This book offers a comprehensive review of the entire field of taphonomy, the science of
fossil preservation. It describes the formation of plant and animal fossils in oceanic …

The geochemistry of marine sediments is a major source of information about the past
environment. Of the many measurements that provide such information, those of the U …

During the “Green Sahara” period (11,000 to 5000 years before the present), the Sahara
desert received high amounts of rainfall, supporting diverse vegetation, permanent lakes …

Increasingly, environmental scientists, palaeoceanographers and geologists are collecting
quantitative records of environmental changes (time series) from sediments, ice cores, cave …

Traditional approaches to age‐depth modeling typically assume no uncertainty for the depth
value of dated intervals. However, such an assumption may not be fully valid in the case of …

Surface and deepwater paleoclimate records in Irminger Sea core SO82‐5 (59° N, 31° W)
and Icelandic Sea core PS2644 (68° N, 22° W) exhibit large fluctuations in thermohaline …

The importance of bioturbation in mediating biogeochemical processes in the upper
centimetres of oceanic sediments provides a compelling reason for wanting to quantify in …

We present two new high-resolution sediment records from the southwestern Iceland and
Norwegian Seas that were dated by numerous 14C ages up to 54 14C ka bp. Based on …

Deep water formation in the North Atlantic and Southern Ocean is widely thought to
influence deglacial CO2 rise and climate change; here we suggest that deep water …

Magnetic paleointensity stratigraphy is used to detect variations in the strength of Earth's
ancient magnetic field. Paleointensity studies have demonstrated that a dominantly dipolar …