Abstract
A scientific session on ‘Isotopic studies in Cretace-ous research’ was held within the framework ofthe European Geoscience Union (EGU), IsotopeGroup, in Vienna, in 2010. The idea summarizingthe topics in a book materialized during EGU 2010,and we are grateful to Pier de Groot for a very well-organized session.The participants to this book present a broadrangeof studies groupedin marine sections (includ-ing OAE events, and the Cretaceous–Paleoceneboundary), mixed marine–freshwater, as well ascontinental records. The investigated profiles arefound worldwide, from Europe (Austria, Romania,Spain), Asia (China), South America (Brazil,Colombia)andNorthAmerica(USA),andarespan-ning from the Early Cretaceous to the Cretaceous–Paleocene boundary.This Special Publication is addressed to thescientific investigator interested in isotopic studiescombined with geochemical, palaeontological andmineralogical proxies, and based on fieldwork inorder to elucidate various aspects of Cretaceouspalaeoceanography and continental environmentalconditions.The isotopic analytical investigations used inthe different studies included in this volume com-prise: carbon and oxygen isotopic composition ofcarbonates (calcite and siderite); carbon isotopiccomposition of bulk organic matter or individualbiomarkers in sediments; oxygen isotopic compo-sition of phosphates; oxygen isotopic compositionofsilicatemineralsandwholerock;hydrogenisoto-pic composition of silicates and whole rock; and
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