Self-proclaimed "fossil geek" Peter Bennicke was recently searching a beach at the Cliffs of Stevns in eastern Denmark when ...

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 ...