Synchronisation of palaeoenvironmental records over the last 60,000 years, and an extended INTIMATE event stratigraphy to 48,000 b2k

SPE Blockley, CS Lane, M Hardiman… - Quaternary Science …, 2012 - Elsevier
The INTIMATE protocol for the correlation of marine ice core and terrestrial records is here
updated, reflecting recent developments in palaeoclimate research. Originally focussed on …

Volcanism and the Greenland ice-cores: the tephra record

PM Abbott, SM Davies - Earth-Science Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
In recent years, increased awareness of the considerable potential offered by
tephrochronology in palaeoclimatic studies has fuelled a renewed interest in the tephra …

Abrupt warming events drove Late Pleistocene Holarctic megafaunal turnover

A Cooper, C Turney, KA Hughen, BW Brook… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The mechanisms of Late Pleistocene megafauna extinctions remain fiercely contested, with
human impact or climate change cited as principal drivers. We compared ancient DNA and …

A stratigraphical basis for the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)

PD Hughes, PL Gibbard - Quaternary International, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) is widely used to refer to the episode when global
ice volume last reached its maximum and associated sea levels were at their lowest …

Cryptotephras: the revolution in correlation and precision dating

SM Davies - Journal of Quaternary Science, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
From its Icelandic origins in the study of visible tephra horizons, tephrochronology took a
remarkable step in the late 1980 s with the discovery of a ca. 4300‐year‐old microscopic …

The impact of Last Glacial climate variability in west-European loess revealed by radiocarbon dating of fossil earthworm granules

O Moine, P Antoine, C Hatté… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The characterization of Last Glacial millennial-timescale warming phases, known as
interstadials or Dansgaard–Oeschger events, requires precise chronologies for the study of …

Integrating the INTIMATE records using tephrochronology: rising to the challenge

SM Davies, PM Abbott, NJG Pearce… - Quaternary Science …, 2012 - Elsevier
Little has challenged our understanding of climate change more so than the abruptness with
which large-scale shifts in temperature occurred during the Late Quaternary. The causal …

Bayesian modelling the retreat of the Irish Sea Ice Stream

RC Chiverrell, IM Thrasher… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We present an 8000‐year history spanning 650 km of ice margin retreat for the largest
marine‐terminating ice stream draining the former British–Irish Ice Sheet. Bayesian …

Consistently dated Atlantic sediment cores over the last 40 thousand years

C Waelbroeck, BC Lougheed, N Vazquez Riveiros… - Scientific data, 2019 - nature.com
Rapid changes in ocean circulation and climate have been observed in marine-sediment
and ice cores over the last glacial period and deglaciation, highlighting the non-linear …

The North Atlantic Glacial Eastern Boundary Current as a key driver for ice‐sheet—AMOC interactions and climate instability

S Toucanne, G Soulet… - Paleoceanography …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The upper branch of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) plays a critical
role in ocean circulation and climate change, yet its variability during the last glacial period …