Hominin variability, climatic instability and population demography in Middle Pleistocene Europe

RW Dennell, M Martinón-Torres… - Quaternary Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
We propose a population model for Middle Pleistocene Europe that is based on
demographic “sources” and “sinks”. The former were a small number of “core” or populations …

History of the Greenland Ice Sheet: paleoclimatic insights

RB Alley, JT Andrews, J Brigham-Grette… - Quaternary Science …, 2010 - Elsevier
Paleoclimatic records show that the Greenland Ice Sheet consistently has lost mass in
response to warming, and grown in response to cooling. Such changes have occurred even …

Mid-Pleistocene climate transition triggered by Antarctic Ice Sheet growth

Z An, W Zhou, Z Zhang, X Zhang, Z Liu, Y Sun… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Despite extensive investigation, the nature and causes of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition
remain enigmatic. In this work, we assess its linkage to asynchronous development of …

Iron mineralogical proxies and Quaternary climate change in SE-European loess–paleosol sequences

B Buggle, U Hambach, K Müller, L Zöller, SB Marković… - Catena, 2014 - Elsevier
The loess–paleosol sequences Batajnica/Stari Slankamen (Serbia) and Mircea Voda
(Romania) represent key archives for the climate and landscape development of the middle …

Millennial-scale ice rafting events and Hudson Strait Heinrich (-like) Events during the late Pliocene and Pleistocene: a review

BDA Naafs, J Hefter, R Stein - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
Various types of abrupt/millennial-scale climate variability such as Dansgaard/Oeschger and
Heinrich Events characterized the last glacial period. Over the last decade, a number of …

Discontinuity in the record for hominin occupation in south-western Europe: Implications for occupation of the middle latitudes of Europe

K MacDonald, M Martinón-Torres, RW Dennell… - Quaternary …, 2012 - Elsevier
Recent discoveries of evidence for hominin activity in Britain before MIS 13 challenge
previous understanding of the nature of the earliest colonization of NW Europe. Insights into …

Marine Isotope Stage 11: Palaeoclimates, palaeoenvironments and its role as an analogue for the current interglacial

I Candy, DC Schreve, J Sherriff, GJ Tye - Earth-Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Interglacials of the Quaternary Period are currently the focus of a great deal of
attention within the scientific community. This is primarily because they play a vital role in …

Combining marine macroecology and palaeoecology in understanding biodiversity: microfossils as a model

M Yasuhara, DP Tittensor, H Hillebrand… - Biological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
There is growing interest in the integration of macroecology and palaeoecology towards a
better understanding of past, present, and anticipated future biodiversity dynamics …

A 1-Ma record of sea surface temperature and extreme cooling events in the North Atlantic: A perspective from the Iberian Margin

T Rodrigues, M Alonso-García, DA Hodell… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Iberian Margin is a sensitive area to track high and low latitude processes, and
is a key location to understand major past climatic and oceanographic changes. Here we …

Variations in mid-latitude North Atlantic surface water properties during the mid-Brunhes (MIS 9–14) and their implications for the thermohaline circulation

AHL Voelker, T Rodrigues, K Billups, D Oppo… - Climate of the …, 2010 - cp.copernicus.org
Stable isotope and ice-rafted debris records from three core sites in the mid-latitude North
Atlantic (IODP Site U1313, MD01-2446, MD03-2699) are combined with records of ODP …