Figure F9. Mid-Cretaceous record of black shales and Oceanic Anoxic Events (OAEs) in the context of the carbon isotopic record (Erbacher et al., 1996; Bralower et al., 1999), changing global sea level (Haq et al., 1988), seawater 87Sr/86Sr (Bralower et al., 1997a), LIP emplacement (Larson, 1991a), and plankton evolution (Erbacher and Thurow, 1997; Leckie et al., in press).