6/25/2019

Nature, Science:New Paper 2019/06/17~2019/06/24

New Paper 2019/06/17~2019/06/24

Nature Communications
1.    A tectonically driven Ediacaran oxygenation event
Joshua J. Williams , Benjamin J.W. Mills & Timothy M. Lenton

Science
2.    Demographic dynamics of the smallest marine vertebrates fuel coral reef ecosystem functioning
Simon J. Brandl, Luke Tornabene, Christopher H. R. Goatley, Jordan M. Casey, Renato A. Morais, Isabelle M. Côté, Carole C. Baldwin, Valeriano Parravicini, Nina M. D. Schiettekatte, David R. Bellwood

Nature Geoscience
3.    Human domination of the global water cycle absent from depictions and perceptions
Benjamin W. Abbott, Kevin Bishop, Jay P. Zarnetske, Camille Minaudo, F. S. Chapin III, Stefan Krause, David M. Hannah, Lafe Conner, David Ellison, Sarah E. Godsey, Stephen Plont, Jean Marçais, Tamara Kolbe, Amanda Huebner, Rebecca J. Frei, Tyler Hampton, Sen Gu, Madeline Buhman, Sayedeh Sara Sayedi, Ovidiu Ursache, Melissa Chapin, Kathryn D. Henderson & Gilles Pinay

Nature climate change
4.    Climate clubs and the macro-economic benefits of international cooperation on climate policy
Leonidas Paroussos, Antoine Mandel, Kostas Fragkiadakis, Panagiotis Fragkos, Jochen Hinkel & Zoi Vrontisi

5.    Shifting habitats expose fishing communities to risk under climate change
Lauren A. Rogers, Robert Griffin, Talia Young, Emma Fuller, Kevin St. Martin & Malin L. Pinsky

6.    Setting and smashing extreme temperature records over the coming century
Scott B. Power & François P. D. Delage

7.    Global assessment of primate vulnerability to extreme climatic events
Lyubing Zhang, Eric I. Ameca, Guy Cowlishaw, Nathalie Pettorelli, Wendy Foden & Georgina M. Mace

Nature
8.    Turbulent convective length scale in planetary cores
Céline Guervilly, Philippe Cardin & Nathanaël Schaeffer

ScienceDaily
9.     Plate tectonics may have driven 'Cambrian Explosion'
10.  Antarctic marine life recovery following the dinosaurs' extinction
11.  Extreme pressure and heat in Earth's mantle simulated

6/24/2019

New Papers 2019 June 17 - 23 (Elsevier)


Chemical Geology
1.         Trace element analysis of high-Mg olivine by LA-ICP-MS – Characterization of natural olivine standards for matrix-matched calibration and application to mantle peridotites
Y. Bussweiler, A. Giuliani, A. Greig, B.A. Kjarsgaard, D. Petts, S.E. Jackson, N. Barrett, Y. Luo, D.G. Pearson

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
2.         Spatial and temporal variations of tap water 17O-excess in China
Chao Tian, Lixin Wang, Fuqiang Tian, Sihan Zhao, Wenzhe Jiao

Global and Planetary Change
3.         Analysis of summer Antarctic sea ice anomalies associated with the spring Indian Ocean dipole
Jiajun Feng, Yuanzhi Zhang, Qiuming Cheng, X. San Liang, Tingchen Jiang

4.         Sea-level change as the driver for lake formation in the Yangtze Plain – A review
Yantian Xu, Zhongping Lai, Chang'an Li

5.         A 2000 year record of palaeofloods in a volcanically-reset catchment: Whanganui River, New Zealand
Ian C. Fuller, Mark G. Macklin, Willem H.J. Toonen, Jonathan Turner, Kevin Norton

Quaternary Geochronology
6.         Comparing the accuracy and precision of luminescence ages for partially-bleached sediments using single grains of K-feldspar and quartz
R.K. Smedley, J.-P. Buylaert, G. Újvári

Quaternary International
7.         The Mesolithic “Asturian” culture (North Iberia), one century on
Miguel Ángel Fano

8.         A functional approach to the use of the earliest blade technology in Upper Paleolithic Hokkaido, northern Japan
Yuichi Nakazawa, Akira Iwase, Toshiro Yamahara, Minoru Kitazawa

9.         Geochemistry of the holocene sediments of Lake Chenghai, SW China, and its implications for paleoenvironmental reconstruction
Weiwei Sun, Enfeng Liu, Enlou Zhang, Ji Shen

Quaternary Science Reviews
10.     Abrupt changes in Indian summer monsoon strength during the last deglaciation and early Holocene based on stable isotope evidence from Lake Chenghai, southwest China
Weiwei Sun, Enlou Zhang, James Shulmeister, Michael I. Bird, Jie Chang, Ji Shen

11.     Cryosphere response resolves conflicting evidence for the timing of peak Holocene warmth on Baffin Island, Arctic Canada
Simon Pendleton, Gifford Miller, Nathaniel Lifton, Nicolás Young


6/11/2019

New papers 2019/6/3-9 (Nature, Science, erc...)

