Magnetic mineral diagenesis

AP Roberts - Earth-Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Reduction–oxidation (redox) reactions occur during burial because sediments contain
reactive mixtures of oxidised and reduced components. Diagenetic chemical reactions …

Paleoclimate and paleoceanography over the past 20,000 yr in the Mediterranean Sea Basins as indicated by sediment elemental proxies

F Martinez-Ruiz, M Kastner, D Gallego-Torres… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Marine sediments record paleoenvironmental changes over time through variations in major
and trace element concentrations. The main objective of this paper is to review such …

Evaluation of the Plio‐Pleistocene astronomical timescale

LJ Lourens, A Antonarakou, FJ Hilgen… - …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
An astronomically calibrated timescale has recently been established [Hilgen, 1991a, b] for
the Pliocene and earliest Pleistocene based on the correlation of dominantly precession …

Selective preservation of organic matter in marine environments; processes and impact on the sedimentary record

KAF Zonneveld, GJM Versteegh, S Kasten… - …, 2010 - bg.copernicus.org
The present paper is the result of a workshop sponsored by the DFG Research
Center/Cluster of Excellence MARUM" The Ocean in the Earth System", the International …

Review and new aspects concerning the formation of eastern Mediterranean sapropels

EJ Rohling - Marine Geology, 1994 - Elsevier
In this paper, it is proposed that the formation of eastern Mediterranean sapropels occurred
in an anti-estuarine type of circulation, which was to some degree weakened relative to the …

Global monsoon in a geological perspective

PX Wang - Chinese Science Bulletin, 2009 - Springer
Monsoon is now considered as a global system rather than regional phenomena only. For
over 300 years, monsoon has been viewed as a gigantic land-sea breeze, but now satellite …

Anoxic vs dysoxic events reflected in sediment geochemistry during the Cenomanian–Turonian Boundary Event (Cretaceous) in the Umbria–Marche Basin of central …

S Turgeon, HJ Brumsack - Chemical Geology, 2006 - Elsevier
One of the most spectacular expressions of global “Oceanic Anoxic Events”(OAEs) of the
Cretaceous is the Livello Bonarelli of central Italy, deposited during the Cenomanian …

A 3 million year index for North African humidity/aridity and the implication of potential pan-African Humid periods

KM Grant, EJ Rohling, T Westerhold, M Zabel… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Mediterranean sediments are valuable archives of both African monsoon variability and
higher-latitude climate processes, and can also be used to provide an environmental context …

Oligotrophy and nitrogen fixation during eastern Mediterranean sapropel events

JP Sachs, DJ Repeta - Science, 1999 - science.org
Nitrogen isotopic measurements in fossil chlorophyll from late Pleistocene organic-rich
sediments (sapropels) in the eastern Mediterranean Sea provide geochemical evidence for …

The Oligo–Miocene closure of the Tethys Ocean and evolution of the proto-Mediterranean Sea

A Torfstein, J Steinberg - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The tectonically driven Cenozoic closure of the Tethys Ocean invoked a significant
reorganization of oceanic circulation and climate patterns on a global scale. This process …