The deglaciation of the Americas during the Last Glacial Termination

D Palacios, CR Stokes, FM Phillips, JJ Clague… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper reviews current understanding of deglaciation in North, Central and South
America from the Last Glacial Maximum to the beginning of the Holocene. Together with …

Quaternary glaciation in the Mediterranean mountains: a new synthesis

PD Hughes, JC Woodward - Geological Society, London, Special …, 2017 - lyellcollection.org
The Mediterranean mountains were repeatedly glaciated during the Pleistocene. Glaciers
were present in most of the major mountains areas from Morocco in the west to the Black …

Timing and structure of the Younger Dryas event and its underlying climate dynamics

H Cheng, H Zhang, C Spötl, J Baker… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The Younger Dryas (YD), arguably the most widely studied millennial-scale extreme climate
event, was characterized by diverse hydroclimate shifts globally and severe cooling at high …

Precise date for the Laacher See eruption synchronizes the Younger Dryas

F Reinig, L Wacker, O Jöris, C Oppenheimer… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Laacher See eruption (LSE) in Germany ranks among Europe's largest
volcanic events of the Upper Pleistocene,. Although tephra deposits of the LSE represent an …

[КНИГА][B] First Peoples in a New World: Populating Ice Age America

DJ Meltzer - 2021 - books.google.com
" Sometime before 15,000 years ago, a band of hunter-gatherers arrived in Northeast Asia.
They continued east, becoming the first people to set foot in the Americas. They soon found …

Mean global ocean temperatures during the last glacial transition

B Bereiter, S Shackleton, D Baggenstos, K Kawamura… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Little is known about the ocean temperature's long-term response to climate perturbations
owing to limited observations and a lack of robust reconstructions. Although most of the …

Atmospheric circulation over Europe during the Younger Dryas

BR Rea, R Pellitero, M Spagnolo, P Hughes… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The Younger Dryas (YD) was a period of rapid climate cooling that occurred at the end of the
last glaciation. Here, we present the first palaeoglacier-derived reconstruction of YD …

Coherent deglacial changes in western Atlantic Ocean circulation

HC Ng, LF Robinson, JF McManus… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Abrupt climate changes in the past have been attributed to variations in Atlantic Meridional
Overturning Circulation (AMOC) strength. However, the exact timing and magnitude of past …

[HTML][HTML] Regulation of soil organic matter decomposition in permafrost-affected Siberian tundra soils-Impact of oxygen availability, freezing and thawing, temperature …

J Walz, C Knoblauch, L Böhme, EM Pfeiffer - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
The large amounts of soil organic matter (SOM) in permafrost-affected soils are prone to
increased microbial decomposition in a warming climate. The environmental parameters …

Population reconstructions for humans and megafauna suggest mixed causes for North American Pleistocene extinctions

JM Broughton, EM Weitzel - Nature Communications, 2018 - nature.com
Dozens of large mammals such as mammoth and mastodon disappeared in North America
at the end of the Pleistocene with climate change and “overkill” by human hunters the most …