Danube loess stratigraphy—Towards a pan-European loess stratigraphic model

SB Marković, T Stevens, GJ Kukla, U Hambach… - Earth-Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Danube River drainage basin is the second largest river catchment in Europe
and contains a significant and extensive region of thick loess deposits that preserve a record …

Timing of Quaternary geomagnetic reversals and excursions in volcanic and sedimentary archives

JET Channell, BS Singer, BR Jicha - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
We review the ages of Quaternary magnetic polarity reversals and magnetic excursions.
Improvements in radioisotopic 40 Ar/39 Ar dating of reversals and excursions reflect the use …

The age of Homo naledi and associated sediments in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa

PHGM Dirks, EM Roberts, H Hilbert-Wolf, JD Kramers… - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
New ages for flowstone, sediments and fossil bones from the Dinaledi Chamber are
presented. We combined optically stimulated luminescence dating of sediments with U-Th …

Geomagnetic polarity time scale

JG Ogg - Geologic time scale 2020, 2020 - Elsevier
The time scale for marine magnetic anomalies for the Late Cretaceous through Neogene (C-
sequence) and Middle Jurassic through Early Cretaceous (M-sequence with deep-tow …

Contemporaneity of Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and early Homo erectus in South Africa

AIR Herries, JM Martin, AB Leece, JW Adams… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Drimolen is one of several ancient caves located in the Hominid Caves of
South Africa United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) …

Early–Middle Pleistocene transitions: linking terrestrial and marine realms

MJ Head, PL Gibbard - Quaternary International, 2015 - Elsevier
Marked by a progressive increase in the amplitude of climate oscillations, an evolving
waveform, and a shift towards a quasi-100 ky frequency, the Early–Middle Pleistocene …

A stratigraphical basis for the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)

PD Hughes, PL Gibbard - Quaternary International, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) is widely used to refer to the episode when global
ice volume last reached its maximum and associated sea levels were at their lowest …

Intercalibration and age of the Alder Creek sanidine 40Ar/39Ar standard

EM Niespolo, D Rutte, AL Deino, PR Renne - Quaternary Geochronology, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The accuracy of 40 Ar/39 Ar geochronology relies in large part on precise and
accurate calibration of the ages and K-Ar isotopic compositions of standards. A widely used …

Re-evaluation of the ages of 40Ar/39Ar sanidine standards and supereruptions in the western US using a Noblesse multi-collector mass spectrometer

BR Jicha, BS Singer, P Sobol - Chemical Geology, 2016 - Elsevier
The rewards from resolving the tempo of magmatic, paleobiologic, paleoclimatic, and
tectonic processes at better than the per mil level of precision have spurred a quest within …

One hundred thousand years of geomagnetic field evolution

S Panovska, M Korte, CG Constable - Reviews of Geophysics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Paleomagnetic records from sediments, archeological artifacts, and lava flows provide the
foundation for studying geomagnetic field changes over 0–100 ka. Late Quaternary time …