Causes of ice age intensification across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition

TB Chalk, MP Hain, GL Foster… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
During the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT; 1,200–800 kya), Earth's orbitally paced ice age
cycles intensified, lengthened from∼ 40,000 (∼ 40 ky) to∼ 100 ky, and became distinctly …

[HTML][HTML] Atmospheric CO2 during the Mid-Piacenzian Warm Period and the M2 glaciation

E De La Vega, TB Chalk, PA Wilson, RP Bysani… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The Piacenzian stage of the Pliocene (2.6 to 3.6 Ma) is the most recent past interval of
sustained global warmth with mean global temperatures markedly higher (by~ 2–3 C) than …

Alkenone and boron-based Pliocene pCO2 records

O Seki, GL Foster, DN Schmidt, A Mackensen… - Earth and Planetary …, 2010 - Elsevier
The Pliocene period is the most recent time when the Earth was globally significantly (∼ 3°
C) warmer than today. However, the existing pCO2 data for the Pliocene are sparse and …

Tropical ocean temperatures over the past 3.5 million years

TD Herbert, LC Peterson, KT Lawrence, Z Liu - science, 2010 - science.org
Determining the timing and amplitude of tropical sea surface temperature (SST) change is
an important part of solving the puzzle of the Plio-Pleistocene ice ages. Alkenone-based …

Seawater pH, pCO2 and [CO2− 3] variations in the Caribbean Sea over the last 130 kyr: A boron isotope and B/Ca study of planktic foraminifera

GL Foster - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2008 - Elsevier
Here a new analytical methodology is described for measuring the isotopic composition of
boron in foraminifera using multicollector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry …

Boron Isotopes in Foraminifera: Systematics, Biomineralisation, and CO2 Reconstruction

JWB Rae - Boron isotopes: The fifth element, 2018 - Springer
The boron isotope composition of foraminifera provides a powerful tracer for CO 2 change
over geological time. This proxy is based on the equilibrium of boron and its isotopes in …

Wet phases in the Sahara/Sahel region and human migration patterns in North Africa

IS Castañeda, S Mulitza, E Schefuß… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
The carbon isotopic composition of individual plant leaf waxes (a proxy for C3 vs. C4
vegetation) in a marine sediment core collected from beneath the plume of Sahara-derived …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular paleothermometry of the early Toarcian climate perturbation

W Ruebsam, M Reolid, N Sabatino, D Masetti… - Global and Planetary …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, we use molecular paleothermometry, based on the TEX 86 proxy derived from
fossilized archaeal lipids, to reconstruct absolute sea surface temperatures (SSTs) for the …

Long-term variability of the western tropical Atlantic sea surface temperature driven by greenhouse gases and AMOC

RA Nascimento, HJH Johnstone, H Kuhnert… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The long-term orbital-scale sea surface temperature (SST) variability in the tropics is thought
to be mainly driven by greenhouse gases (GHG) forcing. However, few studies have …

Controls on shell Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca in cultured planktonic foraminiferan, Globigerinoides ruber (white)

B Kısakürek, A Eisenhauer, F Böhm… - Earth and Planetary …, 2008 - Elsevier
Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca ratios were determined on a single species of planktonic foraminiferan,
Globigerinoides ruber (white), collected from the Gulf of Eilat and cultured in seawater at five …