Advances in Cyclostratigraphy and Integrated Times Scales
A special issue of Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263). This special issue belongs to the section "Biogeosciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2019)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: micropaleontology (calcareous nannofossils); cyclostratigraphy; carbon cycle; integrated stratigraphy; palaeoclimate
Interests: palaeoclimate; cyclostratigraphy/astrochronology; marine and terrestrial depositional environments; global change events; mass extinctions; integrated stratigraphy
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Cyclostratigraphy and the study of orbital climate change is an expanding discipline, strongly supported by its success in calibrating large parts of the Cenozoic sedimentary record to astronomical solutions. Despite advances in astronomy and numerical dating, challenges persist in the calibration of Mesozoic records to astronomical solutions, or Paleozoic cyclic records to geochronology. Nevertheless, orbital climate studies have proven successful in estimating durations of paleo-environmental perturbations and mass extinctions in Earth history, and associated rates of change. Recently, orbital cycles have even been detected in Mesoproterozoic sediments, whose periodicity was predicted from astronomical models. Astrochronology and cyclostratigraphy are powerful tools for the construction of geological stratigraphic time scales as part of an integrated approach to studies of past climate.
The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together studies of sedimentary archives marked by periodic changes in their physical, biological, and/or chemical parameters, driven by orbital processes, across a wide spectrum of time intervals and environmental settings.
To this extent, contributions that incorporate the following are particularly welcome:
- Exemplify astronomically forced climate cycles, recorded in sedimentary successions of any age and environment,
- Improve our theoretical understanding, for example through modeling, of orbital processes and their impact on local, regional and global climate and (depositional) environments,
- Provide comprehensive reviews on cyclostratigraphy and orbital climate change across various time intervals,
- Integrate new or already-established cyclostratigraphic frameworks, with other stratigraphic information (geochronology, biostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy, lithostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy).
Dr. Nicolas Thibault
Dr. Micha Ruhl
Dr. Sietske J. Batenburg
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Cyclostratigraphy
- Orbital forcing
- Astrochronology
- Integrated
- stratigraphy
- Paleoclimate
- Geologic time scale
- Archean
- Proterozoic
- Palaeozoic
- Mesozoic
- Cenozoic
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