Showing papers in "Quaternary Science Reviews in 2017"
TL;DR: In this article, a first-order thermomechanical ice sheet model was applied to investigate the retreat of the EISC after 23 ka BP, directly extending the work of Patton et al. (2016) who modelled the build-up to its maximum extent.
247 citations
Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory1, University of Arizona2, University of St Andrews3, University of East Anglia4, University of Cambridge5, Masaryk University6, William Paterson University7, Stockholm University8, University of Edinburgh9, University of Gothenburg10, Siberian Federal University11, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague12, University of Giessen13, College of Wooster14
TL;DR: The Leverhulme Trust project as discussed by the authors proposed a method to study the effects of water pollution on the UK's marine environment using a water sampling method. But the method was not suitable for outdoor water harvesting.
174 citations
University of Southampton1, University of Oxford2, Russian Academy of Sciences3, University of Washington4, University of Lausanne5, University of Cologne6, Kazan Federal University7, Novosibirsk State University8, University of California, Los Angeles9, Moscow State University10, University College London11
TL;DR: In this article, the authors extracted pollen spectra representing 1000-year time-slices from 21 kyr cal BP to present and used the biomization approach to define the most likely vegetation biome represented.
147 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the relative sea-level rise scenarios for the year 2100 from four areas of the Italian peninsula are depicted, based on the Rahmstorf (2007) and IPCC-AR5 reports 2013 for the RCP-8.5 scenarios adjusted for the rates of vertical land movements.
137 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a Holocene relative sea-level (RSL) database for the Caribbean region (5°N to 25°N and 55°W to 90°W) that consists of 499 sea level index points and 238 limiting dates.
132 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the cosmogenic radiocarbon signal of 775 CE in a subfossil larch engulfed and killed by pyroclastic currents emplaced during the initial rhyolitic phase of the explosive eruption.
128 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a stalagmite-based δ18O record from Kesang Cave in western China, using MC-ICP-MS U-series dating and stable isotope analysis, was presented.
115 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a detailed record of the Holocene evolution of vegetation in northern China based on a high-resolution pollen record from Dali Lake, located near the modern summer monsoon limit.
106 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the dating and sedimentology of Boodie Cave to establish the framework for ongoing analysis of cultural materials and present new data on these cultural assemblages, including charcoal, faunal remains and lithics.
105 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present XRF core-scanning results for ODP Site 967 (Eastern Mediterranean) that have been fully-calibrated into element concentrations spanning the last 3 million years.
97 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a review of the Quaternary distribution and extirpation of tree populations from Southern Europe is presented, where a hundred pollen and plant macrofossil records from the Iberian Peninsula, Southern France, the Italian Peninsula, Greece and the southwestern Black Sea area formed the basis for a review.
TL;DR: In this paper, compound specific hydrogen isotope records of sedimentary leaf waxes from lakes on the Tibetan Plateau, Bangong Co, Lake Qinghai and Linggo Co were used to investigate variations in the influence of the summer monsoon and the westerly jet on the moisture budget of the TP since the Late Pleistocene.
TL;DR: In this article, a 19.63m long core from Lake Sidi Ali in the North African Middle Atlas, a transition zone of Atlantic, Western Mediterranean and Saharan air mass trajectories, was used to reconstruct Western Mediterranean hydro-climatic variability, seasonality and forcing mechanisms during the last 12,000 years.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present new results for both continentalmantle E and I for the Late Wisconsin ice sheet, using geological evidence for relative sea-level change (rsl) and tilting of palaeo-lake shorelines, complemented with loose constraints from observations of present-day radial crustal displacement across North America.
TL;DR: The basis of tephrochronology as a chronostratigraphic correlational and dating tool for palaeoenvironmental, geological, and archaeological research is summarized and recent advances in analytical methods used to determine the major, minor, and trace elements of individual glass shards from tephra or cryptotephra deposits are documented.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify significant differences between the last and penultimate glacial maxima (LGM and PGM) in terms of global volume and distribution of land ice, despite similar temperatures and radiative forcing.
Linnaeus University1, University of Toulouse2, Tallinn University3, Tallinn University of Technology4, University of Plymouth5, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne6, University of Helsinki7, University of Turku8, University College London9, University of Bergen10, University of Göttingen11, Chinese Academy of Sciences12, University of Wollongong13, University of Cambridge14, University of Aberdeen15, University of Potsdam16, University of Gdańsk17, University of Stavanger18
TL;DR: In this paper, the relative impacts of land use and climate on Holocene vegetation at a sub-continental scale are quantified using redundancy analysis and variation partitioning to quantify the percentage of variation in vegetation composition explained by the climate and land-use variables, and Monte Carlo permutation tests to assess the statistical significance of each variable.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined sand dune evolution from the Bayanbulak Basin in the Tian Shan (Xinjiang, NW China), aiming to infer the Holocene moisture history of the ACA.
TL;DR: A dynamic model of the landscape evolution of the Nile delta system is presented in this paper for the period c.8000-4500-cal BP, which is characterised by a transition from an earlier set of spatially varied landscapes dominated by swampy marshland to better-drained, more uniform floodplain environments.
TL;DR: In this article, a sensitivity analysis was conducted to compare the observed elevation of globally distributed high stand markers to a suite of GIA simulations that vary the Earth model and GMSL from the Last Interglaciation (MIS 5e, ∼130-115 ka) to 70 ka.
TL;DR: A review of the literature dealing with the transient response of rivers to tectonic perturbation, through the production of knickpoints propagating through the drainage network, can be found in this paper.
TL;DR: The fluvial archive literature is dominated by research on river terraces with appropriate mention of adjacent environments such as lakes as discussed by the authors, despite modern sedimentary basins comprising a significant (>88%) volume of distributive fluvial systems, of which alluvial fans (>1.km,
TL;DR: In this article, a data-based time slice for the last interglacial (LIG, ∼129-116 thousand years ago, ka) is presented, which represents surface temperature anomalies relative to preindustrial and is associated with quantitative estimates of the uncertainties related to relative dating and surface temperature reconstruction methods.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review and evaluate human adaptations during the last glacial-interglacial climatic transition in southwest Asia, and evaluate population change from summed radiocarbon date probability distributions, which indicate contrasting trajectories in different regions.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on human behavioural adaptations within the context of Pleistocene environments and changing landscapes using zooarchaeological, stone artefact, bathymetric, and experimental isotopic analyses.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented new biomarker data from IODP Site U1385 (Shackleton site) (1017-336 ka) that, when combined with existing data from Cores MD01-2443/4 (last 335 ka), allows them to assess the evolution of sea surface temperature (SST) and meltwater influx over the last 1 Ma at the Iberian Margin.
TL;DR: In this paper, the first quantitative summer (mean July) temperature reconstruction based on subfossil chironomids from the southeast margin of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) covering the end of the last deglaciation and the entire Holocene, spanning 11,800 cal yr BP to the present, was reported.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used cosmic-ray exposure (CRE) dating to study deglaciation in a sector of the southern-central Pyrenees (the Panticosa massif and the upper Gallego and Ossau valleys).
TL;DR: In this article, a review of the available proxies available from coastal barrier systems to reconstruct Holocene storm chronologies (paleotempestology) is presented. And the challenges of reconstructing representative and reliable storm-chronologies using these various proxies are discussed, and future research prospects are outlined.
TL;DR: In this paper, the state-of-the-art numerical dating methods for the Quaternary are presented, including radiocarbon, luminescence, Electron Spin Resonance (ESR), 230Th/U and terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides (TCN) dating.