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Gulf of Mexico Climate and Environmental History

GOM Climate and Environmental History
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Selected USGS Publications
  • A Several-Century Record of Low-Oxygen Conditions on the Louisiana Continental Shelf - USGS poster [HTML version]

  • Record of the Southwest Monsoon from Gulf of Mexico Sediment Cores - USGS poster [HTML version]

  • Multiproxy Record of the Last Interglacial (MIS 5e) off Central and Northern California, U.S.A., from Ocean Drilling Program Sites 1018 and 1020 - U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1632 [Publications Warehouse citation] [HTML version]

  • Variations in River Flow to the Gulf of Mexico: Implications for Paleoenvironmental Studies of Gulf of Mexico Marine Sediments - U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2187 [Publications Warehouse citation] [HTML version]

  • Marine oxygen isotope stage 11 and associated terrestrial records; workshop report - U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 99-312 [Publications Warehouse citation]

  • Middle Pliocene Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction: PRISM2 - U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 99-535 [Publications Warehouse citation] [HTML version]

  • Holocene continental flood events in marine sediments of the Gulf of Mexico - U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 99-566 [Publications Warehouse citation]

  • Planktic foraminifer census data and delta 18O and delta 13C analyses of Globigerinoides ruber from Marine Isotope Stage 11 sediments from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 1002 - U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 00-035 [Publications Warehouse citation]

  • Planktic foraminifer census data from the northwestern Gulf of Mexico - Geological Survey Open File Report 01-108 [Publications Warehouse citation] [HTML version]

  • Benthic foraminiferal census data from surface sediment samples, western Gulf of Mexico (Louisiana and Texas continental shelf and slope) - U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 01-182 [Publications Warehouse citation]

  • Gulf of Mexico Planktic Foraminifer Core-Top Calibration Data Set: Raw Data - U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 03-08 [Publications Warehouse citation] [HTML version]

  • Benthic Foraminiferal Census Data from Gulf of Mexico Cores (Texas and Louisiana Continental Shelf) - U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 2004-1209 [Publications Warehouse citation] [HTML version]
Journal Publications
  • Late Pleistocene and Holocene meltwater events in the western Arctic Ocean: Geology, v. 27, p. 759-762. [available online]

  • Climate Variability of the Holocene, Site 1098, Palmer Deep, Antarctica, in Barker, P.F., Camerlenghi, A., Acton, G.D., and Ramsay, A.T.S. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 178. [available online]

  • New record shows pronounced changes in Arctic Ocean circulation and climate: EOS, v. 82, p. 601, 607.

  • Pleistocene reduction of polar ice caps: Evidence from Cariaco Basin marine sediment: Geology, v. 29, p. 71-74. [available online]

  • Millennial- to century-scale variability in Gulf of Mexico Holocene climate records: Paleoceanography, v. 18, no. 2, 1048, doi:10.1029/2002PA000868, 2003. [Available online]

  • Century-scale movement of the Atlantic Intertropical Convergence Zone linked to solar variability: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 31, L12214, doi:10.1029/2004GL019940, 2004. [available online]

  • Record of the North American southwest monsoon from Gulf of Mexico sediment cores: Geology, v. 33, no. 3, p. 209-212. [available online]

  • Reconstructing a 180 yr record of natural and anthropogenic induced low-oxygen conditions from continental shelf sediments Louisiana: Geology, v. 33, no. 4, p. 329-332. [available online]

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