Recent global temperature reconstructions for the current interglacial period (the Holocene,
beginning 11,700 years ago) have generated contrasting trends. This Review examines …

Abstract Knowledge of the characteristics of natural climate variability is vital when
assessing the range of plausible future climate trajectories in the next decades to centuries …

Raman spectroscopy is widely used to evaluate the nature and potential origins of
carbonaceous matter in Earth's oldest rocks and minerals. It is also the tool that will be used …

Abstract In the Carpathian Basin, loess is the most important archive of Quaternary
palaeoclimate evolution, but only in the past two decades systematic and high-resolution …

Climate reconstructions based on proxy records recovered from marine sediments, such as
alkenone records or geochemical parameters measured on foraminifera, play an important …

Abstract The Last Interglacial (~ 129,000–116,000 years ago) is the most recent geologic
period with a warmer-than-present climate. Proxy-based temperature reconstructions from …

Advances in sampling tools, analytical methods, and data handling capabilities have been
fundamental to the growth of marine organic biogeochemistry over the past four decades …

The basic premise of geobiochemistry is that life emerged on Earth where there were
opportunities for catalysis to expedite the release of chemical energy in water–rock–organic …

Structurally diverse, specialized lipids are crucial components of microbial membranes and
other organelles and play essential roles in ecological functioning. The detection of such …

Mm-scale and/or µm-scale in situ inorganic geochemical analyses of organic-rich, laminated
fine-grained sediments increasingly offer decadal or even seasonal perspectives of …