Eastern Mediterranean climate change deduced from the Soreq Cave fluid inclusion stable isotopes and carbonate clumped isotopes record of the last 160 ka

A Matthews, HP Affek, A Ayalon, HB Vonhof… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
A fundamental issue in the interpretation of speleothem calcite δ 18 O cc records is the
correct partitioning of the effects of temperature and water δ 18 O variations. This study …

Reducing uncertainties in carbonate clumped isotope analysis through consistent carbonate‐based standardization

SM Bernasconi, IA Müller, KD Bergmann… - Geochemistry …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
About a decade after its introduction, the field of carbonate clumped isotope thermometry is
rapidly expanding because of the large number of possible applications and its potential to …

Comparison and synthesis of sea‐level and deep‐sea temperature variations over the past 40 million years

EJ Rohling, GL Foster, TM Gernon… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Global ice volume (sea level) and deep‐sea temperature are key measures of Earth's
climatic state. We synthesize evidence for multi‐centennial to millennial ice‐volume and …

Organic carbon burial in Mediterranean sapropels intensified during Green Sahara Periods since 3.2 Myr ago

KM Grant, U Amarathunga, JD Amies, P Hu… - … Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
Dark organic-rich layers (sapropels) have accumulated in Mediterranean sediments since
the Miocene due to deep-sea dysoxia and enhanced carbon burial at times of intensified …

Updated calibration of the clumped isotope thermometer in planktonic and benthic foraminifera

M Peral, M Daëron, D Blamart, F Bassinot… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
Accurate reconstruction of past ocean temperatures is of critical importance to
paleoclimatology. Carbonate clumped isotope thermometry (“Δ 47”) is a relatively recent …

Coupled Southern Ocean cooling and Antarctic ice sheet expansion during the middle Miocene

TJ Leutert, A Auderset, A Martínez-García… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The middle Miocene climate transition (~ 14 million years ago) was characterized by a
dramatic increase in the volume of the Antarctic ice sheet. The driving mechanism of this …

Temperature Dependence of Clumped Isotopes (∆47) in Aragonite

NJ de Winter, R Witbaard, IJ Kocken… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Clumped isotope thermometry can independently constrain the formation temperatures of
carbonates, but a lack of precisely temperature‐controlled calibration samples limits its …

Warm middle Miocene Indian Ocean bottom water temperatures: Comparison of clumped isotope and Mg/Ca‐based estimates

SE Modestou, TJ Leutert, A Fernandez… - Paleoceanography …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The middle Miocene is an important analogue for potential future warm climates. However,
few independent deep ocean temperature records exist, though these are important for …

Sustained North Atlantic warming drove anomalously intense MIS 11c interglacial

HM Hu, G Marino, C Pérez-Mejías, C Spötl… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 11c interglacial and its preceding glacial
termination represent an enigmatically intense climate response to relatively weak insolation …

Weakened AMOC related to cooling and atmospheric circulation shifts in the last interglacial Eastern Mediterranean

EJ Levy, HB Vonhof, M Bar-Matthews… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
There is limited understanding of temperature and atmospheric circulation changes that
accompany an Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) slowdown beyond the …