The Upper Mesozoic and Cenozoic Lithological Associations of the Continents and Oceans (Early and Late Cretaceous)

Chemical Constitution of the Earth's Crust and Geochemical Balance of the Major Elements

“…It should be added, that in measuring the volcanics on the new version of the maps, it was possible to estimate to a first approximation the abundance of mafic (basalts), intermediate (andesites) and silicic (rhyolites) varieties in the products of submarine and subaerial eruptions [77]. For the first time, a series of global maps of the lithologic associations were compiled for the Mesozoic and Cenozoic, beginning with the Upper Jurassic, that simultaneously covered the continents, their margins and the oceans [89,92,115]. From these maps, the volumes of the associations were measured for all the epochs and for each global structural zone, and their abundances were estimated.…”