Palaeoclimate interpretation of stable isotope data from lake sediment archives

MJ Leng, JD Marshall - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2004 - Elsevier
The isotope composition of authigenic and biogenic carbonates and diatom silica are
commonly used as palaeoclimate proxies from lake sediments. This article reviews the …

Humans as agents in the termination of the African Humid Period

DK Wright - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2017 - frontiersin.org
There is great uncertainty over the timing and magnitude of the termination of the African
Humid Period (AHP). Spanning from the early to middle Holocene, the AHP was a period of …

[HTML][HTML] 鄂西大九湖晚更新世以来沉积物的碳氮比值, 有机碳氮同位素特征与气候环境演变

潘进疆, 黄俊华, 张蕊, 黄春菊, 刘犟嗣 - 第四纪研究, 2021 - html.rhhz.net
通过对神农架大九湖DJH-ZK8 孔岩芯上部739cm 的沉积物样品进行高分辨率总有机碳(TOC),
总氮(TN), C/N, δ 13 C org 以及δ 15 N 的测定和分析, 结合天文调谐确立的年代框架及沉积物岩 …

Ecosystem variability and early human habitats in eastern Africa

CR Magill, GM Ashley… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
The role of savannas during the course of early human evolution has been debated for
nearly a century, in part because of difficulties in characterizing local ecosystems from fossil …

Total organic carbon isotopes: A novel proxy of lake level from Lake Qinghai in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, China

W Liu, X Li, Z An, L Xu, Q Zhang - Chemical Geology, 2013 - Elsevier
The isotopic compositions of total organic carbon (TOC) in lakes have been widely used to
interpret paleoclimatic changes and the depositional environments of lake sediments …

[PDF][PDF] 内蒙古达里湖全新世有机碳氮同位素记录与环境演变

范佳伟, 肖举乐, 温锐林, 翟大有, 王旭, 崔琳琳 - 第四纪研究, 2015 - dsjyj.com.cn
摘要内蒙古中东部的达里湖为一水文封闭型湖泊, 位于现今东亚夏季风的北部边缘区,
对区域环境变化十分敏感. 本文对达里湖沉积中心提取的岩芯(DL04 沉积岩芯) 顶部8.5 m …

[图书][B] Isotopes in lake sediments

MJ Leng, AL LAMB, THE HEATON, JD MARSHALL… - 2006 - Springer
Palaeolimnology, the interpretation of past environment/climate conditions from sediments
accumulated in lake basins, is a rapidly expanding area of research (Last and Smol 2001a; …

Cooling-induced expansions of Afromontane forests in the Horn of Africa since the Last Glacial Maximum

M Casas-Gallego, K Hahn, K Neumann… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding the changing plant ecosystems that existed in East Africa over the past
millennia is crucial for identifying links between habitats and past human adaptation and …

Reconstruction of Holocene monsoon history from the Pearl River Estuary, southern China, using diatoms and carbon isotope ratios

Y Zong, JM Lloyd, MJ Leng, WWS Yim… - The …, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
This study employs a multiproxy approach in the reconstruction of Holocene monsoon
history from sedimentary sequences obtained from the Pearl River Estuary, southern China …

Evidence for progressive Holocene aridification in southern Africa recorded in Namibian hyrax middens: Implications for African Monsoon dynamics and the ''African …

BM Chase, ME Meadows, AS Carr, PJ Reimer - Quaternary Research, 2010 - Elsevier
Presented here are stable nitrogen isotope data from a rock hyrax (Procavia capensis)
middens from northwestern Namibia that record a series of rapid aridification events …