Showing papers in "Quaternary Science Reviews in 2018"

TL;DR: The thermal bipolar ocean seesaw hypothesis was advanced by Stocker and Johnsen (2003) as the "simplest possible thermodynamic model" to explain the time relationship between Dansgaard-Oeschger (DO) and Antarctic Isotope Maxima (AIM) events as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The benefits of combining the temporal information embedded in tree rings with the spatial information offered by forest inventories and earth observations to quantify tree growth and its drivers are highlighted.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use existing and simulated sediment cores to estimate what dating density and quality are required to obtain accurate chronologies at a desired precision, and recommend that chronologies should be produced using Bayesian age-depth models taking into account chronological ordering and based on a minimum 2 dates per millennium.

TL;DR: The authors reconstructs the deglaciation of the Laurentide Ice Sheet from the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), with a particular focus on the spatial and temporal variations in ice streaming and the associated changes in flow patterns and ice divides.

TL;DR: The sea level database for Britain and Ireland contains >2100 data points from 86 regions and records relative sea-level (RSL) changes over the last 20 ka and across elevations ranging from ∼+40 to −55 m.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors collected two stalagmites from Shenqi (Miraculous) cave in southern Sichuan, China and used the combined stalagmite δ18O record to reconstruct high-resolution (∼4.9 ǫyrs) monsoon precipitation variations on southeastern Tibetan Plateau over the past 2300 years.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a ground-based study to obtain a better understanding of the rate of ice shrinkage on the Third Pole (TP) of the Tibetan Plateau.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a pollen-based summer temperature record (mean July; MJT) from Xingyun Lake in southwest China, where the climate is dominated by the Indian summer monsoon (ISM).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the latest ICE-7G_NA (VM7) model of the GIA process, the North American component of which was refined using a full suite of geophysical observables, is able to reconcile the vast majority of uniformly analyzed relative sea level constraints available for the Western part of the Mediterranean basin.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the first quantitative model of the timing, spatial extent and pace of sea-level change in the Sahul region between 35-8 ka, and explore its effects on hunter-gatherer populations.

TL;DR: In this paper, a succession of sedimentary facies along the southern Cape coast of South Africa, 18 km east of the town of Mossel Bay, were observed and mapped using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed human-fire relationships throughout the Holocene and discussed how and to what extent human-driven fires affected the landscape transformation in the Central European Lowlands (CEL).

TL;DR: This paper reported a new record from Stalagmite DP1 from northeastern Namibia in which high 230Th/232Th activity ratios allow small age uncertainties ranging between only 10-28 years, and the event is documented by more than 35 isotopic analyses and by petrographic observation of a surface of dissolution.

TL;DR: In this article, trade wind proxies are used to document meridional ITCZ shifts in response to anomalous cooling of one hemisphere would be accompanied by a strengthening of the Hadley cell and trade winds in the colder hemisphere, with an opposite response in the warmer hemisphere.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors document the history of terms used to describe Heinrich (H-) layers and events and which mark major glaciological iceberg discharge events in the North Atlantic.

TL;DR: In this article, a peat core of the Tenaghi Philippon (TP) archive has been used to provide high-quality age control for detailed palaeoclimate reconstructions based on the TP archive.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive palaeogeographic reconstruction of ice sheets and related proglacial lake systems for the older Saalian glaciation in northern central Europe is presented, which is based on the integration of palaeoe-ice flow data, till provenance, facies analysis, geomorphology and new luminescence ages of ice-marginal deposits.

TL;DR: The Lake Suigetsu tephrostratigraphy has been extended from four to twenty ash layers using cryptotephra extraction techniques, which integrates the deposits from explosive eruptions from North Korea/China, South Korea and along the Japanese arc as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the contribution of local and regional non-linear processes to sea-level change in the North Atlantic Ocean during the past 3,000 years and identified three latitudinally organized groups of sites that share coherent regional nonlinear trends and indicate that dynamic redistribution of ocean mass by currents and/or winds was likely an important driver of sea level change.

TL;DR: In this paper, high-resolution pollen, phytolith, and diatom records were collected from the Yushan site, which is the closest site of Hemudu culture to the modern coastline.

TL;DR: In this paper, an updated review of the history and dynamics of the GYGS during the penultimate (Bull Lake) and last (Pinedale) glaciations, drawing upon an integration of glacial-geologic mapping with >130 cosmogenic 10Be and 3He exposure ages.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a Holocene RSL database for the Atlantic coast of Europe (ACE) and estimate rates of RSL change from the ACE database using a spatio-temporal empirical hierarchical model.

TL;DR: The largest coherent coldwater coral mound province in the Atlantic Ocean exists along the Mauritanian margin, where up to 100m high mounds extend over a distance of ∼400 km, arranged in two slope-parallel chains in 400-550m water depth as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed geomorphological map of six basins in the area, based on extensive field studies and remote sensing datasets, was compiled, and several phases of high and low lake levels were reconstructed and dated by radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that halite-encrusted salt pans (salars) present at low elevations in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile are unique features of one of the driest and possibly oldest deserts on Earth.

TL;DR: In this paper, visual connectivity network analyses, agent-based simulations and ocean current modelling reveal that modern humans could follow numerous northern and southern migration pathways into Sahul, concluding in an early colonisation of Sahul on the northwest shelf.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a well-dated Neolithic site (the Yushan site) close to the present coastline to demonstrate a marine drowning event at the terminal stage of the Liangzhu culture and discuss its linkage to relative sea-level rise.

TL;DR: This paper examined the response of the Indian and East Asian summer monsoons to separate precession and obliquity forcing, using a set of fully coupled high-resolution models for the first time.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a high resolution (up to multidecadal) loess record for the last 3.3 ka from the southern Chinese Loess Plateau that clearly demonstrates the relationship between changes in the intensity of the East Asian summer and winter monsoons, particularly at multicentennial scales.

TL;DR: This article used bathymetry data, palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, an assessment of vertical land movements and drift modeling to assess the potential for an initial entry into northwest Australia from southern Wallacea (Timor-Roti).