The organic geochemistry of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether lipids: A review

S Schouten, EC Hopmans, JSS Damsté - Organic geochemistry, 2013 - Elsevier
Glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (GDGT) lipids are membrane lipids which were long
thought to be synthesized mainly by archaea, organisms thought to be limited to extreme …

Evaluation of climate models using palaeoclimatic data

P Braconnot, SP Harrison, M Kageyama… - Nature Climate …, 2012 - nature.com
There is large uncertainty about the magnitude of warming and how rainfall patterns will
change in response to any given scenario of future changes in atmospheric composition and …

A review of molecular organic proxies for examining modern and ancient lacustrine environments

IS Castañeda, S Schouten - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Molecular organic geochemical proxies are increasingly being utilized to reconstruct past
environmental conditions as new tools continue to be discovered and developed. To date …

A Bayesian, spatially-varying calibration model for the TEX86 proxy

JE Tierney, MP Tingley - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2014 - Elsevier
TEX 86 is an important proxy for constraining ocean temperatures in the Earth's past.
Current calibrations, however, feature structured residuals indicative of a spatially-varying …

A TEX86 surface sediment database and extended Bayesian calibration

JE Tierney, MP Tingley - Scientific data, 2015 - nature.com
Quantitative estimates of past temperature changes are a cornerstone of paleoclimatology.
For a number of marine sediment-based proxies, the accuracy and precision of past …

The PhanSST global database of Phanerozoic sea surface temperature proxy data

EJ Judd, JE Tierney, BT Huber, SL Wing, DJ Lunt… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Paleotemperature proxy data form the cornerstone of paleoclimate research and are integral
to understanding the evolution of the Earth system across the Phanerozoic Eon. Here, we …

Flat meridional temperature gradient in the early Eocene in the subsurface rather than surface ocean

SL Ho, T Laepple - Nature Geoscience, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract The early Eocene (49–55 million years ago) is a time interval characterized by
elevated surface temperatures and atmospheric CO2 (refs,), and a flatter-than-present …

Appraisal of TEX86 and TEX86L thermometries in subpolar and polar regions

SL Ho, G Mollenhauer, S Fietz… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2014 - Elsevier
TEX 86 (TetraEther indeX of tetraethers consisting of 86 carbon atoms) is a sea surface
temperature (SST) proxy based on the distribution of archaeal isoprenoid glycerol dialkyl …

Late Cretaceous Temperature Evolution of the Southern High Latitudes: A TEX86 Perspective

LK O'Connor, SA Robinson, BDA Naafs… - Paleoceanography …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Late Cretaceous was a greenhouse world, characterized by elevated
temperatures and high atmospheric pCO2. Even in the context of an extreme greenhouse …

Environmental controls on B/Ca in calcite tests of the tropical planktic foraminifer species Globigerinoides ruber and Globigerinoides sacculifer

KA Allen, B Hönisch, SM Eggins, Y Rosenthal - Earth and Planetary …, 2012 - Elsevier
The ratio of boron to calcium (B/Ca) in the calcite tests of planktic foraminifers may serve as
a proxy for past seawater chemistry, but controls on B incorporation are not yet certain. Here …