An optimized scheme of lettered marine isotope substages for the last 1.0 million years, and the climatostratigraphic nature of isotope stages and substages

LB Railsback, PL Gibbard, MJ Head… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
A complete and optimized scheme of lettered marine isotope substages spanning the last
1.0 million years is proposed. Lettered substages for Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5 were …

Orbital forcing of continental climate during the Pleistocene: a complete astronomically tuned climatic record from Lake Baikal, SE Siberia

AA Prokopenko, LA Hinnov, DF Williams… - Quaternary Science …, 2006 - Elsevier
A new composite BDP-96 biogenic silica record over the entire Pleistocene was generated
by splicing BDP-96-1 and BDP-96-2 drill cores from Lake Baikal, crosschecked against a …

Interglacial and glacial variability from the last 800 ka in marine, ice and terrestrial archives

N Lang, EW Wolff - Climate of the Past, 2011 - cp.copernicus.org
We have compiled 37 ice, marine and terrestrial palaeoclimate records covering the last 800
000 years in order to assess the pattern of glacial and interglacial strength, and termination …

[BOG][B] The British Palaeolithic: human societies at the edge of the Pleistocene world

P Pettitt, M White - 2012 - taylorfrancis.com
The British Palaeolithic provides the first academic synthesis of the entire British
Palaeolithic, from the earliest occupation (currently understood to be around 980,000 years …

Heading north: Late Pleistocene environments and human dispersals in central and eastern Asia

F Li, N Vanwezer, N Boivin, X Gao, F Ott, M Petraglia… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The adaptability of our species, as revealed by the geographic routes and
palaeoenvironmental contexts of human dispersal beyond Africa, is a prominent topic in …

Mineralogy of the mid-ocean-ridge basalt source from neodymium isotopic composition of abyssal peridotites

VJM Salters, HJB Dick - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
Inferring the melting process at mid-ocean ridges, and the physical conditions under which
melting takes place, usually relies on the assumption of compositional similarity between all …

Speleothems reveal 500,000-year history of Siberian permafrost

A Vaks, OS Gutareva, SFM Breitenbach, E Avirmed… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Soils in permafrost regions contain twice as much carbon as the atmosphere, and
permafrost has an important influence on the natural and built environment at high northern …

Paleoenvironment-driven organic matter accumulation in lacustrine shale mixed with shell bioclasts: A case study from the Jurassic Da'anzhai member, Sichuan Basin …

W Lei, D Chen, Z Liu, M Cheng - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The sedimentary environment governs the depositional processes, ecological environments,
and hydrodynamics, which affect the accumulation of organic-rich sediments. Some …

A 249 kyr stack of eight loess grain size records from northern China documenting millennial‐scale climate variability

S Yang, Z Ding - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
In order to construct a stacked climatic record of millennial‐scale variability for northern
China, grain size was measured for 12,330 samples from eight thick loess sections …

Marine Isotope Stage 11: Palaeoclimates, palaeoenvironments and its role as an analogue for the current interglacial

I Candy, DC Schreve, J Sherriff, GJ Tye - Earth-Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Interglacials of the Quaternary Period are currently the focus of a great deal of
attention within the scientific community. This is primarily because they play a vital role in …