News
April 2021: The proposal for the Turonian/Coniacian GSSP at Saltsgitter-Salder has been unanimously accepted

March 2021: More publications now in press detailing or work on the Turonian - Coniacian GSSP section at Saltzgitter-Salder Germany (see list below)!

February 2021: We are very pleased to announce the formal partnership between Palaeo7 LLP and Ridge AS, part of the Three60 Group.  With multiple offices in Norway, UK, US and South East Asia, Ridge AS consists of more than 200 inspired professionals within well construction, production, reservoir engineering, G&G, subsea and facilities. Like Palaeo7 LLP, they endeavour to supply the oil & gas industry with objective and best-in-class support for their large client portfolio of operators and oil-service companies. As a result, we are delighted to be Ridge AS's preferred biostratigraphy provider to complement their already impressive list of services and partners. The team at Palaeo7 look forward to a long-running and successful collaboration in the Ridge AS family.

Publications
  • 2021
  • Walaszczyk, I., Čech, S., Crampton, J., Dubicka, Z., Ifrim, C., Jarvis, I., Lees, J., Lodowski, D., Pearce, M., Peryt, D., Schiøler, P., Todes, J., Uličný, D., Voigt, S. & Wiese, F., in press 2021. The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Coniacian Stage (Salzgitter-Salder, Germany) and its auxiliary sections (Słupia Nadbrzeżna, central Poland; Střeleč, Czech Republic; and El Rosario, NE Mexico). Episodes.
  • Jarvis, I., Pearce, M., Püttmann, T., Voigt, S. & Walaszczyk, I., 2021. Palynology and calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of the Turonian - Coniacian boundary: The proposed boundary stratotype at Salzgitter-Salder, Germany and its correlation in NW Europe. Cretaceous Research, 123, 104782.
  • Voigt, S., Püttmann, T., Mutterlose, J., Bornemann, A., Jarvis, I., Pearce, M.A., Walaszczyk, I., 2021. Reassessment of the Salzgitter‐Salder section as a potential stratotype for the Turonian–Coniacian Boundary: stable carbon isotopes and cyclostratigraphy constrained by nannofossils and palynology. Newsletters on Stratigraphy, 54: 209–228.

2020
  • Pearce, M.A., Jarvis, I., Ball, P. & Laurin, J., 2020. Palynology of the Cenomanian to lowermost Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) Chalk of the Trunch Borehole (Norfolk, UK) and a new dinoflagellate cyst bioevent stratigraphy for NW Europe. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 278, 104188
  • Radmacher, W., Niezgodzki, I., Tyszka, J., Mangerud, G. & Pearce, M.A., 2020. Palynology vs. model simulation: oceanographic reconstruction of incomplete data from the Cretaceous Greenland–Norwegian Seaway. Newsletters on Stratigraphy, 53: 93–120

2019
  • Pearce, M.A., Stickley, C.E. & Johansen, L.M., 2019. Chatangiella islae and Trithyrodinium zakkii, new species of peridinioid dinoflagellate cysts (Family Deflandreoideae) from the Coniacian and Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of the Norwegian Sea. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 271, 104080.

2018
  • Nøhr-Hansen, H., Costa, L.I., Pearce, M.A. & Alsen, P., 2018.  New Albian to Cenomanian dinoflagellate cyst taxa of ovoidinioid affinities from East Greenland, Barents Sea and England.  Palynology, 42: 366–391.
  • Pearce, M.A., 2018. Additional new organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts from two onshore UK Chalk boreholes.  Journal of Micropalaeontology. 37: 73–86.
  • Pearce, M.A. & Williams, G.L., 2018.  Fetchamium prolixispinosum gen. et comb. nov. (Division Dinoflagellata). Journal of Micropalaeontology, 37: 17–20.

2017
  • Hollis, C.J., Stickley, C.E., Bijl, P.K., Schiøler, P., Clowes, C.D., Li, X. & Campbell, H., 2017. The age of the Takatika Grit, Chatham Islands, New Zealand. Alcheringa, 41: 1–14.

2016
  • van Helmond, N.A.G.M., Sluijs, A., Papadomanolaki, N.M., Plint, A.G., Gröcke, D.R., Pearce, M.A., Eldrett, J.S., Trabucho-Alexandre, J., Walaszczyk, I., van de Schootbrugge, B. & Brinkhuis, H., 2016. Equatorward phytoplankton migration during a cold spell within the Late Cretaceous supergreenhouse, Biogeosciences, 13: 2859–2872.
  • Olde, K., Jarvis, I., Pearce, M.A., Walaszczyk, I. & Tocher, B., 2016.  Organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst records from a prospective Turonian-Coniacian (Upper Cretaceous) GSSP, Słupia Nadbrzeżna, Poland.  Cretaceous Research, 65: 17–24.

