Earth and Planetary
Science Letters
1. Variations in the strength of the North Atlantic
bottom water during Holocene
Author(s):
Catherine Kissel , Aurélie Van Toer , Carlo Laj , Elsa Cortijo , Elisabeth
Michel
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2013.03.042
Highlights
•We examine changes in
the deep north Atlantic circulation through Holocene.
•Multi-proxy approach is
used on various cores along the path of the deep water mass.
•Long-term Holocene
trends in deep circulation are fitted by polynomial curves.
•Millenial-scale changes
are superimposed with 2 periodicities at 3 and 0.6 kyr.
2. Temporal buffering of climate-driven sediment
flux cycles by transient catchment response
Author(s):
John J. Armitage , Tom Dunkley Jones , Robert A. Duller , Alexander C.
Whittaker , Philip A. Allen
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2013.03.020
Highlights
•We model the erosional
response of a catchment to cyclic changes in precipitation rate.
•We examine the changes
in sediment flux and grain sizes deposited.
•Sediment flux and grain
size are insensitive to high-frequency (<1 changes="" in="" myr="" o:p="" precipitation.="">
•Model implies that
Milankovitch-scale oscillations in climate would not be preserved in
siliciclastic terrestrial sedimentary records.
3. Glacial freshwater discharge events recorded by
authigenic neodymium isotopes in sediments from the Mendeleev Ridge, western
Arctic Ocean
Author(s):
Kwangchul Jang , Yeongcheol Han , Youngsook Huh , Seung-Il Nam , Ruediger Stein
, Andreas Mackensen , Jens Matthiessen
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2013.03.018
Highlights
•Three freshwater
discharge events affected the western Arctic Ocean since about 75 ka BP.
•The 46–51 ka BP event is
related to the collapse of the Barents–Kara Ice Sheet.
•The 35–39 ka BP event is
related to the collapse of the Laurentide Ice Sheet.
•Heinrich event 1 may
have been responsible for the13–21 ka BP event.
Geochimica et
Cosmochimica Acta
4. Co-variation of nitrogen isotopes and redox
states through glacial–interglacial cycles in the Black Sea
Author(s):
Tracy M. Quan , James D. Wright , Paul G. Falkowski
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2013.02.029
Global and Planetary
Change
5. Dust and temperature influences on glaciofluvial
sediment deposition in southwestern Tibet during the last millennium
Author(s):
Jessica L. Conroy , Jonathan T. Overpeck , Julia E. Cole , Kam-Biu Liu , Luo
Wang , Mihai N. Ducea
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2013.04.009
Highlights
•We developed a 960-year
record of glaciofluvial sediment deposition
•Glaciofluvial sediment
deposition is correlated with regional ice core dust
•Dust forcing was
coherent across central Himalayas over the last millennium
•Glaciofluvial sediment
deposition is also correlated with warm season temperature
•Southwestern Tibet shows
a May-September warming trend over the 20th century
6. Interannual sea level variability in the
tropical Pacific Ocean from 1993 to 2006
Author(s):
Qing Lu , Juncheng Zuo , Yanfang Li , Meixiang Chen
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2013.04.008
Highlights
•We provide a
quantitative understanding of four physical processes of interannual SSH change
in the tropical Pacific.
•Local response to
surface heating plays an important role in sea level rise along the western
equatorial Pacific (150°-180°E).
•Both local response to
surface heating and the eastern boundary forcing are important in explaining
the interannual variance of observed SSH anomalies in the northeastern tropical
Pacific.
•The dominant
contribution to interannual sea level variability in the southeastern tropical
Pacific is from the eastern boundary forcing, the local Ekman pumping plays a
relatively minor role in the interannual SSH change.
•Although a large part of
the interannual sea level variability in the western tropical Pacific is related
to the oceanic remote adjustment to wind stress forcing, the contributions of
local responses to surface heating and wind forcing cannot be overlooked.
Marine Geology
7. Adjustment of the San Francisco estuary and
watershed to decreasing sediment supply in the 20th century
Author(s):
David H. Schoellhamer , Scott A. Wright , Judith Z. Drexler
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2013.04.007,
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Highlights
•A conceptual model of
the effects of increasing then decreasing sediment supply
•Adjustment to decreasing
sediment supply propagated downstream in the 20th century
•Rivers and upper estuary
adjusted to increasing supply quicker than decreasing supply
•Adjustment to increasing
supply was slower in the lower estuary than in the rivers and upper estruary
•Step adjustments
throughout the system may occur now only during greater floods
8. Settling velocity and mass settling flux of
flocculated estuarine sediments
Author(s):
R.L. Soulsby , A.J. Manning , J. Spearman , R.J.S. Whitehouse
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2013.04.006
Highlights
•Presents new formulae
for settling velocity and mass settling flux of suspended mud
•Based on physics,
calibrated against large field data-set
•Measures of performance
versus data compare favourably with previous methods
•Integrated mass settling
flux predicted to within 2%
Palaeogeography,
Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
9. Controlling factors on heavy mineral assemblages
in Chinese loess and Red Clay
Author(s):
Junsheng Nie , Wenbin Peng , Katharina Pfaff , Andreas Möller , Eduardo
Garzanti , Sergio Andò , Thomas Stevens , Anna Bird , Hong Chang , Yougui Song
, Shanpin Liu , Shunchuan Ji
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.04.020
Highlights
•First QEMSCAN-based
heavy mineral study of Chinese loess and Red Clay
•No provenance shifts for
Chinese loess during at least the past 500 kyr.
