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Sensitivity of Pliocene ice sheets to orbital forcing
The stability of the Earth's major ice sheets is a critical uncertainty in predictions of future climate and sea level change. One method of investigating the behaviour of the Greenland and the Antarctic ice sheets in a warmer-than-modern climate is to look back at past warm periods of Earth history, for example the Pliocene. This paper presents climate and ice sheet modelling results for the mid-
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A.M. Dolan, A.M. Haywood, D.J. Hill, H.J. Dowsett, S.J. Hunter, D.J. Lunt, S.J. Pickering
Micropaleontologic record of Quaternary paleoenvironments in the Central Albemarle Embayment, North Carolina, U.S.A.
To understand the temporal and spatial variation of eustatic sea-level fluctuations, glacio–hydro–isostacy, tectonics, subsidence, geologic environments and sedimentation patterns for the Quaternary of a passive continental margin, a nearly complete stratigraphic record that is fully integrated with a three dimensional chronostratigraphic framework, and paleoenvironmental information are necessary
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Stephen J. Culver, Kathleen M. Farrell, David J. Mallinson, Debra A. Willard, Benjamin P. Horton, Stanley R. Riggs, E. Robert Thieler, John F. Wehmiller, Peter Parham, Scott W. Snyder, Caroline Hillier
U.S. Geological Survey: A synopsis of Three-dimensional Modeling
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is a multidisciplinary agency that provides assessments of natural resources (geological, hydrological, biological), the disturbances that affect those resources, and the disturbances that affect the built environment, natural landscapes, and human society. Until now, USGS map products have been generated and distributed primarily as 2-D maps, occasionally providi
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Linda J. Jacobsen, Pierre D. Glynn, Geoff A. Phelps, Randall C. Orndorff, Gerald W. Bawden, V. J. S. Grauch
Paleogene calcareous nannofossils of Southern Maryland, South Dover Bridge Core, USA
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Jean M. Self-Trail
Notes on the geology and meteorology of sites infected with white-nose syndrome before July 2010 in Southeastern United States
Since 2006, numerous bat colonies in North America have experienced unusually high incidences of mortality. In these colonies, bats are infected by a white fungus named Geomyces destructans, which has been observed on bat muzzles, noses, ears, and (or) wings. Although it is not exactly certain how and why these bats are dying, this condition has been named white-nose syndrome (WNS). WNS appears to
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Christopher S. Swezey, Christopher P. Garrity
An occurrence of the protocetid whale "Eocetus" wardii in the middle Eocene Piney Point Formation of Virginia
Two protocetid whale vertebrae, here referred to “Eocetus” wardii, have been recovered from the riverbed of the Pamunkey River in east-central Virginia. Neither bone was found in situ, but both were found with lumps of lithified matrix cemented to their surfaces. Most of this matrix was removed and processed for microfossils. Specimens of dinoflagellates were successfully recovered and this flora
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Robert E. Weems, Lucy E. Edwards, Jason E. Osborne, A.A. Alford
Geographical and geological data from caves and mines infected with white-nose syndrome (WNS) before September 2009 in the eastern United States
Since 2006, a white fungus named Geomyces destructans has been observed on the muzzles, noses, ears, and (or) wings of bats in the eastern United States, and bat colonies that are infected with this fungus have experienced dramatic incidences of mortality. Although it is not exactly certain how and why these bats are dying, this condition has been named white-nose syndrome (WNS). WNS appears to ha
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Christopher S. Swezey, Christopher P. Garrity
Did intense volcanism trigger the first Late Ordovician icehouse? REPLY
We appreciate the Comment by Herrmann et al. (2011) to our paper (Buggisch et al., 2010). When we compiled the data set for our publication, we were aware that we had not enough pre-Deicke conodont oxygen isotope data because Webers’ (1966) conodont collections from the Pecatonica Member did not yield enough specimens for isotope analysis. At that time, the recently published data of Herrmann et a
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Werner Buggisch, Michael M. Joachimski, Oliver Lehnert, Stig M. Bergström, John E. Repetski
Conodont biostratigraphy and stable isotope stratigraphy across the Ordovician Knox/Beekmantown unconformity in the central Appalachians
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Stephen A. Leslie, Matthew R. Saltzman, S. M. Bergström, J. E. Repetski, A. Howard, A.M. Seward
Interdisciplinary environmental project probes Chesapeake Bay down to the core
Interrelated environmental concerns about Chesapeake Bay are being addressed in an interdisciplinary project using paleoecological and geochemical records from sediment cores to investigate Holocene climate and human encroachment. The research is looking at interannual through millennial-scale variability of bay salinity, sediment accumulation, and dissolved oxygen, temperature, and faunal and flo
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Thomas M. Cronin, S. Colman, D. Willard, R. Kerhin, C. Holmes, A. Karlsen, S. Ishman, J. Bratton
Sea surface temperatures of the mid-Piacenzian Warm Period: A comparison of PRISM3 and HadCM3
It is essential to document how well the current generation of climate models performs in simulating past climates to have confidence in their ability to project future conditions. We present the first global, in-depth comparison of Pliocene sea surface temperature (SST) estimates from a coupled ocean–atmosphere climate model experiment and a SST reconstruction based on proxy data. This enables th
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Harry J. Dowsett, A.M. Haywood, P.J. Valdes, Marci M. Robinson, D.J. Lunt, D.J. Hill, D.K. Stoll, Kevin M. Foley