Showing papers in "Quaternary Science Reviews in 1985"

TL;DR: In this article, a general circulation model was used to simulate the January and July patterns of temperature, precipitation, and wind for 18 ka BP, and boundary conditions for the model, consisting of ice-sheet location and height, sea-ice location, and sea-surface temperature were prescribed from CLIMAP.

TL;DR: In this article, the extent of isoleucine epimerization (DL ratio) in indigenous protein residues was analyzed for molluscan fossils collected from shallow water marine sediment across NW Europe and nearby Arctic regions.

TL;DR: Foraminiferal oxygen-isotope data from 24 tropical Atlantic sediment cores, constrained by 77 14C dates, are stacked to form a composite record of isotopic Termination 1, indicating that most of the isotopic transition at the end of the last ice age occurred between 14 ka BP and 6 ka BP as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the epimerization of l :isoleucine to d :alloisoleucines (D L ratios) in Patella vulgata, Littorina littorea, L. littoralis, Nucella lapillus from raised beaches in south west Britain, and statistical analysis of the D L ratios, and a lithostratigraphic and geomorphic evaluation are proposed.

TL;DR: In this article, a survey is made of various factors influencing the 13 C 12 C ratio of the organic component in lake sediments, focusing on the behaviour at the change from glacial to postglacial environmental conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, the general patterns of climatic evolution in China during the Holocene are reviewed, and following the postglacial eustatic rise of sea-level and the institution of the East Asian Monsoon, the systems and principal fluctuations are found to be concordant with those operating elsewhere in the globe.

TL;DR: The question of whether a possible landbridge(s) existed between Britain and Ireland during Devensian (Midlandian) Late-glacial and Holocene time is analysed in the light of new geological and related environmental information as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The classical region of the Holsteinian interglacial is in the vicinity of Hamburg and the Lower Elbe and is defined on the basis of pollen and is clearly distinguishable from the Eemian Interglacial as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, evidence from terrestrial sections, ice cores, and marine cores are reviewed and used to develop a scenario for environmental change in the area of the extreme northwest North Atlantic during marine isotope stages 5 and 4.

TL;DR: The year 1965 is seen as the end of a prolonged pioneering stage in New Zealand Quaternary studies as discussed by the authors, and by 1965 about 138 relevant publications had appeared, with the following factors and developments in particular influenced directions and progress: (1) initially, ongoing 19th century interest in the ‘Glacial Controversy’ and consequently in ‘Ice Age’ manifestations in the large, isolated, middle-latitude islands of New Zealand; (2) from 1864, vigorous gold-mining excavations in quaternary morainic deposits; (