Comparative geochemistry of Early Carboniferous marine red beds (MRBs) and their significance for deep time paleoceanographic reconstructions (2022)
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Card, C. J., & Montenari, M. (2022). Comparative geochemistry of Early Carboniferous marine red beds (MRBs) and their significance for deep time paleoceanographic reconstructions. Sedimentary Geology, 106313 - 106313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2022.106313

Marine red beds (MRBs), also known as oceanic red beds (ORBs), are reddish colored sediments deposited within the marine realm that have been stained during deposition and/or early diagenesis because of changes in the ocean water chemistry in respons... Read More about Comparative geochemistry of Early Carboniferous marine red beds (MRBs) and their significance for deep time paleoceanographic reconstructions.

Red Sea rifting in central Egypt: constraints from the offshore Quseir province (2022)
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Ali, M., Decarlis, A., Ligi, M., Ball, P., Bosworth, W., & Ceriani, A. (2022). Red Sea rifting in central Egypt: constraints from the offshore Quseir province. Journal of the Geological Society, 180(2), Article jgs2022-105. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2022-105

The formation of oceanic crust in the southern and central Red Sea is generally accepted to have started at c. 5 Ma. However, the nature of the crust in the northern Red Sea is still debated. This paper describes the rift architecture, dynamics and e... Read More about Red Sea rifting in central Egypt: constraints from the offshore Quseir province.

Southern Ocean carbon sink enhanced by sea-ice feedbacks at the Antarctic Cold Reversal (2020)
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Weber, M., Ellis, B., Thomas, Z., Montenari, M., Cage, A., Harris, M., Jones, R., Power, A., Love, J., Young, J., Weyrich, L., Cooper, A., Fogwill, C., Turney, C., Menviel, L., Baker, A., Golledge, N., Etheridge, D., Rubino, M., Thornton, D., …Rivera, A. (2020). Southern Ocean carbon sink enhanced by sea-ice feedbacks at the Antarctic Cold Reversal. Nature Geoscience, 489-497. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0587-0

The Southern Ocean occupies some 14% of the planet’s surface and plays a fundamental role in the global carbon cycle and climate. It provides a direct connection to the deep ocean carbon reservoir through biogeochemical processes that include surface... Read More about Southern Ocean carbon sink enhanced by sea-ice feedbacks at the Antarctic Cold Reversal.

Micro-Scale isotopic analysis of ice facies frozen from supercooled water (2020)
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Shiggins, C. J., Harris, M. R. P., Knight, P. G., & Fogwill, C. J. (2020). Micro-Scale isotopic analysis of ice facies frozen from supercooled water. Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography, 102(2), 104-117. https://doi.org/10.1080/04353676.2020.1762364

Subglacial glaciohydraulic supercooling can form basal ice and affect glacier dynamics, sediment transfer and geomorphology. Whilst isotopic analysis (d18O-dD) of basal ice has demonstrated the significance of supercooling, questions remain as to wha... Read More about Micro-Scale isotopic analysis of ice facies frozen from supercooled water.

Rapid depletion of dissolved organic sulphur (DOS) in freshwaters (2020)
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(2020). Rapid depletion of dissolved organic sulphur (DOS) in freshwaters. Biogeochemistry, 105 - 113. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-020-00669-4

Sulphur (S) is a key macronutrient for all organisms, with similar cellular requirements to that of phosphorus (P). Studies of S cycling have often focused on the inorganic fraction, however, there is strong evidence to suggest that freshwater microo... Read More about Rapid depletion of dissolved organic sulphur (DOS) in freshwaters.

Tipping elements and amplified polar warming during the Last Interglacial (2020)
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(2020). Tipping elements and amplified polar warming during the Last Interglacial. Quaternary Science Reviews, 106222 - 106222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106222

Irreversible shifts of large-scale components of the Earth system (so-called ‘tipping elements’) on policy-relevant timescales are a major source of uncertainty for projecting the impacts of future climate change. The high latitudes are particularly... Read More about Tipping elements and amplified polar warming during the Last Interglacial.

Early Last Interglacial ocean warming drove substantial ice mass loss from Antarctica. (2020)
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(2020). Early Last Interglacial ocean warming drove substantial ice mass loss from Antarctica. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 3996-4006. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1902469117

The future response of the Antarctic ice sheet to rising temperatures remains highly uncertain. A useful period for assessing the sensitivity of Antarctica to warming is the Last Interglacial (LIG) (129 to 116 ky), which experienced warmer polar temp... Read More about Early Last Interglacial ocean warming drove substantial ice mass loss from Antarctica..