Origin of the long-term increase in coccolith size and its implication for carbon cycle and climate over the past 2 Myr

X Jin, W Ma, C Liu - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
A long-term increase in coccolith size over the Pleistocene has long been discovered in
global oceans. Such a long-term and evolutionary change is expected to exert substantial …

Shifting Antarctic Circumpolar Current south of Africa over the past 1.9 million years

A Starr, IR Hall, S Barker, A Nederbragt, L Owen… - Science …, 2025 - science.org
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) dominates the transfer of heat, salt, and tracers
around the Southern Ocean (SO), driving the upwelling of carbon-rich deep waters around …

Precessional forcing of biogeochemical and nutrient cycling in the tropical western Pacific during the late Pleistocene

X Jin, X Wang, X Zhou, X Jiang, P Qiao, C Liu - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Unravelling the biogenic material export production and its relationship to surface ocean
nutrient conditions, along with their external forcing, will provide insights into the ocean …

Southern Ocean and southern African monsoon forcing of the subtropical Indian Ocean early Pliocene “Biogenic Bloom”

DN Tangunan, JA Flores, LJ LeVay… - Paleoceanography …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The Pliocene epoch emerges as a pivotal juncture in Earth's climatic evolution,
characterized by pronounced warmth and elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide compared …