Nature
1.  Surface erosion events controlled the evolution of plate tectonics on Earth
Stephan V. Sobolev & Michael Brown

2.  Magnetism in cold subducting slabs at mantle transition zone depths
I. Kupenko, G. Aprilis, D. M. Vasiukov, C. McCammon, S. Chariton, V. Cerantola, I. Kantor, A. I. Chumakov, R. Ruffer, L. Dubrovinsky & C. Sanchez-Valle 

Science
3.  Slowdown in Antarctic mass loss from solid Earth and sea-level feedbacks
E. Larour, H. Seroussi, S. Adhikari, E. Ivins, L. Caron, M. Morlighem, and N. Schlegel

PNAS
4.  Climate change mitigation potential of carbon capture and utilization in the chemical industry

Arne Kätelhön, Raoul Meys, Sarah Deutz, Sangwon Suh, and André Bardow

Taipei (Taiwan), 2019 Conference on Pan-Pacific Anthropocene (ConPPA) 14th – 17th May

During May a group from the Yokoyama lab visited Taipei to attend the first conference on Pan-Pacific Anthropocene. This conference explored the Pan-Pacific realm, rich with civilizations but which has been experiencing severe environmental pollution and ecological crisis, associated with swift regional economic development over the past decades. APPA proposes “future possible trends and related countermeasures for the international community through multidisciplinary academic studies, such as climate observation and simulation, proxy and historic records, anthropogenic geohazards, topography and geomorphology, biodiversity, environmental pollution, and archaeology and civilization” (http://www.gl.ntu.edu.tw/rcfe/appa.html). 

The conference was incredibly interesting due to its wide range of disciplines including: climate observations and simulations; historical records; terrestrial and marine proxy records; anthropogenic geohazards; topography and geomorphology; biodiversity; and, technology and civilisation. 



Several members of the lab presented their research via oral or poster presentations: Prof. Yokoyama presented on Antarctic Ice Sheet Stability and Sea Level; Dr. Sproson presented a study of osmium isotopes in macroalgae and its relation to pollution in Tokyo Bay; Mr. Ota presented Abalone radiocarbon data from Otsuchi Bay, Japan; Ms. Behrens presented beryllium isotope data from east Antarctica and its relation to ice sheet history during the Holocene; and, Mr. Fukuyo presented late Holocene sea-level and environmental reconstructions using radiocarbon dating of shellfish in Tonga. 
After the conference the Taiwanese Geological Society provided a banquet for guests at the conference including music and dance performances by the university students. 

After the conference a fieldtrip to Yehliu Geopark and Jingushi was organised. The rock landscape of Yehliu Geopark is one of most famous wonders in the world. The coastal line stretches in a direction that is vertical to structure lines where waves, weathering and earth movement have all contributed to the formation of a rare and stunning geological landscape. Jingushi is famous for its vast gold mine which was running in the 19th to early 20th century. The mining site now has become a part of the “Gold Ecological Park”, which exhibits the history of the gold rush period. There are other attractions within the area including the Museum of Gold, Shinto Temple and Golden Waterfall.



New papers 2019/06/02-06/09 (Elsevier)

New papers 2019/06/02-06/09 (Elsevier)

Marine Geology
1.       The controlling mechanism of mid- to late Holocene carbon isotopic variations of Tridacnidae in the South China Sea
Zhongkang Yang, Da Shao, Yanjun Mei, Wenqing Yang, Yuhong Wang, Liguang Sun, Zhouqing Xie

Chemical Geology
2.        Evaluation of leaf wax δD and soil brGDGTs as tools for paleoaltimetry on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau
Xiaoping Feng, William J. D'Andre, Cheng Zhao, Shouzhen Xin, Can Zhang, Weiguo Liu

Quaternary Science Reviews
3.         High-resolution records of 10Be in endogenic travertine from Baishuitai, China: A new proxy record of annual solar activity?
Hongyang Xu, Hiroko Miyahara, Kazuho Horiuchi, Hiroyuki Matsuzaki, Hailong Sun, Weijun Luo, Xiangmin Zheng, Yusuke Suganuma, Shijie Wang, Limin Zhou

Abstract: The accurate reconstruction of past solar activity is a prerequisite for assessing the role of solar forcing on climate variations. Cosmogenic 10Be, produced by galactic cosmic rays and stored in natural archives such as ice cores and lake sediments, has been shown to be the most reliable as an indicator of past solar activity, although reconstructions at a higher, annual, resolution have remained elusive due to dating imprecision and uncertainties concerning the effect of depositional processes. Here, we employ a methodology that facilitates the annual reconstruction of past cosmic-ray and solar activity variations. An annual 10Be record is assembled from an endogenic travertine in Baishuitai, China, covering the period 2001–2016 CE. We demonstrate that the effect of depositional processes when 10Be is incorporated into travertine can be accounted for using the associated 9Be and potassium (K) contents, and that the resulting corrected 10Be content significantly correlates with the modeled global 10Be production rates with a time lag of 1.5–2.5 years. Our results from the Baishuitai endogenic travertine suggest that the 10Be record in such carbonate sediments has considerable potential as a high resolution proxy for past cosmic-ray and solar activity variations.

