Diagenesis and Porosity of the Cambrian‐Ordovician Carbonate Shoal Facies at Yangjiaping,Shimen, Hunan

Abstract: Upper Cambrian‐Lower Ordovician shoal‐facies carbonate rocks are well developed in the Yangjiaping section, Shimen, Hunan, and their types are also highly varied. There are both monomictic shoal‐facies rocks (e.g. sparite oolitic limestone and sparite calcarenite) and polymictic shoal‐facies rocks (e.g. grainstone, whose grain types include sand‐ and pebble‐sized fragments, bioclasts, oolites, algal mats etc.). What is different is that the Upper Cambrian shoal‐facies rocks have been mostly strongly dolomitized into shoal‐facies dolomite with various residual textures. This paper presents an in‐depth study of various kinds of diagenesis and pore space evolution occurring in this section and suggests that the diagenetic sequences of shoal‐facies rocks in the study area is dominantly of retrogressive type.     

湘西—黔东地区寒武系清虚洞组地层特征与铅锌成矿关系

湘西—黔东地区寒武系发育完整,是一套从黑色岩系到碳酸盐岩的沉积序列。下寒武统清虚洞组由灰岩段和白云岩段组成,纵向上构成总体向上海水变浅的沉积相序列,同时反映了缓坡型碳酸盐岩台地的发育过程。该组空间上从北西至南东可识别出潮坪相、局限台地相粉细晶云岩、台地边缘浅滩相粉细晶灰岩和台地边缘(滩)丘相微晶灰岩、浅-深缓坡相、陆棚相泥灰岩、台地前缘盆地等沉积。研究表明,地层岩性、岩相古地理对铅锌矿具有明显的控制作用,微晶丘是主要容矿层,与微生物和海底热水关系密切。铅锌成矿明显与浊流沉积和风暴沉积等事件沉积相关,浊积岩、微晶丘、砾(粒)屑灰岩构成一完整的铅锌控矿序列。     

贵州南部紫页1井威宁组沉积微相特征及其沉积演化

贵州南部紫云地区的威宁组以台地边缘藻丘沉积为主要特征。紫页1井钻孔岩芯显示:威宁组总体由台地边缘礁（丘）向局限台地、开阔台地过渡的海退进积层序,其间包括台地边缘藻（丘）、局限台地、开阔台地三个亚相,发育生物粘结岩(SMF7)、有骨屑颗粒的生屑灰泥质颗粒石灰岩/颗粒质灰泥石灰岩(SMF10)、核形石砾屑碳酸盐岩/颗粒灰岩(SMF13)、集合颗粒灰岩微相(SMF17)、均质无生物泥晶灰岩微相(SMF23)、岩屑漂浮岩/砾屑碳酸盐岩/角砾岩微相(SMF24)六个微相;威宁组的沉积充填序列由六个岩性组合基本相同、沉积环境、沉积微相特征大致相似的沉积旋回构成。每一个沉积旋回均以台地边缘礁（丘）相的藻凝块灰岩为主体,向上则渐变为局限台地、开阔台地相的生物碎屑灰岩,表明威宁组至少经历了六次海平面升降变化过程;威宁组的出现代表了罗甸—水城北西向槽盆边缘斜坡相的打屋坝组富有机质泥页岩的终结。      

广西泗顶-古丹铅锌矿田中、上泥盆统碳酸盐相的特征与成矿关系的探讨

广西融安县境内的泗顶-古丹铅锌矿田面积约600平方公里。它位于江南古陆之南缘,湘、桂、粤褶皱带内。本区分布有中型铅锌矿床两处,铅锌矿、黄铁铅锌矿、黄铁矿（褐铁矿）等矿点约二十多处,是寻找铅锌矿床有利地区。 区内广泛出露下古生界寒武系清溪组（∈_q）浅变质的碎屑岩,上古生界中上泥盆统东岗岭组（D₂d）和桂林组（D₃g）碳酸盐岩及碎屑岩（图1）。早晚古生代地层与之古生代地层与之呈角度不整合接触产出,两者分别组成上下两个构造层。下构造层属于被改造了的南岭复式东西构造带北亚带的组成部分,基本构造轮廓为轴向500-70“的紧闭型同斜倒转褶皱,并发育着北东向的断裂;上构造层为轴向北北东的宽展型的褶皱,产状平缓,倾角5。-8。,发育有多阶段形成的北东向、北西向和南北向断裂,整个矿田及外围尚未发 现任何岩浆活动的迹象。     

