Paleoenvironmental reconstructions on a (supra-) regional scale have gained attention in
Quaternary sciences during the last decades. In terrestrial realms, loess deposits and …

A series of publications purport to provide evidence that the Earth was subjected to an
extraterrestrial event or events at∼ 12.9 ka creating an environmental cataclysm and the …

Previous glacial intervals were punctuated by abrupt climate transitions between cold
(stadial) and warm (interstadial) conditions. Many mechanisms leading to stadial-interstadial …

The relative role of external forcing and of intrinsic variability is a key question of climate
variability in general and of our planet's paleoclimatic past in particular. Over the last 100 …

Ice core and marine archives provide detailed quantitative records of last glacial climate
changes, whereas comparable terrestrial records from the mid-latitudes remain scarce. Here …

Abstract The southern Caspian Lowland sensitively reacted to Pleistocene climate change
and is a key area for reconstructing climate dynamics and landscape evolution in Southern …

Large amplitude, rapid climate oscillations, the so-called Dansgaard-Oeschger (DO) events,
are characteristic of the last glacial period. However, lithological evidence of DO warming …

The Earth's climate has experienced numerous critical transitions during its history, which
have often been accompanied by massive and rapid changes in the biosphere. Such …

Loess-paleosol sequences (LPSs) are important terrestrial archives of paleoenvironmental
and paleoclimatic information. One of the main obstacles for the investigation and …

The alternations of glacial and interglacial cycles are a classical feature of Quaternary
climatic evolution and have been demonstrated to be closely related to seasonal insolation …