The breakup of the former Pangea supercontinent culminated in the modern drifting continents. Increased rifting caused the establishment of the Atlantic Ocean in the middle Jurassic and significant widening in Cretaceous. An explosion of calcareous nannoplankton and foraminifers in the warm seas created massive chalk deposits. A surge in submarine volcanic activity enhanced supergreenhouse conditions in the middle Cretaceous with high CO2 concentrations. Angiosperm plants bloomed on the dinosaur-dominated land during late Cretaceous. The Cretaceous dramatically ended with an asteroid impact, which resulted in a mass extinction.
The Cretaceous Period / A.S. Gale, J. Mutterlose, S. Batenburg, F.M. Gradstein, F.P. Agterberg, J.G. Ogg, M.R. Petrizzo - In: Geologic Time Scale 2020. 2 / [a cura di] F.M Gradstein, J.G. Ogg, M.D. Schimtz, G.M. Ogg. - [s.l] : Elsevier, 2020. - ISBN 9780128243602. - pp. 1023-1086 [10.1016/B978-0-12-824360-2.00027-9]
The Cretaceous Period
M.R. Petrizzo
2020
Abstract
The breakup of the former Pangea supercontinent culminated in the modern drifting continents. Increased rifting caused the establishment of the Atlantic Ocean in the middle Jurassic and significant widening in Cretaceous. An explosion of calcareous nannoplankton and foraminifers in the warm seas created massive chalk deposits. A surge in submarine volcanic activity enhanced supergreenhouse conditions in the middle Cretaceous with high CO2 concentrations. Angiosperm plants bloomed on the dinosaur-dominated land during late Cretaceous. The Cretaceous dramatically ended with an asteroid impact, which resulted in a mass extinction.
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