Snowballs in Africa: sectioning a long-lived Neoproterozoic carbonate platform and its bathyal foreslope (NW Namibia)

PF Hoffman, GP Halverson, DP Schrag, JA Higgins… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Otavi Group is a 1.5–3.5-km-thick epicontinental marine carbonate succession of
Neoproterozoic age, exposed in an 800-km-long Ediacaran− Cambrian fold belt that rims …

Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet evolution during the Cenozoic Era

BJ Davies, MJ Hambrey, JL Smellie, JL Carrivick… - Quaternary Science …, 2012 - Elsevier
The Antarctic Peninsula region is currently undergoing rapid environmental change,
resulting in the thinning, acceleration and recession of glaciers and the sequential collapse …

2.8 million years of Arctic climate change from Lake El'gygytgyn, NE Russia

M Melles, J Brigham-Grette, PS Minyuk, NR Nowaczyk… - science, 2012 - science.org
The reliability of Arctic climate predictions is currently hampered by insufficient knowledge of
natural climate variability in the past. A sediment core from Lake El'gygytgyn in northeastern …

Antarctic and Southern Ocean influences on Late Pliocene global cooling

R McKay, T Naish, L Carter… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
The influence of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean on Late Pliocene global climate
reconstructions has remained ambiguous due to a lack of well-dated Antarctic-proximal …

Antarctic ice sheet sensitivity to atmospheric CO2 variations in the early to mid-Miocene

R Levy, D Harwood, F Florindo… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Geological records from the Antarctic margin offer direct evidence of environmental
variability at high southern latitudes and provide insight regarding ice sheet sensitivity to …

Climatic and tectonic drivers of late Oligocene Antarctic ice volume

B Duncan, R McKay, R Levy, T Naish, JG Prebble… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Cenozoic evolution of the Antarctic ice sheets is thought to be driven primarily by long-term
changes in radiative forcing, but the tectonic evolution of Antarctica may also have played a …

Antarctic ice-sheet sensitivity to obliquity forcing enhanced through ocean connections

RH Levy, SR Meyers, TR Naish, NR Golledge… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Deep sea geological records indicate that Antarctic ice-sheet growth and decay is strongly
influenced by the Earth's astronomical variations (known as Milankovitch cycles), and that …

Strange bedfellows: glacial diamictite and cap carbonate from the Marinoan (635 Ma) glaciation in Namibia

PF Hoffman - Sedimentology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Otavi Group is a Neoproterozoic carbonate‐dominated succession up to 4 km
thick, which blankets the southern promontory of the Congo craton in northern Namibia. This …

[PDF][PDF] The quaternary period

B Pillans, P Gibbard - The geologic time scale 2012, 2012 - researchgate.net
The Quaternary Period, comprising the Holocene and Pleistocene Epochs, encompasses
the last~ 2.6 Ma during which time Earth's climate was strongly influenced by bipolar …

Glacial retreat patterns and processes determined from integrated sedimentology and geomorphology records

LO Prothro, LM Simkins, W Majewski, JB Anderson - Marine Geology, 2018 - Elsevier
Although hundreds of cores have been collected on the Antarctic continental shelf over the
past five decades, definitive interpretations of depositional environments associated with …