2015
  • Barron, J.A., Stickley, C.E. & Bukry, D. 2015. Paleoceanographic, and paleoclimatic constraints on the global Eocene diatom and silicoflagellate record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 422: 85–100.
  • Olde, K., Jarvis, I., Pearce, M.A., Uličný, D., Tocher, B.A., Gröcke, D. & Trabucho-Alexandre, J., 2015. A revised northern European Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) dinoflagellate cyst biostratigraphy: integrating palynology and carbon isotope events. Review of Palynology and Palaeobotany, 213: 1–16.
  • Olde, K., Jarvis, I., Uličný, D., Pearce, M.A., Trabucho-Alexandre, J., Čech, S., Gröcke, D., Laurin, J., Švábenická, L. & Tocher, B.A., 2015.  Geochemical and palynological sea-level proxies in hemipelagic sediments: a critical assessment from the Late Cretaceous of the Czech Republic. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 435: 222–243.

2014
  • Escutia, C., Brinkhuis, H. & the Expedition 318 Scientists. 2014. From Greenhouse to Icehouse at the Wilkes Land Antarctic Margin: IODP Expedition 318. In: (Stein et al., Eds) Earth and Life Processes Discovered from Subseafloor Environments. Developments in Marine Geology, Volume 7: 295-328. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-62617-2.00012-8
  • Folkestad, A., Odinson, T., Fossen, H. & Pearce, M.A., 2014.  Middle-Jurassic tectonic activity in the northern North Sea and its influence on the depositional environment of the Brent Group. Int. Assoc. Sedimentol. Spec. Publ., 46: 389–416.
  • Patterson, M.O. et al. (including Stickley, C.E.). 2014. Orbital forcing of the East Antarctic ice sheet during the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene. Nature Geoscience.
  • Pearce, M.A., 2014. Dinoflagellate-cyst analysis.  In: Matthews, J.A. et al. (Eds), The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Environmental Change. (2nd edition). Sage Publications, London and California.
  • Radmacher, W., Pérez-Rodríguez, I., Arz, J.A. & Pearce, M.A., 2014. Dinoflagellate cysts at the Campanian/Maastrichtian boundary in Zumaia, northern Spain. Cretaceous Research, 51: 309–320.
  • Radmacher, W., Tyszka, J., Mangerud, G. & Pearce, M.A., 2014. Dinoflagellate cyst biostratigraphy of the Late Albian to Early Maastrichtian in the southwestern Barents Sea. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 57: 109–121.
  • Stickley, C.E., (in press 2014). Major Contributor to Matthews, J.A. et al. (Eds), The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Environmental Change. (2nd edition). Sage Publications, London and California.
  • Stickley, C.E., 2014. Palaeoclimate: The Sea Ice Thickens. News and Views. Nature Geoscience, 7: 165–166.

2013
  • Bijl, P.K., Bendle, J.A.P., Bohaty, S.M., Pross, J., Schouten, S., Tauxe, L., Stickley, C.E., et al. 2013. Eocene cooling linked to early flow across the Tasmanian Gateway.  PNAS, 110 (24): 9645–9650.
  • Cook, C.P., et al. including Stickley, C.E., 2013. Dynamic behaviour of the East Antarctic ice sheet during Pliocene warmth. Nature Geoscience., 6: 765–769.
  • Houben, A.J.P., Bijl, P.K., Pross, J., Bohaty, S.M., Passchier, S., Stickley, C.E., et al. 2013. Reorganization of Southern Ocean plankton ecosystems at the onset of Antarctic glaciation. Science, 19 April 2013: 341–344.
  • Koc, N., Miettinen, A., Stickley, C.E., 2013. Diatom records: North Atlantic and Arctic. In, Elias, S.A. (Ed), Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, vol. 1, pp. 562-, 2nd edition. Amsterdam, Elsevier.
  • Pant, N.C., et al. including Stickley, C.E., 2013. Provenance of Pleistocene sediments from Site U1359 of the Wilkes Land IODP Leg 318—evidence for multiple sourcing from the East Antarctic Craton and Ross Orogen. Geol. Soc. Spec. Publ., 381.
  • Pike, J. & Stickley, C.E., 2013. Diatom records: Diatom fossil records from marine laminated sediments. In, Elias, S.A. (Ed), The Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, 1: 554–561, 2nd edition. Amsterdam, Elsevier.
  • Stickley, C.E., et al., 2013. Diatom records: Antarctic waters. In, Elias, S.A. (Ed), The Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, vol. 1, pp. 527-539, 2nd edition. Amsterdam, Elsevier.
  • Stocchi, P. et al. incl. Stickley C.E., 2013. Relative sea-level rise around East Antarctica during Oligocene glaciation. Nature Geoscience, 6: 380–384.

