6/23/2015

2015/06/23 New Papers (Elsevier)

 Earth and Planetary Science Letters
1. Gradients in seasonality and seawater oxygen isotopic composition along the early Permian Gondwanan coast, SE Australia
J. Andrew Beard, Linda C. Ivany, Bruce Runnegar,
•Accretionary δ18O data from fossil bivalves reveal early Permian seasonality.
•Glendonites require freezing temperatures and allow calculation of seawater δ18O.
•Seasonal range and seawater δ18O decrease toward the Gondwanan south pole.
•We infer a north-flowing, cold, depleted current along SE Australia in the Permian.
•Summer water temperatures near 10 °C suggest similarity to mid-Miocene Antarctica.
 Keywords: oxygen isotope; Permian; Gondwana; seasonality; seawater; Eurydesma

2. Rapid last-deglacial thinning and retreat of the marine-terminating southwestern Greenland ice sheet
Kelsey Winsor, Anders E. Carlson, Marc W. Caffee, Dylan H. Rood
•SW Greenland marine ice-margins rapidly deglaciated 12–11 ka.
•SW Greenland land ice-margins deglaciated slowly 18–7 ka.
•Results suggest ocean environment drove rapid ice-margin retreat.
Keywords: 10Be exposure dating; glacial geology; termination I; ocean–ice interaction; Greenland Ice Sheet

3. Volcanic ash fall events identified using principal component analysis of a high-resolution speleothem trace element dataset
Robert A. Jamieson,  James U.L. Baldini, Amy B. Frappier, Wolfgang Müller
We present a high-resolution 22-year long LA-ICP-MS speleothem trace element record.
 Principal component analysis used for exploratory data analysis of our large dataset.
 We link historical volcanic eruptions to spikes in Principal Component 1 scores.
 Volcanogenic material is flushed into the speleothem at the start of the wet season.
Keywordsstalagmite; principal component analysis; volcanic ash; El Chichón; LA-ICP-MS

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
4. Response of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and δ13CDIC to changes in climate and land cover in SW China karst catchments
Min Zhao, Zaihua Liu, Hong-Chun Li, Cheng Zeng, Rui Yang, Bo Chen, Hao Yan

5. A simple reactive-transport model of calcite precipitation in soils and other porous media
G.J.D. Kirk , A. Versteegen, K. Ritz, A.E. Milodowski

Quaternary Science Reviews
6. Radiocarbon chronology of the last glacial maximum and its termination in northwestern Patagonia
Patricio I. Moreno, George H. Denton, Hugo Moreno Thomas V. Lowell, Aaron E. Putnam, Michael R. Kaplan
•The NW sector of the Patagonian ice sheet expanded 5 times between 17,700 and 33,600 cal yrs BP.
•Warming at 17,800 cal yrs BP drove abrupt expansion of rainforests and withdrawal of Andean glaciers.
•The 17,800 cal yrs BP event was a decisive trigger for the Last Glacial Termination (LGT).
•Holocene-like conditions were achieved within 1000 years after the onset of the LGT.
•Northward-shifted westerlies during the LGM migrated back south at the onset of the LGT.

7. Changes in biomass burning mark the onset an ENSO-influenced climate regime at 42°S in southwest Tasmania, Australia
Michael-Shawn Fletchera, b, , , Alexa Bensona, Hendrik Heijnisc, Patricia S. Gaddc, Les C. Cwynard, Andrew B.H. Reesd, e
We reconstruct trends in biomass burning over the last 12,000 years in southwest at 42°S in Tasmania.
•We identify a switch from millennial to sub-millennial scale trends in biomass burning after 5 ka.
•We conclude that the onset of ENSO drove this shift in biomass burning at our sites.

8. A high-resolved record of the Asian Summer Monsoon from Dongge Cave, China for the past 1200 years
Kan Zhaoa, , Yongjin Wanga, , , R. Lawrence Edwardsb, , Hai Chengb, c, , Dianbing Liua, , Xinggong Konga,
Stalagmite-based high-resolved Asian monsoon records over the past 1200 years from China.
•Consistence of annually-band width and stable isotopic data in recording monsoon variability.
•A big dry event associated with the social unrest at the end of Ming Dynasty.
•Impacts of tropic SSTs on Asian monsoon variability overwhelming solar forcing.
•Inverse relationship of Asian and South American monsoon intensity probably attributed to ITCZ or ENSO.
KeywordsAsian Summer Monsoon; Past millennium; Stalagmite; δ18O; Dongge Cave; China

9. A chironomid-inferred summer temperature reconstruction from subtropical Australia during the last glacial maximum (LGM) and the last deglaciation
Jie Christine Chang , James Shulmeister. Craig Woodward, , Lincoln Steinberger, , John Tibby, , Cameron Barr
A chironomid-based summer temperature reconstruction from Australia.
Reconstruction covers the LGM and part of deglaciation.
Cooling is similar to that derived from nearby marine records.
Deglaciation is synchronous with Antarctica.
Suggests climate link from Australian subtropics to high latitudes.

KeywordsChironomids; Subtropical Australia; Mean February temperature; Last glacial maximum; The last deglaciation; Paleoclimate reconstruction; Southern Hemisphere


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