Late Holocene climate: Natural or anthropogenic?

WF Ruddiman, DQ Fuller, JE Kutzbach… - Reviews of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
For more than a decade, scientists have argued about the warmth of the current
interglaciation. Was the warmth of the preindustrial late Holocene natural in origin, the result …

The early anthropogenic hypothesis: A review

WF Ruddiman, F He, SJ Vavrus, JE Kutzbach - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The 'early anthropogenic hypothesis'(EAH), published in 2003, proposed that early
agricultural humans transformed planet Earth by adding CO 2 to the atmosphere by …

Mediterranean winter rainfall in phase with African monsoons during the past 1.36 million years

B Wagner, H Vogel, A Francke, T Friedrich, T Donders… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Mediterranean climates are characterized by strong seasonal contrasts between dry
summers and wet winters. Changes in winter rainfall are critical for regional socioeconomic …

Early–Middle Pleistocene transitions: linking terrestrial and marine realms

MJ Head, PL Gibbard - Quaternary International, 2015 - Elsevier
Marked by a progressive increase in the amplitude of climate oscillations, an evolving
waveform, and a shift towards a quasi-100 ky frequency, the Early–Middle Pleistocene …

Formal subdivision of the Quaternary System/Period: Past, present, and future

MJ Head, PL Gibbard - Quaternary International, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Quaternary System/Period represents the past 2.58 million years and is
officially subdivided into the Pleistocene and Holocene series/epochs, with the base of the …

Formal ratification of the global boundary stratotype section and point (GSSP) for the Chibanian stage and middle Pleistocene subseries of the Quaternary system: the …

Y Suganuma, M Okada, MJ Head, K Kameo… - Episodes Journal of …, 2021 - episodes.org
Abstract The Executive Committee of the International Union of Geological Sciences on
January 17, 2020 ratified the Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) defining …

High-precision 40Ar/39Ar dating of Pleistocene tuffs and temporal anchoring of the Matuyama-Brunhes boundary

DF Mark, PR Renne, RC Dymock, VC Smith… - Quaternary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract High-precision 40 Ar/39 Ar ages for a series of proximal tuffs from the Toba super-
volcano in Indonesia, and the Bishop Tuff and Lava Creek Tuff B in North America have …

First integrated tephrochronological record for the last∼ 190 kyr from the Fucino Quaternary lacustrine succession, central Italy

B Giaccio, EM Niespolo, A Pereira, S Nomade… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
We present the first integrated tephrochronological study (major and trace elemental glass
composition, Sr and Nd isotope analyses, and 40 Ar/39 Ar dating) for the last one tenth (∼ …

First tephrostratigraphic results of the DEEP site record from Lake Ohrid (Macedonia and Albania)

N Leicher, G Zanchetta, R Sulpizio, B Giaccio… - …, 2016 - bg.copernicus.org
A tephrostratigraphic record covering the Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 1–15 was established
for the DEEP site record of Lake Ohrid (Macedonia and Albania). Major element analyses …

Review of the early–middle Pleistocene boundary and Marine Isotope Stage 19

MJ Head - Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) defining the base of the
Chibanian Stage and Middle Pleistocene Subseries at the Chiba section, Japan, was ratified …