230Th Normalization: New Insights on an Essential Tool for Quantifying Sedimentary Fluxes in the Modern and Quaternary Ocean

KM Costa, CT Hayes, RF Anderson… - Paleoceanography …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 230Th normalization is a valuable paleoceanographic tool for reconstructing high‐
resolution sediment fluxes during the late Pleistocene (last~ 500,000 years). As its …

Deep‐sea oxygen depletion and ocean carbon sequestration during the last ice age

RF Anderson, JP Sachs, MQ Fleisher… - Global …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Enhanced ocean carbon storage during the Pleistocene ice ages lowered atmospheric CO2
concentrations by 80 to 100 ppm relative to interglacial levels. Leading hypotheses to …

Pleistocene drivers of Northwest African hydroclimate and vegetation

NA O'Mara, C Skonieczny, D McGee… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Savanna ecosystems were the landscapes for human evolution and are vital to modern Sub-
Saharan African food security, yet the fundamental drivers of climate and ecology in these …

Geochemical and U-Th isotopic insights on uranium enrichment in reservoir sediments

J Wang, M Yin, J Liu, CC Shen, TL Yu, HC Li… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Uranium (U) geochemistry and its isotopic compositions of reservoir sediments in U mine
area were poorly understood. Herein, U and Th isotopic compositions were employed to …

Marine sedimentary uranium to barium ratios as a potential quantitative proxy for Pleistocene bottom water oxygen concentrations

KM Costa, SG Nielsen, Y Wang, W Lu… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
Oxygen is essential for marine ecosystems, and it is linked by respiration to carbon storage
in the deep ocean. Reconstructing oxygen concentrations in the past has been limited by the …

Productivity patterns in the equatorial Pacific over the last 30,000 years

KM Costa, AW Jacobel, JF McManus… - Global …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The equatorial Pacific traverses a number of productivity regimes, from the highly productive
coastal upwelling along Peru to the near gyre‐like productivity lows along the international …

Trace element (Mn, Zn, Ni, V) and authigenic uranium (aU) geochemistry reveal sedimentary redox history on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, North Pacific Ocean

KM Costa, RF Anderson, JF McManus… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes in meridional overturning circulation and water mass chemistry can be
recorded by oxygen concentrations in the deep ocean. Because the deep Pacific is the …

Millennial-scale variations in dustiness recorded in Mid-Atlantic sediments from 0 to 70 ka

JL Middleton, S Mukhopadhyay, CH Langmuir… - Earth and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
Sedimentary records of dust deposition in the subtropical Atlantic provide important
constraints on millennial-and orbital-scale variability in atmospheric circulation and North …

World atlas of late quaternary foraminiferal oxygen and carbon isotope ratios

S Mulitza, T Bickert, HC Bostock… - Earth System …, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
We present a global atlas of downcore foraminiferal oxygen and carbon isotope ratios
available at https://doi. pangaea. de/10.1594/PANGAEA. 936747 (Mulitza et al., 2021). The …

[HTML][HTML] PaleoDust: quantifying uncertainty in paleo-dust deposition across archive types

NJ Cosentino, G Torre, F Lambert… - Earth System …, 2024 - essd.copernicus.org
Mineral dust aerosol concentrations in the atmosphere varied greatly on glacial–interglacial
timescales. The greatest changes in global dust activity occurred in response to changes in …