Development and refinement of proxy-climate indicators from peats

FM Chambers, RK Booth, F De Vleeschouwer… - Quaternary …, 2012 - Elsevier
Peat, especially from acidic mires (bogs), is a natural archive of past environmental change.
Reconstructions of past climate from bogs commenced in the 19th Century through …

A novel geochemical approach to paleorecords of dust deposition and effective humidity: 8500 years of peat accumulation at Store Mosse (the “Great Bog”), Sweden

ME Kylander, R Bindler, AM Cortizas… - Quaternary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
Both bog surface wetness and atmospheric dust deposition are intricately linked to changes
in the hydrological cycle and pairing these types of records at the same site provides …

The aftermath of megafaunal extinction: ecosystem transformation in Pleistocene Australia

S Rule, BW Brook, SG Haberle, CSM Turney… - Science, 2012 - science.org
Giant vertebrates dominated many Pleistocene ecosystems. Many were herbivores, and
their sudden extinction in prehistory could have had large ecological impacts. We used a …

Improved provenance tracing of Asian dust sources using rare earth elements and selected trace elements for palaeomonsoon studies on the eastern Tibetan Plateau

M Ferrat, DJ Weiss, S Strekopytov, S Dong… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2011 - Elsevier
The Asian Monsoon forms an important part of the earth's climate system, yet our
understanding of the past interactions between its different sub-systems, the East Asian and …

[HTML][HTML] Land use change in the river basins of the Great Barrier Reef, 1860 to 2019: A foundation for understanding environmental history across the catchment to …

SE Lewis, R Bartley, SN Wilkinson, ZT Bainbridge… - Marine Pollution …, 2021 - Elsevier
Land use in the catchments draining to the Great Barrier Reef lagoon has changed
considerably since the introduction of livestock grazing, various crops, mining and urban …

Atmospheric deposition and isotope biogeochemistry of zinc in ombrotrophic peat

DJ Weiss, N Rausch, TFD Mason, BJ Coles… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2007 - Elsevier
Zinc isotope ratios were measured in the top sections of dated ombrotrophic peat cores in
Finland to investigate their potential as proxies for atmospheric sources and to constrain …

Inference of abrupt changes in noisy geochemical records using transdimensional changepoint models

K Gallagher, T Bodin, M Sambridge, D Weiss… - Earth and Planetary …, 2011 - Elsevier
We present a method to quantify abrupt changes (or changepoints) in data series,
represented as a function of depth or time. These changes are often the result of climatic or …

Palaeo-dust records: A window to understanding past environments

SK Marx, BS Kamber, HA McGowan… - Global and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
Dust entrainment, transport over vast distances and subsequent deposition is a fundamental
part of the Earth system. Yet the role and importance of dust has been underappreciated …

The Śnieżka peatland as a candidate Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene series

B Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł, E Łokas… - The Anthropocene …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The subalpine, atmospherically fed Śnieżka peatland, located in the Polish part of the
Sudetes, is one of the nominated candidates for the GSSP of the Anthropocene. Data from …

Geochemical processes in a Mediterranean Lake: a high-resolution study of the last 4,000 years in Zonar Lake, southern Spain

C Martín-Puertas, BL Valero-Garcés, MP Mata… - Journal of …, 2011 - Springer
High-resolution geochemical analysis of a 6-m-long sediment core from Zoñar Lake,
southern Spain, provides a detailed characterization of major changes in lake and …