Professor Erin Mcclymont's Outputs (8)

Evaluation of Mumiyo Deposits from East Antarctica as Archives for the Late Quaternary Environmental and Climatic History (2018)
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Berg, S., Melles, M., Hermichen, W., McClymont, E., Bentley, M., Hodgson, D., & Kuhn, G. (2019). Evaluation of Mumiyo Deposits from East Antarctica as Archives for the Late Quaternary Environmental and Climatic History. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20(1), 260-276. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018gc008054

Mumiyo deposits form in the vicinity of snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea) nesting sites and consist of fossil stomach oil (mumiyo), guano and minerogenic material. Here, we evaluate mumiyo deposits from the inland mountain ranges of central Dronning Maud... Read More about Evaluation of Mumiyo Deposits from East Antarctica as Archives for the Late Quaternary Environmental and Climatic History.

Carbon export from mountain forests enhanced by earthquake-triggered landslides over millennia (2018)
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Frith, N., Hilton, R., Howarth, J., Gröcke, D., Fitzsimons, S., Croissant, T., …Densmore, A. (2018). Carbon export from mountain forests enhanced by earthquake-triggered landslides over millennia. Nature Geoscience, 11(10), 772-776. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0216-3

Rapid ground accelerations during earthquakes can trigger landslides that disturb mountain forests and harvest carbon from soils and vegetation. Although infrequent over human timescales, these co-seismic landslides can set the rates of geomorphic pr... Read More about Carbon export from mountain forests enhanced by earthquake-triggered landslides over millennia.

Lack of evidence for a substantial sea-level fluctuation within the Last Interglacial (2018)
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Barlow, N., McClymont, E., Whitehouse, P., Stokes, C., Jamieson, S., Woodroffe, S., …Sanchez-Montes, M. (2018). Lack of evidence for a substantial sea-level fluctuation within the Last Interglacial. Nature Geoscience, 11, 627-634. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0195-4

During the Last Interglacial, global mean sea level reached approximately 6 to 9 m above the present level. This period of high sea level may have been punctuated by a fall of more than 4 m, but a cause for such a widespread sea-level fall has been e... Read More about Lack of evidence for a substantial sea-level fluctuation within the Last Interglacial.

A two-million-year-long hydroclimatic context for hominin evolution in southeastern Africa (2018)
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Caley, T., Extier, T., Collins, J., Schefuß, E., Dupont, L., Malaizé, B., …Giraudeau, J. (2018). A two-million-year-long hydroclimatic context for hominin evolution in southeastern Africa. Nature, 560(7716), 76-79. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0309-6

The past two million years of eastern African climate variability is currently poorly constrained, despite interest in understanding its assumed role in early human evolution1,2,3,4. Rare palaeoclimate records from northeastern Africa suggest progres... Read More about A two-million-year-long hydroclimatic context for hominin evolution in southeastern Africa.

Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 °C anthropogenic warming and beyond (2018)
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Fischer, H., Meissner, K., Mix, A., Abram, N., Austermann, J., Brovkin, V., …Zhou, L. (2018). Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 °C anthropogenic warming and beyond. Nature Geoscience, 11, 474-485. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0146-0

Over the past 3.5 million years, there have been several intervals when climate conditions were warmer than during the pre-industrial Holocene. Although past intervals of warming were forced differently than future anthropogenic change, such periods... Read More about Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 °C anthropogenic warming and beyond.

Oceanographic and climatic evolution of the southeastern subtropical Atlantic over the last 3.5 Ma (2018)
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Petrick, B., McClymont, E., Littler, K., Rosell-Melé, A., Clarkson, M., Maslin, M., …Pancost, R. (2018). Oceanographic and climatic evolution of the southeastern subtropical Atlantic over the last 3.5 Ma. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 492, 12-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.03.054

The southeast Atlantic Ocean is dominated by two major oceanic systems: the Benguela Upwelling System, one of the world's most productive coastal upwelling cells and the Agulhas Leakage, which is important for transferring warm salty water from the I... Read More about Oceanographic and climatic evolution of the southeastern subtropical Atlantic over the last 3.5 Ma.

Cordilleran ice-sheet growth fueled primary productivity in the Gulf of Alaska, northeast Pacific Ocean (2018)
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Müller, J., Romero, O., Cowan, E. A., McClymont, E. L., Forwick, M., Asahi, H., …Stoner, J. (2018). Cordilleran ice-sheet growth fueled primary productivity in the Gulf of Alaska, northeast Pacific Ocean. Geology, 46(4), 307-310. https://doi.org/10.1130/g39904.1

Fertilization of the ocean by eolian dust and icebergs is an effective mechanism to enhance primary productivity. In particular, high-nutrient, low-chlorophyll (HNLC) areas where phytoplankton growth is critically iron-limited, such as the subarctic... Read More about Cordilleran ice-sheet growth fueled primary productivity in the Gulf of Alaska, northeast Pacific Ocean.

Distributions of geohopanoids in peat: Implications for the use of hopanoid-based proxies in natural archives (2018)
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Inglis, G. N., Naafs, B. D. A., Zheng, Y., McClymont, E. L., Evershed, R. P., & Pancost, R. D. (2018). Distributions of geohopanoids in peat: Implications for the use of hopanoid-based proxies in natural archives. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 224, 249-261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.12.029

Hopanoids are pentacyclic triterpenoids produced by a wide range of bacteria. Within modern settings, hopanoids mostly occur in the biological 17β,21β(H) configuration. However, in some modern peatlands, the C31 hopane is present as the 'thermally-ma... Read More about Distributions of geohopanoids in peat: Implications for the use of hopanoid-based proxies in natural archives.