Chinese loess record of monsoon climate during the last glacial–interglacial cycle

SC Porter - Earth-Science Reviews, 2001 - Elsevier
The thick loess–paleosol succession of central China contains a detailed record of changes
in East Asian monsoon climate since the late Miocene Epoch. The alternating loess …

Glacial variability over the last two million years: an extended depth-derived agemodel, continuous obliquity pacing, and the Pleistocene progression

P Huybers - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2007 - Elsevier
An agemodel not relying upon orbital assumptions is estimated over the last 2Ma using
depth in marine sediment cores as a proxy for time. Agemodel uncertainty averages±10Ka …

A Pliocene‐Pleistocene stack of 57 globally distributed benthic δ18O records

LE Lisiecki, ME Raymo - Paleoceanography, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
We present a 5.3‐Myr stack (the “LR04” stack) of benthic δ18O records from 57 globally
distributed sites aligned by an automated graphic correlation algorithm. This is the first …

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 …

On the cause of the Mid‐Pleistocene transition

CJ Berends, P Köhler, LJ Lourens, RSW Van de Wal - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Mid‐Pleistocene Transition (MPT), where the Pleistocene glacial cycles
changed from 41 to∼ 100 kyr periodicity, is one of the most intriguing unsolved issues in the …

Late Neogene chronology: new perspectives in high-resolution stratigraphy

WA Berggren, FJ Hilgen… - Geological …, 1995 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We present an integrated geochronology for late Neogene time (Pliocene, Pleistocene, and
Holocene Epochs) based on an analysis of data from stable isotopes, magnetostratigraphy …

Continuous 500,000-year climate record from vein calcite in Devils Hole, Nevada

IJ Winograd, TB Coplen, JM Landwehr, AC Riggs… - Science, 1992 - science.org
Oxygen-18 (δ18O) variations in a 36-centimeter-long core (DH-11) of vein calcite from
Devils Hole, Nevada, yield an uninterrupted 500,000-year paleotemperature record that …

Late Pliocene variation in Northern Hemisphere ice sheets and North Atlantic deep water circulation

ME Raymo, WF Ruddiman, J Backman… - …, 1989 - Wiley Online Library
High‐resolution records of δ18O, δ13O, and percent CaCO3 from the late Pliocene North
Atlantic (Deep Sea Drilling Project sites 607 and 609) are presented and oxygen isotope …

Climate extremes in loess of China coupled with the strength of deep-water formation in the North Atlantic

Z Guo, T Liu, N Fedoroff, L Wei, Z Ding, N Wu… - Global and Planetary …, 1998 - Elsevier
The loess-paleosol sequences of the last 1.2 Ma in China have recorded two kinds of
climate extremes: the strongly developed S4, S5-1 and S5-3 soils (corresponding to the …

Sequence stratigraphy, facies geometries, and depositional history of the Mississippi Fan, Gulf of Mexico

P Weimer - AAPG bulletin, 1990 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT The Mississippi Fan is a large, mud-dominated submarine fan over 4 km thick
that was deposited in the deep Gulf of Mexico during the late Pliocene and Pleistocene …