Timing and mechanisms of Tibetan Plateau uplift

L Ding, P Kapp, F Cai, CN Garzione, Z Xiong… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
The timing of the initial India–Asia collision and the mechanisms that led to the eventual
formation of the high (> 5 km) Tibetan Plateau remain enigmatic. In this Review, we describe …

Microbial surface colonization and biofilm development in marine environments

H Dang, CR Lovell - Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Biotic and abiotic surfaces in marine waters are rapidly colonized by microorganisms.
Surface colonization and subsequent biofilm formation and development provide numerous …

The production of diverse brGDGTs by an Acidobacterium providing a physiological basis for paleoclimate proxies

Y Chen, F Zheng, H Yang, W Yang, R Wu, X Liu… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Microbial lipid biomarkers preserved in geological archives can be used to explore past
climate changes. Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) are unique …

[HTML][HTML] Cretaceous sea-surface temperature evolution: Constraints from TEX86 and planktonic foraminiferal oxygen isotopes

CL O'Brien, SA Robinson, RD Pancost… - Earth-Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
It is well established that greenhouse conditions prevailed during the Cretaceous Period (~
145–66 Ma). Determining the exact nature of the greenhouse-gas forcing, climatic warming …

Lipid biomarkers: molecular tools for illuminating the history of microbial life

RE Summons, PV Welander, DA Gold - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
Fossilized lipids preserved in sedimentary rocks offer singular insights into the Earth's
palaeobiology. These 'biomarkers' encode information pertaining to the oxygenation of the …

The effect of improved chromatography on GDGT-based palaeoproxies

EC Hopmans, S Schouten, JSS Damsté - Organic Geochemistry, 2016 - Elsevier
The development of methods using liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry to
analyze glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) has substantially expanded the …

[HTML][HTML] Reversed Holocene temperature–moisture relationship in the Horn of Africa

AJ Baxter, D Verschuren, F Peterse, DG Miralles… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change is predicted to severely impact the global hydrological cycle,
particularly in tropical regions where agriculture-based economies depend on monsoon …

Seasonal imprint of Holocene temperature reconstruction on the Tibetan Plateau

C Zhang, C Zhao, SY Yu, X Yang, J Cheng… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Tibetan Plateau (TP) is one of the most sensitive areas to global climate
changes. Quantitative paleotemperature reconstructions on the TP since the Last …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of a protein responsible for the synthesis of archaeal membrane-spanning GDGT lipids

Z Zeng, H Chen, H Yang, Y Chen, W Yang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) are archaeal monolayer membrane lipids
that can provide a competitive advantage in extreme environments. Here, we identify a …

Occurrence and abundance of 6-methyl branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in soils: Implications for palaeoclimate reconstruction

C De Jonge, EC Hopmans, CI Zell, JH Kim… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2014 - Elsevier
The distribution of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) in soils has been
shown to correlate with the soil pH and the mean annual air temperature (MAT). This has …