Controls and predictability of carbonate facies architecture in a Lower Jurassic three-dimensional barrier-shoal complex (Djebel Bou Dahar, High Atlas, Morocco)

Spatial information on lithofacies from outcrops is paramount for understanding the internal dynamics, external controls and degree of predictability of the facies architecture of shallow‐water carbonate‐platform tops. To quantify the spatial distribution and vertical stacking of lithofacies within an outer‐platform shoal‐barrier complex, integrated facies analysis and digital field technologies have been applied to a high‐relief carbonate platform exposed in the Djebel Bou Dahar (Lower Jurassic, High Atlas, Morocco). The outer platform is characterized by subtidal, cross‐bedded, coarse grainstone to rudstone grading into supratidal, pisoidal packstone‐rudstone with tepees that together formed a 350 to 420 m wide shoal‐barrier belt parallel to the margin. This belt acted as a topographic high separating a restricted lagoon from the subtidal, open marine region. Low‐energy tidal flats developed on the protected flank of the barrier facing the lagoon. Lithofacies patterns were captured quantitatively from outcrop and integrated into a digital outcrop model. The outcrop model enabled rapid visualization of field data and efficient extraction of quantitative data such as widths of facies belts. In addition, the spatial heterogeneity was captured in multiple time slices, i.e. during different phases of cyclic base‐level fluctuations. In general, the lateral continuity of lithofacies is highest when relative water depth increased during flooding of the platform top, establishing low‐energy subtidal conditions across the whole platform, and when the accommodation space was filled with tidal flat facies. Heterogeneity increased during deposition of the relief‐building bar facies that promoted spatial diversification of depositional environments during the initial phases of accommodation space creation. Cycles commonly are composed of a thin transgressive tidal flat unit, followed by coated‐grain rudstone bar facies. Lateral to the bar facies, pisoidal‐grainstone beach deposits accumulated. These bar and beach deposits were overlain by subtidal lagoonal facies or would grow through the maximum flooding and highstand. There the bars either graded into supratidal pisoidal facies with tepees (when accommodation space was filled) or were capped by subaerial exposure (due to a sea‐level fall). Modified embedded Markov analysis was used to test the presence of common ordering in vertical lithofacies stacking in a stationary interval (constant depositional mode). Analysis of individual sections did not reveal any ordering, which may be related to the limited thickness of these sections. Composite sections, however, rejected the null hypothesis of randomness. The addition of stratigraphically significant information to the Markov analysis, such as exposure surfaces and lateral dimensions of facies bodies, strengthens the verdict of unambiguous preferential ordering. Through careful quantitative reconstruction of stratal geometry and facies relationships in fully integrated digital outcrop models, accurate depositional models could be established that enhanced the predictability of carbonate sediment accumulation.     

渝东南-黔北地区赫南特期冰川事件的沉积响应

奥陶纪末的赫南特期爆发全球冰川事件,渝东南-黔北地区赫南特期沉积的观音桥组,从岩相、古生物组合、古环境等方面表现出该地区对赫南特期冰川事件的响应。通过对观音桥组沉积特征的分析,发现其主要分为3类:一类为颗粒灰岩,细分为泥晶生屑砂屑灰岩和亮晶鲕粒灰岩、亮晶砂屑灰岩等,含珊瑚等化石,代表了中高能量的浅滩环境;一类主要为粉砂质灰岩、粉砂质泥灰岩组合,含腕足类及三叶虫动物群,沉积环境为潮坪。这两类是近岸沉积,主要受相对海平面下降的影响。另一类为形成于浅海陆棚环境的混合岩相,包括泥灰岩与钙质泥岩组合、粉砂质泥岩与泥质粉砂岩组合及含炭泥灰岩;生物包括三叶虫、笔石及腕足等,尤其是标志性冷水型Hirnantia动物群的短暂繁盛,表明其受海水温度变凉的影响较大。潮坪靠近黔中古陆分布,局部发育浅滩,远离古陆变为浅海陆棚环境。总体上,观音桥组沉积环境比五峰组与龙马溪组黑色笔石相页岩的缺氧滞留深水陆棚环境更浅、相对海平面及水温更低,是赫南特期冰川事件直接影响的结果。     

