New Papers 2018 October 15-21 (Elsevier)

Chemical Geology

1.         Link between climate and catchment erosion in the Himalaya during the late Quaternary

Mohd Amir, Debajyoti Paul, Ajit Singh, Sanjeev Gupta, François Chabaux, Mathieu Granet, S. Balakrishnan

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

2.         Sediment residence times in catchments draining to the Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia inferred by uranium comminution dating

Ashley N. Martin, Anthony Dosseto, Jan-Hendrik May, John D. Jansen, Leslie P. J. Kinsley, Allan R. Chivas

3.         Glacier meltwater and monsoon precipitation drive Upper Ganges Basin dissolved organic matter composition

Jordon D. Hemingway, Robert G.M. Spencer, David C. Podgorski, Phoebe Zito, Indra S. Sen, Valier V. Galy

Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology

4.         Does specialization imply rare fossil records of some benthic foraminifera: Late Palaeocene examples from the eastern Neo-Tethys (Meghalaya, NE India)

Suman Sarkar

5.         Early Middle Triassic trace fossils from the Luoping Biota, southwestern China: Evidence of recovery from mass extinction

Mao Luo, G.R. Shi, Shixue Hu, Michael J. Benton, Zhong-Qiang Chen, Jinyuan Huang, Qiyue Zhang, Changyong Zhou, Wen Wen

6.         Quantitative reconstruction of Middle and Late Eocene paleoclimate based on palynological records from the Huadian Basin, northeastern China: Evidence for monsoonal influence on oil shale formation

Qing-tao Meng, Angela A. Bruch, Ge Sun, Zhao-jun Liu, Fei Hu, Ping-chang Sun

7.         Effects of the uplifts of the main and marginal Tibetan Plateau on the Asian climate under modern and ~30 Ma boundary conditions

Ran Zhang, Dabang Jiang, Zhongshi Zhang

Quaternary International

8.         Strontium isotopic evidence for the provenance of occupants and subsistence of Sarakenos Cave in prehistoric Greece

Xiaoran Wang, Xingxiang Zhang, Anchuan Fan, Adamantios Sampson, Xiaotong Wu, Jun Gao, Fang Huang, Zhengyao Jin

9.         Vegetation history and the impact of tephra deposition during 7000 years based on pollen and tephra analysis of a Barasantou Bog sediment core, eastern Hokkaido, northern Japan

Toshiyuki Fujiki, Keiji Wada, Eiichi Sato, Mitsuru Okuno

10.     Reconstruction of paleoenvironmental conditions of ancient people habitation in the Togootyn Gol River valley (Eastern Mongolia)

V.B. Bazarova, N.V. Tsydenova, M.S. Lyaschevskaya, F.I. Khenzykhenova, D. Tumen, M. Erdene

11.     Utilisation of XRF core scanning on peat and other highly organic sediments

Jack Longman, Daniel Veres, Volker Wennrich

12.     Long-term drivers and impacts of abrupt river changes in managed lowlands of the Adige river and northern PO delta (Northern Italy)

Paolo Mozzi, Silvia Piovan, Elisa Corrò

Quaternary Science Reviews

13.     An extended and revised Lake Suigetsu varve chronology from ∼50 to ∼10 ka BP based on detailed sediment micro-facies analyses

Gordon Schlolaut, Richard A. Staff, Achim Brauer, Henry F. Lamb, Michael H. Marshall, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Takeshi Nakagawa

14.     Late Quaternary climate change in the north-eastern highlands of Ethiopia: A high resolution 15,600 year diatom and pigment record from Lake Hayk

Katie L. Loakes, David B. Ryves, Henry F. Lamb, Frank Schäbitz, Michael Dee, Jonathan J. Tyler, Keely Mills, Suzanne McGowan

15.     Croatia's mid-Late Holocene (5200-3200 BP) coastal vegetation shaped by human societies

David Kaniewski, Nick Marriner, Christophe Morhange, Damien Rius, Marie-Brigitte Carre, Sanja Faivre, Elise Van Campo

16.     Middle-late quaternary palaeoclimate variability from lake and wetland deposits in the Nefud Desert, Northern Arabia

Ash Parton, Laine Clark-Balzan, Adrian G. Parker, Gareth W. Preston, Wing Wai Sung, Paul S. Breeze, Melanie J. Leng, Huw S. Groucutt, Tom S. White, Abdullah Alsharekh, Michael D. Petraglia

