The marine isotope stage 1–5 cryptotephra record of Tenaghi Philippon, Greece: Towards a detailed tephrostratigraphic framework for the Eastern Mediterranean …

S Wulf, MJ Hardiman, RA Staff, A Koutsodendris… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
The iconic climate archive of Tenaghi Philippon (TP), NE Greece, allows the study of short-
term palaeoclimatic and environmental change throughout the past 1.3 Ma. To provide high …

Tephrostratigraphy of Grotta del Cavallo, Southern Italy: insights on the chronology of Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Mediterranean

G Zanchetta, B Giaccio, M Bini, L Sarti - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Grotta del Cavallo contains one of the most important stratification of
Mousterian, Uluzzian and Final Epigravettian tecnocomplexes; its chronology is of …

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 …

Insights into the explosive eruption history of the Campanian volcanoes prior to the Campanian Ignimbrite eruption

SO Vineberg, R Isaia, PG Albert, RJ Brown… - Journal of Volcanology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Campanian Volcanic Zone (CVZ) comprises multiple active volcanoes and
includes the highly productive Campi Flegrei and Ischia caldera systems. These caldera …

[HTML][HTML] Dark ophiuroid biodiversity in a prospective abyssal mine field

M Christodoulou, TD O'hara, AF Hugall, PM Arbizu - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
The seafloor contains valuable mineral resources, including polymetallic (or manganese)
nodules that form on offshore abyssal plains. The largest and most commercially attractive …

Linking the Mediterranean MIS 5 tephra markers to Campi Flegrei (southern Italy) 109–92 ka explosive activity and refining the chronology of MIS 5c-d millennial-scale …

L Monaco, DM Palladino, PG Albert, I Arienzo… - Global and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Explosive activity preceding the~ 40 ka Campanian Ignimbrite (CI) eruption in the
Neapolitan volcanic area, Southern Italy, has long been speculated based on the …

An end to the Last Interglacial highstand before 120 ka: Relative sea-level evidence from Infreschi Cave (Southern Italy)

M Bini, G Zanchetta, RN Drysdale, B Giaccio… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The timing, duration and evolution of sea level during the Marine Isotope Stage 5e (MIS 5e)
highstand is a subject of intense debate. A major problem in resolving this debate is the …

[HTML][HTML] From Neandertals to modern humans: New data on the Uluzzian

P Villa, L Pollarolo, J Conforti, F Marra, C Biagioni… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Having thrived in Eurasia for 350,000 years Neandertals disappeared from the record
around 40,000–37,000 years ago, after modern humans entered Europe. It was a complex …

The Fucino 250–170 ka tephra record: new insights on peri-Tyrrhenian explosive volcanism, central mediterranean tephrochronology, and timing of the MIS 8-6 …

L Monaco, N Leicher, DM Palladino, I Arienzo… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Fucino Basin, central Italy, with its long and continuous history of Quaternary
sediment accumulation, is one of the richest Mediterranean Middle Pleistocene tephra …

[HTML][HTML] A detailed paleoclimate proxy record for the Middle Danube Basin over the last 430 kyr: a rock magnetic and colorimetric study of the Zemun loess-paleosol …

C Laag, U Hambach, C Zeeden, F Lagroix… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In mid-latitude Eurasia, loess-paleosol sequences (LPS) provide the most widespread
sedimentary records of Quaternary paleoenvironmental evolution. In the Middle Danube …