New views of tropical paleoclimates from corals

MK Gagan, LK Ayliffe, JW Beck, JE Cole… - Quaternary Science …, 2000 - Elsevier
Corals offer a rich archive of past climate variability in tropical ocean regions where
instrumental data are limited and where our knowledge of multi-decadal climate sensitivity is …

Enhanced rainfall in the Western Mediterranean during deposition of sapropel S1: stalagmite evidence from Corchia cave (Central Italy)

G Zanchetta, RN Drysdale, JC Hellstrom… - Quaternary Science …, 2007 - Elsevier
A stable isotope record from a stalagmite collected from Antro del Corchia cave (Apuan Alps,
Central Italy), supported by 17 uranium-series ages, indicates enhanced regional rainfall …

Temperature and surface-ocean water balance of the mid-Holocene tropical western Pacific

MK Gagan, LK Ayliffe, D Hopley, JA Cali, GE Mortimer… - Science, 1998 - science.org
Skeletal Sr/Ca and 18O/16O ratios in corals from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, indicate
that the tropical ocean surface∼ 5350 years ago was 1° C warmer and enriched in18O by …

Widespread uplift and 'trapdoor'faulting on Galapagos volcanoes observed with radar interferometry

F Amelung, S Jónsson, H Zebker, P Segall - Nature, 2000 - nature.com
Volcanic uplift, caused by the accumulation of magma in subsurface reservoirs, is a common
precursor to eruptions,. But, for some volcanoes, uplift of metres or more has not yet led to an …

Polysaccharide aggregation as a potential sink of marine dissolved organic carbon

A Engel, S Thoms, U Riebesell, E Rochelle-Newall… - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
The formation and sinking of biogenic particles mediate vertical mass fluxes and drive
elemental cycling in the ocean. Whereas marine sciences have focused primarily on particle …

A high-resolution Sr/Ca and δ18O coral record from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, and the 1982–1983 El Niño

MT McCulloch, MK Gagan, GE Mortimer… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 1994 - Elsevier
A high-resolution (near weekly) Sr/Ca and oxygen isotopic record is presented for a coral
from the Pandora Reef in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) of Australia during the period 1978 to …

High resolution analysis of trace elements in corals by laser ablation ICP-MS

DJ Sinclair, LPJ Kinsley, MT McCulloch - Geochimica et cosmochimica acta, 1998 - Elsevier
A method has been developed using laser ablation inductively-coupled plasma mass
spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) for rapid high resolution analysis of B, Mg, Sr, Ba, and U in corals …

Strontium/calcium ratios in modern porites corals From the Great Barrier Reef as a proxy for sea surface temperature: Calibration of the thermometer and monitoring …

C Alibert, MT McCulloch - Paleoceanography, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
High‐precision Sr/Ca ratios are reported for Porites corals from Davies Reef, at∼ 19° S on
the midshelf of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Skeletal growth parameters were also …

Biological Controls on Coral Sr/Ca and δ18O Reconstructions of Sea Surface Temperatures

S de Villiers, BK Nelson, AR Chivas - Science, 1995 - science.org
Coral strontium/calcium ratios have been used to infer that the tropical sea surface
temperature (SST) cooled by as much as 6° C during the last glacial maximum. In contrast …

Interaction between the ENSO and the Asian monsoon in a coral record of tropical climate

CD Charles, DE Hunter, RG Fairbanks - Science, 1997 - science.org
The oxygen isotopic composition of a banded coral from the western equatorial Indian
Ocean provides a 150-year-long history of the relation between the El Niño–Southern …