川中地区龙王庙组高频层序与沉积微相及其对有利储层的控制

为明确川中地区龙王庙组沉积微相时空分布及其对储层的控制,利用地震、钻井及岩心资料,开展了精细的沉积、层序和储层研究,深入讨论了高频层序与沉积微相对有利储层的控制.龙王庙组主要发育鲕粒颗粒云岩、砂屑颗粒云岩、花斑状粉晶云岩等8种岩相,垂向上发育深水台地-滩间海型、颗粒滩型和局限潮坪型等3种岩相组合.龙王庙组构成1个三级层序,可分为2个四级层序(SQ1和SQ2),各四级层序可分为3～5个五级层序.高频层序格架内,颗粒滩和局限潮坪具明显的加积和朝东南方向进积趋势,SQ2颗粒滩和局限潮坪的发育优于SQ1.局限潮坪微相的窗格孔细晶-粉晶云岩和花斑状粉晶云岩孔隙度最好,主要分布于四级和五级层序的顶部;其次为高频层序中-上部的颗粒滩微相.与高频海平面变化相关的早期溶蚀是优质储层形成的关键,并为后期储层改造奠定了基础.     

Depositional environments of Upper Miocene (Messinian) evaporites of Sicily as determined from analysis of intercalated carbonates

Various workers have suggested that the Upper Miocene (Messinian) evaporites of the Sicilian Basin formed in a topographic basin of considerable relief, filled with hypersaline water. Our studies indicate that this basin contained shallow water, at least during the deposition of the carbonate rocks intercalated between the gypsum beds. We recognize four basic kinds of limestone: (1) pelletal and pisolitic limestone; (2) skeletal limestone; (3) oöitic limestone, and (4) laminated lime-stone-dolostone. Modern analogs suggest that three of these four kinds of carbonate must have formed close to or above sea level. The evidence supporting this contention includes pellets with algal coatings, pisolites, quiet-water oöids, and algal laminates. Therefore we suggest that the evaporites associated with these carbonates may likewise have formed in relatively shallow water. An alternative conclusion would be that the level of the sea, and the salinity, underwent irregular patterns of profound change.     

湘西-黔东地区寒武系都匀阶清虚洞期 岩相古地理与铅锌成矿关系研究

依据地层记录中的两种相变面和两种穿时性,结合上扬子地区寒武系十余条代表性剖面的沉积特征及其横向展布规律,应用等时面优势相成图方法编制了寒武系都匀阶清虚洞期岩相古地理图.区内古地理格局具有西高东低、北浅南深(水深)的特点,沉积自北西向南东超覆,层位逐渐抬高穿时;岩性、厚度、颜色和沉积相类型上的差异是统一沉积背景下沉积物相变、穿时的结果.清虚洞组由灰岩段和白云岩段组成,以发育缓坡型碳酸盐台地为特征,纵向上构成总体向上变浅的沉积相序列,同时反映了缓坡型碳酸盐台地的生长发育过程;横向上从北西至南东发育从混积潮坪相、浅缓坡相、中缓坡相、深缓坡相和陆棚-盆地等沉积.岩相古地理对层控铅锌矿具有明显的控制作用,主要分布于中缓坡相藻灰岩微晶丘中,浊积岩、微晶丘、砾(粒)屑灰岩构成一完整的铅锌控矿序列.     

湖南东波-平和地区中上泥盆统岩石学特征及沉积相分析

通过对湘南东波-平和地区中上泥盆统岩石学特征的详细研究,划分出了滨海相带、局限台地相带和半局限台地相带等三个沉积相带以及滨海陆屑滩相、浑水潮间泥坪相、清水潮间泥坪相、潮间混乱合坪相、潮沟相、潮汐滩相、潮下浅水相等七个相型。根据对沉积环境的古构造背景,各相型基本特征的分析及时空分布规律,建立起了该区的沉积相模式。     

西藏它日错地区多巴组沉积环境及石油地质意义

西藏它日错地区是中特提斯的一个重要深坳陷区,发育了巨厚的下白垩统海陆交互相和浅海碳酸盐岩沉积,其中多巴组厚度超过了地５００ｍ,主要沉积相类型包括陆源碎屑湖坪相、碳酸盐浅海、水下浅滩,混合沉积过渡带等,在它日错一带形成坳陷中心,主要物源从南、西南方向进积,多巴组的烃源岩主要为浅海相地,向它划方向增多、加厚、有机质类型为混合型,可能的集集岩是浅滩相介壳灰岩、浅海相泥晶灰岩及潮坪相砂岩,裂隙是其主要的储集空间,而潮下带泥岩则可成为有利盖层,垂向上由于多旋回叠加,具有较好的生储盖盖组合,但所发现的烃源岩厚度较薄是其不利因素。     

川中雷口坡组四~3亚段地震相分析——应用波形分类技术研究沉积相的实例

在工区面积大、钻井少的情况下开展地震相研究,可以有效绘出沉积相展布图。对四川盆地中部雷口坡组四3亚段利用GS1和YS104两口井进行地震地质标定,建立了膏盐湖、白云岩坪及颗粒滩等几种不同沉积微相的地震响应模式。膏盐湖相表现为强振幅、高连续的地震响应,而颗粒滩及白云岩坪主要表现为中振幅、低连续的地震响应特征。在地质标定基础上,对全区利用波形分类技术开展地震相研究,恢复了古沉积环境,获得了颗粒滩相及白云岩坪的展布图,这些分布区是有利储层的发育区。龙岗—营山—南充—蓬溪一带处于颗粒滩、白云岩坪有利相带,且处于雷四3亚段地层剥蚀线附近,受岩溶改造强烈,储层较为发育,是川中地区的重要勘探对象。     

西藏改则热那错上三叠统日干配错组碳酸盐岩岩石学特征与沉积环境*

西藏改则县热那错东沟剖面上三叠统卡尼阶至瑞替阶日干配错组沉积了厚度较大的碳酸盐岩地层,其中化石丰富。在碳酸盐岩中识别出11种主要的岩石类型：灰泥灰岩﹑含生物碎屑灰泥灰岩、生物碎屑粒泥灰岩、生物碎屑泥粒灰岩、内碎屑泥粒灰岩、内碎屑颗粒灰岩、藻颗粒灰岩、多种类型鲕粒灰岩、单一类型鲕粒灰岩、球粒泥粒灰岩和生物礁灰岩。根据岩石特征及组合类型可划分为5种沉积相：陆源碎屑滨岸相、局限台地相、开阔台地相、台地边缘浅滩相和台地边缘礁相,它们共同构成了日干配错组4个有序的海侵—海退旋回,整体显现出海侵的相序结构。     

东秦岭陕西聂家沟剖面二叠纪—三叠纪之交沉积特征及其古环境意义*

东秦岭陕西镇安聂家沟地区二叠纪—三叠纪之交发育一套海相碳酸盐岩沉积序列,较完整地记录了二叠纪末生物大灭绝事件前后浅海碳酸盐岩台地相生物群落演替及环境变化等信息,是研究二叠纪末生物大灭绝事件前后生态环境变化与沉积响应的理想区域。通过碳酸盐岩微相分析方法,对陕西镇安聂家沟剖面二叠系—三叠系界线附近的碳酸盐岩生物组合和微相类型进行了详细分析,共识别出11个微相类型: 斑点状凝块石、叠层石灰岩、鲕粒—纹层状叠层石灰岩、有孔虫颗粒灰岩、藻—海百合泥粒灰岩、含有被包壳和被磨蚀骨屑颗粒的粒泥灰岩、鲕粒颗粒灰岩、集合颗粒灰岩、含鲕粒的粒泥灰岩、泥晶灰岩和泥岩。根据碳酸盐岩微相特征及沉积相标志,在二叠系—三叠系界限附近划分出台地边缘、开阔台地和局限台地3种沉积相,其反映了二叠纪—三叠纪之交频繁的沉积相带变更的特点。该剖面碳酸盐岩微相反映的古生态和生物群落演替特征与中国华南同时期其他剖面具有较好的一致性,即二叠纪末生物大灭绝事件之后,早三叠世正常浅水碳酸盐岩台地生物类型和丰度极低,仅含有少量的双壳类、海百合等,灭绝事件界线附近以微生物碳酸盐岩等特殊微生物沉积构造占主导,之后微生物岩等消失,又出现了以双壳类为首的生物碎屑石灰岩。研究结果为了解二叠纪末生物大灭绝事件中生物和环境的协同演化提供了新的材料和认识。     

