Nicholas Branch

TL;DR: A high-resolution record of surface moisture, based on the degree of peat humification and the ratio of sedges to grass, from northern Queensland, Australia, covering the past 45,000 yr is presented, suggesting that climate variations in the tropical Pacific Ocean on millennial as well as orbital timescales, which determined precipitation in northeastern Australia, also exerted an influence on North Atlantic climate through atmospheric and oceanic teleconnections.

TL;DR: A multi-proxy study of a Holocene sediment core (RF 93-30) from the western flank of the central Adriatic, in 77 m of water, reveals a sequence of changes in terrestrial vegetation, terrigenous sediment input and benthic fauna, as well as evidence for variations in sea surface temperature spanning most of the last 7000 yr.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on the potential for extending the areas over which some of the tephras can be traced by the search for layers of micro-tephra, which are not visible to the naked eye, and on the use of geochemical methods to correlate them with known tephra horizons.

TL;DR: The authors examined mid-to-late Holocene centennial-scale climate variability in Ireland using proxy data from peatlands, lakes and a speleothem and found that there are some periods of coherence between these records.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used radiocarbon dates from five sites along a transect from southern New Zealand, through Australia to Indonesia, supported by 125 calibrated C-14 ages to identify two periods of significant change across the region at around 17 and 14.2 cal kyr BP, most probably associated with the onset of warming in the West Pacific Warm Pool and the collapse of Antarctic ice during Meltwater Pulse-1A, respectively.