17.     Reconstructing palaeoclimate and hydrological fluctuations in the Fezzan Basin (southern Libya) since 130 ka: A catchment-based approach

Nick A. Drake, Rachael E. Lem, Simon J. Armitage, Paul Breeze, Jan Francke, Ahmed S. El-Hawat, Mustafa J. Salem, Mark W. Hounslow, Kevin White

18.     Subglacial water storage and drainage beneath the Fennoscandian and Barents Sea ice sheets

Calvin Shackleton, Henry Patton, Alun Hubbard, Monica Winsborrow, Jonathan Kingslake, Mariana Esteves, Karin Andreassen, Sarah L. Greenwood

19.     Abrupt environmental changes during the last 30 kyr in the southern margin of the Taklimakan Desert, a record from an oasis

Peixian Shu, Baosheng Li, Hong Wang, Peng Cheng, Zhisheng An, Weijian Zhou, David Dian Zhang, John Dodson, Dongfeng Niu, Yuejun Si, Xiaohao Wen, Yahui Qiu

20.     Holocene temperature, humidity and seasonality in northern New Zealand linked to Southern Hemisphere summer insolation

Valerie van den Bos, Andrew Rees, Rewi Newnham, Marcus Vandergoes, Janet Wilmshurst, Paul Augustinus

New Papers (Nature, Science, etc ...) 2017/10/9~10/15

Science

EDITORIAL
Japan needs gender equality
Yumiko Murakami, Francesca Borgonovi

Nature

1.     Trade-offs in using European forests to meet climate objectives
Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Guillaume Marie, Aude Valade, Yi-Ying Chen, Sylvestre Njakou Djomo, James Ryder, Juliane Otto, Kim Naudts, Anne Sofie Lansø, Josefine Ghattas & Matthew J. McGrath

Nature Climate Change

2.     Public acceptance of resource-efficiency strategies to mitigate climate change
Catherine Cherry, Kate Scott, John Barrett & Nick Pidgeon

Nature Communication

3.     Enhanced climate instability in the North Atlantic and southern Europe during the Last Interglacial
P. C. Tzedakis, R. N. Drysdale, V. Margari, L. C. Skinner, L. Menviel, R. H. Rhodes, A. S. Taschetto, D. A. Hodell, S. J. Crowhurst, J. C. Hellstrom, A. E. Fallick, J. O. Grimalt, J. F. McManus, B. Martrat, Z. Mokeddem, F. Parrenin, E. Regattieri, K. Roe & G. Zanchetta

Scientific reports

4.     The Smallest Diplodocid Skull Reveals Cranial Ontogeny and Growth-Related Dietary Changes in the Largest Dinosaurs
D. Cary Woodruff, Thomas D. Carr, Glenn W. Storrs, Katja Waskow, John B. Scannella, Klara K. Nordén & John P. Wilson

PNAS

5.      Origin and significance of Si and O isotope heterogeneities in Phanerozoic, Archean, and Hadean zircon
Dustin Trail, Patrick Boehnke, Paul S. Savage, Ming-Chang Liu, Martha L. Miller, and Ilya Bindeman

Geology

6.     Sr isotope ratios of modern carbonate shells: Good and bad news for chemostratigraphy
S. El Meknassi  G. Dera  T. Cardone  M. De Rafélis  C. Brahmi  V. Chavagnac

7.     Erosion of the Southern Alps of New Zealand during the last deglaciation
Ruohong Jiao  Frédéric Herman  Olivier Beyssac  Thierry Adatte  Simon C. Cox Faye E. Nelson  Helen L. Neil

Others

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

A Late Holocene palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of Ulong Island, Palau, from starch grain, charcoal, and geochemistry analyses
Gina Farley, Larissa Schneider, Geoffrey Clark, Simon G. Haberle

Nature Geoscience

No relevant

New papers 2018/9/24-9/30 (Nature, Science, etc…)

