A Reassessment of the Chronostratigraphy of Late Miocene C3–C4 Transitions

L Tauxe, SJ Feakins - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Combining magnetostratigraphic and carbon isotopic data for the late Miocene can provide
a temporal framework for an isotopic shift first documented in soil carbonate nodules of …

Late Miocene environmental change in Nepal and the northern Indian subcontinent: stable isotopic evidence from paleosols

J Quade, JML Cater, TP Ojha… - Geological …, 1995 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Neogene sediments belonging to the Siwalik Group crop out in the Himalayan foothills
along the length of southern Nepal. Carbon and oxygen isotopic analyses of Siwalik …

Intensification of monsoon, microclimate and asynchronous C4 appearance: isotopic evidence from the Indian Siwalik sediments

P Sanyal, A Sarkar, SK Bhattacharya, R Kumar… - Palaeogeography …, 2010 - Elsevier
Analysis of the D/H ratio of pedogenic clay and the 18O/16O ratio of carbonate nodules
collected from Siwalik sediments in India indicates three episodes of monsoon …

Carbon isotopes across the Eocene‐Oligocene boundary sequence of Kutch, western India: Implications to oceanic productivity and pCO2 change

A Sarkar, S Sarangi, SK Bhattacharya… - Geophysical Research …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Analyses of foraminiferal δ18O (δ18Ocarb), δ13C (δ13Ccarb) and bulk organic matter
(δ13Corg) across a tropical Eocene/Oligocene boundary (EOB) section from Kutch basin …

Global ecologic and climatic change during the Neogene: stable isotopic evidence from soils.

TE Cerling, J Quade - 1990 - cabidigitallibrary.org
Stable carbon and oxygen isotopic records were examined in palaeosol carbonates from the
Indian subcontinent, East Africa and the eastern Mediterranean. Oxygen isotopes show a …

The structure and rate of late Miocene expansion of C4 plants: Evidence from lateral variation in stable isotopes in paleosols of the Siwalik Group, northern Pakistan

AK Behrensmeyer, J Quade… - Geological …, 2007 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
This study uses stable isotope variation within individual Mio-Pliocene paleosols to
investigate subkilometer-scale phytogeography of late Miocene vegetation change in …

Paleoclimate and paleovegetation of Lower Narmada Basin, Gujarat, Western India, inferred from stable carbon and oxygen isotopes

AH Laskar, N Sharma, R Ramesh, RA Jani… - Quaternary …, 2010 - Elsevier
Surface sediment samples (depth 0–160cm) and a paleosol (depth 10–15m), both part of a
sediment profile exposed in a cliff section of Narmada River, Western India were analyzed …

A critical evaluation of carbon isotope stratigraphy and biostratigraphic implications for Late Cretaceous global correlation

I Wendler - Earth-Science Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
Climate variability is driven by a complex interplay of global-scale processes and our
understanding of them depends on sufficient temporal resolution of the geologic records and …

Equatorial convergence of India and early Cenozoic climate trends

DV Kent, G Muttoni - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
India's northward flight and collision with Asia was a major driver of global tectonics in the
Cenozoic and, we argue, of atmospheric CO2 concentration (p CO2) and thus global …

The Plio-Pleistocene climatic evolution as a consequence of orbital forcing on the carbon cycle

D Paillard - Climate of the Past, 2017 - cp.copernicus.org
Since the discovery of ice ages in the 19th century, a central question of climate science has
been to understand the respective role of the astronomical forcing and of greenhouse gases …