♣Earth and
Planetary Science Letters♣
1.The Brahmaputra tale of tectonics and erosion: Early Miocene river capture
in the Eastern Himalaya
Laura Bracciali , Yani Najman,
Randall R. Parrish, Syed H. Akhter , Ian Millar
•River capture of Yarlung Tsangpo by
Brahmaputra River constrained as Early Miocene.
•First arrival of Asian-derived detritus into
paleo-Brahmaputra deposits.
•Multi-technique provenance approach applied
to Bengal Basin sediments, Bangladesh.
•First study to apply U–Pb dating of rutile
as a provenance tracer in the Himalaya.
•Implications for regional tectonic events in
the eastern Himalaya.
Keywords
Brahmaputra; Yarlung Tsangpo; Eastern Himalaya; river capture; U–Pb
chronology; rutile
♣Geochimica et
Cosmochimica Acta♣
2.Identification and
carbon isotope composition of a novel branched GDGT isomer in lake sediments:
Evidence for lacustrine branched GDGT production
Yuki Weber , Cindy De Jonge, W. Irene C. Rijpstra, Ellen C. Hopmans, Alina Stadnitskaia, Carsten J. Schubert, Moritz F. Lehmann, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Helge Niemann
3. The sedimentary flux
of dissolved rare earth elements to the ocean
April N. Abbott , Brian A. Haley, James McManusa, Clare E. Reimers
Keywords Rare Earth Elements; Pore
fluid; Neodymium; Benthic flux
♣Palaeogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology♣
4. Repeated advance and retreat of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet on the
continental shelf during the early Pliocene warm period
B.T.I. Reinardy , C. Escutia, M.
Iwai, F.J. Jimenez-Espejo, C. Cook, T. van de Flierdt, H. Brinkhuis
Volume 422, 15 March 2015, Pages 65–84
•Deposition on the Antarctic shelf
interpreted using micromorphology
•Diatom assemblage from shelf site indicates
Pliocene age sediments.
•The site was open marine three times and
covered by ice at least four times.
•Proxies from the rise can be linked with
grounding line migration from the shelf.
•EAIS is more sensitive to climatic and
oceanic forcing than previously suggested.
5. Tree-ring density
inferred late summer temperature variability over the past three centuries in
the Gaoligong Mountains, southeastern Tibetan Plateau
Ming-Yong Li, Lily Wang , Ze-Xin Fan, Chen-Chen Shen
Volume
422, 15 March
2015, Pages 57–64
•We developed a 523-year maximum latewood
density chronology for Larix speciosa.
•The maximum density responds well to
temperatures in August and September.
•Reconstructing late summer temperature
since AD 1690 for the Gaoligong Mountains.
•The reconstruction captures large-scale
regional temperature variations.
6. Dynamics of the Australian-Indonesian
monsoon across termination II: implications of molecular-biomarker
reconstructions from the Timor Sea
Enqing Huang , Jun Tian, Jingjing
Liu
•High-resolution vegetation and primary
productivity reconstructions over Termination II
•A dramatic expansion of woody plants at
the onset of Termination II
•A reduction in monsoon rainfall
seasonality during deglacial and interglacial
•SE winter monsoon intensity possibly in
phase with boreal winter insolation
Keywords: Australian-Indonesian monsoon; Vegetation; Sea surface
productivity; Timor Sea; Termination II
7. Assessing tree-ring
carbon and oxygen stable isotopes for climate reconstruction in the Canadian
northeastern boreal forest
Christian Bégin , Mathieu Gingras,
Martine M. Savard, Joëlle Marion, Antoine Nicault, Yves Bégin
•We produced tree ring δ18O and
δ13C series for a northeastern Canadian boreal site.
•We investigated climate signals in
dendroisotopic series.
•We reconstructed summer maximum
temperatures for the period of 1800-2004.
•The first half of the 19th century was the
coldest period of the past 200 years.
•Trends in the reconstructed series are
consistent with other available series.
