Lower cretaceous
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An exceptionally well-preserved cranium and mandible of a new species of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Nova Olinda Member of the Crato Formation (Aptian, Early Cretaceious) of the Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil, is described. The... more
... PETER L. FOREY Department of Paheontology, The Natural Histoy Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD LANCE GRANDE Department qf-Geology, Field Museum of Natural Histov, Roosevelt Road at Luke Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605, USA ...
The Tabarak Abad Dam on the river Tabarak, a branch of Atrak river, is located about 25 km of northeast of Quchan city in the northeast of Iran. The dam is now under construction and will be completed in 2002. The Tabarak Abad Dam has... more
October Field is one of the most prolific offshore oil fields in the Gulf of Suez of Egypt. It consists of a number of marine platforms and produces oil from different reservoirs of different geological ages from the Lower Cretaceous to... more
Quartz-diorite, diorite and granodiorite of Archaic ages are the most common rock types in the Swaziland Middleveld. The composition of the regolith cover is dominated by soil-saprolite complexes. The genetic and mineralogical gradient... more
The 265m thick outcrop shows a deltaic depositional sedimentary system. It shows one major shallowing upward cycle that include 8 facies within 6 smaller shallowing upward cycles. These facies are shale at the lower part of the sequence,... more
Deformation of the Circum-Rhodope Belt Mesozoic (Middle Triassic to earliest Lower Cretaceous) low-grade schists underneath an arc-related ophiolitic magmatic suite and associated sedimentary successions in the eastern Rhodope-Thrace... more
U-Pb ages of detrital zircon (DZ) grains from Lower Cretaceous foreland basin quartzite conglomerate clasts and sandstones—and from potential sources of quartzite clasts and sandstones—record unroofing of the Sevier fold-thrust belt of... more
Reptilian ichnofossils are documented from three levels within the coastal lagoonal Vectis Formation (Wealden Group, Lower Cretaceous) of the Wessex Sub-basin, southern England (coastal exposures of the Isle of Wight). Footprints... more