Mid-Pliocene glaciation preceded by a 0.5-million-year North African humid period

U Amarathunga, EJ Rohling, KM Grant, A Francke… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Past North African humid periods caused expanded vegetation over the Sahara,
due to northward tropical African rainbelt displacement, opening migration pathways for …

Constraining Plio‐Pleistocene Shifts in Northwest African Hydroclimate, Ecosystem Distributions, and Marine Productivity: New Paleo‐Records Across the Mid …

NA O'Mara, C Skonieczny, D McGee… - Paleoceanography …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Northwest Africa transitioned from a wet/vegetated landscape toward drier/sparser
conditions sometime between the late‐Pliocene and the late‐Pleistocene. However, our …

Research briefing

U Amarathunga, D Hutchinson - Nature Geoscience, 2024 - nature.com
Climate models and paleoclimate proxy records indicate that the absence of preserved
eastern Mediterranean organic-rich layers preceding mid-Pliocene glaciation is linked to a …

[HTML][HTML] The “glacial” sapropel S6 (172 ka; MIS 6): A multiproxy approach to solve a Mediterranean “cold case”

M Savannah, R Eelco, D Timme, G Katharine… - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
Sequences of dark, organic-rich sediment layers (sapropels) exist throughout the Neogene
of the Mediterranean Sea sedimentary record. While the mechanisms behind their cyclical …