Pleistocene climate variability in eastern Africa influenced hominin evolution

V Foerster, A Asrat, C Bronk Ramsey, ET Brown… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Despite more than half a century of hominin fossil discoveries in eastern Africa, the regional
environmental context of hominin evolution and dispersal is not well established due to the …

Holocene rangeland characteristics on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau in relation to climate and pastoralism from sedimentary ancient DNA

Y Liu, KR Stoof-Leichsenring, B Diekmann… - Quaternary Science …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The northeast Tibetan Plateau, functioning as an alpine pasture, has been
influenced by prehistoric settlements for millennia. However, the extent to which climate and …

Insights into mineralogical distribution mechanism and environmental significance from geochemical behavior of sediments in the Yellow River Basin, China

W Li, H Qian, P Xu, K Hou, W Qu, W Ren… - Science of The Total …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Mineralogical investigations on fluvial sedimentary sequences could provide historical
environmental information on the effects of human activities and natural events. This study …

Lithium isotopes and implications on chemical weathering in the catchment of Lake Donggi Cona, northeastern Tibetan Plateau

M Weynell, U Wiechert, JA Schuessler - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2017‏ - Elsevier
This study presents lithium (Li) isotope ratios (δ 7 Li) for rocks, sediments, suspended
particulate material, and dissolved Li from the Lake Donggi Cona catchment, located on the …

Decoupled local climate and chemical weathering intensity of fine-grained siliciclastic sediments from a paleo-megalake: An example from the Qaidam basin, northern …

L Wang, X Jian, H Fu, W Zhang, F Shang, L Fu - Sedimentary Geology, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Clay mineralogy and elemental geochemistry of lacustrine sedimentary records have been
widely used in paleo-weathering and paleo-climate studies. However, different paleo …

Clay minerals in the sediments as useful paleoclimate proxy: Lake Sentarum case study, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

A Dianto, L Subehi, I Ridwansyah… - IOP Conference Series …, 2019‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Lake Sentarum is a flood-plains lake that will dry and flood as climate cycle that is interesting
to be studied climate change from the past to near the present. The objective of this study is …

A quantitative method to infer lake area changes based on an extensive survey of lake surface sediment grain size across the Inner Mongolia Plateau, and its …

Z Liu, W Wang, Z Niu, Y Jiang, X Wen, Z Lv… - Palaeogeography …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Grain size is commonly used as a proxy to reconstruct past lake hydrology; however,
published research rarely links grain size with modern processes, and uncertainties exist for …

Peculiar study of clay minerals with special reference to illite and their climatic significance over the past 12 decades

S Das, S Vasudevan - Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2022‏ - Springer
Clay minerals are susceptible to alteration during transportation and accumulation in varying
environments. This paper investigated the clay mineralogy of sediments in core from …

Fluvial landscape development in the southwestern Kalahari during the Holocene–Chronology and provenance of fluvial deposits in the Molopo Canyon

A Ramisch, O Bens, JP Buylaert, M Eden, K Heine… - Geomorphology, 2017‏ - Elsevier
The southern Kalahari drainage network is in a key position to analyze spatiotemporal
changes in the tropical easterly and the temperate westerly circulation over the Southern …

Clay mineralogical evidence of Quaternary paleoclimate in Northern Morocco

S Tichli, M Outiskt, K Aboumaria - E3S Web of Conferences, 2024‏ - e3s-conferences.org
The paleoclimate during the Pleistocene period can be deduced from the study of the
composition of clay minerals in the marine terraces of the Tangier region, Morocco. In the …