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Assessing shale gas reservoir potential using multi-scaled SEM pore network characterizations and quantifications: The Ciñera-Matallana pull-apart basin, NW Spain (2020)
Book Chapter
Montenari. (2020). Assessing shale gas reservoir potential using multi-scaled SEM pore network characterizations and quantifications: The Ciñera-Matallana pull-apart basin, NW Spain. In Carbon Isotope Stratigraphy, Volume 5 (677-755). https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.sats.2020.07.001

In recent years, unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs (UHRs), specifically shale gas plays, have become a vast source of economically viable hydrocarbons, in response to better drilling and stimulation techniques. To further improve recovery, more d... Read More about Assessing shale gas reservoir potential using multi-scaled SEM pore network characterizations and quantifications: The Ciñera-Matallana pull-apart basin, NW Spain.

Carbon isotope stratigraphy: Principles and applications (2020)
Book Chapter
Gröcke, D. R. (2020). Carbon isotope stratigraphy: Principles and applications. In M. Montenari (Ed.), Stratigraphy & Timescales (1-40). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.sats.2020.08.002

Even after all this time, our understanding of the modern and ancient carbon cycle is still incomplete. Stable carbon isotopes are an extremely useful tool from which to monitor and trace the carbon cycle. In this manner, carbon isotope stratigraphy... Read More about Carbon isotope stratigraphy: Principles and applications.

Ordovician carbon isotope stratigraphy of China: A synthesis (2020)
Book Chapter
Li, C., & Zhang, Y. (2020). Ordovician carbon isotope stratigraphy of China: A synthesis. In M. Montenari (Ed.), Stratigraphy & Timescales (353-386). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.sats.2020.08.010

In this paper we review the published carbon isotope records (δ13Ccarb) of the Ordovician System from Chinese terranes, principally South China, North China, Tarim and Xizang (Tibet). All the δ13Ccarb values from a number of sections in each terrane... Read More about Ordovician carbon isotope stratigraphy of China: A synthesis.

Interpreting Phanerozoic δ13C patterns as periodic glacio-eustatic sequences (2020)
Book Chapter
Al-Husseini, M., & Ruebsam, W. (2020). Interpreting Phanerozoic δ13C patterns as periodic glacio-eustatic sequences. In M. Montenari (Ed.), Stratigraphy & Timescales (41-105). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.sats.2020.08.005

The deterministic Orbital Scale of glacio-eustasy is calibrated with 405-kyr time-rock units named stratons. It predicts polar ice volumes (global sea level) varied throughout the Phanerozoic according to a periodic template that repeats every 14.58... Read More about Interpreting Phanerozoic δ13C patterns as periodic glacio-eustatic sequences.

Ordovician δ13C chemostratigraphy: A global review of major excursions and their ties to graptolite and conodont biostratigraphy (2020)
Book Chapter
Bergström, S. M., Eriksson, M. E., & Ahlberg, P. (2020). Ordovician δ13C chemostratigraphy: A global review of major excursions and their ties to graptolite and conodont biostratigraphy. In M. Montenari (Ed.), Stratigraphy & Timescales (319-351). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.sats.2020.09.001

Recent studies on δ13C chemostratigraphy have produced a wealth of new information of major importance for clarification of local and global stratigraphic relationships. Currently, approximately 15 named positive and negative isotopic excursions have... Read More about Ordovician δ13C chemostratigraphy: A global review of major excursions and their ties to graptolite and conodont biostratigraphy.

Early Toarcian glacio-eustatic unconformities and chemostratigraphic black holes (2020)
Book Chapter
Ruebsam, W., Thibault, N., & Al-Husseini, M. (2020). Early Toarcian glacio-eustatic unconformities and chemostratigraphic black holes. In M. Montenari (Ed.), Stratigraphy & Timescales (629-676). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.sats.2020.08.006

During Late Pliensbachian and Early Toarcian times (Early Jurassic Epoch, c. 185 to 180 Ma) major environmental instabilities and perturbations affected the evolution of the carbon cycle, climate, sea level and biota. The temporal and causal relation... Read More about Early Toarcian glacio-eustatic unconformities and chemostratigraphic black holes.

Review of the Upper Ediacaran-Lower Cambrian detrital series in Central and North Iberia: NE Africa as possible source area (2020)
Book Chapter
Ugidos, J. M., Barba, P., & Valladares, M. I. (2020). Review of the Upper Ediacaran-Lower Cambrian detrital series in Central and North Iberia: NE Africa as possible source area. In M. Montenari (Ed.), Stratigraphy & Timescales (147-268). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.sats.2020.08.004

This work offers a review of the Upper Ediacaran and Lower Cambrian succession in the Central and North Iberian Massif. The aim is to simplify the terminology and stratigraphic descriptions to ensure that the treatment of all available geochemical da... Read More about Review of the Upper Ediacaran-Lower Cambrian detrital series in Central and North Iberia: NE Africa as possible source area.

