Varves in lake sediments–a review

B Zolitschka, P Francus, AEK Ojala… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Downcore counting of laminations in varved sediments offers a direct and incremental
dating technique for high-resolution climatic and environmental archives with at least annual …

The use of summed radiocarbon probability distributions in archaeology: a review of methods

AN Williams - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2012 - Elsevier
Using a database of Australian archaeological radiocarbon dates (n= 2996), this paper
explores three key methodological issues associated with the use of summed probability …

Collapse and rapid resumption of Atlantic meridional circulation linked to deglacial climate changes

JF McManus, R Francois, JM Gherardi, LD Keigwin… - nature, 2004 - nature.com
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation is widely believed to affect climate. Changes
in ocean circulation have been inferred from records of the deep water chemical …

INTCAL98 radiocarbon age calibration, 24,000–0 cal BP

M Stuiver, PJ Reimer, E Bard, JW Beck, GS Burr… - …, 1998 - cambridge.org
The focus of this paper is the conversion of radiocarbon ages to calibrated (cal) ages for the
interval 24,000–0 cal BP (Before Present, 0 cal BP= AD 1950), based upon a sample set of …

Mo–total organic carbon covariation in modern anoxic marine environments: Implications for analysis of paleoredox and paleohydrographic conditions

TJ Algeo, TW Lyons - Paleoceanography, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Sedimentary molybdenum,[Mo] s, has been widely used as a proxy for benthic redox
potential owing to its generally strong enrichment in organic‐rich marine facies deposited …

The Younger Dryas cold interval as viewed from central Greenland

RB Alley - Quaternary science reviews, 2000 - Elsevier
Greenland ice-core records provide an exceptionally clear picture of many aspects of abrupt
climate changes, and particularly of those associated with the Younger Dryas event, as …

Paleocean circulation during the last deglaciation: a bipolar seesaw?

WS Broecker - Paleoceanography, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Hughen et al.[1998] have documented that during the first 200 years of Younger Dryas time
the 14C content of atmospheric CO2 increased by∼ 50‰ and that during the remainder of …

The 8k event: cause and consequences of a major Holocene abrupt climate change

RB Alley, AM Ágústsdóttir - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2005 - Elsevier
A prominent, abrupt climate event about 8200 years ago brought generally cold and dry
conditions to broad northern-hemisphere regions especially in wintertime, in response to a …

East Asian monsoon climate during the Late Pleistocene: high-resolution sediment records from the South China Sea

L Wang, M Sarnthein, H Erlenkeuser, J Grimalt… - Marine Geology, 1999 - Elsevier
Based on the study of 10 sediment cores and 40 core-top samples from the South China
Sea (SCS) we obtained proxy records of past changes in East Asian monsoon climate on …

An event stratigraphy for the Last Termination in the North Atlantic region based on the Greenland ice‐core record: a proposal by the INTIMATE group

S Björck, MJC Walker, LC Cwynar… - … : Published for the …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
It is suggested that the GRIP Greenland ice‐core should constitute the stratotype for the Last
Termination. Based on the oxygen isotope signal in that core, a new event stratigraphy …