•Climate control of heavy
mineral assemblages of Chinese loess before ~ 1 Ma.
•Similar provenances for
bottom Red Clay and loess deposited during the past 500 kyr.
•QEMSCAN and optical
heavy mineral counting techniques have consistent patterns.
10. A multi-proxy palaeolimnological study to
reconstruct the evolution of a coastal brackish lake (Lough Furnace, Ireland)
during the late Holocene
Author(s):
Cassina Filippo , Catherine Dalton , Mary Dillane , Elvira de Eyto , Russell
Poole , Karin Sparber
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.04.016
Highlights
•The lagoon is
permanently meromictic and rare overturns will occur in the future.
•Multiproxy
palaeolimnological analysis was conducted on a sediment core.
•An increase in salinity
suggests a sea level rise during the late Holocene.
•Meromixis formation has
led to anoxia development in the monimolimnion.
•The C/N ratio indicates
local climate variations potentially linked to the NAO.
Quaternary Geochronology
11. Luminescence dating of sediments from a
Palaeolithic site associated with a solution feature on the North Downs of
Kent, UK
Author(s):
I.K. Bailiff , S.G. Lewis , H.C. Drinkall , M.J. White
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2013.04.001
Keywords
luminescence
dating; single grain; sediment; solution hollow; palaeolithic; upland
Quaternary International
12. The role of foraminifera as indicators of the
Late Pleistocene-Holocene palaeoclimatic fluctuations on the deltaic environment:
the example of Tiber delta succession (Tyrrhenian margin, Italy)
Author(s):
Letizia Di Bella , Piero Bellotti , Salvatore Milli
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.04.015
Keywords
Foraminifera;
paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental reconstruction; sequence stratigraphy;
Tyrrhenian Sea; Late Pleistocene-Holocene; Tiber delta
13. Geochemical records in Holocene lake sediments
of Northern China: implication for natural and anthropogenic inputs
Author(s):
Zhangdong Jin , Xiangdong Li , Biao Zhang , Yongming Han , Guangli Zheng
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.04.019
Keywords
Lake
sediment; hydrological condition; metal accumulation; closed basin; Chinese
civilization
14. Geochronology of Betula extensions in pollen
diagrams of Alpine Late-glacial lake deposits: A case study of the Late-glacial
deposits of the Gasserplatz soil archives (Vorarlberg, Austria)
Author(s):
J.M. van Mourik , R.T. Slotboom , J. van der Plicht , H.J. Streurman , W.J.
Kuijper , W.Z. Hoek , L.W.S. de Graaff
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.04.018
Keywords
Late-glacial;
environmental oscillations; palynology; 14C; 13C; 18O isotopes; LST; Vorarlberg
15. Record of vegetation and climate during Late
Pleistocene-Holocene in Central Ganga Plain, based on multiproxy data from Jalesar
Lake, Uttar Pradesh, India
Author(s):
Anjali Trivedi , M.S. Chauhan , Anupam Sharma , C.M. Nautiyal , D.P. Tiwari
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.04.010
Keywords
Central Ganga
Plain; Quaternary vegetation; Climate; Clay minerals; Radiocarbon dating
Quaternary Research
16. Deciphering late Quaternary land snail shell d18O and d13C
from Franchthi Cave (Argolid, Greece)
Author(s):
André C. Colonese , Giovanni Zanchetta , Catherine Perlès , Russell N. Drysdale
, Giuseppe Manganelli , Ilaria Baneschi , Elissavet Dotsika , Hélène Valladas
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2013.03.006
Keywords
Late
Pleistocene–Holocene; Greece; Franchthi Cave; Land snail shells; Oxygen and
carbon isotope composition
17. Climatic and human controls on Holocene
floodplain vegetation changes in eastern Pennsylvania based on the isotopic
composition of soil organic matter
Author(s):
Gary E. Stinchcomb , Timothy C. Messner , Forrest C. Williamson , Steven G.
Driese , Lee C. Nordt
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2013.02.004
Keywords
δ13C of soil organic
matter; Alluvial deposit; Buried soil; Holocene paleoclimate; Eastern North
America
Quaternary Science
Reviews
18. Modelling past sea ice changes
Author(s): H.
Goosse , D.M. Roche , A. Mairesse , M. Berger
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.03.011
Keywords
Sea ice;
Models; Proxy records; Benchmarking; LGM; Holocene; Past millennium
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