Micro-XRF core scanning in palaeolimnology: recent developments

SJ Davies, HF Lamb, SJ Roberts - Micro-XRF studies of sediment cores …, 2015 - Springer
Within the last ten years, micro-XRF (µXRF) core scanning has become an important
addition to the suite of techniques for investigating lacustrine sediments. Most studies to date …

The Holocene history of the North American Monsoon:'known knowns' and 'known unknowns' in understanding its spatial and temporal complexity

SE Metcalfe, JA Barron, SJ Davies - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Evidence for climatic change across the North American Monsoon (NAM) and adjacent
areas is reviewed, drawing on continental and marine records and the application of climate …

Development and disintegration of Maya political systems in response to climate change

DJ Kennett, SFM Breitenbach, VV Aquino, Y Asmerom… - Science, 2012 - science.org
The role of climate change in the development and demise of Classic Maya civilization (300
to 1000 CE) remains controversial because of the absence of well-dated climate and …

[图书][B] The Maya forest garden: Eight millennia of sustainable cultivation of the tropical woodlands

A Ford, R Nigh - 2016 - books.google.com
The conventional wisdom says that the devolution of Classic Maya civilization occurred
because its population grew too large and dense to be supported by primitive neotropical …

Major Mesoamerican droughts of the past millennium

DW Stahle, JV Diaz, DJ Burnette… - Geophysical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Ancient Montezuma baldcypress (Taxodium mucronatum) trees found in Barranca de
Amealco, Queretaro, have been used to develop a 1,238‐year tree‐ring chronology that is …

Human settlement of East Polynesia earlier, incremental, and coincident with prolonged South Pacific drought

DA Sear, MS Allen, JD Hassall… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The timing of human colonization of East Polynesia, a vast area lying between Hawai 'i,
Rapa Nui, and New Zealand, is much debated and the underlying causes of this great …

[HTML][HTML] 短时间尺度上湖泊沉积物粒度指示的气候意义——以朝那湫为例

郁科科, 盛恩国, 刘斌, 刘星星, 蓝江湖 - 第四纪研究, 2019 - html.rhhz.net
湖泊沉积物粒度在短时间尺度, 高分辨率(年际-十年尺度) 古气候研究中的指示意义通常被解释
为: 粒度偏粗指示降水较多, 气候湿润, 粒度偏细指示降水较少, 气候干旱. 本文以六盘山朝那湫 …

Two millennia of Mesoamerican monsoon variability driven by Pacific and Atlantic synergistic forcing

MS Lachniet, Y Asmerom, V Polyak… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
The drivers of Mesoamerican monsoon variability over the last two millennia remain poorly
known because of a lack of precisely-dated and climate-calibrated proxy records. Here, we …

Pacific and Atlantic influences on Mesoamerican climate over the past millennium

DW Stahle, DJ Burnette, JV Diaz, RR Heim, FK Fye… - Climate Dynamics, 2012 - Springer
A new tree-ring reconstruction of the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) for Mesoamerica
from AD 771 to 2008 identifies megadroughts more severe and sustained than any …

Climatic variability in the northern sector of the American tropics since the latest MIS 3

S Lozano-García, B Ortega, PD Roy… - Quaternary …, 2015 - cambridge.org
We inferred millennial-scale climate variations and paleohydrological conditions in the
northern sector of the American tropics for 30.3–5.5 cal ka BP using geochemical …