The middle Pleistocene transition: characteristics, mechanisms, and implications for long-term changes in atmospheric pCO2

PU Clark, D Archer, D Pollard, JD Blum, JA Rial… - Quaternary Science …, 2006 - Elsevier
The emergence of low-frequency, high-amplitude, quasi-periodic (∼ 100-kyr) glacial
variability during the middle Pleistocene in the absence of any significant change in orbital …

Size sorting in marine muds: Processes, pitfalls, and prospects for paleoflow‐speed proxies

IN McCave, IR Hall - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The basis for, and use of, fine grain size parameters for inference of paleoflow speeds is
reviewed here. The basis resides in data on deposited sediment taken in conjunction with …

Evolution of ocean temperature and ice volume through the mid-Pleistocene climate transition

H Elderfield, P Ferretti, M Greaves, S Crowhurst… - science, 2012 - science.org
Earth's climate underwent a fundamental change between 1250 and 700 thousand years
ago, the mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT), when the dominant periodicity of climate cycles …

A Pliocene‐Pleistocene stack of 57 globally distributed benthic δ18O records

LE Lisiecki, ME Raymo - Paleoceanography, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
We present a 5.3‐Myr stack (the “LR04” stack) of benthic δ18O records from 57 globally
distributed sites aligned by an automated graphic correlation algorithm. This is the first …

Diverse manifestations of the mid-Pleistocene climate transition

Y Sun, Q Yin, M Crucifix, SC Clemens… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT) is widely recognized as a shift in paleoclimatic
periodicity from 41-to 100-kyr cycles, which largely reflects integrated changes in global ice …

Stacked 2.6‐Ma grain size record from the Chinese loess based on five sections and correlation with the deep‐sea δ18O record

ZL Ding, E Derbyshire, SL Yang, ZW Yu… - …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
This study aims to establish a stacked climate record of the Quaternary period from the
Chinese loess sequence and to address the forcing mechanisms for the regional climate …

[PDF][PDF] 泥河湾盆地磁性地层定年与早期人类演化

朱日祥, 邓成龙, 潘永信 - 第四纪研究, 2007 - dsjyj.com.cn
摘要主要评述了近年来泥河湾盆地磁性地层学的研究进展, 包括建立泥河湾组的磁性地层年代格
架, 厘定泥河湾动物群的时代和确定华北地区早期人类活动年代序列. 研究表明: 第一 …

Regional and global benthic δ18O stacks for the last glacial cycle

LE Lisiecki, JV Stern - Paleoceanography, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Although detailed age models exist for some marine sediment records of the last glacial
cycle (0–150 ka), age models for many cores rely on the stratigraphic correlation of benthic …

Early–Middle Pleistocene transitions: linking terrestrial and marine realms

MJ Head, PL Gibbard - Quaternary International, 2015 - Elsevier
Marked by a progressive increase in the amplitude of climate oscillations, an evolving
waveform, and a shift towards a quasi-100 ky frequency, the Early–Middle Pleistocene …

Seawater pH, pCO2 and [CO2− 3] variations in the Caribbean Sea over the last 130 kyr: A boron isotope and B/Ca study of planktic foraminifera

GL Foster - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2008 - Elsevier
Here a new analytical methodology is described for measuring the isotopic composition of
boron in foraminifera using multicollector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry …