Trends, rhythms, and aberrations in global climate 65 Ma to present

J Zachos, M Pagani, L Sloan, E Thomas, K Billups - science, 2001 - science.org
Since 65 million years ago (Ma), Earth's climate has undergone a significant and complex
evolution, the finer details of which are now coming to light through investigations of deep …

Timing of Quaternary geomagnetic reversals and excursions in volcanic and sedimentary archives

JET Channell, BS Singer, BR Jicha - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
We review the ages of Quaternary magnetic polarity reversals and magnetic excursions.
Improvements in radioisotopic 40 Ar/39 Ar dating of reversals and excursions reflect the use …

The synchrosqueezing algorithm for time-varying spectral analysis: Robustness properties and new paleoclimate applications

G Thakur, E Brevdo, NS Fučkar, HT Wu - Signal processing, 2013 - Elsevier
We analyze the stability properties of the Synchrosqueezing transform, a time-frequency
signal analysis method that can identify and extract oscillatory components with time-varying …

Unlocking the ice house: Oligocene‐Miocene oxygen isotopes, eustasy, and margin erosion

KG Miller, JD Wright… - Journal of Geophysical …, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
Oxygen isotope records and glaciomarine sediments indicate at least an intermittent
presence of large continental ice sheets on Antarctica since the earliest Oligocene (circa 35 …

On the structure and origin of major glaciation cycles 2. The 100,000‐year cycle

J Imbrie, A Berger, EA Boyle, SC Clemens… - …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
Climate over the past million years has been dominated by glaciation cycles with periods
near 23,000, 41,000, and 100,000 years. In a linear version of the Milankovitch theory, the …

An alternative astronomical calibration of the lower Pleistocene timescale based on ODP Site 677

NJ Shackleton, A Berger, WR Peltier - Earth and environmental …, 1990 - cambridge.org
Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 677 provided excellent material for high resolution stable
isotope analysis of both benthonic and planktonic foraminifera through the entire …

The astronomical theory of climate and the age of the Brunhes-Matuyama magnetic reversal

FC Bassinot, LD Labeyrie, E Vincent… - Earth and Planetary …, 1994 - Elsevier
Below oxygen isotope stage 16, the orbitally derived time-scale developed by Shackleton et
al.[1] from ODP site 677 in the equatorial Pacific differs significantly from previous ones [eg …

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 …

Forcing of late Cenozoic northern hemisphere climate by plateau uplift in southern Asia and the American West

WF Ruddiman, JE Kutzbach - Journal of Geophysical …, 1989 - Wiley Online Library
Geologic evidence indicates that net vertical uplift occurred on a large (kilometer) scale and
at accelerating rates during the middle and late Cenozoic in plateaus of southern Asia and …

Pleistocene evolution: Northern hemisphere ice sheets and North Atlantic Ocean

WF Ruddiman, ME Raymo, DG Martinson… - …, 1989 - Wiley Online Library
We analyze five high‐resolution time series spanning the last 1.65 my: benthic foraminiferal
δ18O and δ13O, percent CaCO3, and estimated sea surface temperature (SST) at North …