An ice–climate oscillatory framework for Dansgaard–Oeschger cycles

LC Menviel, LC Skinner, L Tarasov… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Intermediate glacial states were characterized by large temperature changes in Greenland
and the North Atlantic, referred to as Dansgaard–Oeschger (D–O) variability, with some …

Formal subdivision of the Quaternary System/Period: Present status and future directions

MJ Head - Quaternary International, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Quaternary System/Period and Pleistocene Series/Epoch were defined in 2009
by the Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the Gelasian Stage/Age …

Substantial light woodland and open vegetation characterized the temperate forest biome before Homo sapiens

EA Pearce, F Mazier, S Normand, R Fyfe, V Andrieu… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The extent of vegetation openness in past European landscapes is widely debated. In
particular, the temperate forest biome has traditionally been defined as dense, closed …

Insolation triggered abrupt weakening of Atlantic circulation at the end of interglacials

QZ Yin, ZP Wu, A Berger, H Goosse, D Hodell - Science, 2021 - science.org
Abrupt cooling is observed at the end of interglacials in many paleoclimate records, but the
mechanism responsible remains unclear. Using model simulations, we demonstrate that …

SISALv2: a comprehensive speleothem isotope database with multiple age–depth models

L Comas-Bru, K Rehfeld, C Roesch… - Earth System …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
Characterizing the temporal uncertainty in palaeoclimate records is crucial for analysing
past climate change, correlating climate events between records, assessing climate …

[HTML][HTML] Subducted carbonates not required: Deep mantle melting explains stable Ca isotopes in kimberlite magmas

MA Antonelli, A Giuliani, Z Wang, M Wang… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
Ca isotope geochemistry has great potential for improving our understanding of magmatic
systems and for tracing the deep Earth carbon cycle. There are still many open questions …

Penultimate deglaciation Asian monsoon response to North Atlantic circulation collapse

JA Wassenburg, HB Vonhof, H Cheng… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
During glacial terminations, massive iceberg discharges and meltwater pulses in the North
Atlantic triggered a shutdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) …

Vegetation and climate changes during the last two glacial-interglacial cycles in the western Mediterranean: a new long pollen record from Padul (southern Iberian …

J Camuera, G Jiménez-Moreno… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
A new sediment core from Padul, Padul-15-05, provides a long and continuous sedimentary
and paleoenvironmental record of the last∼ 200 kyr. Here we present a detailed …

Asynchronous Antarctic and Greenland ice-volume contributions to the last interglacial sea-level highstand

EJ Rohling, FD Hibbert, KM Grant, EV Galaasen… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract The last interglacial (LIG;~ 130 to~ 118 thousand years ago, ka) was the last time
global sea level rose well above the present level. Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) contributions …

Persistent influence of obliquity on ice age terminations since the Middle Pleistocene transition

P Bajo, RN Drysdale, JD Woodhead, JC Hellstrom… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Radiometric dating of glacial terminations over the past 640,000 years suggests pacing by
Earth's climatic precession, with each glacial-interglacial period spanning four or five cycles …