Publisher Summary This chapter discusses a necessary task for assessing to which degree
the industrial period is unusual against the background of pre-industrial climate variability. It …

Deep-sea corals were discovered over a century ago, but it is only over recent years that
focused efforts have been made to explore the history of the oceans using the geochemistry …

Long-term (⩽ 1-year) records obtained by seabed observatories (BOBO) and repeated (24-
h) CTD casts show the presence of a highly energetic environment in and around two cold …

We present a detailed history of glacial to Holocene radiocarbon in the deep western North
Atlantic from deep-sea corals and paired benthic-planktonic foraminifera. The deglaciation is …

Precious corals have been commercially exploited for many centuries all over the world.
Their skeletons have been used as amulets or jewellery since antiquity and are one of the …

The radial growth rates and ages of 3 different groups of Hawaiian deep-sea 'corals' were
determined using radiocarbon measurements. Specimens of Corallium secundum, Gerardia …

We show that the Li/Mg systematics of a large suite of aragonitic coral skeletons,
representing a wide range of species inhabiting disparate environments, provides a robust …

The largest coherent cold-water coral (CWC) mound province in the Atlantic Ocean exists
along the Mauritanian margin, where up to 100 m high mounds extend over a distance of∼ …

Here, the potential for rapid and accurate U–Th dating technique of marine aragonite
skeletons (deep-sea corals, Lophelia pertusa) and secondary calcite deposits (speleothems …

Proxy-based studies have linked the pre-industrial atmospheric p CO 2 rise of∼ 20 ppmv in
the mid-to late Holocene to an inferred increase in the Southern Ocean overturning and …