Environmental records from coral skeletons: A decade of novel insights and innovation

DM Thompson - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hundreds of coral paleoclimate records have been developed over the past several
decades, significantly extending the instrumental record and improving our understanding of …

A late middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau

F Chen, F Welker, CC Shen, SE Bailey, I Bergmann… - nature, 2019 - nature.com
Denisovans are members of a hominin group who are currently only known directly from
fragmentary fossils, the genomes of which have been studied from a single site, Denisova …

A new insight of the MIS 3 Dansgaard-Oeschger climate oscillations in western Europe from the study of a Belgium isotopically equilibrated speleothem

M Peral, M Marchegiano, S Verheyden… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 3 records abrupt transitions from cold stadial to
temperate interstadial climate conditions, termed Dansgaard-Oeschger (DO) events …

Improvements in 230Th dating, 230Th and 234U half-life values, and U–Th isotopic measurements by multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

H Cheng, RL Edwards, CC Shen, VJ Polyak… - Earth and Planetary …, 2013 - Elsevier
We have developed techniques for measuring 234U and 230Th on Faraday cups with
precisions of 1–3 epsilon units (1 ε-unit= 1 part in 104) using multi-collector inductively …

Coupling of Indo-Pacific climate variability over the last millennium

NJ Abram, NM Wright, B Ellis, BC Dixon, JB Wurtzel… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) affects climate and rainfall across the world, and
most severely in nations surrounding the Indian Ocean,,–. The frequency and intensity of …

Hydroclimate changes across the Amazon lowlands over the past 45,000 years

X Wang, RL Edwards, AS Auler, H Cheng, X Kong… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Reconstructing the history of tropical hydroclimates has been difficult, particularly for the
Amazon basin—one of Earth's major centres of deep atmospheric convection,. For example …

Neandertal roots: Cranial and chronological evidence from Sima de los Huesos

JL Arsuaga, I Martínez, LJ Arnold, A Aranburu… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Seventeen Middle Pleistocene crania from the Sima de los Huesos site (Atapuerca, Spain)
are analyzed, including seven new specimens. This sample makes it possible to thoroughly …

Climate change patterns in Amazonia and biodiversity

H Cheng, A Sinha, FW Cruz, X Wang… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Precise characterization of hydroclimate variability in Amazonia on various timescales is
critical to understanding the link between climate change and biodiversity. Here we present …

Trends and oscillations in the Indian summer monsoon rainfall over the last two millennia

A Sinha, G Kathayat, H Cheng… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Observations show that summer rainfall over large parts of South Asia has declined over the
past five to six decades. It remains unclear, however, whether this trend is due to natural …

North Atlantic storm track changes during the Last Glacial Maximum recorded by Alpine speleothems

M Luetscher, R Boch, H Sodemann, C Spötl… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract The European Alps are an effective barrier for meridional moisture transport and
are thus uniquely placed to record shifts in the North Atlantic storm track pattern associated …