arabian Platform. GeoArabia 10, 127–160.10.2113/geoarabia1002127Search in Google Scholar

Haq, B.U., Hardenbol, J. & Vail, P.R., 1987. Chronology of fluctuating sea levels since the Triassic. Science 235, 1156–1167.10.1126/science.235.4793.115617818978Search in Google Scholar

Herngreen, G.F.W., Kouwe, W.F.P. & Wong, T.E., 2003. The Jurassic of the Netherlands. Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 1, 217–229.10.34194/geusb.v1.4652Search in Google Scholar

Jain, S., 2012. Integrated biostratigraphy and palaeoenvironment of the Middle Jurassic sediments at Kuldhar (Jaisalmer), Western India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 57, 1–41.Search in Google Scholar

Kontorovich, A.E., Kontorovich, V.A., Ryzhkova, S.V., Shurygin, B.N., Vakulenko, L.G., Gaideburova, E.A., Danilova, V.P., Kazanenkov, V.A., Kim, N.S., Kostyreva, E.A., Moskvin, V.I. & Yan, P.A., 2013. Jurassic paleogeography of the Western Siberian sedimentary basin. Russian Geology and Geophysics 54, 747–779.10.1016/j.rgg.2013.07.002Search in Google Scholar

Korte, C., Hesselbo, S.P., Ullmann, C.V., Dietl, G., Ruhl, M., Schweigert, G. & Thibault, N., 2015. Jurassic climate mode governed by oceanic gateway. Nature communications 6, 10015.10.1038/ncomms10015468204026658694Search in Google Scholar

Lovell, B., 2010. A pulse of the planet: regional control of high-frequency changes in relative sea level by mantle convection. Journal of the Geological Society 167, 637–648.10.1144/0016-76492009-127Search in Google Scholar

Menning, M. & Hendrich, A. (Eds), 2016. Stratigraphische Tabelle von Deutschland. GeoForschungZentrum, Potsdam, 1 chart.Search in Google Scholar

Miall, A.D., 2010. The geology of stratigraphic sequences. Springer, Berlin, 522 pp.10.1007/978-3-642-05027-5Search in Google Scholar

Miller, K.G., Kominz, M.A., Browning, J.V., Wright, J.D., Mountain, G.S., Katz, M.E., Sugarman, P.J., Cramer, B.S., Christie-Blick, N. & Pekar, S.F., 2005. The Phanerozoic Record of Global Sea-Level Change. Science 310, 1293–1298.10.1126/science.111641216311326Search in Google Scholar

Mitta, V.V. (Ed.), 2012. Unifitsirovannaja regional’naja stratigrafitcheskaja skhema jurskikh otlozhenij Vostotchno-Evropejskoj platformy. Ob’jasnitel’naja zapiska. PIN RAN, Moskva, 64 pp. (in Russian)Search in Google Scholar

Moucha, R., Forte, A.M., Mitrovica, J.X., Rowley, D.B., Quere, S., Simmons, N.A. & Grand, S.P. 2008. Dynamic topography and long-term sea-level variations: There is no such thing as a stable continental platform. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 271, 101–108.10.1016/j.epsl.2008.03.056Search in Google Scholar

Müller, R.D., Sdrolias, M., Gaina, C., Steinberger, B. & Heine, C., 2008. Long-Term Sea-Level Fluctuations Driven by Ocean Basin Dynamics. Science 319, 1357–1362.10.1126/science.115154018323446Search in Google Scholar

Ogg, J.G., Ogg, G.M. & Gradstein, F.M., 2016. A concise geologic time scale 2016. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 234 pp.Search in Google Scholar

Pandey, D.K., Fürsich, F.T. & Sha, J.G., 2009. Interbasinal marker intervals – A case study from the Jurassic basins of Kachchh and Jaisalmer, western India. Science in China Series D: Earth Sciences 52, 1924–1931.10.1007/s11430-009-0158-0Search in Google Scholar

Rai, J., Bajpai, S., Kumar, R., Singh, A., Kumar, K. & Prakash, N., 2016. The earliest marine transgression in western India: New insights from calcareous nannofossils from Lathi Formation, Jaisalmer Basin. Current Science 111, 1631–1639.10.18520/cs/v111/i10/1631-1639Search in Google Scholar

