Timing of Quaternary geomagnetic reversals and excursions in volcanic and sedimentary archives

JET Channell, BS Singer, BR Jicha - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
We review the ages of Quaternary magnetic polarity reversals and magnetic excursions.
Improvements in radioisotopic 40 Ar/39 Ar dating of reversals and excursions reflect the use …

A Quaternary geomagnetic instability time scale

BS Singer - Quaternary Geochronology, 2014 - Elsevier
Reversals and excursions of Earth's geomagnetic field create marker horizons that are
readily detected in sedimentary and volcanic rocks worldwide. An accurate and precise …

[PDF][PDF] 泥河湾盆地磁性地层定年与早期人类演化

朱日祥, 邓成龙, 潘永信 - 第四纪研究, 2007 - dsjyj.com.cn
摘要主要评述了近年来泥河湾盆地磁性地层学的研究进展, 包括建立泥河湾组的磁性地层年代格
架, 厘定泥河湾动物群的时代和确定华北地区早期人类活动年代序列. 研究表明: 第一 …

Geologic map of the State of Hawaii

DR Sherrod, JM Sinton, SE Watkins, KM Brunt - 2021 - pubs.usgs.gov
Cover. True-color moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite image
05292003 showing the eight principal islands of the Hawaiian Island chain from May 21 …

Sex increases the efficacy of natural selection in experimental yeast populations

MR Goddard, HCJ Godfray, A Burt - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
Why sex evolved and persists is a problem for evolutionary biology, because sex disrupts
favourable gene combinations and requires an expenditure of time and energy. Further, in …

New evidence on the earliest human presence at high northern latitudes in northeast Asia

RX Zhu, R Potts, F Xie, KA Hoffman, CL Deng, CD Shi… - nature, 2004 - nature.com
The timing of early human dispersal to Asia is a central issue in the study of human
evolution. Excavations in predominantly lacustrine sediments at Majuangou, Nihewan basin …

Reconciling astrochronological and 40Ar/39Ar ages for the Matuyama‐Brunhes boundary and late Matuyama Chron

JET Channell, DA Hodell, BS Singer… - Geochemistry …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
When five Matuyama‐Brunhes (M‐B) boundary records from the North Atlantic are placed
on isotope age models, produced by correlation of the δ18O record directly or indirectly to …

Modelling the recent common ancestry of all living humans

DLT Rohde, S Olson, JT Chang - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
If a common ancestor of all living humans is defined as an individual who is a genealogical
ancestor of all present-day people, the most recent common ancestor (MRCA) for a …

Orbital forcing of continental climate during the Pleistocene: a complete astronomically tuned climatic record from Lake Baikal, SE Siberia

AA Prokopenko, LA Hinnov, DF Williams… - Quaternary Science …, 2006 - Elsevier
A new composite BDP-96 biogenic silica record over the entire Pleistocene was generated
by splicing BDP-96-1 and BDP-96-2 drill cores from Lake Baikal, crosschecked against a …

Geomagnetic excursions: knowns and unknowns

AP Roberts - Geophysical Research Letters, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Geomagnetic excursions are short‐lived episodes when Earth's magnetic field deviates into
an intermediate polarity state. Understanding the origin, frequency, amplitude, duration, and …