Early Pleistocene
Land–sea coupling of early Pleistocene glacial cycles in the southern North Sea exhibit dominant Northern Hemisphere forcing
... the early Pleistocene with a spliced Gelasian ( ∼ ...by early Pleistocene NHG, leading to intermittent shutdown and reactivation of river flow and sediment ...to early ...
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Contribution of changes in opal productivity and nutrient distribution in the coastal upwelling systems to Late Pliocene/Early Pleistocene climate cooling
... studies (Berger et al., 2002; Lange et al., 1999; Marlow et al., 2000; P´erez et al., 2001) already suggested that the MDM was characterized by long periods of stratified conditions of surface waters and weak upwelling ...
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Transitional changes in microfossil assemblages in the Japan Sea from the Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene related to global climatic and local tectonic events
... Many micropaleontological studies based on data from on-land sections, oil wells, and deep-sea drilling cores have provided important information about environmental changes in the Japan Sea that are related to the ...
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Thermocline state change in the eastern equatorial Pacific during the late Pliocene/early Pleistocene intensification of Northern Hemisphere glaciation
... We integrate new and previously published foraminiferal- based geochemical, faunal and sedimentological records from ODP Site 849 (∼ 2.75–2.4 Ma, MIS G7–95) to re- construct changes in the thermocline depth during the ...
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Size Analysis of the Late Pliocene Early Pleistocene Upper Siwalik Sediments, Northwestern Himalaya, India
... The Himalaya, a product of continent-continent colli- sion, represents the youngest active mountain range of the world. The Himalayan orogenic belt has been divided into the Frontal Himalaya, the Lesser Himalaya and the ...
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Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene vegetation history of northeastern Russian Arctic inferred from the Lake El’gygytgyn pollen record
... Abstract. The 318 m thick lacustrine sediment record from Lake El’gygytgyn, northeastern Russian Arctic cored by the international El’gygytgyn Drilling Project provides unique opportunities for the time-continuous ...
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A new early pleistocene species of Nothofagus and the climatic implications of co occurring Nothofagus fossils
... Pleistocene age, but the clasts containing the fossils are older. This paper is concerned with the Early Pleistocene fossil floras referred to as RPU1 and RPU2 by Jordan (1992, 1997b). The species in ...
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Subsurface North Atlantic warming as a trigger of rapid cooling events: evidence from the early Pleistocene (MIS 31–19)
... episodes of rapid climate cooling consists of a reduction in the AMOC during periods of extensive ice-shelves and sea-ice in the subpolar North Atlantic. Deep water convec- tion sites shifted south of the polar front and ...
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Mediterranean Outflow Water variability during the Early Pleistocene
... The Early Pleistocene period spans the transition from the preceding Pliocene climate optimum with limited ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere to the cooler Middle and Late Pleistocene climate with ...
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Taxonomy and palaeobiogeographical significance of four new species of Semicytherura (Ostracoda, Crustacea) from the Early Pleistocene Omma Formation of the Japan Sea coast
... However, in and around Japan, undescribed Semicytherura species have been placed in more than 40 taxa (Yamada et al., 2005). The Early Pleistocene Omma Formation in central Japan contains many fossil ...
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Orbital precession modulates interannual rainfall variability, as recorded in an Early Pleistocene speleothem
... Interannual variability of African rainfall impacts local and global communities, but its past behavior and response in future climate projections are poorly understood. This is primarily due to short instrumental ...
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The genus Homo in the early Pleistocene of Africa and Europe
... It was excavated from between Okote Tuff and Black Pumice tuff and thus dated to 1.65 - 1.55 (Feibel et al. 1989:613), making it contemporary with KNM-ER 3883 and younger than KNM-ER 3733, with both of which it is often ...
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Taphonomic analysis of the faunal assemblage associated with the hominins (Australopithecus sediba) from the early Pleistocene cave deposits of Malapa, South Africa
... The Malapa fossil site is located 15 km northeast of the Sterkfontein Caves, within the Cradle of Humankind (World Heritage Site), at 25°53 ’ 42 ’ S, 27°48 ’ 05 ’ E. Faunal remains studied here, found associated with two ...
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Volcanogenic processes and petrogenesis of the early Pleistocene andesiticdacitic Maungatautari composite cone, Central Waikato, New Zealand
... Maungatautari is an extinct, andesitic-dacitic composite cone situated 35 km southeast of Hamilton within the Waipa District, Waikato (Fig. 1). With a single radiometric age date of 1.8 Ma (Robertson 1983), activity at ...
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Diverse fossil epacrids (Styphelioideae; Ericaceae) from early Pleistocene sediments at Stony Creek Basin, Victoria, Australia
... The age of the basin is described in detail by Sniderman et al. (2007). In brief, zircons from a core extracted by hollow augur drilling in 2000 give ages of 1.93 ± 0.18 million years (Ma) for a thin volcanogenic layer ...
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A theory of Pleistocene glacial rhythmicity
... low early Pleistocene values to its late Pleistocene value of V ∼ ...the Pleistocene climate, such as the mostly 40 kyr fluctuations of the early Pleistocene, a transition from ...
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A warm welcome to the Pleistocene Park
... processes that precede the final corporealization of the woolly mammoth are neglected; its technological ontology is presented under the veil of pristine woolly mammoths inhabiting a Pleistocene climate. In an ...
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Pleistocene deposits, Parangana damsite, Mersey Valley
... The degree of weathering of the glacial drift at Parangana is unusually deep, for in tlhe adit t:he left abutment the matrix was yellowish-brown at a depth of 85 feet below the surface, [r] ...
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Note on Pleistocene glaciation Mt Field to Strahan
... Clair valley and thence to the King River there is much morainal material of the Yolande stage strewn over the older glacial valleys •along the section traversed by the West Coast road..[r] ...
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A correlation of the Tasmanian Pleistocene glacial epochs and deposits
... If my interpretation o:f the field evidence is correct, the Malanna glaciation is also superimposed over sheets of newer basalts in the vicinity o:f the Great Lake and elsewhm·e.. But I [r] ...
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