Pliocene palaeoceanography of the Arctic Ocean and subarctic seas

J Matthiessen, J Knies, C Vogt… - … Transactions of the …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Pliocene is important in the geological evolution of the high northern latitudes. It marks
the transition from restricted local-to extensive regional-scale glaciations on the circum …

A review of diatom δ18O in palaeoceanography

GEA Swann, MJ Leng - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
Measurements of diatom oxygen isotopes (δ18Odiatom) hold the potential to provide an
important additional source of palaeoceanographic information in regions depleted in …

Greatly expanded tropical warm pool and weakened Hadley circulation in the early Pliocene

CM Brierley, AV Fedorov, Z Liu, TD Herbert… - Science, 2009 - science.org
The Pliocene warm interval has been difficult to explain. We reconstructed the latitudinal
distribution of sea surface temperature around 4 million years ago, during the early …

High‐amplitude variations in North Atlantic sea surface temperature during the early Pliocene warm period

KT Lawrence, TD Herbert, CM Brown… - …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We provide the first continuous, orbital‐resolution sea surface temperature (SST) record
from the high‐latitude North Atlantic, a region critical to understanding the origin of the Plio …

Mid-Pliocene Asian monsoon intensification and the onset of Northern Hemisphere glaciation

YG Zhang, J Ji, W Balsam, L Liu, J Chen - Geology, 2009 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The late Pliocene onset of major Northern Hemisphere glaciation (NHG) is one of the most
important steps in the Cenozoic global cooling. Although most attempts have been focused …

Pliocene–Pleistocene variability of upwelling activity, productivity, and nutrient cycling in the Benguela region

J Etourneau, P Martinez, T Blanz, R Schneider - Geology, 2009 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In this study we present combined high-resolution records of sea surface temperature (SST),
phytoplankton productivity, and nutrient cycling in the Benguela Upwelling System (BUS) for …

Expanding the Cenozoic paleoceanographic record in the central Arctic Ocean: IODP Expedition 302 synthesis

J Backman, K Moran - Open Geosciences, 2009 - degruyter.com
Abstract The Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX) proved to be one of the most transformational
missions in almost 40 year of scientific ocean drilling. ACEX recovered the first Cenozoic …

A warm thermal enclave in the Late Pleistocene of the South‐eastern United States

DA Russell, FJ Rich, V Schneider… - Biological …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Physical and biological evidence supports the probable existence of an enclave of relatively
warm climate located between the Southern Appalachian Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean …

Speleothems from the earliest Quaternary: Snapshots of paleoclimate and landscape evolution at the northern rim of the Alps

MC Meyer, RA Cliff, C Spötl, M Knipping… - Quaternary Science …, 2009 - Elsevier
Ancient cave systems in the Northern Calcareous Alps, today located well above the
timberline at altitudes of 2400–2500m, host U-rich speleothems that preserved growth layers …

Stratigraphy and major paleoenvironmental changes in the Sea of Okhotsk during the last million years inferred from radiolarian data

AG Matul, A Abelmann, D Nürnberg, R Tiedemann - Oceanology, 2009 - Springer
The radiolarian distribution is studied in Core IMAGES MD01-2415 (46-m-long) from the
central Sea of Okhotsk. The obtained data made it possible to refine the regional …