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Melanie J. Leng
Researcher at British Geological Survey
Publications - 527
Citations - 21539
Melanie J. Leng is an academic researcher from British Geological Survey. The author has contributed to research in topics: Holocene & Glacial period. The author has an hindex of 67, co-authored 494 publications receiving 18588 citations. Previous affiliations of Melanie J. Leng include University of Leicester & University of Cambridge.
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Palaeoclimate interpretation of stable isotope data from lake sediment archives
Melanie J. Leng,Jim D. Marshall +1 more
TL;DR: A review of the controls on the isotope composition of lacustrine skeletal and non-skeletal deposits and how stable isotope studies contribute to an understanding of changes in temperature, precipitation patterns, evaporation and the carbon cycle can be found in this article.
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A review of coastal palaeoclimate and relative sea-level reconstructions using δ13C and C/N ratios in organic material
TL;DR: A review of the use of carbon isotope ratios (δ13C) and organic carbon to total nitrogen ratios (C/N) to understand changes in palaeocoastal environments and thus position relative to sea-level and/or palaeoriver discharge can be found in this article.
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North Pacific seasonality and the glaciation of North America 2.7 million years ago
Gerald H. Haug,Andrey Ganopolski,Daniel M. Sigman,Antoni Rosell-Melé,George E. A. Swann,Ralf Tiedemann,Samuel L Jaccard,Jörg Bollmann,Mark A. Maslin,Melanie J. Leng,Geoffrey Eglinton +10 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that the observed summer warming extended into the autumn, providing water vapour to northern North America, where it precipitated and accumulated as snow, and thus allowed the initiation of Northern Hemisphere glaciation.
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The tempo of Holocene climatic change in the eastern Mediterranean region: new high-resolution crater-lake sediment data from central Turkey:
Neil Roberts,Jane M. Reed,Melanie J. Leng,Catherine Kuzucuoğlu,Michel Fontugne,Jacques Bertaux,H. Woldring,S. Bottema,Stuart Black,E. Hunt,Mustafa Karabıyıkoğlu +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present results from a multi-proxy analysis of cores taken in a crater-lake sequence from Eski Acigol in central Turkey which cover the period from pre-c. 16000 cal. yr BP to the present.
North Pacific seasonality and the glaciation of North America 2.7 million years ago
Gerald H. Haug,Andrey Ganopolski,Daniel M. Sigman,Antoni Rosell-Melé,George E. A. Swann,Ralf Tiedemann,Samuel L Jaccard,Jörg Bollmann,Mark A. Maslin,Melanie J. Leng,Geoffrey Eglinton +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present alkenone unsaturation ratios and diatom oxygen isotope ratios from a sediment core in the western subarctic Pacific Ocean, indicating that 2.7 million years ago late-summer sea surface temperatures in this ocean region rose in response to an increase in stratification.