Neogene ice volume and ocean temperatures: Insights from infaunal foraminiferal Mg/Ca paleothermometry

CH Lear, HK Coxall, GL Foster, DJ Lunt… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Antarctic continental‐scale glaciation is generally assumed to have initiated at the Eocene‐
Oligocene Transition, yet its subsequent evolution is poorly constrained. We reconstruct …

Cooling and ice growth across the Eocene-Oligocene transition

CH Lear, TR Bailey, PN Pearson, HK Coxall… - …, 2008 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Eocene-Oligocene (EO) climate transition (ca. 34 Ma) marks a period of
Antarctic ice growth and a major step from early Cenozoic greenhouse conditions toward …

Late Cretaceous–Neogene trends in deep ocean temperature and continental ice volume: Reconciling records of benthic foraminiferal geochemistry (δ18O and Mg …

BS Cramer, KG Miller, PJ Barrett… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We reconstruct trends in ice volume and deep ocean temperature for the past 108 Myr,
resolving variations on timescales of∼ 2 Myr and longer. We use a sea level record as a …

Application of benthic foraminiferal Mg/Ca ratios to questions of Cenozoic climate change

K Billups, DP Schrag - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2003 - Elsevier
We investigate the evolution of Cenozoic climate and ice volume as evidenced by the
oxygen isotopic composition of seawater (δ18Osw) derived from benthic foraminiferal Mg/Ca …

Paleotemperatures and ice volume of the past 27 Myr revisited with paired Mg/Ca and 18O/16O measurements on benthic foraminifera

K Billups, DP Schrag - Paleoceanography, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
We explore the applicability of paired Mg/Ca and 18O/16O measurements on benthic
foraminifera from Southern Ocean site 747 to paleoceanographic reconstructions on pre …

Foraminiferal Mg/Ca evidence for southern ocean cooling across the eocene–oligocene transition

SM Bohaty, JC Zachos, ML Delaney - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2012 - Elsevier
Constraining the magnitude of high-latitude temperature change across the Eocene–
Oligocene transition (EOT) is essential for quantifying the magnitude of Antarctic ice-sheet …

Cenozoic benthic foraminiferal Mg/Ca and Li/Ca records: Toward unlocking temperatures and saturation states

CH Lear, EM Mawbey, Y Rosenthal - Paleoceanography, 2010 - orca.cardiff.ac.uk
The sensitivities of benthic foraminiferal Mg/Ca and Li/Ca to bottom water temperature and
carbonate saturation state have recently been assessed. Here we present a new approach …

New spatial Mg/Ca‐temperature calibrations for three Arctic, benthic foraminifera and reconstruction of north Iceland shelf temperature for the past 4000 years

GB Kristjánsdóttir, DW Lea, AE Jennings… - Geochemistry …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We have developed cold‐end Mg/Ca‐temperature calibrations for three common Arctic
benthic foraminifera, Islandiella norcrossi/helenae, Melonis barleeanus, and Cassidulina …

Eocene sea temperatures for the mid-latitude southwest Pacific from Mg/Ca ratios in planktonic and benthic foraminifera

JB Creech, JA Baker, CJ Hollis, HEG Morgans… - Earth and planetary …, 2010 - Elsevier
We have used laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) to
measure elemental (Mg/Ca, Al/Ca, Mn/Ca, Zn/Ca, Sr/Ca, and Ba/Ca) ratios of 13 species of …

Oligocene–Miocene Antarctic continental weathering record and paleoclimatic implications, Cape Roberts drilling project, Ross Sea, Antarctica

S Passchier, LA Krissek - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2008 - Elsevier
The bulk chemistry of mudrocks in Ross Sea drillcores on the Antarctic inner shelf is re-
evaluated to extract records of continental paleotemperatures and ice extent. The chemical …