The global monsoon across time scales: Mechanisms and outstanding issues

PX Wang, B Wang, H Cheng, J Fasullo, ZT Guo… - Earth-Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
The present paper addresses driving mechanisms of global monsoon (GM) variability and
outstanding issues in GM science. This is the second synthesis of the PAGES GM Working …

Cyclostratigraphy and the problem of astrochronologic testing

SR Meyers - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
When Milankovitch cycles are preserved in the geologic record they provide a direct link
between chronometer and climate change, and thus a remarkable opportunity to constrain …

[BOOK][B] Phylogenetics: theory and practice of phylogenetic systematics

EO Wiley, BS Lieberman - 2011 - books.google.com
The long-awaited revision of the industry standard on phylogenetics Since the publication of
the first edition of this landmark volume more than twenty-five years ago, phylogenetic …

La2010: a new orbital solution for the long-term motion of the Earth

J Laskar, A Fienga, M Gastineau, H Manche - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2011 - aanda.org
We present here a new solution for the astronomical computation of the orbital motion of the
Earth spanning from 0 to− 250 Myr. The main improvement with respect to our previous …

The geologic time scale

FM Gradstein, JG Ogg, MD Schmitz, GM Ogg - Boston, USA, 2012 - books.google.com
Construction and assembly of the Geologic Time Scale involves:(a) constructing a relative
(chronostratigraphic) standard scale for key periods in the Earth's rock record;(b) identifying …

Organic carbon burial is paced by a~ 173-ka obliquity cycle in the middle to high latitudes

H Huang, Y Gao, C Ma, MM Jones, C Zeeden… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Earth's climate system is complex and inherently nonlinear, which can induce some
extraneous cycles in paleoclimatic proxies at orbital time scales. The paleoenvironmental …

[BOOK][B] Sustaining life: how human health depends on biodiversity

E Chivian, A Bernstein - 2008 - books.google.com
The Earth's biodiversity-the rich variety of life on our planet-is disappearing at an alarming
rate. And while many books have focused on the expected ecological consequences, or on …

Astronomical forcing and sedimentary noise modeling of lake-level changes in the Paleogene Dongpu Depression of North China

M Wang, H Chen, C Huang, DB Kemp, T Xu… - Earth and Planetary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Challenges in interpreting continental sequence stratigraphy and typically uncertain
geochronology hinder the understanding of paleolake evolution and hydrocarbon …

Evolution of the Late Miocene Mediterranean–Atlantic gateways and their impact on regional and global environmental change

R Flecker, W Krijgsman, W Capella… - 2015 - Elsevier
Marine gateways play a critical role in the exchange of water, heat, salt and nutrients
between oceans and seas. As a result, changes in gateway geometry can significantly alter …

Alternating high and low climate variability: The context of natural selection and speciation in Plio-Pleistocene hominin evolution

R Potts, JT Faith - Journal of human evolution, 2015 - Elsevier
Interaction of orbital insolation cycles defines a predictive model of alternating phases of
high-and low-climate variability for tropical East Africa over the past 5 million years. This …