Stable carbon isotopes in archaeological plant remains (2020)
Book Chapter
Ferrio, J. P., Aguilera, M., Voltas, J., & Araus, J. L. (2020). Stable carbon isotopes in archaeological plant remains. In M. Montenari (Ed.), Stratigraphy & Timescales (107-145). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.sats.2020.08.008

Archaeological plant remains are a valuable source of information about the social and environmental conditions experienced by past societies. Full exploitation of the informative potential of plant remains involves the use of analytical techniques.... Read More about Stable carbon isotopes in archaeological plant remains.

Globally enhanced Hg concentration and Hg and C isotopes in Permian–Triassic boundary successions: Possible linkage to volcanism (2020)
Book Chapter
Sial, A. N., Chen, J., Korte, C., Pandit, M. K., Spangenberg, J., Silva-Tamayo, J. C., …Riedel, P. R. (2020). Globally enhanced Hg concentration and Hg and C isotopes in Permian–Triassic boundary successions: Possible linkage to volcanism. In M. Montenari (Ed.), Stratigraphy & Timescales (567-628). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.sats.2020.08.011

This study presents C and Hg (Hg/TOC) chemostratigraphy data on identified Permian–Triassic successions across the globe with an aim to develop a better understanding on the “mass extinction” event during this time interval. Besides, it would also co... Read More about Globally enhanced Hg concentration and Hg and C isotopes in Permian–Triassic boundary successions: Possible linkage to volcanism.

Calibrating δ13C and δ18O chemostratigraphic correlations across Cambrian strata of SW Europe and Morocco, West Gondwana (2020)
Book Chapter
Álvaro, J. J. (2020). Calibrating δ13C and δ18O chemostratigraphic correlations across Cambrian strata of SW Europe and Morocco, West Gondwana. In M. Montenari (Ed.), Stratigraphy & Timescales (269-317). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.sats.2020.08.003

The Cambrian remains one of the least constrained Phanerozoic periods from the International Geological Timescale. Several global boundaries of series and stages are still awaiting formal definition and ratification. Particularly in West Gondwana, a... Read More about Calibrating δ13C and δ18O chemostratigraphic correlations across Cambrian strata of SW Europe and Morocco, West Gondwana.

Carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Tournaisian (Lower Mississippian) successions of NE Europe (2020)
Book Chapter
Zhuravlev, A. V., Plotitsyn, A. N., Gruzdev, D. A., & Smoleva, I. V. (2020). Carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Tournaisian (Lower Mississippian) successions of NE Europe. In M. Montenari (Ed.), Stratigraphy & Timescales (467-527). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.sats.2020.08.007

Biostratigraphically constrained δ13Ccarb variations in the Tournaisian successions of NE Europe (Komi Republic, Russia) are considered. Eight reference sections, characterizing platforms, slopes, and shelf depression facies, comprise the basis of th... Read More about Carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Tournaisian (Lower Mississippian) successions of NE Europe.

The isotopic composition of pedogenic carbonate as a record of pCO2: Insights from the Late Paleozoic of tropical western Pangea (2020)
Book Chapter
Tanner, L. H., & Lucas, S. G. (2020). The isotopic composition of pedogenic carbonate as a record of pCO2: Insights from the Late Paleozoic of tropical western Pangea. In M. Montenari (Ed.), Stratigraphy & Timescales (529-565). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.sats.2020.08.009

The use of the carbon isotope composition (δ13C) of pedogenic calcite as a proxy for pCO2 was established over three decades ago and remains a primary means of investigating climate history. Over time, an increased understanding of the systematics of... Read More about The isotopic composition of pedogenic carbonate as a record of pCO2: Insights from the Late Paleozoic of tropical western Pangea.

Southern Ocean carbon sink enhanced by sea-ice feedbacks at the Antarctic Cold Reversal (2020)
Journal Article
Weber, M., Ellis, B., Thomas, Z., Montenari, M., Cage, A., Harris, M., …Rivera, A. (2020). Southern Ocean carbon sink enhanced by sea-ice feedbacks at the Antarctic Cold Reversal. Nature Geoscience, 489-497. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0587-0

The Southern Ocean occupies some 14% of the planet’s surface and plays a fundamental role in the global carbon cycle and climate. It provides a direct connection to the deep ocean carbon reservoir through biogeochemical processes that include surface... Read More about Southern Ocean carbon sink enhanced by sea-ice feedbacks at the Antarctic Cold Reversal.