Eustasy, High-Frequency Sea Level Cycles and Habitat Heterogeneity

Eustatic High-Frequency Sea Level Cycles and Habitat Heterogeneity: Basinal-Regional-Global Implications presents the current understanding and future directions of the research on Cretaceous sea level cycles in a single source. This reference work is for beginners, graduates, and postgraduates who are interested in the subject and intend to venture into serious research. This hybrid text/reference is for beginners, academics, and professionals who intend to document sea level dynamics on long and short time scales and resultant habitat and paleobiodiversity changes.

• Presents new and important regional geological knowledge with regard to the sedimentary basins of India
• Provides a one-stop-shop on high-frequency sea level cycles and fluctuations, and the impact created by tectonics and climatic cycles
• Contains reviews on the current status, case studies, and a look at future trends

The book is intended for those studying paleobiology, sedimentology, paleoenvironment and climate, sea level, sequence stratigraphy, and basin evolution studies, along with professionals across all disciplines involved in deep sea research

Chapter 1. Defining Habitat and Habitat Heterogeneity

• Abstract
• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 Definition of Habitat Heterogeneity
• 1.3 Definition of “Space” in Habitat

Chapter 2. Sequences, Sea-Level Cycles, and Habitat Dynamics

• Abstract
• 2.1 Sequences and Habitats
• 2.2 Sea-Level Fluctuations and Environmental Parameters
• 2.3 Environmental Perturbations and Habitat Changes

Chapter 3. Influence of Sea-Level on Facies and Habitat Heterogeneity

• Abstract
• 3.1 Depositional Systems as Defined by End-Members
• 3.2 Scales of Depositional Systems
• 3.3 Types of Depositional Systems
• 3.4 Facies Types as Proxies for Habitat Heterogeneity

Chapter 4. The Cauvery Basin of South India: A Test Case

• Abstract
• 4.1 Justification and Objectives
• 4.2 Regional Geological Setting
• 4.3 Material and Methods
• 4.4 Tectonic Structures
• 4.5 Lithofacies Succession and Distribution
• 4.6 Barremian–Danian Relative Sea-Level Fluctuations
• 4.7 Barremian–Danian Biotic Heterogeneity

Chapter 5. Depositional History and Habitat Heterogeneity

• Abstract
• 5.1 Tectonic Influence on Habitat Dynamics
• 5.2 Depositional History and Habitat Dynamics

Chapter 6. Proxies for Habitat Heterogeneity and Dynamics

• Abstract
• 6.1 Geochemical Indicators
• 6.2 Chemostratigraphy as a Proxy
• 6.3 Geochemical Proxies of Climate, Sea-Level, Sediment Influx
• 6.4 Facies as Proxy for Habitat Heterogeneity and Dynamics

Chapter 7. Implications and Future Trend

• Abstract
• 7.1 Biotic-Habitat Heterogeneity of the Cauvery Basin
• 7.2 Local–Regional–Global Implications
• 7.3 Future Trends and Recommendations