Search Results - "Adam Maloof"
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A diurnal carbon engine explains 13C-enriched carbonates without increasing the global production of oxygen
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (03-12-2019)“…In the past 3 billion years, significant volumes of carbonate with high carbon-isotopic (δ 13C) values accumulated on shallow continental shelves. These…”
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Historical glacier change on Svalbard predicts doubling of mass loss by 2100
Published in Nature (London) (20-01-2022)“…The melting of glaciers and ice caps accounts for about one-third of current sea-level rise 1 – 3 , exceeding the mass loss from the more voluminous Greenland…”
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Probabilistic assessment of sea level during the last interglacial stage
Published in Nature (London) (17-12-2009)“…With polar temperatures ∼3–5 °C warmer than today, the last interglacial stage (∼125 kyr ago) serves as a partial analogue for 1–2 °C global warming scenarios…”
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Atmosphere–ocean oxygen and productivity dynamics during early animal radiations
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (24-09-2019)“…The proliferation of large, motile animals 540 to 520 Ma has been linked to both rising and declining O2 levels on Earth. To explore this conundrum, we…”
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Calibrating the Cryogenian
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (05-03-2010)“…The Neoproterozoic was an era of great environmental and biological change, but a paucity of direct and precise age constraints on strata from this time has…”
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A Simple Method for Extracting Water Depth From Multispectral Satellite Imagery in Regions of Variable Bottom Type
Published in Earth and space science (Hoboken, N.J.) (01-03-2019)“…Satellite imagery offers an efficient and cost‐effective means of estimating water depth in shallow environments. However, traditional empirical algorithms for…”
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Three-dimensional reconstructions of the putative metazoan Namapoikia show that it was a microbial construction
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (18-08-2020)“…Strata from the Ediacaran Period (635 million to 538 million years ago [Ma]) contain several examples of enigmatic, putative shell-building metazoan fossils…”
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Chemostratigraphic and U–Pb geochronologic constraints on carbon cycling across the Silurian–Devonian boundary
Published in Earth and planetary science letters (15-02-2016)“…The Devonian Period hosts extraordinary changes to Earth's biosphere. Land plants began their rise to prominence, with early vascular vegetation beginning its…”
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Physical and chemical stratigraphy suggest small or absent glacioeustatic variation during formation of the Paradox Basin cyclothems
Published in Earth and planetary science letters (01-06-2015)“…The Paradox Basin cyclothems previously have been interpreted as Milankovitch style glacial-interglacial cycles from the Late Paleozoic Ice Age, but an…”
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The origin of carbonate mud and implications for global climate
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (25-10-2022)“…Carbonate mud represents one of the most important geochemical archives for reconstructing ancient climatic, environmental, and evolutionary change from the…”
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A diurnal carbon engine explains 13 C-enriched carbonates without increasing the global production of oxygen
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (03-12-2019)“…In the past 3 billion years, significant volumes of carbonate with high carbon-isotopic ([Formula: see text]C) values accumulated on shallow continental…”
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Cryogenian Glaciation and the Onset of Carbon-Isotope Decoupling
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (30-04-2010)“…Global carbon cycle perturbations throughout Earth history are frequently linked to changing paleogeography, glaciation, ocean oxygenation, and biological…”
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Branching archaeocyaths as ecosystem engineers during the Cambrian radiation
Published in Geobiology (01-01-2023)“…The rapid origination and diversification of major animal body plans during the early Cambrian coincide with the rise of Earth's first animal‐built framework…”
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Possible animal-body fossils in pre-Marinoan limestones from South Australia
Published in Nature geoscience (01-09-2010)“…The Neoproterozoic era was punctuated by the Sturtian (about 710 million years ago) and Marinoan (about 635 million years ago) intervals of glaciation. In…”
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Testing models for post-glacial ‘cap dolostone’ deposition: Nuccaleena Formation, South Australia
Published in Earth and planetary science letters (01-08-2010)“…Sedimentologically and geochemically distinctive carbonate sequences consistently drape the glacial deposits associated with the younger Cryogenian ice age…”
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How is sea level change encoded in carbonate stratigraphy?
Published in Earth and planetary science letters (15-04-2021)“…The history of organismal evolution, seawater chemistry, and paleoclimate is recorded in layers of carbonate sedimentary rock. Meter-scale cyclic stacking…”
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Pervasive remagnetization of detrital zircon host rocks in the Jack Hills, Western Australia and implications for records of the early geodynamo
Published in Earth and planetary science letters (15-11-2015)“…It currently is unknown when Earth's dynamo magnetic field originated. Paleomagnetic studies indicate that a field with an intensity similar to that of the…”
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To tune or not to tune: Detecting orbital variability in Oligo-Miocene climate records
Published in Earth and planetary science letters (01-04-2012)“…We address the problem of detecting quasi-periodic variability at orbital frequencies within pre-Pleistocene climate records using depth-derived and orbitally…”
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New constraints on equatorial temperatures during a Late Neoproterozoic snowball Earth glaciation
Published in Earth and planetary science letters (15-11-2014)“…Intense glaciation during the end of Cryogenian time (∼635 million years ago) marks the coldest climate state in Earth history – a time when glacial deposits…”
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Helium and thorium isotope constraints on African dust transport to the Bahamas over recent millennia
Published in Earth and planetary science letters (01-01-2017)“…Despite its potential linkages with North Atlantic climate, the variability in Saharan dust transport to the western North Atlantic over the past two millennia…”
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