Earth's Climate and Orbital Eccentricity: The Marine Isotope Stage 11 Question

Earth\'s Climate and Orbital Eccentricity The Marine Isotope Stage 11 Question......Page 3
Copyright\r......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 5
PREFACE......Page 7
LIST OF REVIEWERS......Page 8
Unique and Exceptionally Long Interglacial Marine Isotope Stage 11: Window into Earth Warm Future Climate......Page 9
1. GLACIAL MIS 12 TO INTERGLACIAL MIS 11 TRANSITION: A MAJOR STEP IN THE LAST 3.0 My CLIMATE RECORD......Page 10
2. UNIQUENESS OR INTERCHANGEABLE ICE AGES......Page 11
3. UNEXCEPTIONALLY WARM OCEAN TEMPERATURES AT HIGH AND MID LATITUDE......Page 12
4. CARBONATE BLOOM AT LOW LATITUDES AND CARBONATE BUST IN THE DEEP SEA......Page 14
5. CONTINENTAL CLIMATE RECORDS: LONGER AND WETTER, NOT NECESSARILY WARMER......Page 18
6. SUMMARY AND FUTURE RESEARCH......Page 19
REFERENCES......Page 20
PART I: UNIQUENESS OR INTER-CHANGEABLE ICE AGES\r......Page 23
INTRODUCTION......Page 24
INTERGLACIALS IN PROXY RECORD......Page 25
THE CLIMATE MODEL......Page 26
SIMULATED CLIMATE......Page 27
SENSITIVITY TO DIFFERENT CO2 SCENARIOS......Page 28
CONCLUSIONS......Page 31
REFERENCES......Page 32
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 34
2. THE CLIMATIC RECORD OF THE VOSTOK ICE CORE......Page 35
3. THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN INSOLATION AND C02 DURING MIS 11: A MODELLING APPROACH......Page 40
4. STABILITY OF EAST ANTARCTICA DURING MIS 11: EVIDENCES FROM 3-D ICE SHEET MODELLING......Page 41
REFERENCES......Page 46
INTRODUCTION......Page 48
DOMINANCE AND PERVASIVENESS OF THE 100-KY CYCLE......Page 49
THE STAGE 11 PARADOX......Page 50
THE MULLER-MACDONALD HYPOTHESIS REJECTED......Page 52
TERMINATIONS AND THE BUILDUP OF INSTABILITY......Page 53
THE MID-BRUNHES CLIMATE SHIFT AND SUDDEN CHANGES IN SHORT-TERM FEEDBACK......Page 55
THE MID-BRUNHES CLIMATE SHIFT AND CHANGE FROM CARBON DIOXIDE FEEDBACK......Page 59
THE MID-BRUNHES CLIMATE SHIFT AND CHANGE FROM ADJUSTMENTS OF ELEVATION OF ICE-SHEET BASE......Page 60
THE MID-BRUNHES CLIMATE SHIFT AND THE EXPANSION OF THE WARM WATER POOL IN THE WESTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC......Page 61
CONCLUSIONS......Page 62
REFERENCES......Page 63
INTRODUCTION......Page 67
ROME STRATIGRAPHY......Page 68
DISCUSSION......Page 70
REFERENCES......Page 71
PART II: UNEXCEPTIONALLY WARM OCEAN TEMPERATURES AT HIGH- AND MID-LATITUDE\r......Page 73
Marine Isotope Stage 11 MIS 11: Analog for Holocene and Future Climate?......Page 74
2. METHODS......Page 75
3. RESULTS......Page 76
4.1. Climate Forcing......Page 77
4.2. Climate Response......Page 79
4.4. Millennial-Scale Variability......Page 82
4.5. Interglacial Climate Stability......Page 83
5. CONCLUSIONS......Page 86
REFERENCES......Page 87
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 91
2. OCEANOGRAPHY SETTING......Page 93
4.1. Downcore Records......Page 94
4.2. Species-Dependent Oxygen Isotopic Offsets......Page 95
5.1. Glaciation, Ice Volume, Sea Level, and Bottom Water Temperature......Page 98
5.2. Glacial-to-Interglacial Transitions......Page 100
5.4. Interglacial-to-Glacial Transitions......Page 103
REFERENCES......Page 104
1. STABILITY OF THE WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET......Page 107
