The Last Interglacial–Glacial cycle (MIS 5–2) re-examined based on long proxy records from central and northern Europe

KF Helmens - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Current multi-proxy studies on a long sediment sequence preserved at Sokli (N Finland), ie
in the central area of Fennoscandian glaciations, are drastically changing classic ideas of …

How cold was it for Neanderthals moving to Central Europe during warm phases of the last glaciation?

G Skrzypek, A Wiśniewski, PF Grierson - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Precise estimates of mean annual temperature (MAT) for when Neanderthals occupied
Central Europe are critical for understanding the role that climatic and associated …

Plant macrofossil evidence for an early onset of the Holocene summer thermal maximum in northernmost Europe

M Väliranta, JS Salonen, M Heikkilä, L Amon… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Holocene summer temperature reconstructions from northern Europe based on sedimentary
pollen records suggest an onset of peak summer warmth around 9,000 years ago. However …

Proxy comparison in ancient peat sediments: pollen, macrofossil and plant DNA

L Parducci, M Väliranta, JS Salonen… - … of the Royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We compared DNA, pollen and macrofossil data obtained from Weichselian interstadial (age
more than 40 kyr) and Holocene (maximum age 8400 cal yr BP) peat sediments from …

New evidence of warm early-Holocene summers in subarctic Finland based on an enhanced regional chironomid-based temperature calibration model

TP Luoto, M Kaukolehto, J Weckström… - Quaternary …, 2014 - cambridge.org
Paleoclimate reconstructions based on biological proxies present methodological
challenges, especially during non-analog conditions, such as the early Holocene. Here, two …

Sea level~ 400 000 years ago (MIS 11): analogue for present and future sea-level?

DQ Bowen - Climate of the Past, 2010 - cp.copernicus.org
Comparison of the sea-level today with that of 400 000 years ago (MIS 11), when the Earth's
orbital characteristics were similar may provide, under conditions of natural variability …

Challenges in the presentation and analysis of plant-macrofossil stratigraphical data

HJB Birks - Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 2014 - Springer
Plant-macrofossil analysis is being increasingly used in Quaternary science, particularly
palaeoecology and vegetation history. Although the techniques of macrofossil analysis are …

Ice‐free conditions in eastern Fennoscandia during early Marine Isotope Stage 3: lacustrine records

KF Helmens, S Engels - Boreas, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Helmens, KF & Engels, S. 2010: Ice‐free conditions in eastern Fennoscandia during early
Marine Isotope Stage 3: lacustrine records. Boreas, 10.1111/j. 1502‐3885.2010. 00142. x …

[HTML][HTML] Floral evidence for high summer temperatures in southern Scandinavia during 15–11 cal ka BP

F Schenk, O Bennike, M Väliranta, R Avery… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The global climate transition from the Lateglacial to the Early Holocene is dominated by a
rapid warming trend driven by an increase in orbital summer insolation over high northern …

Late Cenozoic deep weathering patterns on the Fennoscandian shield in northern Finland: a window on ice sheet bed conditions at the onset of Northern Hemisphere …

AM Hall, P Sarala, K Ebert - Geomorphology, 2015 - Elsevier
The nature of the regolith that existed on the shields of the Northern Hemisphere at the onset
of ice sheet glaciation is poorly constrained. In this paper, we provide the first detailed …