Distinct latitudinal gradients define Holocene fire trends across the southeastern USA

A Tsalickis, RS Vachula, AV Karmalkar… - Quaternary Science …, 2025 - Elsevier
Fire is a keystone ecological process that shapes and maintains ecosystems in the
southeastern United States, and yet the paleofire history of the southeast remains relatively …

Compound-specific isotope records of late-Quaternary environmental change in southeastern North Carolina

CS Lane, AK Taylor, J Spencer, KB Jones - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Reconstructions of late Quaternary paleohydrology are rare from the US Atlantic coastal
plain (ACP). Here we present compound-specific hydrogen (δ 2 H alkane) and carbon (δ 13 …

Changes in Holocene meridional circulation and poleward Atlantic flow: The Bay of Biscay as a nodal point

Y Mary, F Eynaud, C Colin, L Rossignol… - Climate of the …, 2017 - cp.copernicus.org
This paper documents the evolution over the last 10 kyr of one of the key parameters of
climate: sea-surface temperatures (SSTs) in the North Atlantic. We focus on the southern …

Evidence of mid-Holocene (Northgrippian Age) dry climate recorded in organic soil profiles in the central Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States

ML Schaney, JS Kite, CR Schaney, JA Thompson - Geosciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Peatlands in Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge hold a pedomemory of Pleistocene
and Holocene climatic fluctuations in the central Appalachian Mountains of the eastern …

Reconstructed late summer maximum temperatures for the southeastern United States from tree‐ring blue intensity

KE King, GL Harley, JT Maxwell… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Over recent decades, the southeastern United States (Southeast) has become increasingly
well represented by the terrestrial climate proxy record. However, while the paleo proxy …

Holocene Thermal Maximum paleofloods improve flood frequency analyses in the lower Tennessee River Basin (USA)

MAL Davis, R Lombardi, M Yaw, C Jawdy… - Global and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Extreme floods are underrepresented in instrumented flow records. Consequently, flood
frequency model estimates of extreme floods contain large uncertainty. The lower …

A 23,000-year microscopic charcoal record from Anderson Pond, Tennessee, USA

JP Ballard, SP Horn, ZH Li - Palynology, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Charcoal records of past fires are important for reconstruction of palaeoenvironments and
palaeoclimate, particularly when compared with pollen records of past vegetation, but such …

Alluvial fan aggradation in low relief, humid‐temperate landscapes, Uwharrie National Forest, North Carolina Piedmont

CE Opalka, MC Eppes… - Earth Surface …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We describe the soils, stratigraphy, distribution and ages of alluvial fans in the North
Carolina Piedmont to understand factors contributing to their formation in this low relief …

Radiocarbon dating peatland development: Key steps in reconstructing past climate in the central Appalachian Mountains

ML Schaney, JS Kite, CR Schaney, K Heckman… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Canaan Valley in West Virginia contains a greater area of peatlands than any other
locality in the mid-Atlantic Highlands. Extensive fieldwork focused on peat stratigraphy …

Micromorphology of late Pleistocene and Holocene sediments and a new interpretation of the Holocene chronology at Anderson Pond, Tennessee, USA

SG Driese, SP Horn, JP Ballard, MS Boehm… - Quaternary …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Thin-section (micromorphological) analysis of samples from the upper 1.5 m of a core
obtained in 2007 from Anderson Pond, Tennessee, reveals a coherent but discontinuous …