Carbonate platform dominated by peloidal sands: Lower Ordovician La Silla Formation of the eastern Precordillera,San Juan,Argentina

The Lower Ordovician La Silla Formation of the Precordillera of west‐central Argentina is part of the west‐facing early Palaeozoic, tropical carbonate platform succession that comprises the core of the Cuyania terrane. Up to 360 m thick, it is exposed in several thrust sheets over a distance of some 250 km along and across depositional strike over a palinspastically unrestored distance of about 35 km. La Silla Formation is a strikingly pure limestone with subordinate finely crystalline dolomite and rare chert. It accumulated on a more or less uniformly subsiding passive margin. Copious precipitation of microcrystalline calcite, probably influenced by microbial activity to varying degrees, led to the generation of peloids, ooids and aggregates of these grains, as well as small amounts of lime mud, intraclasts, stromatolites and thrombolites. Rare bioclasts are limited mostly to scattered gastropods and trilobite sclerites; bioturbation is present locally. The array of carbonate rock types is grouped into eight recurring lithofacies, in order of decreasing abundance: (i) peloidal grainstone; (ii) laminated dolostone; (iii) intraclastic rudstone; (iv) microbial laminite; (v) peloidal packstone; (vi) ooidal grainstone; (vii) thrombolite boundstone; and (viii) mudstone. These facies represent sediments that formed solely in a shallow subtidal marine environment, with no evidence of restricted conditions, hypersalinity or subaerial exposure. No events of eustatic sea‐level change are recorded. By far the dominant facies is grainstone composed of well‐sorted, fine sand‐sized peloids and peloidal aggregates in homogeneous, tabular to gently undulating, medium to thick beds; cross‐lamination is scarce. Clusters of sub‐metre‐sized microbial patch reefs developed sporadically. The shallow platform is envisaged to have been covered by extensive peloidal sand flats and low‐relief banks, and little lime mud was generated. The setting was probably microtidal and may not have been affected by strong trade winds. It was washed by frequent, relatively gentle wave action but without experiencing powerful storms. In the middle member, anomalous lenses of intraclastic rudstone and laminated dolostone occur as graded beds overlying sharply downcut scoured surfaces up to 20 cm deep; these are interpreted to indicate a phase when accretion was punctuated occasionally by tsunamis generated from rift‐faulting seaward of the platform margin. The remarkably uniform peloidal grainstone composition over a broad area shows that, given the appropriate combination of climate, environmental and ecological factors, large portions of some early Palaeozoic platforms were dominated by grainy sediment and remained under well‐agitated conditions within fair‐weather wave‐base, without distinct lateral facies differentiation or tidal‐flat aggradation.     

北京西山及邻区寒武系顶部微晶丘特征及层序地层学意义

北京西山,河北涞源及山西浑海等地位于寒武系－奥陶系界面处的厚层块状“纯灰岩”实际是由微晶方解石,丛状或丝状蓝绿藻,碎屑等共同营造而成的大型微晶丘,具明显的丘状外貌及侧向地层向微晶丘顶部的上部,地球化学特征也显示出与周围同期地层的不同及与土覆冶里组中层纹状叠石灰岩的相似性,内部岩石微相有：藻粘结灰岩相,具有规则孔洞藻占结灰岩相,碎屑藻粘结灰岩相（藻间为黄褐色白云岩砾块,砾屑灰岩及砂屑灰岩）内部有７个     

粤北中晚泥盆世碳酸盐沉积相和古地理概貌初探

概述 粤北地区为由上古生界所组成的两个互相连系的复向斜。北东部分是由前泥盆系组成的诸广山复背斜;西部有一条南北向半岛形的前泥盆系瑶山复背斜使本区与粤西北上古生界复向斜相隔;南部为前泥盆系的云开复背斜北东端。在雪山嶂一带分布成东西向排列的几个由前泥盆系组成的短轴背斜,使本区分隔成南北两部分。值得注意的是,粤北地区前泥盆地的构造线分布很奇特,北部为北北西,南部为北东东,两者互相垂直,其分界恰好位于本区南部的英德上古生界复向斜中。     