Raju, D.S.N. (Ed.), 2007. Stratigraphic Mega Charts for the Indian Subcontinent. International Commission on Stratigraphy.Search in Google Scholar

Riding, J.B., Westermann, G.E.G. & Darbyshire, D.P.F., 2010. New evidence for the age of the Athol Formation (Middle Jurassic; Bajocian) in the Tusk-1 and Tusk-2 wells, offshore Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. Alcheringa 34, 21–35.10.1080/03115510903277824Search in Google Scholar

Ruban. D.A., 2015. Mesozoic long-term eustatic cycles and their uncertain hierarchy. Geoscience Frontiers 6, 503–511.10.1016/j.gsf.2014.06.001Search in Google Scholar

Ruban, D.A., 2016. A “chaos” of Phanerozoic eustatic curves. Journal of African Earth Sciences 116, 225–232.10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2016.01.009Search in Google Scholar

Ruban, D.A. & Sallam, E.S., 2016. Bajocian-Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) sea-level changes in northeastern Egypt: Synthesis and further implications. Journal of African Earth Sciences 120, 181–185.10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2016.05.002Search in Google Scholar

Ruban, D.A. & Sallam, E.S., 2018. The assumed Aalenian stage-long eustatic lowstand did not exist: A review of the fresh evidence from Africa and other continents. Journal of African Earth Sciences 139, 232–240.10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2017.12.022Search in Google Scholar

Ruban, D.A., Zorina, S.O. & Conrad, C.P., 2010. No global-scale transgressive-regressive cycles in the Thanetian (Paleocene): Evidence from interregional correlation. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 295, 226–235.10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.05.040Search in Google Scholar

Ruban, D.A., Zorina, S.O., Conrad, C.P. & Afanasieva, N.I., 2012. In quest of Paleocene global-scale transgressions and regressions: constraints from a synthesis of regional trends. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 123, 7–18.10.1016/j.pgeola.2011.08.003Search in Google Scholar

Seton, M., Müller, R.D., Zahirovic, S., Gaina, C., Torsvik, T., Shephard, G., Talsma, G., Gurnis, M., Turner, M., Maush, S. & Chandler, M., 2012. Global continental and ocean basin reconstructions since 200 Ma. Earth-Science Reviews 113, 212–270.10.1016/j.earscirev.2012.03.002Search in Google Scholar

Sharland, P.R., Archer, R., Casey, D.M., Davies, R.B., Hall, S.H., Heward, A.P., Horbury, A.D. & Simmons, M.D., 2001. Arabian Plate Sequence Stratigraphy. Oriental Press, Manama, 371 pp.Search in Google Scholar

Simmons, M.D., Sharland, P.R., Casey, D.M., Davies, R.B. & Sutcliffe, O.E., 2007. Arabian Plate sequence stratigraphy: Potential implications for global chronostratigraphy. GeoArabia 12, 101–130.10.2113/geoarabia1204101Search in Google Scholar

Tao, C., Bai, G., Liu, J., Deng, C., Lu, X., Liu, H. & Wang, D., 2013. Mesozoic lithofacies palaeogeography and petroleum prospectivity in North Carnarvon Basin, Australia. Journal of Palaeogeography 2, 81–92.Search in Google Scholar

van der Meer, D.G., van den Berg van Saparoea, A.P.H., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., van de Weg, R.M.B., Godderis, Y., Le Hir, G. & Donnadieu, Y., 2017. Reconstructing first-order changes in sea level during the Phanerozoic and Neoproterozoic using strontium isotopes. Gondwana Research 44, 22–34.10.1016/j.gr.2016.11.002Search in Google Scholar

Wiggan, N.J., Riding, J.B., Fensome, R.A. & Mattioli, E., 2018. The Bajocian (Middle Jurassic): A key interval in the early Mesozoic phytoplankton radiation. Earth-Science Reviews 180, 126–146.10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.03.009Search in Google Scholar

Zalasiewicz, J. & Williams, M., 2012. The Goldilocks planet: the four billion year story of Earth’s climate. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 303 pp.10.1093/oso/9780199593576.001.0001Search in Google Scholar