♣Quaternary International♣
8. Late Pleistocene and Holocene loess sedimentation in central
and western Qilian Shan (China) revealed by OSL dating
Jingran Zhang , Veit Nottebaum, Sumiko
Tsukamoto, Frank Lehmkuhl, Manfred Frechen
doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2014.12.054
9. Hydroclimatic shifts in northeast Thailand during the last two
millennia – the record of Lake Pa Kho
Sakonvan
Chawchai, Akkaneewut Chabangborn, Sherilyn Fritz, Minna Väliranta, Carl-Magnus
Mörth, Maarten Blaauw, Paula J. Reimer, Paul J. Krusic, Ludvig Löwemark,
Barbara Wohlfarth
•New high-resolution 14C-dated,
multi-proxy peat sequence from NE Thailand.
•Reconstruction of hydroclimatic
variability during the past 2000 years.
•Strengthened Asian summer monsoon BC
170–AD 370 and AD 800–970.
•Weaker Asian summer monsoon AD 370–800 and
AD 1300–1450.
•Shifts in the mean position of the summer
ITCZ during the past 2000 years.
10. The new Carnivore remains from the
Early Pleistocene Yanliang Gigantopithecus fauna, Guangxi, South China
Min Zhu, Yaling Yan, Yihong Liu, Zhilu
Tang, Dagong Qin, Changzhu Jin
Keywords
Carnivore;
Gigantopithecus fauna; Early Pleistocene; Megantereon microta sp. nov.;
Guangxi; South China
11. Orbital-scale climate variability in Arabia as a potential
motor for human dispersals
Ash
Parton , Tom S. White, Adrian G. Parker, Paul S. Breeze, Richard
Jennings, Huw S. Groucutt, Michael D. Petraglia
Keywords Arabian Palaeoclimate; Human dispersals;
Monsoons; Insolation
12. Natural and anthropogenic channel pattern changes in the
mid-mountain valley during the Late Glacial and Holocene, Polish Uplands
Joanna Krupa
Keywords
Geoarchaeology; River; Channel pattern; Czarna Nida; Late Glacial;
Holocene
♣Quaternary Science
Reviews♣
13. Revisiting tectonic
corrections applied to Pleistocene sea-level highstands
Jessica R. Creveling, Jerry X. Mitrovica, Carling C. Hay, Jacqueline
Austermann, Robert E. Kopp
•We model the geographic variability in global sea level
during the Last Interglacial.
•The calculations include the impact of ice-age cycles
and polar ice-sheet collapse.
•A standard method for estimating tectonic uplift rates
may introduce large errors.
•This error impacts estimates of peak eustatic sea level
during earlier interglacials.
Keywords: Ice age;
Sea level; Tectonics; Interglacial; Ice volumes; Geophysical modeling
♣Chemical Geology♣
14. Heterogeneous growth
of cadmium and cobalt carbonate phases at the View the MathML source (1014) calcite surface
Man Xu, Eugene S. Ilton, Mark H. Engelhard, Odeta Qafoku, Andrew R. Felmy,
Kevin M. Rosso, Sebastien Kerisit
•Cd- and Co-reacted CaCO3 single crystals were
imaged in situ with AFM and analyzed ex situ with XPS.
•Cd-reacted crystals showed evidence of the formation of Cd-rich
(Ca,Cd)CO3 heteroepitaxial solid solutions.
•A hydroxy-carbonate Co phase that did not grow
epitaxially formed on Co-reacted crystals.
•Observed differences are rationalized based on
differences in lattice misfits between CdCO3 or CoCO3 and
CaCO3.
•The satellite structure of the Co 2p photoelectron line
is a reliable tool to identify Co(II) coordination environments.
15. Cleaning and
pre-treatment procedures for biogenic and synthetic calcium carbonate powders
for determination of elemental and boron isotopic compositions
M. Holcomb, T.M. DeCarlo, V. Schoepf, D. Dissard, K. Tanaka, M. McCulloch
•Cleaning carbonate samples helps to remove seawater contamination.
•We show that for many samples, different cleaning
protocols have little influence on the boron isotopic composition.
•Dissolution during cleaning can significantly alter the
composition of heterogeneous samples.
Keywords coral; boron; bleach; cleaning; peroxide; aragonite
♣Quaternary
Research♣
♣Quaternary Geochronology♣
♣Global and
Planetary Change♣
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