Northern Hemisphere Glaciation, African climate and human evolution

MH Trauth, A Asrat, N Berner, F Bibi, V Foerster… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The hypothesis of a connection between the onset (or intensification) of Northern
Hemisphere Glaciation, the stepwise increase in African aridity (and climate variability), and …

Recurring types of variability and transitions in the∼ 620 kyr record of climate change from the Chew Bahir basin, southern Ethiopia

MH Trauth, A Asrat, AS Cohen, W Duesing… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Chew Bahir Drilling Project (CBDP) aims to test possible linkages between
climate and hominin evolution in Africa through the analysis of sediment cores that have …

Classifying past climate change in the Chew Bahir basin, southern Ethiopia, using recurrence quantification analysis

MH Trauth, A Asrat, W Duesing, V Foerster… - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
Abstract The Chew Bahir Drilling Project (CBDP) aims to test possible linkages between
climate and evolution in Africa through the analysis of sediment cores that have recorded …

Aridification and orbital forcing of eastern African climate during the Plio-Pleistocene

CJ Lepre, RL Quinn - Global and Planetary Change, 2022 - Elsevier
We developed a composite outcrop proxy record of Plio-Pleistocene climate in eastern
Africa using the radiometrically-dated sediments of the Omo Group that preserve evidence …

Sub-Milankovitch paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental variability in East Africa recorded by Pleistocene lacustrine sediments from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

DE Colcord, AM Shilling, PE Sauer, KH Freeman… - Palaeogeography …, 2018 - Elsevier
Over the past century, numerous discoveries throughout East Africa have advanced our
understanding of hominin evolution and provided substantive evidence that climatic and …

Late-Holocene sedimentation and sodium carbonate deposition in hypersaline, alkaline Nasikie Engida, southern Kenya Rift Valley

G De Cort, F Mees, RW Renaut, M Sinnesael… - Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Continental rift systems are often characterized by geothermal activity and associated
discharge of hot groundwater, which can substantially impact the water, solute and sediment …

Diatom paleolimnology of late Pliocene Baringo basin (Kenya) paleolakes

KS Westover, JR Stone, CL Yost, JJ Scott… - Palaeogeography …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Kenya's Baringo-Tugen Hills-Barsemoi drill site is one of six localities across Kenya
and Ethiopia from which the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project has obtained …

The top of the Olduvai Subchron in a high-resolution magnetostratigraphy from the West Turkana core WTK13, hominin sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP)

MJ Sier, CG Langereis, G Dupont-Nivet… - Quaternary …, 2017 - Elsevier
One of the major challenges in understanding the evolution of our own species is identifying
the role climate change has played in the evolution of hominin species. To clarify the …

Colorado Plateau Coring Project, Phase I (CPCP-I): A continuously cored, globally exportable chronology of Triassic continental environmental change from western …

PE Olsen, JW Geissman, DV Kent, GE Gehrels… - Scientific …, 2018 - sd.copernicus.org
Phase 1 of the Colorado Plateau Coring Project (CPCP-I) recovered a total of over 850 m of
stratigraphically overlapping core from three coreholes at two sites in the Early to Middle and …

Paleozoic Equatorial Records of Melting Ice Ages (PERMIA): calibrating the pace of paleotropical environmental and ecological change during Earth's previous …

JMG Stine, JM Feinberg, AK Huttenlocker… - Scientific …, 2024 - sd.copernicus.org
Abstract The upper Paleozoic Cutler Group of southern Utah, USA, is a key sedimentary
archive for understanding the Earth-life effects of the planet's last pre-Quaternary icehouse …