The geologic records of dust in the Quaternary

DR Muhs - Aeolian Research, 2013 - Elsevier
Study of geologic records of dust composition, sources and deposition rates is important for
understanding the role of dust in the overall planetary radiation balance, fertilization of …

[HTML][HTML] Climatic changes and social transformations in the Near East and North Africa during the 'long'4th millennium BC: A comparative study of environmental and …

J Clarke, N Brooks, EB Banning… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper explores the possible links between rapid climate change (RCC) and social
change in the Near East and surrounding regions (Anatolia, central Syria, southern Israel …

An end-member algorithm for deciphering modern detrital processes from lake sediments of Lake Donggi Cona, NE Tibetan Plateau, China

E Dietze, K Hartmann, B Diekmann, J IJmker… - Sedimentary …, 2012 - Elsevier
Deciphering significant sedimentological processes from a set of sediment samples is an
important step in reconstructing environmental changes. One approach going beyond …

Climatic variability during the last∼ 90 ka of the southern and northern Levantine Basin as evident from marine records and speleothems

A Almogi-Labin, M Bar-Matthews, D Shriki… - Quaternary Science …, 2009 - Elsevier
The influence of the northern Atlantic and tropical monsoonal systems, as recorded by the
River Nile, on the climate variability of the southeastern Mediterranean was studied in two …

X‐ray fluorescence core scanning of wet marine sediments: methods to improve quality and reproducibility of high‐resolution paleoenvironmental records

R Hennekam, G de Lange - Limnology and Oceanography …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
X‐ray fluorescence (XRF) core‐scanning is a convenient non‐destructive tool to rapidly
assess elemental variations in unprocessed sediments. However, substantial analytical …

Millennial‐scale sea surface temperature changes in the eastern Mediterranean (Nile River Delta region) over the last 27,000 years

IS Castañeda, E Schefuß, J Pätzold… - …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
In this study we utilize two organic geochemical proxies, the U37k′ index and TEX86, to
examine past sea surface temperatures (SST) from a site located near the Nile River Delta in …

Millennial-scale ice rafting events and Hudson Strait Heinrich (-like) Events during the late Pliocene and Pleistocene: a review

BDA Naafs, J Hefter, R Stein - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
Various types of abrupt/millennial-scale climate variability such as Dansgaard/Oeschger and
Heinrich Events characterized the last glacial period. Over the last decade, a number of …

Climatic forcing of eastern Mediterranean deep-water formation and benthic ecosystems during the past 22 000 years

G Schmiedl, T Kuhnt, W Ehrmann, KC Emeis… - Quaternary Science …, 2010 - Elsevier
Lateglacial and Holocene faunal and stable-isotope records from benthic foraminifers in the
eastern Mediterranean Sea (EMS) suggest a high spatiotemporal variability of deep-water …

Late Glacial–Holocene climate variability at the south-eastern margin of the Aegean Sea

MV Triantaphyllou, P Ziveri, A Gogou, G Marino… - Marine Geology, 2009 - Elsevier
New micropaleontological, palynological, and geochemical results from a relatively shallow
(∼ 500 m) sediment core (NS-14) in the south-eastern Aegean Sea provide a detailed …

Solar forcing of Nile discharge and sapropel S1 formation in the early to middle Holocene eastern Mediterranean

R Hennekam, T Jilbert, B Schnetger… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We present high‐resolution records for oxygen isotopes of the planktic foraminifer
Globigerinoides ruber (δ18Oruber) and bulk sediment inorganic geochemistry for Holocene …