Climate evolution through the onset and intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation

EL McClymont, SL Ho, HL Ford, I Bailey… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Pliocene Epoch (∼ 5.3–2.6 million years ago, Ma) was characterized by a
warmer than present climate with smaller Northern Hemisphere ice sheets, and offers an …

The mid-Pleistocene climate transition

TD Herbert - Annual review of earth and planetary sciences, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The timing of ice ages over the past∼ 2,600 thousand years (kyr) follows pacing by cyclical
changes in three aspects of Earth's orbit that influence the solar energy received as a …

Early Pleistocene Obliquity‐Scale pCO2 Variability at ~1.5 Million Years Ago

KA Dyez, B Hönisch, GA Schmidt - Paleoceanography and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In the early Pleistocene, global temperature cycles predominantly varied with~ 41‐kyr
(obliquity‐scale) periodicity. Atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations likely played a …

[HTML][HTML] Toward generalized Milankovitch theory (GMT)

A Ganopolski - Climate of the Past, 2024 - cp.copernicus.org
In recent decades, numerous paleoclimate records and results of model simulations have
provided strong support for the astronomical theory of Quaternary glacial cycles formulated …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying marine and freshwater overprints on soil-derived branched GDGT temperature signals in Pliocene Mississippi and Amazon River fan sediments

ED Crampton-Flood, CMH van der Weijst… - Organic …, 2021 - Elsevier
The fractional abundance of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (brGDGT)
membrane lipids in coastal marine sediments has been posited as a proxy for the …

Early Pleistocene East Antarctic temperature in phase with local insolation

Y Yan, AV Kurbatov, PA Mayewski, S Shackleton… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Pleistocene glacial–interglacial cycles are hypothesized to be modulated by Earth's orbital
parameters through their influence on the Northern Hemisphere summer insolation …

New magnetostratigraphic insights from Iceberg Alley on the rhythms of Antarctic climate during the Plio‐Pleistocene

BT Reilly, L Tauxe, S Brachfeld… - Paleoceanography …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 382 in the Scotia Sea's
Iceberg Alley recovered among the most continuous and highest resolution stratigraphic …

Astronomical forcing shaped the timing of early Pleistocene glacial cycles

Y Watanabe, A Abe-Ouchi, F Saito, K Kino… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Glacial cycles during the early Pleistocene are characterised by a dominant 41,000-year
periodicity and amplitudes smaller than those of glacial cycles with~ 100,000-year …

Subsurface Heat Channel Drove Sea Surface Warming in the High‐Latitude North Atlantic During the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition

MCA Catunda, A Bahr, S Kaboth‐Bahr… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Mid‐Pleistocene Transition (MPT, 1,200–600 ka) marks the rapid expansion of
Northern Hemisphere (NH) continental ice sheets and stronger precession pacing of …

[HTML][HTML] Late Cenozoic cooling favored glacial over tectonic controls on sediment supply to the western Gulf of Mexico

AM Hessler, JA Covault, DF Stockli, A Fildani - Geology, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Terrigenous marine sediment records the landscape response to climate and tectonic
perturbations. Here, we determined the source of Miocene–Pleistocene debris in the …