Orbital Forcing and Cyclic Sequences Book

	Preface
	Orbital forcing and cyclic sequences	1
	Astronomical forcing through geological time	15
	Internal response to orbital forcing and external cyclic sedimentary sequences	25
	Filtering and frequency mapping as tools in subsurface cyclostratigraphy, with examples from the Wessex Basin, UK	35
	Milankovitch cyclicity in the Upper Rotliegend Group of The Netherlands offshore	47
	Identification of regular sedimentary cycles using Walsh spectral analysis with results from the Boom Clay Formation, Belgium	63
	Fourier evidence for high-frequency astronomical cycles recorded in Early Cretaceous carbonate platform strata, Monte Maggiore, southern Apennines, Italy	77
	Cyclostratigraphy of the Cenomanian in the Gubbio district, Italy: a field study	87
	Milankovitch periodicities recorded in Cretaceous deep-sea sequences from the Southern Alps (Northern Italy)	99
	An astronomically calibrated (polarity) time scale for the Pliocene-Pleistocene: a brief review	109
	Pleistocene evolution of orbital periodicities in the high-resolution pollen record Funza I, Eastern Cordillera, Colombia	117
	Late Quaternary monsoonal variations in the western Arabian Sea based on cross-spectral analyses of geochemical and micropalaeontological data (ODP Leg 117, core 728A)	127
	Milankovitch cyclicity in Late Cretaceous sediments from Exmouth Plateau off northwest Australia	145
	Complex rhythmic sedimentation related to third-order sea-level variations: Upper Cretaceous, Western Interior Basin, USA	167
	Ichnofossils and ichnofabrics in rhythmically bedded pelagic/hemi-pelagic carbonates: recognition and evaluation of benthic redox and scour cycles	195
	Orbitally driven cycles in trace-fossil distribution from the Piobbico core (late Albian, central Italy)	211
	Guilds, cycles and episodic vertical aggradation of a reef (late Barremian to early Aptian, Dinaric carbonate platform, Slovenia)	227
	High-frequency, glacio-eustatic cyclicity in the Middle Pennsylvanian of the Paradox Basin: an evaluation of Milankovitch forcing	243
	Milankovitch cyclicity and high-resolution sequence stratigraphy in lagoonal-peritidal carbonates (Upper Tithonian-Lower Berriasian, French Jura Mountains)	285
	Lofer cycles of the Upper Triassic Dachstein platform in the Transdanubian Mid-Mountains (Hungary)	303
	Periodicities in the composition of Late Triassic calciturbidites (Eastern Alps, Austria)	323
	Orbitally induced small-scale cyclicity in a siliciclastic epicontinental setting (Lower Lias, Yorkshire, UK)	345
	The sequence architecture of mid-Pleistocene (c. 1.1-0.4 Ma) cyclothems from New Zealand: facies development during a period of orbital control on sea-level cyclicity	367
	Cyclic deposition of the Devonian Catskill Delta of the Appalachians, USA	395
	High-frequency, glacial-eustatic sequences in early Namurian coal-bearing fluviodeltaic deposits, central Scotland	413
	Orbital forcing on continental depositional systems - lacustrine and fluvial cyclicity in the Devonian of East Greenland	429
	Climatic controls on ancient desert sedimentation: some late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic examples from NW Europe and the Western Interior of the USA	439
	Global cyclostratigraphy: an application to the Eocene Green River Basin	459
	Reading orbital signals distorted by sedimentation: models and examples	483
	The effect of orbital cycles on Late and Middle Cretaceous climate: a comparative general circulation model study	509
	Cyclicity or chaos? Orbital forcing versus non-linear dynamics	531
	Index	545