Novità scientifiche Giugno 2009

29/6/2009  Mid-Pliocene Asian monsoon intensification and the onset of Northern Hemisphere glaciation - Geology

29/6/2009  Impact of eustatic amplitude variations on shelf morphology, sediment dispersal, and sequence stratigraphic interpretation: Icehouse versus greenhouse systems - Geology

29/6/2009  Committed terrestrial ecosystem changes due to climate change - Nature Geoscience

29/6/2009  Drowning of the Mississippi Delta due to insufficient sediment supply and global sea-level rise - Nature Geoscience

25/6/2009  Enhanced carbon pump inferred from relaxation of nutrient limitation in the glacial ocean - Nature

22/6/2009  Surface-temperature trends and variability in the low-latitude North Atlantic since 1552 - Nature Geosciences

22/6/2009  Antarctic temperature and global sea level closely coupled over the past five glacial cycles - Nature Geosciences

22/6/2009  Rapid early Holocene retreat of a Laurentide outlet glacier through an Arctic fjord - Nature Geosciences

19/6/2009  Fossil Plant Relative Abundances Indicate Sudden Loss of Late Triassic Biodiversity in East Greenland - Science

19/6/2009  Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration Across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition - Science

16/6/2009  Herminiimonas glaciei sp. nov., a novel ultramicrobacterium from 3042 m deep Greenland glacial ice - International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

16/6/2009  Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass-balance modelling and freshwater flux for 2007, and in a 1995-2007 perspective - Hydrological Processes

15/6/2009  Did the Toba volcanic eruption of ~74 ka B.P. produce widespread glaciation? - Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres

15/6/2009  Atmospheric depletion of mercury over Antarctica during glacial periods - Nature Geosciences

15/6/2009  Identifying the causes of sea-level change - Nature Geosciences

5/6/2009  Lower-latitude mammals as year-round residents in Eocene Arctic forests - Geology

5/6/2009  Contourite depositional system on the Argentine Slope: An exceptional record of the influence of Antarctic water masses - Geology

3/6/2009  Fossil Teeth Bring New Insight into Prehistoric Arctic Mammals - SciencePoles

3/6/2009  Atmospheric pressure as a natural climate regulator for a terrestrial planet with a biosphere - PNAS

1/6/2009  Large-river delta-front estuaries as natural "recorders" of global environmental change - PNAS

1/6/2009  Positive trend in the mean speed and deformation rate of Arctic sea ice, 1979-2007 - Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans

1/6/2009  Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas in the Arctic - Science