Nature

1.   Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

Anne D. Bjorkman, Isla H. Myers-Smith, Sarah C. Elmendorf, Signe Normand, Nadja Rüger, Pieter S. A. Beck, Anne Blach-Overgaard, Daan Blok, J. Hans C. Cornelissen, Bruce C. Forbes, Damien Georges, Scott J. Goetz, Kevin C. Guay, Gregory H. R. Henry, Janneke HilleRisLambers, Robert D. Hollister, Dirk N. Karger, Jens Kattge, Peter Manning, Janet S. Prevéy, Christian Rixen, Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, Haydn J. D. Thomas, Mark Vellend, Martin Wilmking, Sonja Wipf, Michele Carbognani, Luise Hermanutz, Esther Lévesque, Ulf Molau, Alessandro Petraglia, Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia, Marko J. Spasojevic, Marcello Tomaselli, Tage Vowles, Juha M. Alatalo, Heather D. Alexander, Alba Anadon-Rosell, Sandra Angers-Blondin, Mariska te Beest, Logan Berner, Robert G. Björk, Agata Buchwal, Allan Buras, Katherine Christie, Elisabeth J. Cooper, Stefan Dullinger, Bo Elberling, Anu Eskelinen, Esther R. Frei, Oriol Grau, Paul Grogan, Martin Hallinger, Karen A. Harper, Monique M. P. D. Heijmans, James Hudson, Karl Hülber, Maitane Iturrate-Garcia, Colleen M. Iversen, Francesca Jaroszynska, Jill F. Johnstone, Rasmus Halfdan Jørgensen, Elina Kaarlejärvi, Rebecca Klady, Sara Kuleza, Aino Kulonen, Laurent J. Lamarque, Trevor Lantz, Chelsea J. Little, James D. M. Speed, Anders Michelsen, Ann Milbau, Jacob Nabe-Nielsen, Sigrid Schøler Nielsen, Josep M. Ninot, Steven F. Oberbauer, Johan Olofsson, Vladimir G. Onipchenko, Sabine B. Rumpf, Philipp Semenchuk, Rohan Shetti, Laura Siegwart Collier, Lorna E. Street, Katharine N. Suding, Ken D. Tape, Andrew Trant, Urs A. Treier, Jean-Pierre Tremblay, Maxime Tremblay, Susanna Venn, Stef Weijers, Tara Zamin, Noémie Boulanger-Lapointe, William A. Gould, David S. Hik, Annika Hofgaard, Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir, Janet Jorgenson, Julia Klein, Borgthor Magnusson, Craig Tweedie, Philip A. Wookey, Michael Bahn, Benjamin Blonder, Peter M. van Bodegom, Benjamin Bond-Lamberty, Giandiego Campetella, Bruno E. L. Cerabolini, F. Stuart Chapin III, William K. Cornwell, Joseph Craine, Matteo Dainese, Franciska T. de Vries, Sandra Díaz, Brian J. Enquist, Walton Green, Ruben Milla, Ülo Niinemets, Yusuke Onoda, Jenny C. Ordoñez, Wim A. Ozinga, Josep Penuelas, Hendrik Poorter, Peter Poschlod, Peter B. Reich, Brody Sandel, Brandon Schamp, Serge Sheremetev & Evan Weiher

Nature Geoscience

2. Recent Southern Ocean warming and freshening driven by greenhouse gas emissions and ozone depletion

Neil C. Swart, Sarah T. Gille, John C. Fyfe & Nathan P. Gillett

PNAS

3. Deep learning to represent subgrid processes in climate models

Stephan Rasp, Michael S. Pritchard, and Pierre Gentine

Nature Climate Change

4. Reconciling global-model estimates and country reporting of anthropogenic forest CO2 sinks

Giacomo Grassi, Jo House, Werner A. Kurz, Alessandro Cescatti, Richard A. Houghton, Glen P. Peters, Maria J. Sanz, Raul Abad Viñas, Ramdane Alkama, Almut Arneth, Alberte Bondeau, Frank Dentener, Marianela Fader, Sandro Federici, Pierre Friedlingstein, Atul K. Jain, Etsushi Kato, Charles D. Koven, Donna Lee, Julia E. M. S. Nabel, Alexander A. Nassikas, Lucia Perugini, Simone Rossi, Stephen Sitch, Nicolas Viovy, Andy Wiltshire & Sönke Zaehle

5.   Rapid change in East Antarctic terrestrial vegetation in response to regional drying

Sharon A. Robinson, Diana H. King, Jessica Bramley-Alves, Melinda J. Waterman, Michael B. Ashcroft, Jane Wasley, Johanna D. Turnbull, Rebecca E. Miller, Ellen Ryan-Colton, Taylor Benny, Kathryn Mullany, Laurence J. Clarke, Linda A. Barry & Quan Hua

