Environmental records from coral skeletons: A decade of novel insights and innovation

DM Thompson - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hundreds of coral paleoclimate records have been developed over the past several
decades, significantly extending the instrumental record and improving our understanding of …

Coral skeletal geochemistry as a monitor of inshore water quality

N Saha, GE Webb, JX Zhao - Science of the Total Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
Coral reefs maintain extraordinary biodiversity and provide protection from tsunamis and
storm surge, but inshore coral reef health is degrading in many regions due to deteriorating …

[HTML][HTML] The Iso2k database: a global compilation of paleo- and records to aid understanding of Common Era climate

BL Konecky, NP McKay, OV Churakova… - Earth System …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
Reconstructions of global hydroclimate during the Common Era (CE; the past∼ 2000 years)
are important for providing context for current and future global environmental change …

Molluscs emergent, Part I: themes and trends in the scientific investigation of mollusc shells as resources for archaeological research

KD Thomas - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2015 - Elsevier
The second most diverse phylum in the animal kingdom, the Mollusca occur in virtually all
the environments which are either occupied or exploited by humans. The study of mollusc …

Insights from barium variability in a Siderastrea siderea coral in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico

MM Weerabaddana, KL DeLong, AJ Wagner… - Marine Pollution …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Coral Ba/Ca is a proxy for seawater barium concentration that varies with upwelling,
terrigenous input, and marine productivity whereas coral Sr/Ca varies with temperature. We …

Tracing impact of El Niño Southern Oscillation on coastal hydrology using coral 87Sr/86Sr record from Lakshadweep, South-Eastern Arabian Sea

W Rahaman, M Tarique, AA Fousiya, P Prabhat… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is one of the dominant climate modes
influencing global precipitation and temperature. ENSO has a large impact on the …

Spatiotemporal variation of rare earth elements from river to reef continuum aids monitoring of terrigenous sources in the Great Barrier Reef

N Saha, GE Webb, JX Zhao, SE Lewis… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
Degradation of inshore water quality associated with catchment modification is threatening
global coral reef ecosystems. Coral trace element proxies are widely applied to document …

Coral growth bands recorded trace elements associated with the Fundão dam collapse

GO Cardoso, LN Falsarella… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
In November 2015, the collapse of the Fundão dam (Minas Gerais, Brazil) carried over 40×
10 6 m 3 of iron ore tailings into the Doce river and caused massive environmental and …

Calibration of Sr/Ca, Li/Mg and Sr‐U paleothermometry in branching and foliose corals

CL Ross, TM DeCarlo… - Paleoceanography and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Coral skeletons are the most commonly used high‐resolution temperature proxy in the
tropical oceans, providing paleoclimate reconstructions dating back centuries to millennia …

Holocene microbialite geochemistry records> 6000 years of secular influence of terrigenous flux on water quality for the southern Great Barrier Reef

M Salas-Saavedra, GE Webb, KL Sanborn, J Zhao… - Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Anthropocene climate change and water quality degradation represent unprecedented
challenges to modern coral reefs. Although declining reef health after European colonization …