4.      2000  years of North Atlantic-Arctic climate
Jeffrey D. Auger, Paul A. Mayewski, Kirk A. Maasch, Keah C. Schuenemann, Andrew M. Carleton, Sean D. Birkel, Jasmine E. Saros

5.       First high-resolution multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental record of the Late Glacial to Early Holocene transition in the Ría de Arousa (Atlantic margin of NW Iberia)
Iria García-Moreiras, Víctor Cartelle, Soledad García-Gil, Castor Muñoz Sobrino

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
6.        Contrasting effects of winter and summer climate on montane vegetation belts evolution in southeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China
Zhenyu Ni, Richard Jones, Enlo Zhzang, Jie Chang, James Shulmeister, Weiwei Sun, Yongbo Wang, Dongliang Ning

7.       Oxygen and carbon isotopes and trace-element/Ca ratios in Late Quaternary ostracods Loxoconcha lepida and Palmoconcha agilis from the Black Sea: Paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic implications
O. Ankindinova, A. E. Aksu, R. N. Hiscott

8.     Giant tufas of Lake Van record lake-level fluctuations and climatic changes in Eastern Anatolia,Turkey
Çetin Yeşilova, Erhan Gülyüz, Ci-Rong Huang, Chuan-Chou Shen


Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta
9.        Tracing changes in monsoonal precipitation using Mg isotopes in Chinese loess deposits
Long Ma, Youbin Sun, Zhangdong Jin, Zhian Bao, Pan Zhang, Zekun Meng, Honglin Yuan, Xiaoping Long, Maoyong He, Kang-Jun Huang

Earth and Planetary Science Letters
10.     Dating of tsunami boulders from Ishigaki Island, Japan, with a modified viscous remanent magnetization approach
Tetsuro Sato, Norihiro Nakamura, Kazuhisa Goto, Yuho Kumagai, Hiroyuki Nagahama, Koji Minoura, Xiang Zhao, David Heslop, Andrew P. Roberts

10.     Glacier melt runoff controls bedload transport in Alpine catchments
F. Comiti, L. Mao, D. Penna, A. Dell'Agnese, M. Engel, S. Rathburn, M.Cavalli


6/10/2019

New Papers (2019, June 03 - 06) (AGU, EGU, GSA)


Geophysical Research Letters
1.         Climate responses to the splitting of a supercontinent: Implications for the breakup of Pangea
Clay R. Tabor, Ran Feng,  Bette L. OttoBliesner

2.         Impacts of different types of ENSO events on thermocline variability in the southern tropical Indian Ocean
G. Yang,  L. Liu,  X. Zhao,  Y. Li,  Y. Duan,  B. Liu,  K. Huang,  W. Yu

3.         Multidecadal change of the Mindanao Current: Is there a robust trend?
Jing Duan, Yuanlong Li,  Fan Wang,  Zhaohui Chen

4.         Middle to late Miocene eccentricity forcing on lake expansion in NE Tibet
Zhixiang Wang,  Chunju Huang,  Alexis Licht,  Rui Zhang,  David B. Kemp

5.         Role of the South Pacific Convergence Zone in West Antarctic Decadal Climate Variability
Kyle R. Clem,  Benjamin R. Lintner,  Anthony J. Broccoli,  James R. Miller

6.         Uncertainties in Trends of Young Hotspot Tracks
Chengzu Wang,  Richard G. Gordon,  Tuo Zhang,  Lin Zheng

7.         Larger increases in more extreme local precipitation events as climate warms
Chao Li,  Francis Zwiers,  Xuebin Zhang,  Gang Chen,  Jian Lu,  Guilong Li,  Jesse Norris, Yaheng Tan,  Ying Sun,  Min Liu


Climate of the Past
8.         The SP19 Chronology for the South Pole Ice Core – Part 1: Volcanic matching and annual-layer counting
Dominic A. Winski, Tyler J. Fudge, David G. Ferris, Erich C. Osterberg, John M. Fegyveresi, Jihong Cole-Dai, Zayta Thundercloud, Thomas S. Cox, Karl J. Kreutz, Nikolas Ortman, Christo Buizert, Jenna Epifanio, Edward J. Brook, Ross Beaudette, Jeff Severinghaus, Todd Sowers, Eric J. Steig, Emma C. Kahle, Tyler R. Jones, Valerie Morris, Murat Aydin, Melinda R. Nicewonger, Kimberley A. Casey, Richard B. Alley, Edwin D. Waddington, Nels A. Iverson, Ryan C. Bay, and Joseph M. Souney