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

A Parton, L Clark-Balzan, AG Parker… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Records of former lake and wetland development in present day arid/hyper-arid
environments provide an important source of information for palaeoclimatic and …

The greening of Arabia: Multiple opportunities for human occupation of the Arabian Peninsula during the Late Pleistocene inferred from an ensemble of climate model …

RP Jennings, J Singarayer, EJ Stone… - Quaternary …, 2015 - Elsevier
Climate models are potentially useful tools for addressing human dispersals and
demographic change. The Arabian Peninsula is becoming increasingly significant in the …

Palaeoenvironmental and sea level changes during the Holocene in eastern Saudi Arabia and their implications for Neolithic populations

AG Parker, MW Morley, SJ Armitage, M Engel… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents the key findings of a multidisciplinary study investigating the nature and
timing of coastal landscape evolution in eastern Saudi Arabia during the Holocene. To date …

Orbital-scale climate variability in Arabia as a potential motor for human dispersals

A Parton, TS White, AG Parker, PS Breeze… - Quaternary …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Arabian Peninsula is situated at an important crossroads for the movement of
Pleistocene human populations out of, and into, Africa. Although the timings, routes and …

Salt domes of the UAE and Oman: probing eastern Arabia

RJ Thomas, RA Ellison, KM Goodenough… - Precambrian …, 2015 - Elsevier
The emergent salt domes of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been investigated in
detail and examples from central Oman have been studied for comparison. The salt domes …

Alluvial fan records from southeast Arabia reveal multiple windows for human dispersal

A Parton, AR Farrant, MJ Leng, MW Telfer… - …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The dispersal of human populations out of Africa into Arabia was most likely linked to
episodes of climatic amelioration, when increased monsoon rainfall led to the activation of …

A multi-proxy analysis of the Holocene humid phase from the United Arab Emirates and its implications for southeast Arabia's Neolithic populations

GW Preston, DSG Thomas, AS Goudie… - Quaternary …, 2015 - Elsevier
An early-to mid-Holocene humid phase has been identified in various Arabian geo-archives,
although significant regional heterogeneity has been reported in the onset, duration and …

An early MIS 3 pluvial phase in Southeast Arabia: climatic and archaeological implications

A Parton, AR Farrant, MJ Leng, JL Schwenninger… - Quaternary …, 2013 - Elsevier
Climatic changes in Arabia are of critical importance to our understanding of both monsoon
variability and the dispersal of anatomically modern humans (AMH) out of Africa. The timing …

Tracing Transcontinental Sand Transport: from Anatolia–zagros To the Rub'Al Khali Sand Sea

E Garzanti, P Vermeesch… - Journal of …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We used petrographic, heavy-mineral, and geochronological signatures of sand-sized
grains to document an exceptional case of long-distance sediment transport dominated by …

Eustatic control of late Quaternary sea-level change in the Arabian/Persian Gulf

T Stevens, MJ Jestico, G Evans, A Kirkham - Quaternary Research, 2014 - cambridge.org
Accurate sea-level reconstruction is critical in understanding the drivers of coastal evolution.
Inliers of shallow marine limestone and aeolianite are exposed as zeugen (carbonate …