Cenozoic sea-level and cryospheric evolution from deep-sea geochemical and continental margin records

KG Miller, JV Browning, WJ Schmelz, RE Kopp… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Using Pacific benthic foraminiferal δ18O and Mg/Ca records, we derive a Cenozoic (66 Ma)
global mean sea level (GMSL) estimate that records evolution from an ice-free Early Eocene …

Stratigraphic and Earth System approaches to defining the Anthropocene

W Steffen, R Leinfelder, J Zalasiewicz… - Earth's …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Stratigraphy provides insights into the evolution and dynamics of the Earth System over its
long history. With recent developments in Earth System science, changes in Earth System …

Changing state of the climate system

SK Gulev, PW Thorne, J Ahn, FJ Dentener… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
2 Chapter 2 assesses observed large-scale changes in climate system drivers, key climate
indicators and 3 principal modes of variability. Chapter 3 considers model performance and …

An astronomically dated record of Earth's climate and its predictability over the last 66 million years

T Westerhold, N Marwan, AJ Drury, D Liebrand… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Much of our understanding of Earth's past climate comes from the measurement of oxygen
and carbon isotope variations in deep-sea benthic foraminifera. Yet, long intervals in …

Acycle: Time-series analysis software for paleoclimate research and education

M Li, L Hinnov, L Kump - Computers & Geosciences, 2019 - Elsevier
Recognition and interpretation of paleoclimate signals in sedimentary proxy datasets are
time consuming and subjective. Acycle is a comprehensive and easy-to-use software …

The Holocene temperature conundrum answered by mollusk records from East Asia

Y Dong, N Wu, F Li, D Zhang, Y Zhang, C Shen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Seasonal biases (the warm-season contribution) of Holocene mean annual temperature
(MAT) reconstructions from geological records were proposed as a possible cause of the …

U-Pb constraints on pulsed eruption of the Deccan Traps across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

B Schoene, MP Eddy, KM Samperton, CB Keller… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Temporal correlation between some continental flood basalt eruptions and mass extinctions
has been proposed to indicate causality, with eruptive volatile release driving environmental …

The cretaceous period

AS Gale, J Mutterlose, S Batenburg, FM Gradstein… - Geologic time scale …, 2020 - Elsevier
The breakup of the former Pangea supercontinent culminated in the modern drifting
continents. Increased rifting caused the establishment of the Atlantic Ocean in the middle …

Time scales of critical events around the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary

PR Renne, AL Deino, FJ Hilgen, KF Kuiper, DF Mark… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Mass extinctions manifest in Earth's geologic record were turning points in biotic evolution.
We present 40Ar/39Ar data that establish synchrony between the Cretaceous-Paleogene …

Tracking variable sedimentation rates and astronomical forcing in Phanerozoic paleoclimate proxy series with evolutionary correlation coefficients and hypothesis …

M Li, LR Kump, LA Hinnov, ME Mann - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper addresses two fundamental issues in cyclostratigraphy and paleoclimatology:
identification of astronomical forcing in sequences of stratigraphic cycles, and accurate …