Lucas Joost Lourens

TL;DR: An Astronomically Tuned Neogene Time Scale (ATNTS2012) is presented in this article, as an update of ATNTS2004 in GTS2004, and the numerical ages are identical or almost so.

TL;DR: Geochemical data from five new South Atlantic deep-sea sections indicate that a large mass of carbon dissolved in the ocean at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary and that permanent sequestration of this carbon occurred through silicate weathering feedback.

TL;DR: In this article, an astronomically calibrated timescale has been established for the Pliocene and earliest Pleistocene based on the correlation of dominantly pre-cession controlled sedimentary cycles (sapropels and carbonate cycles) in Mediterranean ma- rine sequences to the precession time series of the astronomical solution of Berger and Loutre ( 1991 ) (hereinafter referred to as Ber90).

TL;DR: A new, highly resolved, astronomically dated, continuous composite of benthic foraminifer isotope records developed in the authors' laboratories reveals the key role that polar ice volume plays in the predictability of Cenozoic climate dynamics.