Climate evolution through the onset and intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation

EL McClymont, SL Ho, HL Ford, I Bailey… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Pliocene Epoch (∼ 5.3–2.6 million years ago, Ma) was characterized by a
warmer than present climate with smaller Northern Hemisphere ice sheets, and offers an …

An alternative suggestion for the Pliocene onset of major northern hemisphere glaciation based on the geochemical provenance of North Atlantic Ocean ice-rafted …

I Bailey, GM Hole, GL Foster, PA Wilson… - Quaternary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
The onset of abundant ice-rafted debris (IRD) deposition in the Nordic Seas and subpolar
North Atlantic Ocean 2.72 millions of years ago (Ma) is thought to record the Pliocene onset …

Plio-Pleistocene climate sensitivity evaluated using high-resolution CO2 records

MA Martínez-Botí, GL Foster, TB Chalk, EJ Rohling… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract Theory and climate modelling suggest that the sensitivity of Earth's climate to
changes in radiative forcing could depend on the background climate. However …

Pliocene warmth, polar amplification, and stepped Pleistocene cooling recorded in NE Arctic Russia

J Brigham-Grette, M Melles, P Minyuk, A Andreev… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Understanding the evolution of Arctic polar climate from the protracted warmth of the middle
Pliocene into the earliest glacial cycles in the Northern Hemisphere has been hindered by …

Mid-Pliocene warm-period deposits in the High Arctic yield insight into camel evolution

N Rybczynski, JC Gosse, C Richard Harington… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
The mid-Pliocene was a global warm period, preceding the onset of Quaternary glaciations.
Here we use cosmogenic nuclide dating to show that a fossiliferous terrestrial deposit that …

Mid-Pleistocene climate transition drives net mass loss from rapidly uplifting St. Elias Mountains, Alaska

SPS Gulick, JM Jaeger, AC Mix… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Erosion, sediment production, and routing on a tectonically active continental margin reflect
both tectonic and climatic processes; partitioning the relative importance of these processes …

Late Cenozoic climate change paces landscape adjustments to Yukon River capture

AM Bender, RO Lease, LB Corbett, PR Bierman… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Late Cenozoic cooling and changes in glacial–interglacial cycle tempo are thought to
increase global rates of erosion starting~ 3 million years ago (Ma). Bedrock rivers set rates …

[HTML][HTML] P–PINI: A cosmogenic nuclide burial dating method for landscapes undergoing non-steady erosion

J Nørgaard, JD Jansen, S Neuhuber… - Quaternary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Existing methods of cosmogenic nuclide burial dating perform well provided that sediment
sources undergo steady rates of erosion and the samples experience continuous exposure …

Numerical simulations of the Cordilleran ice sheet through the last glacial cycle

J Seguinot, I Rogozhina, AP Stroeven, M Margold… - The …, 2016 - tc.copernicus.org
After more than a century of geological research, the Cordilleran ice sheet of North America
remains among the least understood in terms of its former extent, volume, and dynamics …

Extensive marine-terminating ice sheets in Europe from 2.5 million years ago

BR Rea, AMW Newton, RM Lamb, R Harding… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Geometries of Early Pleistocene [2.58 to 0.78 million years (Ma) ago] ice sheets in northwest
Europe are poorly constrained but are required to improve our understanding of past ocean …