6. Differential vulnerability to climate change yields novel deep-reef communities

Martin Pierre Marzloff, Eric C. J. Oliver, Neville S. Barrett, Neil J. Holbrook, Lainey James, Simon J. Wotherspoon & Craig R. Johnson

Science

7.   Ancient lowland Maya complexity as revealed by airborne laser scanning of northern Guatemala

Marcello A. Canuto1,*,†, Francisco Estrada-Belli1,*,†, Thomas G. Garrison2,*,†, Stephen D. Houston3,‡, Mary Jane Acuña4, Milan Kováč5, Damien Marken6, Philippe Nondédéo7, Luke Auld-Thomas8,‡, Cyril Castanet9, David Chatelain8, Carlos R. Chiriboga10, Tomáš Drápela5, Tibor Lieskovský11, Alexandre Tokovinine12, Antolín Velasquez13, Juan C. Fernández-Díaz14, Ramesh Shrestha14

Geology, Nature communications

New Papers (AGU, EGU, GSA) 2018/9/24 – 9/30

Geophysical Research Letters

1.    Large mid‐latitude stratospheric temperature variability caused by inertial instability: A potential source of bias for gravity wave climatologies
M. Rapp, A. Dörnbrack, P. Preusse

2.    Surface Meltwater Impounded by Seasonal Englacial Storage in West Greenland
A. K. Kendrick, D. M. Schroeder, W. Chu, T. J. Young, P. Christoffersen, J. Todd, S. H. Doyle, J. E. Box A. Hubbard, B. Hubbard, P. V. Brennan, K. W. Nicholls, L. B. Lok

JGR: Oceans

3.    Drivers of Antarctic sea ice volume change in CMIP5 models
S. Schroeter, W. Hobbs, N. L. Bindoff, R. Massom, R. Matea

4.    Ocean stratification and low melt rates at the Ross Ice Shelf grounding zone
Carolyn Branecky Begeman, Slawek M. Tulaczyk, Oliver J. Marsh, Jill A. Mikucki, Timothy P. Stanton, Timothy O. Hodson, Matthew R. Siegfried, Ross D. Powell, Knut Christianson, Matt A. King

Climate of the past

5.    Role of the stratospheric chemistry-climate interactions in the hot climate conditions of the Eocene
Szopa, S., Thiéblemont, R., Bekki, S., Botsyun, S., and Sepulchre, P.

Paleocenography and Paleoclimaology

6.    North Atlantic mid‐latitude surface‐circulation changes through the Plio‐Pleistocene intensification of northern hemisphere glaciation
Clara T. Bolton, Ian Bailey, Oliver Friedrich, Kazuyo Tachikawa, Thibault de Garidel‐Thoron, Laurence Vidal, Corinne Sonzogni, Gianluca Marino, Eelco J. Rohling, Marci M. Robinson, Magali Ermini, Mirjam Koch, Matthew J. Cooper, Paul A. Wilson

7.    Isolating and reconstructing key components of North Atlantic Ocean variability from a sclerochronological spatial network
D. J. Reynolds, I. R. Hall, S. M. Slater, M. Mette, A. D. Wanamaker, J. D. Scourse, F. K. Garry, P. R. Halloran

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

8.    Miocene to Holocene marine tephrostratigraphy offshore northern Central America and southern Mexico: Pulsed activity of known volcanic complexes
J. C. Schindlbeck, S. Kutterolf, A. Freundt, S. Eisele, K.‐L. Wang, M. Frische

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

no relevant

New Papers 2018 September 24 - 30 (Elsevier)

Chemical Geology

1.         Marine ammonification and carbonic anhydrase activity induce rapid calcium carbonate precipitation

S. Krause, V. Liebetrau, C.R. Löscher, F. Böhm, S. Gorb, A. Eisenhauer, T. Treude

2.         Transference of isotopic signal from rainfall to dripwaters and farmed calcite in Mediterranean semi-arid karst

Carlos Pérez-Mejías, Ana Moreno, Carlos Sancho, Miguel Bartolomé, Heather Stoll, Mª Cinta Osácar, Isabel Cacho, Antonio Delgado-Huertas

