A two million year record of low-latitude aridity linked to continental weathering from the Maldives

T Kunkelova, SJA Jung, ES De Leau, N Odling… - Progress in Earth and …, 2018 - Springer
… We use X-ray fluorescence (XRF) core-scanning records of lithogenic relatedrelated to
monsoon activity over the last two million years. In this study, we use Fe/K as a proxy of aridity in …

Astronomically controlled aridity in the Sahara since at least 11 million years ago

AJ Crocker, BDA Naafs, T Westerhold, RH James… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
… arid Sahara from over 11 million years ago. We show that … and more intense chemical
weathering under humid climates … record, associated with aridity (Fig. 3 and Extended Data Fig. 4). …

Aridity record of the Arabian Peninsula for the last 200 kyr: Environmental magnetic evidence from the western equatorial Indian ocean

L Zhou, Z Jiang, JC Larrasoaña, S Li, Q Liu… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
… Our results highlight a link between the production of … This indicates a context of stronger
physical weathering occurred … proximal records, and point to a dominant role of low-latitude

High-and low-latitude forcing of Plio-Pleistocene East African climate and human evolution

MH Trauth, MA Maslin, AL Deino, MR Strecker… - Journal of Human …, 2007 - Elsevier
… periods of extreme wetness and aridity, superimposed on a … These climatic records are
used to examine possible links … , that document chemical weathering of silicic volcanic glass in …

Correction to: A two million year record of low-latitude aridity linked to continental weathering from the Maldives (Progress in Earth and Planetary Science,(2018), 5, 1 …

T Kunkelova, SJA Jung, ES de Leau… - Progress in Earth …, 2019 - research.ed.ac.uk
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A progressively wetter climate in southern East Africa over the past 1.3 million years

TC Johnson, JP Werne, ET Brown, A Abbott, M Berke… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
million years, overprinted by Milankovitch-scale cycles tied to … Project to produce records of
temperature (TEX 86 ) and aridity (… only about 2 C during MIS 12, when continental ice sheets …

Anomalous widespread arid events in Asia over the past 550,000 years

IGF Carrasqueira, L Jovane, AW Droxler… - PNAS …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
… are thus not significantly affected by chemical weathering (21). … In relation to those both
ISM characteristics, our records of … Our record of continental aridity also suggests a large …

Shield effect on continental weathering: implication for climatic evolution of the Earth at the geological timescale

Y Goddéris, Y Donnadieu, M Tombozafy, C Dessert - Geoderma, 2008 - Elsevier
… thick weathering profiles on weathering in multi million year … consumption are localized in
the low latitude humid area, as … sustained by the increased aridity over continental surface as a …

Non-destructive core scanning Composition of lithogenic fraction Orbital cycles Indian-Asian history of aridity Mid Pleistocene transition from IODP Hole359-U1467

T Kunkelova, SJA Jung, ES de Leau, N Odling… - (No Title), 2019 - cir.nii.ac.jp
… periods with periodicities closely linked to variations in Earth's … continent remain poorly
understood because records over … the Maldives reflecting on low-latitude aridity cycles. Variability …