[HTML][HTML] Epochs, events and episodes: Marking the geological impact of humans

CN Waters, M Williams, J Zalasiewicz, SD Turner… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Event stratigraphy is used to help characterise the Anthropocene as a chronostratigraphic
concept, based on analogous deep-time events, for which we provide a novel …

[HTML][HTML] Climate tip** point interactions and cascades: a review

N Wunderling, AS von der Heydt… - Earth System …, 2024 - esd.copernicus.org
Climate tip** elements are large-scale subsystems of the Earth that may transgress critical
thresholds (tip** points) under ongoing global warming, with substantial impacts on the …

Oligocene moisture variations as evidenced by an aeolian dust sequence in Inner Mongolia, China

J Wasiljeff, JM Salminen, J Stenman, Z Zhang… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The aridification of Central Asia since the Eocene has widespread evidence, but
climate-controlled environmental reorganizations during the Oligocene remain ambiguous …

Late Eocene–early Miocene evolution of the southern Australian subtropical front: a marine palynological approach

FS Hoem, I Sauermilch, S Hou… - Journal of …, 2021 - jm.copernicus.org
Improvements in our capability to reconstruct ancient surface-ocean conditions based on
organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst (dinocyst) assemblages from the Southern Ocean provide …

[HTML][HTML] Biogeography and evolution of social parasitism in Australian Myrmecia bulldog ants revealed by phylogenomics

D Mera-Rodríguez, H Jourdan, PS Ward… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Studying the historical biogeography and life history transitions from eusocial colony life to
social parasitism contributes to our understanding of the evolutionary mechanisms …

Vegetation change across the Drake Passage region linked to late Eocene cooling and glacial disturbance after the Eocene–Oligocene transition

N Thompson, U Salzmann… - Climate of the Past …, 2021 - cp.copernicus.org
The role and climatic impact of the opening of the Drake Passage and how it affected both
marine and terrestrial environments across the Eocene–Oligocene transition (EOT∼ 34 Ma) …

Climate variability, heat distribution, and polar amplification in the warm unipolar “icehouse” of the Oligocene

DKLL Jenny, T Reichgelt, CL O'Brien, X Liu… - Climate of the …, 2024 - cp.copernicus.org
The Oligocene (33.9–23.03 Ma) had warm climates with flattened meridional temperature
gradients, while Antarctica retained a significant cryosphere. These may pose imperfect …

Resilient Antarctic monsoonal climate prevented ice growth during the Eocene

M Baatsen, P Bijl, A Von Der Heydt… - Climate of the Past …, 2023 - cp.copernicus.org
Understanding the extreme greenhouse of the Eocene (56–34Ma ago) is key to anticipate
potential future conditions. During the Eocene, the Antarctic continent remained mostly ice …

[HTML][HTML] Sea surface temperature evolution of the North Atlantic Ocean across the Eocene–Oligocene transition

KK Śliwińska, HK Coxall, DK Hutchinson… - Climate of the …, 2023 - cp.copernicus.org
A major step in the long-term Cenozoic evolution toward a glacially driven climate occurred
at the Eocene–Oligocene transition (EOT),∼ 34.44 to 33.65 million years ago (Ma) …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of continental temperature seasonality from the Eocene greenhouse to the Oligocene icehouse–a model–data comparison

A Toumoulin, D Tardif, Y Donnadieu, A Licht… - Climate of the …, 2022 - cp.copernicus.org
At the junction of greenhouse and icehouse climate states, the Eocene–Oligocene
Transition (EOT) is a key moment in Cenozoic climate history. While it is associated with …