Search Results - "Quade, Jay"
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Woody cover and hominin environments in the past 6 million years
Published in Nature (London) (04-08-2011)“…The role of African savannahs in the evolution of early hominins has been debated for nearly a century. Resolution of this issue has been hindered by…”
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High and dry in central Tibet during the Late Oligocene
Published in Earth and planetary science letters (30-01-2007)“…The time at which the Tibetan Plateau rose to its present high elevation remains controversial, with estimates ranging from 40 Ma to more recent than 7 Ma. New…”
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Seasonal temperature changes obtained from carbonate clumped isotopes of annually laminated tufas from Japan: Discrepancy between natural and synthetic calcites
Published in Geochimica et cosmochimica acta (01-01-2019)“…Carbonate clumped isotopes provide a novel paleo-thermometer that does not require knowledge of the isotopic compositions of environmental water. Despite…”
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A forager–herder trade-off, from broad-spectrum hunting to sheep management at Aşıklı Höyük, Turkey
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (10-06-2014)“…Aşıklı Höyük is the earliest known preceramic Neolithic mound site in Central Anatolia. The oldest Levels, 4 and 5, spanning 8,200 to approximately 9,000 cal…”
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Ardipithecus ramidus postcrania from the Gona Project area, Afar Regional State, Ethiopia
Published in Journal of human evolution (01-04-2019)“…Functional analyses of the 4.4 Ma hominin Ardipithecus ramidus postcrania revealed a previously unknown and unpredicted locomotor pattern combining arboreal…”
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Rapid and Precise Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Clumped Isotopic Composition by Tunable Infrared Laser Differential Spectroscopy
Published in Analytical chemistry (Washington) (21-01-2020)“…The high precision measurement of doubly substituted (“clumped”) isotopologues in CO2 is a topic of significant interest in isotope geochemistry. Here we…”
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Significant Impacts of Increasing Aridity on the Arid Soil Microbiome
Published in mSystems (01-05-2017)“…Global deserts occupy one-third of the Earth's surface and contribute significantly to organic carbon storage, a process at risk in dryland ecosystems that are…”
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Oligocene‐Miocene Great Lakes in the India‐Asia Collision Zone
Published in Basin research (01-02-2018)“…The Himalayan‐Tibetan Plateau is Earth's highest topographic feature, and formed largely during Cenozoic time as India collided with and subducted beneath…”
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Life at the hyperarid margin: novel bacterial diversity in arid soils of the Atacama Desert, Chile
Published in Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions (01-05-2012)“…Nearly half the earth’s surface is occupied by dryland ecosystems, regions susceptible to reduced states of biological productivity caused by climate…”
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Bomb-curve radiocarbon measurement of recent biologic tissues and applications to wildlife forensics and stable isotope (paleo)ecology
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (16-07-2013)“…Above-ground thermonuclear weapons testing from 1952 through 1962 nearly doubled the concentration of radiocarbon (¹⁴C) in the atmosphere. As a result, organic…”
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Small mammal carbon isotope ecology across the Miocene–Pliocene boundary, northwestern Argentina
Published in Earth and planetary science letters (01-03-2012)“…The late Miocene expansion of plants using the C4 photosynthetic pathway in South America has been documented by tooth enamel carbon isotope ratios (δ13Cen)…”
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Temperature and seawater isotopic controls on two stalagmite records since 83 ka from maritime Japan
Published in Quaternary science reviews (15-07-2018)“…Millennial-scale interstadial Dansgaard-Oeschger (D-O) cycles and Heinrich (H) stadial events are pronounced paleoclimatic features during the last glacial…”
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Stable isotope analysis of middle Miocene mammals from the Siwalik sub-Group of Pakistan
Published in Acta palaeontologica Polonica (01-09-2021)“…Stable isotope analysis is pivotal for investigating the paleodiet and paleoecology of past mammals. In this paper, we…”
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Soils at the hyperarid margin: The isotopic composition of soil carbonate from the Atacama Desert, Northern Chile
Published in Geochimica et cosmochimica acta (01-08-2007)“…We evaluate the impact of exceptionally sparse plant cover (0–20%) and rainfall (2–114 mm/yr) on the stable carbon and oxygen composition of soil carbonate…”
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Stable isotopic results from paleosol carbonate in South Asia: Paleoenvironmental reconstructions and selective alteration
Published in Earth and planetary science letters (30-03-2009)“…We measured δ 18O and δ 13C values of paleosol carbonate nodules from a variety of sedimentary units in southern Asia in order to reconstruct…”
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Bacterial Community Structure in the Hyperarid Core of the Atacama Desert, Chile
Published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology (01-12-2006)“…Soils from the hyperarid Atacama Desert of northern Chile were sampled along an east-west elevational transect (23.75 to 24.70°S) through the driest sector to…”
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Stable isotopic composition of pedogenic carbonates from the eastern margin of the Thar Desert, Rajasthan, India
Published in Quaternary international (01-03-2007)“…Pedogenic carbonates in a 19 m-thick dune section (16R) at Didwana, and several shorter profiles from the eastern margin of the Thar Desert, Rajasthan, were…”
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Rapid and precise measurement of carbonate clumped isotopes using laser spectroscopy
Published in Science advances (28-10-2022)“…Carbonate clumped isotope abundance is an important paleothermometer, but measurement is difficult, slow, and subject to cardinal mass ( m/z ) interferences…”
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Stratigraphy, structure, and tectonic evolution of the Himalayan fold-thrust belt in western Nepal
Published in Tectonics (Washington, D.C.) (01-08-2001)“…Regional mapping, stratigraphic study, and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology provide the basis for an incremental restoration of the Himalayan fold‐thrust belt in…”
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Late Miocene hominin teeth from the Gona Paleoanthropological Research Project area, Afar, Ethiopia
Published in Journal of human evolution (01-04-2015)“…Since 2000, significant collections of Latest Miocene hominin fossils have been recovered from Chad, Kenya, and Ethiopia. These fossils have provided a better…”
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