The timing of Mediterranean sapropel deposition relative to insolation, sea-level and African monsoon changes

KM Grant, R Grimm, U Mikolajewicz, G Marino… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
The Mediterranean basin is sensitive to global sea-level changes and African monsoon
variability on orbital timescales. Both of these processes are thought to be important to the …

Changing state of the climate system

SK Gulev, PW Thorne, J Ahn, FJ Dentener… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
2 Chapter 2 assesses observed large-scale changes in climate system drivers, key climate
indicators and 3 principal modes of variability. Chapter 3 considers model performance and …

[HTML][HTML] Chronological control and centennial-scale climatic subdivisions of the Last Glacial Termination in the western Mediterranean region

J Camuera, G Jiménez-Moreno… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Last Glacial Termination is marked by changing environmental conditions
affected by abrupt and rapid climate oscillations, such as Heinrich Stadial 1 (HS1), which is …

Mid-Cretaceous marine Os isotope evidence for heterogeneous cause of oceanic anoxic events

H Matsumoto, R Coccioni, F Frontalini, K Shirai… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
During the mid-Cretaceous, the Earth experienced several environmental perturbations,
including an extremely warm climate and Oceanic Anoxic Events (OAEs). Submarine …

Mediterranean winter rainfall in phase with African monsoons during the past 1.36 million years

B Wagner, H Vogel, A Francke, T Friedrich, T Donders… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Mediterranean climates are characterized by strong seasonal contrasts between dry
summers and wet winters. Changes in winter rainfall are critical for regional socioeconomic …

Holocene hydro-climatic variability in the Mediterranean: A synthetic multi-proxy reconstruction

M Finné, J Woodbridge, I Labuhn… - The …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Here we identify and analyze proxy data interpreted to reflect hydro-climatic variability over
the last 10,000 years from the Mediterranean region to (1) outline millennial and multi …

Speleothem record attests to stable environmental conditions during Neanderthal–modern human turnover in southern Italy

A Columbu, V Chiarini, C Spötl, S Benazzi… - Nature ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
The causes of Neanderthal–modern human (MH) turnover are ambiguous. While potential
biocultural interactions between the two groups are still little known, it is clear that …

Mediterranean overflow over the last 250 kyr: freshwater forcing from the tropics to the ice sheets

FJ Sierro, DA Hodell, N Andersen… - Paleoceanography …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
To investigate past changes in the Mediterranean Overflow Water (MOW) to the Atlantic, we
analyzed the strength of the MOW and benthic δ13C along the last 250 kyr at Integrated …

Contourite distribution and bottom currents in the NW Mediterranean Sea: Coupling seafloor geomorphology and hydrodynamic modelling

E Miramontes, P Garreau, M Caillaud, G Jouet… - Geomorphology, 2019 - Elsevier
Contourites are common morphological features along continental margins where currents
encounter the seafloor. They can provide long-term archives of palaeoceanography, may be …

The impact of internal waves on upper continental slopes: insights from the Mozambican margin (southwest Indian Ocean)

E Miramontes, G Jouet, E Thereau… - Earth Surface …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Evidences of sedimentation affected by oceanic circulation, such as nepheloid layers and
contourites are often observed along continental slopes. However, the oceanographic …