The Pliocene to recent history of the Kuroshio and Tsushima Currents: a multi-proxy approach

SJ Gallagher, A Kitamura, Y Iryu, T Itaki… - Progress in Earth and …, 2015 - Springer
Abstract The Kuroshio Current is a major western boundary current controlled by the North
Pacific Gyre. It brings warm subtropical waters from the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool to Japan …

Late Pliocene and early Pleistocene vegetation and climate change revealed by a pollen record from Nihewan Basin, North China

Y Li, Z Zhang, G Ding, Q Xu, Y Wang, Z Chi… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Nihewan Formation is an important early Quaternary sedimentary formation in
North China. We conducted pollen analyses of 183 samples and 1611 modern surface …

Southward migration of Arctic Ocean species during the Last Glacial Period

P Zhang, HHM Huang, Y Hong, SY Tian… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The East Asian winter monsoon (EAWM) is associated with northerly surface winds
affecting crop and livestock productivity and social and economic activities across East Asia …

Modelled ocean changes at the Plio-Pleistocene transition driven by Antarctic ice advance

DJ Hill, KP Bolton, AM Haywood - Nature Communications, 2017 - nature.com
The Earth underwent a major transition from the warm climates of the Pliocene to the
Pleistocene ice ages between 3.2 and 2.6 million years ago. The intensification of Northern …

[HTML][HTML] Clay-mineral assemblages across the Nankai-Shikoku subduction system, offshore Japan: A synthesis of results from the NanTroSEIZE project

MB Underwood, J Guo - Geosphere, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, as part of the Nankai Trough Seismogenic
Zone Experiment, recovered samples of mud and mudstone from the Kumano forearc basin …

Palaeotsunamis along Canada's Pacific coast

J Goff, P Bobrowsky, D Huntley, Y Sawai… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
To fully understand tsunami hazards along Canada's Pacific coast we must consider all
potential sources including local and region-wide earthquakes, volcanic activity, slope …

Upper Oligocene to Pleistocene planktonic foraminifera stratigraphy at North Atlantic DSDP Site 407, Reykjanes Ridge: diversity trends and biozonation using modern …

TM Weitkamp, MJ Razmjooei… - Journal of …, 2025 - jm.copernicus.org
Abstract Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) Site 407, located near the Reykjanes Ridge
(southwest of Iceland) offers a rare and extensive record of Late Cenozoic planktonic …

Cold-seep ostracods from the western Svalbard margin: direct palaeo-indicator for methane seepage?

M Yasuhara, K Sztybor, TL Rasmussen… - Journal of …, 2018 - jm.copernicus.org
Despite their high abundance and diversity, microfossil taxa adapted to a particular
chemosynthetic environment have rarely been studied and are therefore poorly known. Here …

Apparent overconsolidation of mudstones in the Kumano Basin of southwest Japan: Implications for fluid pressure and fluid flow within a forearc setting

J Guo, MB Underwood, WJ Likos… - Geochemistry …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Kumano Basin is located in the Nankai Trough subduction zone of southwest
Japan. During the past 1.6 million years, approximately 800 meters of sandy turbidites and …

Recent ostracods as lagoonal paleoenvironmental indicators: application and limitations from a case study of the Ariake Sea, Japan

K Yamauchi, G Tanaka - Hydrobiologia, 2024 - Springer
A total of 107 species belonging to 45 genera were identified from 26 sites in the Ariake Sea,
Kyushu, Japan. Two biofacies were identified by both Q-mode cluster analysis. Redundancy …