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 …

[HTML][HTML] Intensified organic carbon burial on the Australian shelf after the Middle Pleistocene transition

G Auer, B Petrick, T Yoshimura, BL Mamo… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Middle Pleistocene Transition (MPT) represents a major change in Earth's
climate state, exemplified by the switch from obliquity-dominated to∼ 100-kyr …

[HTML][HTML] Eccentricity signal in the nannofossil time-series across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition in the northwestern Pacific Ocean (ODP Site 1209)

M Bordiga, C Lupi, R Sacchi, P Ferretti… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT; 1.25–0.6 million years ago, Ma) is one of the
most important and still debated climate reorganizations during which the glacial/interglacial …

Latitudinal migrations of the subtropical front at the Agulhas Plateau through the mid‐Pleistocene transition

A Cartagena‐Sierra, MA Berke… - Paleoceanography …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The meridional variability of the Subtropical Front (STF) in the Southern Hemisphere, linked
to expansions or contractions of the Southern Ocean, may have played an important role in …

Statistical confidence intervals for relative abundances and abundance-based ratios: Simple practical solutions for an old overlooked question

B Suchéras-Marx, G Escarguel, J Ferreira… - Marine …, 2019 - Elsevier
Micropaleontologists often consider relative abundances of taxa to infer past ecological,
environmental and climate conditions and dynamics. However, most published …

Coccolithophores as proxy of seawater changes at orbital‐to‐millennial scale during middle Pleistocene Marine Isotope Stages 14–9 in North Atlantic core MD01 …

M Marino, P Maiorano, F Tarantino… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Quantitative coccolithophore analyses were performed in core MD01‐2446, located in the
midlatitude North Atlantic, to reconstruct climatically induced sea surface water conditions …

Stratigraphy and paleoceanography of a topography-controlled contourite drift in the Pen Duick area, southern Gulf of Cádiz

T Vandorpe, D Van Rooij, H De Haas - Marine Geology, 2014 - Elsevier
The northern part of the Gulf of Cádiz has and still is receiving a lot of attention from the
scientific community due to (among others) the recent IODP Expedition 339. In contrast, its …

Reconstructing ocean surface dynamics over the last ̴ 25 kyr at “Shackleton Site” IODP-U1385

C Argenio, JA Flores, B Balestra, FO Amore - Palaeogeography …, 2021 - Elsevier
The main objective of this study is to reconstruct surface water dynamics occurring along the
Western Iberian Margin (WIM) relating them to the position of the Subpolar Front and to the …

Early Pleistocene calcareous nannofossil assemblages from the Gulf of Cadiz reveal glacial-interglacial and millennial-scale variability

S Trotta, M Marino, AHL Voelker, T Rodrigues… - Palaeogeography …, 2022 - Elsevier
Coccolithophore high resolution (300 years) quantitative analyses have been carried out on
Early Pleistocene sediment samples from Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Site U1387 …

Antarctic Ice Sheet response to a long warm interval across Marine Isotope Stage 31: A cross-latitudinal study of iceberg-rafted debris

L Teitler, F Florindo, DA Warnke, GM Filippelli… - Earth and planetary …, 2015 - Elsevier
Constraining the nature of Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) response to major past climate changes
may provide a window onto future ice response and rates of sea level rise. One approach to …