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 …

Interglacials of the last 800,000 years

Past Interglacials Working Group of … - Reviews of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Interglacials, including the present (Holocene) period, are warm, low land ice extent (high
sea level), end‐members of glacial cycles. Based on a sea level definition, we identify …

Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica

JR Petit, J Jouzel, D Raynaud, NI Barkov, JM Barnola… - Nature, 1999 - nature.com
The recent completion of drilling at Vostok station in East Antarctica has allowed the
extension of the ice record of atmospheric composition and climate to the past four glacial …

Lacustrine sedimentary organic matter records of Late Quaternary paleoclimates

PA Meyers, E Lallier-Vergès - Journal of Paleolimnology, 1999 - Springer
Identification of the sources of organic matter in sedimentary records provides important
paleolimnologic information. As the types and abundances of plant life in and around lakes …

A new scenario for the Quaternary history of European beech populations: palaeobotanical evidence and genetic consequences

D Magri, GG Vendramin, B Comps… - New …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Here, palaeobotanical and genetic data for common beech (Fagus sylvatica) in Europe are
used to evaluate the genetic consequences of long‐term survival in refuge areas and …

Trees or no trees? The environments of central and eastern Europe during the Last Glaciation

KJ Willis, TH Van Andel - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2004 - Elsevier
The location and survival of trees in the coldest stages of the last full-glacial has long been
of interest to palaeoecologists, biogeographers, archaeologists and geneticists alike. In …

The invisible frontier. A multiple species model for the origin of behavioral modernity

F d'Errico - … Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews: Issues …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Two contradictory theories of human cognitive evolution have been developed to model
how, when, and among what hominid groups behavioral modernity emerged. The first …

Markers of the last interglacial sea-level high stand along the coast of Italy: tectonic implications

L Ferranti, F Antonioli, B Mauz, A Amorosi… - Quaternary …, 2006 - Elsevier
A compilation of the Marine Isotope Substage (MIS) 5.5 high stand (∼ 125Ka) sites
spanning the coastline of Italy allows a picture of the vertical displacement pattern affecting …

The last 1.35 million years at Tenaghi Philippon: revised chronostratigraphy and long-term vegetation trends

PC Tzedakis, H Hooghiemstra, H Pälike - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2006 - Elsevier
In addition to being of interest to ancient Greek and Roman historians, the site of Philippi, NE
Greece, has long been noted in Quaternary circles for providing the longest continuous …

Patterns and processes of Late Quaternary environmental change in a montane region of southwestern Europe

JS Carrión - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2002 - Elsevier
This paper examines the Late Quaternary (c. 20,300–< 505calyr BP) environmental history
of Siles, a lake situated at 1320m in the Segura mountains of southern Spain, with the goal …