2012
  • Barke, J., van der Burgh, J., van Konijnenburg-van Cittert, J.H.A., Collinson, M.E., Pearce, M.A., Bujak, J., Lotter, A.F & Brinkhuis, H., 2012. Coeval Eocene blooms of multiple species of the freshwater fern in and around the Arctic and Nordic seas.  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 337–338.
  • Pross, J., et al. incl. Stickley, C.E., 2012. Persistent near-tropical warmth on the Antarctic continent during the early Eocene epoch. Nature, 488 (2 August), 73–77.
  • Stickley, C.E., Koç, N., Pearce, R.B., Kemp, A.E.S., Jordan, R.W., Sangiorgi, F. and St. John, K., 2012. Variability in the length of the sea ice season in the middle Eocene Arctic. Geology, 40: 727–730.
  • Tauxe, L., Stickley C.E., et al. 2012. Chronostratigraphic framework for the IODP Expedition 318 cores from the Wilkes Land Margin: Constraints for paleoceanographic reconstruction. Paleoceanography, 27, PA2214.

2011
  • Bijl, P.K., Pross, J., Warnaar, J., Stickley, C.E., et al. 2011. Environmental forcings of Paleogene Southern Ocean dinoflagellate biogeography. Paleoceanography. 26, PA1202.
  • Escutia, C., Brinkhuis, H., Klaus, A., and the Expedition 318 Scientists incl. Stickley, C.E., 2011. Proc. IODP, 318: Tokyo (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.).
  • Jarvis, I., Lignum, J., Gröcke, D. & Pearce, M., 2011. Black shale deposition, atmospheric CO2 drawdown and cooling during the Cenomanian–Turonian Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE2). Palaeoceanography, 26, PA3201: 1–17.
  • Pearce, M.A., Lignum, J.S. & Jarvis, I., 2011. Senoniasphaera turonica (Prössl, 1990 ex Prössl, 1992) comb. nov., senior synonym of Senoniasphaera rotundata alveolata Pearce et al., 2003: an important dinocyst marker for the Lower Turonian chalk of NW Europe. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 30: 91–93.

2010
  • Jordan, R.W. & Stickley, C. E., 2010. Diatoms as indicators of paleoceanographic events, p.423-452. In, The Diatoms: Applications for the Environmental and Earth Sciences. 2nd edition. C.U.P.
  • Pearce, M.A., 2010. New organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts from the Cenomanian to Maastrichtian of the Trunch borehole, UK. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 29: 51–72.

2009
  • Maslin, M.A., Stickley, C.E. & Ettwein, V.J. 2008 (2009 online). Holocene Climate Variability, pp.125-132. In, Steele, J., et al. (Eds), Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences (Second Edition). Academic Press. 300 pp.
  • Morris, P.H., Cullum, A.A., Pearce, M.A. & Batten, D.J. 2009. Megaspore assemblages from the Åre Formation (Rhaetian–Pliensbachian) of the Haltenbanken Region, mid-Norway, and their value as field and regional stratigraphical markers. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 28: 1–22.
  • Pearce, M.A., Jarvis, I. & Tocher, B.A. 2009.  The Cenomanian–Turonian boundary event, OAE2 and palaeoenvironmental change in epicontinental seas: new insights from the dinocyst and geochemical records. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 280: 207–234.
  • Pike, J., Crosta, X., Maddison, E.J., Stickley, C.E., et al. 2009. Observations on the relationship between the Antarctic coastal diatoms Thalassiosira antarctica Comber and Porosira glacialis (Grunow) Jørgensen and sea ice concentrations during the late Quaternary. Marine Micropaleontology., 73: 14–25.
  • Stickley, C. E., et al., 2009. Evidence for middle Eocene Arctic sea ice from diatoms and ice-rafted debris. Nature, 460 (16 July), 376–379.

