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A study on megafloral, palynofloral, and palynofacies of Barakar sediments at and around Balaram Opencast Coal Project, Talcher Basin, Odisha, India: inferences on palaeodepositional settings, palynodiversity, palaeovegetation, and palaeoclimate
An integrated work on palynofloral and palynofacies studies along with megafloral analysis has been carried out with the samples recovered from...
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Elevated Grand Canyon groundwater recharge during the warm Early Holocene
Summer rainfall is an important contributor to water budgets in western North American deserts, where intense rainfall sustains ecosystems while also...
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Paleoclimate Characteristics of the Middle Jurassic **ntiangou Stage in Yunyang Area, Northeast Sichuan Basin, China
AbstractTwo sections of the **ntiangou Formation were examined in the Yunyang area, Northeastern Sichuan Basin, China. One of them was systematically...
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Chicxulub impact winter sustained by fine silicate dust
The Chicxulub impact is thought to have triggered a global winter at the Cretaceous-Palaeogene (K-Pg) boundary 66 million years ago. Yet the climatic...
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Working Approach: Field Investigation
The present chapter highlighted the preliminary approach for palaeoclimate studies using lake sediments and discussed the importance of proxy...
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Drought and deluge: the recurrence of hydroclimate extremes during the past 600 years in eastern Australia’s Natural Resource Management (NRM) clusters
Recent extremes of flood and drought across Australia have raised questions about the recurrence of such rare events and highlighted the importance...
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Palaeoclimate estimates based on the late Miocene to early Pleistocene wood flora of the Bengal Basin: an insight into the climatic evolution of southern Asia
To assess the pattern of climatic evolution during the late Miocene to early Pleistocene in the largest fluvio-deltaic sedimentary system on the...
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Rainfall variability in southeast and west-central Africa during the Little Ice Age: do documentary and proxy records agree?
Understanding of long-term climatic change prior to instrumental records necessitates reconstructions from documentary and palaeoclimate archives. In...
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Atmospheric and oceanic circulation altered by global mean sea-level rise
Over recent decades, the rate of global mean sea-level rise has increased, although the magnitude—tens of centimetres—remains small from a geological...
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Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene
Exceptional drought events, known as megadroughts, have occurred on every continent outside Antarctica over the past ~2,000 years, causing major...
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A synthesis of fauna, palaeoenvironments and stratigraphy of the Miocene Tagay locality (Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia)
We report about the Early Miocene Tagay fauna of Olkhon Island, the largest island of the Baikal Lake. The Tagay fauna is of high scientific...
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Late Permian species diversity of the genus Glossopteris in and around Himgir, Ib River Basin, Odisha, India, with a clue on palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironment
The Ib River Basin, situated in the south-eastern part of the Mahanadi Master Basin, has always been in focus for its record of well-diversified...
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Floral Diversity of South Karanpura Basin, Jharkhand, India and their Palaeoclimatic Implication with Special Reference to Palaeoenvironment
The palaeofloristic study of Gondwana sediments recovered from Religara area, South Karanpura Basin illustrates the macrofloral diversity in the...
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Kungurian sedimentary environments in the slope facies of the Xuyong area, South China, and a comparative analysis of low-latitude palaeogeography
The Kungurian period in the late Palaeozoic was characterized by a climatic transition from icehouse to greenhouse conditions, during which organisms...
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What can Palaeoclimate Modelling do for you?
In modern environmental and climate science it is necessary to assimilate observational datasets collected over decades with outputs from numerical...
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Effect of orographic gravity wave drag on Northern Hemisphere climate in transient simulations of the last deglaciation
Long transient simulations of the last deglaciation are increasingly being performed to identify the drivers of multiple rapid Earth system changes...
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Palynological Perspective on Understanding Climate Change in India Over the Pre-industrial Common Era (CE; Past Ca. 2000 Years): a Comprehensive Review and a Critical Evaluation
Palynology (and pollen analysis) has proven to be a reliable tool in reconstructing the past vegetation (dynamics) and contemporary climatic changes....
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Future Climate Projections
The Anthropocene event constitutes a unique period distinct from previous global warming events. Following on stadial cooling intervals, including...
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Late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of a Chobe Enclave landform (NW Botswana) based on pedological and geochemical indices
The importance of pedogenesis in understanding soil distribution patterns in current and past geologic periods is well established, but field...
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Inertinite in coal and its geoenvironmental significance: Insights from AI and big data analysis
Inertinite, as an important and abundant maceral group in coal, is critical for the study of palaeowildfires and their roles in the Earth’s...