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Multiple Sulphur Isotopic Compositions of Archean Records »
Multiple Sulphur Isotopic Compositions of Archean Records Sulphur is closely related to life, environment, and mineral deposits. Multiple sulphur isotopes are a significant tool of recognizing the earliest sulphur-utilizing metabolisms on the Earth, reconstructing the Archean atmospheric oxygen level, and...
An Arctic gateway trigger for Atlantic overturning at the Eocene-Oligocene Transition - David Hutchinson (U. Stockholm) »
An Arctic gateway trigger for Atlantic overturning at the Eocene-Oligocene Transition The Eocene-Oligocene Transition (EOT), approximately 34 Ma ago, is an interval of great interest in Earth’s climate history, due to the inception of the Antarctic ice sheet, major global cooling, and the likely inception...
An Arctic gateway trigger for Atlantic overturning at the Eocene-Oligocene Transition »
The Eocene-Oligocene Transition (EOT), approximately 34 Ma ago, is an interval of great interest in Earth’s climate history, due to the inception of the Antarctic ice sheet, major global cooling, and the likely inception of North Atlantic Deep Water. In line with geological evidence that the Arctic became isolated...
A continuous ice core record of climate to beyond a million years »
Ice cores from Antarctica, Greenland and mountain glaciers have provided great insights into climate on timescales from seasonal to glacial and geographic scales from regional to global. The rich archive of environmental tracers recorded in the snow makes ice cores arguably the most powerful single recorder of past...
2018 Inaugural Chappell Public Lecture »
The Research School of Earth Sciences is delighted to announce that Dr Carol D. Frost will be presenting the Inaugural Chappell Public Lecture on 22 November. The lecture series is in honour of Professor Bruce Chappell, one of the most distinguished geologists of his generation who made significant...
A shifting paradigm: aeolian sedimentation and climate forcing in the Asian interior »
Tibetan Plateau uplift has long been considered to be a main driving force for mid-latitude Asian inland aridity (AIA) and for deposition of thick aeolian sequences in northern China since the Miocene. However, a lack of well-dated and thick aeolian sequences has hindered testing of such relationships over longer...