2008
  • Backman, J., Jakobsson, M., Frank, M., Sangiorgi, F., Brinkhuis, H., Stickley, C.E., O'Regan, M., Løvlie, R., Pälike, H., Spofforth, D., Gattacecca, J. & Moran. K. 2008. Age Model and Core-Seismic Integration for the Cenozoic ACEX Sediments from the Lomonosov Ridge. Paleoceanography, 23,  doi:10.1029/ 2007PA001476.
  • O’Regan, M., Moran, K., Backman, J., Jakobsson, M., Sangiorgi, F., Brinkhuis, H., Pockalny, R., Skelton, A., Stickley, C.E., et al., 2008. Mid-Cenozoic tectonic and paleoenvironmental setting of the central Arctic Ocean. Paleoceanography, 23.
  • Pike J., Allen, C. S., Leventer, A., Stickley, C.E., & Pudsey, C.J. 2008. Comparison of contemporary and fossil diatom assemblages from the western Antarctic Peninsula shelf. Marine Micropaleontology, 67: 274–287.
  • Prince, I.M., Jarvis, I., Pearce, M.A. & Tocher, B.A. 2008.  Dinoflagellate cyst biostratigraphy of the Coniacian–Santonian (Upper Cretaceous): new data from the English Chalk. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 150: 59–96.
  • Sangiorgi, F., Brumsack, H.-J., Willard, D. A., Schouten, S., Stickley, C.E., O’Regan, M., Reichart, G.-J., Sinninghe Damste, J.-S and Brinkhuis H. 2008a. A 26 million years gap in the central Arctic record at the greenhouse-icehouse transition: Looking for clues, Paleoceanography, 23.
  • Sangiorgi, F., van Soelen, E.E., Spofforth, D.J.A., Pälike, H., Stickley, C.E., St. John, K., Koç, N., Schouten, S., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. and Brinkhuis, H. 2008b. Cyclicity in the middle Eocene central Arctic Ocean sediment record: Orbital forcing and environmental response, Paleoceanography, 23.
  • Stickley, C.E., et al. 2008. A siliceous microfossil view of middle Eocene Arctic paleoenvironments: A window of biosilica production and preservation. Paleoceanography, 23.

2007
  • Lignum, J., Jarvis, I. & Pearce, M.A., 2007.  A critical assessment of standard processing methods for the preparation of palynological samples. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 149: 133–149.

2006
  • Flower, R. J., Stickley, C.E., et al., 2006. Environmental Changes at the Desert Margin: An Assessment of Recent Paleolimnological Records in Lake Qarun, Middle Egypt. J. Paleolim., 35.
  • Jarvis, I., Gale, A.S., Jenkyns, H.C. & Pearce, M.A., 2006.  Secular variation in Late Cretaceous carbon isotopes:  a new δ13C carbonate reference curve for the Cenomanian–Campanian (99.6–70.6 Ma).  Geological Magazine, 143: 561–608.
  • Leventer, A., Domack, E., Dunbar, R., Pike, J., Stickley, C.E., et al., 2006. East Antarctic Margin marine sediment record of deglaciation, GSA Today, 16, 12, doi: 10.1130/GSAT01612A.1.
  • Pike, J. and Stickley. C.E., 2006 (2007 online). Diatom records: marine laminated sequences. In, Elias, S. (Ed), Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science. Elsevier, 557–567.
  • Stickley, C.E., Pike, J. and Jones, V.J., 2006 (2007 online). Diatom records: Antarctic waters. In, Elias, S. (Ed), Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science. Elsevier, 530–541.
  • Stickley, C.E., Pike, J. and Leventer, A., 2006. Productivity events of the marine diatom Thalassiosira tumida (Janisch) Hasle recorded in deglacial varves from the East Antarctic Margin. Marine Micropalaeontology, 59: 184–196.

2005
  • Stickley, C.E., et al. 2005. Deglacial ocean and climate seasonality in laminated diatom sediments, Mac.Robertson Shelf, Antarctica. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 227: 290–310.