东秦岭陕西聂家沟剖面二叠纪—三叠纪之交沉积特征及其古环境意义*

东秦岭陕西镇安聂家沟地区二叠纪—三叠纪之交发育一套海相碳酸盐岩沉积序列,较完整地记录了二叠纪末生物大灭绝事件前后浅海碳酸盐岩台地相生物群落演替及环境变化等信息,是研究二叠纪末生物大灭绝事件前后生态环境变化与沉积响应的理想区域。通过碳酸盐岩微相分析方法,对陕西镇安聂家沟剖面二叠系—三叠系界线附近的碳酸盐岩生物组合和微相类型进行了详细分析,共识别出11个微相类型: 斑点状凝块石、叠层石灰岩、鲕粒—纹层状叠层石灰岩、有孔虫颗粒灰岩、藻—海百合泥粒灰岩、含有被包壳和被磨蚀骨屑颗粒的粒泥灰岩、鲕粒颗粒灰岩、集合颗粒灰岩、含鲕粒的粒泥灰岩、泥晶灰岩和泥岩。根据碳酸盐岩微相特征及沉积相标志,在二叠系—三叠系界限附近划分出台地边缘、开阔台地和局限台地3种沉积相,其反映了二叠纪—三叠纪之交频繁的沉积相带变更的特点。该剖面碳酸盐岩微相反映的古生态和生物群落演替特征与中国华南同时期其他剖面具有较好的一致性,即二叠纪末生物大灭绝事件之后,早三叠世正常浅水碳酸盐岩台地生物类型和丰度极低,仅含有少量的双壳类、海百合等,灭绝事件界线附近以微生物碳酸盐岩等特殊微生物沉积构造占主导,之后微生物岩等消失,又出现了以双壳类为首的生物碎屑石灰岩。研究结果为了解二叠纪末生物大灭绝事件中生物和环境的协同演化提供了新的材料和认识。     

关于滩相沉积

滩或滩相是碳酸盐沉积中的重要类型,常见的有生物碎屑滩和鲕粒滩。滩一般包容了坝、脊、洲、丘等沉积体。在认识滩时应力求识别出它的具体产出环境（如沿岸沙坝、潮汐三角洲等）和产出状态（形态、大小、展布等）。从列举的现代和古代鲕粒沉积的典型实例中可以看出它们的复杂性,如鲕粒滩不仅发育在台地边缘,也发育于海岸地带,鲕 粒沉积不仅产出于沙坝,也产于潮汐三角洲、沙脊、沙席、潮坪、舄湖等。     

The Late Jurassic Tithonian, a greenhouse phase in the Middle Jurassic–Early Cretaceous 'cool' mode: evidence from the cyclic Adriatic Platform, Croatia

Well‐exposed Mesozoic sections of the Bahama‐like Adriatic Platform along the Dalmatian coast (southern Croatia) reveal the detailed stacking patterns of cyclic facies within the rapidly subsiding Late Jurassic (Tithonian) shallow platform‐interior (over 750 m thick, ca 5–6 Myr duration). Facies within parasequences include dasyclad‐oncoid mudstone‐wackestone‐floatstone and skeletal‐peloid wackestone‐packstone (shallow lagoon), intraclast‐peloid packstone and grainstone (shoal), radial‐ooid grainstone (hypersaline shallow subtidal/intertidal shoals and ponds), lime mudstone (restricted lagoon), fenestral carbonates and microbial laminites (tidal flat). Parasequences in the overall transgressive Lower Tithonian sections are 1–4·5 m thick, and dominated by subtidal facies, some of which are capped by very shallow‐water grainstone‐packstone or restricted lime mudstone; laminated tidal caps become common only towards the interior of the platform. Parasequences in the regressive Upper Tithonian are dominated by peritidal facies with distinctive basal oolite units and well‐developed laminate caps. Maximum water depths of facies within parasequences (estimated from stratigraphic distance of the facies to the base of the tidal flat units capping parasequences) were generally <4 m, and facies show strongly overlapping depth ranges suggesting facies mosaics. Parasequences were formed by precessional (20 kyr) orbital forcing and form parasequence sets of 100 and 400 kyr eccentricity bundles. Parasequences are arranged in third‐order sequences that lack significant bounding disconformities, and are evident on accommodation (Fischer) plots of cumulative departure from average cycle thickness plotted against cycle number or stratigraphic position. Modelling suggests that precessional sea‐level changes were small (several metres) as were eccentricity sea‐level changes (or precessional sea‐level changes modulated by eccentricity), supporting a global, hot greenhouse climate for the Late Jurassic (Tithonian) within the overall ‘cool’ mode of the Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous.