Long-term vegetation, climate and ocean dynamics inferred from a 73,500 years old marine sediment core (GeoB2107-3) off southern Brazil

F Gu, KAF Zonneveld, CM Chiessi, HW Arz… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Long-term changes in vegetation and climate of southern Brazil, as well as ocean dynamics
of the adjacent South Atlantic, were studied by analyses of pollen, spores and organic …

Determining the absolute abundance of dinoflagellate cysts in recent marine sediments: the Lycopodium marker-grain method put to the test

KN Mertens, K Verhoeven, T Verleye, S Louwye… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2009 - Elsevier
Absolute abundances (concentrations) of dinoflagellate cysts are often determined through
the addition of Lycopodium clavatum marker-grains as a spike to a sample before …

The biogeography of “breas”: Contextualizing the taphonomy, ecology, and diversity of Trinidad's asphaltic fossil record

AM Mychajliw, RS Mohammed, KA Rice… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
While the lagerstätte Rancho La Brea in California, USA has yielded millions of specimens,
fossiliferous asphaltic deposits (“tar pits” or “breas”) are globally rare, with< 15 localities. In …

Dinoflagellate cysts in recent estuarine sediments from aquaculture sites of southern South Korea

V Pospelova, SJ Kim - Marine Micropaleontology, 2010 - Elsevier
Assemblages of organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts collected from 23 surface sediment
samples distributed in shallow estuarine waters along the southern South Korean coast …

Sedimentary records of marine isotopic stage 3 (MIS 3) in southern Brazil

SR Dillenburg, EG Barboza, MLCC Rosa, F Caron… - Geo-Marine Letters, 2020 - Springer
In this paper, a reinterpretation of the older 14 C ages of the Pleistocene substrate of the
Holocene barrier-lagoon system of three coastal localities in southern Brazil is presented …

Broadening the perspectives of sedimentary organic matter analysis to understand Earth system response to change

DA Willard, LF Ruppert - International Journal of Coal Geology, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper broadens the description of sedimentary organic matter from the conventional
use of coal petrography to include palynological and geochemical sedimentary organic …

Differences in the chemical composition of organic‐walled dinoflagellate resting cysts from phototrophic and heterotrophic dinoflagellates

K Bogus, KN Mertens, J Lauwaert… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Dinoflagellates constitute a large proportion of the planktonic biomass from marine to
freshwater environments. Some species produce a preservable organic‐walled resting cyst …

Dinoflagellate fossils: Geological and biological applications

A Penaud, W Hardy, C Lambert, F Marret… - Revue de …, 2018 - Elsevier
Dinoflagellates are part of the marine plankton and about 200 species produce a cyst
(dinocyst) during their life cycle, these organic-walled sexually-produced cysts being …

Late Quaternary environmental dynamics inferred from marine sediment core GeoB6211-2 off southern Brazil

F Gu, CM Chiessi, KAF Zonneveld, H Behling - Palaeogeography …, 2018 - Elsevier
Vegetation and climate changes in southern Brazil, as well as the dynamics of the adjacent
South Atlantic were investigated through the analyses of pollen, spores and dinocysts from …

Characterising the middle Miocene Mi-events in the Eastern North Atlantic realm: A first high-resolution marine palynological record from the Porcupine Basin

W Quaijtaal, TH Donders, D Persico… - Palaeogeography …, 2014 - Elsevier
The warm climate of the Miocene peaked during the middle Miocene Climatic Optimum
(MMCO; 17–14.5 Ma). After the MMCO, global climate went through several short-lived …