♣Quaternary
Science Reviews♣
1. Holocene climate change
in Arctic Canada and Greenland
Jason P. Brinera, , , Nicholas P. McKayb, Yarrow Axfordc, Ole Benniked, Raymond S. Bradleye, Anne de Vernalf, David Fisherg, Pierre Francush, i,
Bianca Fréchettef,
Konrad Gajewskij,
Anne Jenningsk,
Darrell S. Kaufmanb,
Gifford Millerl,
Cody Roustonb,
Bernd Wagnerm
•Warmest-to-coldest
millennium temperature change in the Holocene in Arctic Canada and Greenland is
3.0 ± 1.0 °C.
•Thermal maximum
conditions occurred earlier in high latitudes and at sites less influenced by
North Atlantic circulation.
2. Periodicities in mid- to
late-Holocene peatland hydrology identified from Swedish and Lithuanian
tree-ring data
Johannes Edvardssona,
b,
, , Florian Adolphib, Hans W. Linderholmc, Christophe Coronad, Raimund Muschelerb, Markus Stoffela, e,
f
•Peatland tree-ring
chronologies from Sweden and Lithuania show common periodicities.
•Periodicities of 13–15,
20–22, and 30–35 years are repeatedly observed.
•Periodicities are likely
linked to hydrological changes affected by NAO or AMO.
3. The environmental, archaeological and historical
evidence for regional climatic changes and their societal impacts in the
Eastern Mediterranean in Late Antiquity
Adam Izdebskia, , ,
Jordan Pickettb, Neil Robertsc, Tomasz Waliszewskid
•We review different
types of evidence for climate change in Anatolia and the Levant.
•A drought (~350–470AD)
contributed to local famines and a change in urban water use.
•A wetter period after
~470 AD correlates with settlement expansion in arid lands.
•Another drier phase
occurred already after the crisis caused by the Arab invasions.
•It contributed to the
long-term settlement decline in some parts of the region.
4. Evidence of resilience to past climate change in
Southwest Asia: Early farming communities and the 9.2 and 8.2 ka events
Pascal Flohra, b, , ,
Dominik Fleitmanna, b, Roger Matthewsa, b, Wendy Matthewsa, b, Stuart Black
•We assess the impacts of
the 9.2 and 8.2 ka BP climate events on Southwest Asian farming communities.
•We use over 3000
quality-checked 14C-dates in combination with archaeological evidence.
•No large-scale
collapse/decline or migration took place at around 9250 or 8200 cal BP.
•There is some evidence
for local adaptation, but not at all sites.
•Early farming
communities in Southwest Asia were resilient to rapid climate change.
5. South Asian summer monsoon variability during the last
∼54 kyrs
inferred from surface water salinity and river run off proxies
•Ba/Ca and δ18OSW records
of Core SK 168 reveal distinct changes in SAM intensity.
•SAM over the Irrawaddy
strengthened beginning at ∼18 ka leading observed changes in the Arabian sea by ∼2–3 kyrs.
•Peak monsoon strength
during the mid-Holocene in the Andaman Sea consistent with model simulations.
•Changes in upper ocean
stratification indicate limited influence of NH insolation.
6. A protocol for subsampling Late Quaternary coprolites
for multi-proxy analysis
Jamie R. Wooda, , , Janet
M. Wilmshursta, b
•Subsampling protocols
are important in coprolite studies yet rarely reported.
•We present a protocol
for subsampling coprolites for multi-proxy analysis.
•The protocol is designed
to minimise the risk of sample contamination.
♣Quaternary International♣
7. Submarine depositional terraces in the Tyrrhenian Sea as
a proxy for paleo-sea level reconstruction: Problems and perspective
D. Casalborea, b, , ,
F. Faleseb,
E. Martorellib,
C. Romagnolic,
F.L. Chioccia,
b
8. Relationships
between solar activity and variations in SST and atmospheric circulation in the
stratosphere and troposphere
Shuji Yamakawaa, , , , Makoto Inoueb, Ramasamy Suppiahc
♣Palaeogeography,
Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology♣
9. High-resolution organic carbon–isotope stratigraphy of
the Middle Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous Agardhfjellet Formation of central
Spitsbergen, Svalbard
M.J. Koevoetsa, , , T.B. Abayb, Ø. Hammera, b,
S. Olaussenc,
b
•The δ13Corg curve doesn't
correlate with the type of organic material, TOC or Rock Eval Parameters
suggesting a global signal
•The Agardhfjellet
Formation does contain Oxfordian deposits.
•The δ13Corg curve
correlates extremely well with other carbon–isotope curves. Allowing for
biostratigraphical correlation.
•There are no tectonic
complications, such as stratigraphic duplication, in the Agardhfjellet in
Central Spitsbergen.
10. Ankylosaurian dinosaur palaeoenvironmental
associations were influenced by extirpation, sea-level fluctuation, and
geodispersal
•Ankylosaur remains are unevenly distributed in marine
and terrestrial environments.
•Only in North America and Asia is this distribution
statistically significant.
•In North America, this distribution is only significant
in the Albian–Cenomanian.
♣Earth
and Planetary Science Letters♣
♣Quaternary Research♣♣Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta♣
♣Quaternary Geochronology♣
♣Global and Planetary Change♣
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