Malcolm T. McCulloch

TL;DR: The distinctive geographic footprints of recurrent bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef in 1998, 2002 and 2016 were determined by the spatial pattern of sea temperatures in each year, suggesting that local protection of reefs affords little or no resistance to extreme heat.

TL;DR: Coral reefs in the present day have less time than in earlier periods to recover from bleaching events, and Tropical reef systems are transitioning to a new era in which the interval between recurrent bouts of coral bleaching is too short for a full recovery of mature assemblages.

TL;DR: In this article, a quantitative model has been developed for IAB petrogenesis with the transfer of trace elements from the slab to the mantle wedge being modelled with empirical slab-fluid partition coefficients whilst the mantlewedge to arc-crust transfer is constrained by melt-solid partitioning.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that trace element abundances of modern turbidites, from both active and passive settings, differ from Archean turbidite in several important ways.

TL;DR: Annual banded corals from Papua New Guinea are used to show that ENSO has existed for the past 130,000 years, operating even during “glacial” times of substantially reduced regional and global temperature and changed solar forcing, and it is found that during the 20th century ENGSO has been strong compared with E NSO of previous cool and warm times.