Cretaceous basins of Central Europe: deciphering effects of global and regional processes - a short introduction
Abstract
Cretaceous basins of Central Europe have recorded a number of global and regional processes such as long-term rise in global sea level, peak greenhouse climate and widespread Late Cretaceous tectonic inversion. Considerable recent advances in integrated stratigraphic dating now allow for major improvements in understanding of the sedimentary records in these basins.
This special issue presents several case studies that document some aspects of the scientific advances of the last years, temporally focussing on the early Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Coniacian). Palaeogeographically, the case studies are centred on basins situated in the periphery of the Mid-European Island, comprising the Munsterland, Lower Saxony, Saxo-Bohemian and Danubian Cretaceous basins.
The thematic spread includes integrated biostratigraphy, genetic and depositional sequence stratigraphy, facies analyses, detailed lithostratigraphical correlations of well-logs and outcrops as well as dating of detrital zircons.