Dinosaurs have captured people's imagination ever since their bones and teeth were first scientifically described in 1822 by ...

Initially formed as a fore-arc basin during orogenic events between the Late Cretaceous and Miocene ... evolution involves interactions between plate tectonics and mantle dynamics.

As continents heaved upward, pushed by the movement of tectonic plates, ocean currents were ... million years leading up to the end of the Cretaceous. Sea Level The presence of 65- to 70-million ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything ... Really big extinctions, such as those at the end of the Permian and Cretaceous periods, have big, sudden causes (huge volcanic eruptions ...