2004
  • Battarbee, R.W., Gasse, F. and Stickley, C.E.. (Eds). 2004. Past Climate Variability Through Europe and Africa. Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research Book Series, vol. 6. Springer. 638 pp.
  • Huber, M., Brinkhuis, H., Stickley, C.E., et al., 2004. Eocene circulation of the Southern Ocean: Was Antarctica kept warm by subtropical waters? Paleoceanography, PA4016.
  • Röhl, U., Brinkhuis, H., Stickley, C.E., et al., 2004. Sea Level and astronomically induced environmental changes in Middle and Late Eocene sediments from the East Tasman Plateau. 127-151. In, Exon, N.F., Kennett, J.P. and Malone, M.J. (Eds), The Cenozoic Southern Ocean: Tectonics, Sedimentation and Climate Change between Australia and Antarctica. Geophysical Monograph Series, 151. AGU, Washington, 344 pp.
  • Schellenberg, S.A., Brinkhuis, H., Stickley, C.E., et al. 2004. The Cretaceous/Paleogene Transition at Ocean Drilling Program Site 1172 (East Tasman Plateau, Southwestern Pacific). In, Exon, N.F., Kennett, J.P. and Malone, M.J. (Eds), The Cenozoic Southern Ocean: Tectonics, Sedimentation and Climate Change between Australia and Antarctica. Geophysical Monograph Series, 151. AGU, Washington, 344 pp.
  • Stickley, C.E., et  al. 2004a. Late Cretaceous-Quaternary biomagnetostratigraphy of ODP Sites 1168, 1170, 1171 and 1172, Tasmanian Gateway. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 189: 1–57.
  • Stickley, C.E., et al.  2004b. Timing and nature of the deepening of the Tasmanian Gateway. Paleoceanography, 19, PA4027, doi:10.1029/2004PA001022.
  • Williams, G.L., Brinkhuis, H., Pearce, M.A., Fensome, R.A. & Weegink, W., 2004.  Southern Ocean and global dinoflagellate cyst events compared: index events for the Late Cretaceous–Neogene. In: (Exon et al., eds) Scientific Results ODP Leg 189, College Station. http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/189_SR/VOLUME/CHAPTERS/107.PDF

2003
  • Maslin, M.A., Stickley, C.E. and Ettwein, V.J. 2001 (2003 online). Holocene Climate Variability, pp.1210-1217. In, Steele, J., Thorpe, S. and Turekian, K. (Eds), Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences. Academic Press. 300 pp.
  • Maslin, M.A., Pike, J., Stickley, C.E. & Ettwein, V.J. 2003. Evidence of Holocene climate variability in marine sediments, pp.185-209. In, Mackay A.et al. (Eds), Global Change in the Holocene. Hodder-Arnold, Lond. 528 pp.
  • Pearce, M.A., Jarvis I., Swan A.R.H., Murphy, A.M., Tocher, B.A., Edmunds, W.M., 2003.  Integrating palynological and geochemical data in a new approach to paleoecological studies: Upper Cretaceous of the Banterwick Barn Chalk borehole, Berkshire, UK. Marine Micropalaeontology 47: 271–306.
  • Sluijs, A., Brinkhuis, H., Stickley, C.E., et al., 2003. Dinoflagellate cysts from the Eocene-Oligocene transition in the Southern Ocean: Results from ODP Leg 189. Proceed. ODP, Scientific Results, 189: 1–42.

2001
  • Ettwein, V.J., Stickley, C.E., et al., 2001. Fluctuations in productivity and upwelling intensity at Site 1083 during the intensification of the Northern Hemisphere glaciation (2.40–2.65 Ma). Proceed. ODP, Sci., Res., 175: 1–25.
  • Exon, N.F. et al. incl. Stickley, C.E., 2001. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, 189. http://www odp.tamu.edu/publications/189_IR/189ir.htm.
  • Pearce, M.A., 2001.  Dinoflagellate-cyst analysis.  In: (Matthews, J. A. et al., eds) The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Environmental Change, 1st edition, Arnold, London, 690 pp.
  • Robert C. M. et al. incl. Stickley, C. E., 2001. Palaeogene ocean opening south of Tasmania and palaeoceanographic implications: preliminary results of clay mineral analyses (ODP Leg 189) Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences, 332: 323–329.
  • Stickley, C.E., 2001. Major Contributor to Matthews, J.A. et al. (Eds), The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Environmental Change, 1st edition, Arnold, London, 690 pp.
  • Stickley, C.E., et al., 2001. Lower Circumpolar Deep Water flow through the SW Pacific Gateway for the last 190 ky: Evidence from Antarctic diatoms, p. 101-116. In, Seidov, D., et al., (Eds), The Oceans and rapid climate change, past, present and future. Geophysical Monograph Series, 126. AGU, Washington, 294 pp.