3. IDENTIFYING PAST WAIS COLLAPSE......Page 109
4.1 MIS-5e......Page 110
4.2 MIS-11......Page 111
4.3 Other Pleistocene interglacials......Page 112
5. PROGNOSIS FOR THE WAIS......Page 113
REFERENCES......Page 114
The Mid-Brunhes Transition in ODP Sites 1089 and 1090 Subantarctic South Atlantic......Page 117
MATERIALS AND METHODS......Page 118
RESULTS......Page 119
DISCUSSION......Page 123
REFERENCES......Page 131
INTRODUCTION......Page 134
REGION AND LOCALITY......Page 135
GEOCHRONOLOGY......Page 137
METHOD AND DATA......Page 138
REFERENCES......Page 144
PART III: CARBONATE BLOOM AT LOW LATITUDES AND CARBONATE BUST IN THE DEEP SEA\r......Page 148
INTRODUCTION......Page 149
DATA DESCRIPTION......Page 150
DISCUSSION......Page 153
IMPLICATIONS FOR CLIMATE EVOLUTION......Page 155
REFERENCES......Page 156
A Longer-Lasting and Warmer Interglacial Episode During Isotopic Stage 11: Marine Terrace Evidence in Tropical Western Americas......Page 159
1. INTRODUCTION: MARINE TERRACES ALONGTHE WEST COAST OF THE AMERICAS......Page 160
2.1. MIS 11 Terraces in Mexico......Page 161
2.2. MIS 11 Terraces in Peru......Page 162
2.3. MIS 11 Terraces and Beach-ridge Sequences in Chile.......Page 165
2.4. Duration of the MIS High Seastand and Sea-level Variations......Page 167
3.2. Anomalous Molluscan Assemblages in Peru......Page 169
3.3. TAMAs and El Niño Impacts on the Occurrence ofExtralimital Species in Northern Chile......Page 171
3.4. TAMAs in MIS 11 Coastal Deposits of Northern Chile......Page 173
4.1. Duration of the MIS 11 Interglacial and Sealevel Variations......Page 176
4.3. The Link with El Niño/ENSO Manifestations......Page 177
REFERENCES......Page 178
Caribbean Carbonate Crash in Pedro Channel at Subthermoclinal Depth During Marine Isotope Stage 11: A Case of Basin-to-Shelf Carbonate Fractionation?......Page 183
INTRODUCTION......Page 184
Caribbean Oceanic Setting......Page 185
Late Quaternary Caribbean Carbonate Preservation Record......Page 187
Late Quaternary Benthic Foraminiferal Carbon Isotope Records in the Caribbean......Page 188
METHODS......Page 189
STRATIGRAPHY/AGE-DEPTH MODEL......Page 192
Carbonate Content......Page 195
Pteropod Abundance......Page 197
DISCUSSION......Page 199
CONCLUSIONS......Page 202
REFERENCES......Page 203
PART IV: CONTINENTAL CLIMATE RECORDS: LONGER AND WETTER, NOT NECESSARILY WARMER\r......Page 207
2. LAND EQUIVALENTS OF MIS 11......Page 208
4. WAS THE MIS 11 INTERGLACIAL WARMER THAN THE HOLOCENE?......Page 209
5. CLIMATE VARIABILITY OF MIS 11......Page 210
REFERENCES......Page 211
2. PEAT AND LAKE RECORDS......Page 213
4. LOESS RECORDS......Page 218
6. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS......Page 219
REFERENCES......Page 221
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 223
3. CLIMATICALY-DRIVEN SEDIMENTATION  INLAKE BAIKAL......Page 224
4. MATERIALS AND METHODS......Page 225
5. RESULTS......Page 226
6.2 Diatom Response During MIS 11......Page 227
CONCLUSIONS......Page 228
REFERENCES......Page 229
INTRODUCTION......Page 231
Setting and Sampling......Page 232
The Prominence of s4 in Jiaoda Section......Page 233
Implications for Paleoclimate Interpretations......Page 237
CONCLUSIONS......Page 238
REFERENCES......Page 239