Global and Planetary Change

3.         Evidence of meltwater pulses into the North Pacific over the last 20 ka due to the decay of Kamchatka Glaciers and Cordilleran Ice Sheet

Sergey Gorbarenko, Xuefa Shi, Jianjun Zou, Tatyana Velivetskaya, Antonina Artemova, Yanguang Liu, Elena Yanchenko, Yuriy Vasilenko

4.         Influence of changes in socioeconomic and climatic conditions on future heat-related health challenges in Europe

Guillaume Rohat, Johannes Flacke, Alessandro Dosio, Simona Pedde, Hy Dao, Martin van Maarseveen

Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology

5.         Morphological adaptations of the brachiopods from a Late Cretaceous rocky shore, Ivö Klack, southern Sweden

Ane Elise Schrøder, Anne Mehlin Sørensen, Finn Surlyk

6.         Environmental changes during the late Pleistocene and the Holocene in the Gonghe Basin, north-eastern Tibetan Plateau

Georg Stauch, Zhongping Lai, Frank Lehmkuhl, Philipp Schulte

7.         Reconstruction of Late Pleistocene paleoenvironments in southern Germany using two high-resolution loess-paleosol records

Lydia Krauß, Arne Kappenberg, Joerg Zens, Martin Kehl, Philipp Schulte, Christian Zeeden, Eileen Eckmeier, Frank Lehmkuhl

8.         Stable carbon isotope records of black carbon on Chinese Loess Plateau since last glacial maximum: An evaluation on their usefulness for paleorainfall and paleovegetation reconstruction

Xu Wang, Linlin Cui, Shiling Yang, Jixuan Zhai, Zhongli Ding

9.         Changes in plant richness and evenness since Marine Isotope Stage 2 on the Chinese Loess Plateau

Xiaoxiao Yang, Wenying Jiang, Shiling Yang, Zhaochen Kong, Yunli Luo

10.     Millennial scale climate oscillations recorded in the Lower Danube loess over the last glacial period

Christian Zeeden, Ulrich Hambach, Daniel Veres, Kathryn Fitzsimmons, Igor Obreht, Janina Bösken, Frank Lehmkuhl

11.     Fossil herbivores and crocodiles as paleoclimatic indicators of environmental shifts from Bed I and Bed II times of the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

Silvia H. Ascari, Jackson K. Njau, Peter E. Sauer, P. David Polly, Yongbo Peng

12.     A Late Pleistocene-Holocene multi-proxy record of climate variability in the Jazmurian playa, southeastern Iran

Alireza Vaezi, Fereydoun Ghazban, Vahid Tavakoli, Joyanto Routh, Abdolmajid Naderi Beni, Thomas S. Bianchi, Jason H. Curtis, Henrik Kylin

13.     Features of ice-rafted debris (IRD) at IODP site U1312 and their palaeoenvironmental implications during the last 2.6 Myr

Jingyu Liu, Nianqiao Fang, Feng Wang, Fengfan Yang, Xuan Ding

Quaternary Geochronology

14.     Further constraint of the in situ cosmogenic 10Be production rate in pyroxene and a viability test for late Quaternary exposure dating

Shaun R. Eaves, Julia A. Collins, R. Selwyn Jones, Kevin P. Norton, Stephen G. Tims, Andrew N. Mackintosh

Quaternary International

15.     Tephra in caves: Distal deposits of the Minoan Santorini eruption and the Campanian super-eruption

Hendrik J. Bruins, Jörg Keller, Andreas Klügel, Hanan J. Kisch, Itzhak Katra, Johannes van der Plicht

Quaternary Science Reviews

16.     Late Holocene relative sea levels near Palmer Station, northern Antarctic Peninsula, strongly controlled by late Holocene ice-mass changes

Alexander R. Simms, Pippa L. Whitehouse, Lauren M. Simkins, Grace Nield, Regina DeWitt, Michael J. Bentley

17.     Middle Pleistocene hominin behavior at the 700ka Acheulean site of la Noira (France)

Bruce L. Hardy, Marie-Hélène Moncel, Jackie Despriée, Gilles Courcimault, Pierre Voinchet

18.     Upper Nile River flow reconstructed to A.D. 1784 from tree-rings for a long-term perspective on hydrologic-extremes and effective water resource management

Mulugeta Mokria, Aster Gebrekirstos, Abrham Abiyu, Achim Bräuning