Downcore counting of laminations in varved sediments offers a direct and incremental
dating technique for high-resolution climatic and environmental archives with at least annual …

Millennial to orbital-scale rainfall changes in the Mediterranean region and corresponding
variations in vegetation patterns were the result of large-scale atmospheric reorganizations …

Despite widespread use of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) for
paleo-temperature reconstruction, no global calibration for their application in lakes has …

Sediment cores recovered by the Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project (DSDDP) from the
deepest basin of the hypersaline, terminal Dead Sea (lake floor at∼ 725 m below mean sea …

The global compilation of reported marine varved sedimentary records throughout the
Quaternary contains 52 sites. Marine varve deposition and preservation typically depend on …

The possibility of a causal relationship between Earth history processes and hominin
evolution in Africa has been the subject of intensive paleoanthropological research for the …

The mechanisms underlying the current greenhouse gas (GHG) forced decline in
Mediterranean rainfall remain a matter of debate. To inform our understanding of the current …

The Fertile Crescent, its hilly flanks and surrounding drylands has been a critical region for
studying how climate has influenced societal change, and this review focuses on the region …

Hypersaline lakes and seas were common in the past, precipitating thick evaporitic salt
deposits. The only modern analogue for the paleolimnology of deep salt‐saturated aquatic …

Sinkhole development is a hazardous geomorphic process responsible for increasing
economic losses worldwide. The highly dynamic eogenetic salt karst of the Dead Sea is one …