Cretaceous Period: Environmental and Tectonic Events

Cretaceous Period: Environmental and Tectonic Events

Sea Level and Cratonic Sequences
Cretaceous Period:
Environmental and
Tectonic Events
Cretaceous Paleogeography
Why does
Deformation
Migrate
Eastward?
Western Margin
Tectonics
Sevier Orogeny
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Sevier Orogeny and Thrust Faulting
Where did
sediments from
Sevier Orogeny
Accumulate?
Cretaceous Climate
Clastic Wedges Revisited!
Ocean Crust
Formation and
Climate
Changes in
the Rate of
Seafloor
Spreading
Larson, 1991
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Spreading Rates and Weathering:
Feedback!
CO2 Feedbacks with Weathering
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