Maurice Arnold

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors date fossil corals from Tahiti, which is far from plate boundaries and thus is likely to be tectonically relatively stable, and remote from the locations of large former ice sheets, and reveal that the meltwater pulse coincides with a short and intense climate cooling event that followed the initiation of the Bolling-Allerod warm period.

TL;DR: In this article, a 13,000-yr record from Sumxi Co (western Tibet), constructed from both lake-core and shoreline studies, shows that conditions in the early-middle Holocene were warmer and wetter than at present.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present evidence from a high-resolution record of oxygen isotopes and carbonate spanning the past 24,000 calendar years that the response of the southwest monsoon over the Arabian Sea to long-term, gradual insolation changes occurred in several distinct events of less than 300 years duration, at 14,300, 13,500,13,060, 9,900, 8,800 and 7,30014C yr BP.

TL;DR: This article used thermal ionization mass spectrometry (TIMS) to obtain precise U-Th ages and to compare them with the 14C estimates measured on the same samples.

TL;DR: Bard et al. as mentioned in this paper measured 14C and 230Th ages on new samples collected from boreholes drilled off the islands of Tahiti and Mururoa (French Polynesia) in order to complement the database previously obtained on Barbados corals.