Environmental magnetism: principles and applications

Q Liu, AP Roberts, JC Larrasoaña… - Reviews of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
In environmental magnetism, rock and mineral magnetic techniques are used to investigate
the formation, transportation, deposition, and postdepositional alterations of magnetic …

Advancements in the use of speleothems as climate archives

CI Wong, DO Breecker - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Speleothems have become a cornerstone of the approach to better understanding Earth's
climatic teleconnections due to their precise absolute chronologies, their continuous or …

The age of Homo naledi and associated sediments in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa

PHGM Dirks, EM Roberts, H Hilbert-Wolf, JD Kramers… - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
New ages for flowstone, sediments and fossil bones from the Dinaledi Chamber are
presented. We combined optically stimulated luminescence dating of sediments with U-Th …

Holocene ENSO-related cyclic storms recorded by magnetic minerals in speleothems of central China

Z Zhu, JM Feinberg, S Xie, MD Bourne… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Extreme hydrologic events such as storms and floods have the potential to severely impact
modern human society. However, the frequency of storms and their underlying mechanisms …

Concordant monsoon-driven postglacial hydrological changes in peat and stalagmite records and their impacts on prehistoric cultures in central China

S Xie, RP Evershed, X Huang, Z Zhu… - …, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Asian monsoon records are widely documented, but specific proxies of monsoonal rainfall
are limited. We present here two new independent proxy records from peatland and …

Magnetic mineral assemblages in soils and paleosols as the basis for paleoprecipitation proxies: A review of magnetic methods and challenges

DP Maxbauer, JM Feinberg, DL Fox - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Magnetic iron oxide minerals, principally magnetite, maghemite, hematite, and goethite are
formed in well-drained soils in response to a suite of physical, chemical, and biological …

[HTML][HTML] Sequence of events from the onset to the demise of the Last Interglacial: Evaluating strengths and limitations of chronologies used in climatic archives

A Govin, É Capron, PC Tzedakis, S Verheyden… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Last Interglacial (LIG) represents an invaluable case study to investigate the
response of components of the Earth system to global warming. However, the scarcity of …

One hundred thousand years of geomagnetic field evolution

S Panovska, M Korte, CG Constable - Reviews of Geophysics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Paleomagnetic records from sediments, archeological artifacts, and lava flows provide the
foundation for studying geomagnetic field changes over 0–100 ka. Late Quaternary time …

Global archaeomagnetic data: The state of the art and future challenges

MC Brown, G Hervé, M Korte, A Genevey - Physics of the Earth and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Archaeomagnetic data are fundamental for our understanding of the evolution of Earth's
magnetic field on centennial to millennial timescales. From the earliest studies of the …

Stalagmite paleomagnetic record of a quiet mid-to-late Holocene field activity in central South America

P Jaqueto, RIF Trindade, F Terra-Nova… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Speleothems can provide high-quality continuous records of the direction and relative
paleointensity of the geomagnetic field, combining high precision dating (with U-Th method) …