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Reading List for Barbados Study Tour

Andersen, M. B., Gallup, C. D., Scholz, D., Stirling, C. H. and Thompson, W. G. (2009 in press). "U-series dating of fossil coral reefs: consensus and controversy." PAGES news.

Bender, M. L., Taylor, F. T. and Matthews, R. K. (1973). "Helium-uranium dating of corals from middle Pleistocene Barbados reef tracts." Quat. Res. 3: 142-146.

Bender, M. L., Fairbanks, R. G., Taylor, F. W., Matthews, R. K., Goddard, J. G. and Broecker, W. S. (1979). "Uranium-series dating of Pleistocene reef tracts of Barbados, West Indies." GSA Bull. 90: 577-594.

Paul Blanchon et al.: Anatomy of a fringing reef around Grand Cayman; storm rubble, not coral framework, JOURNAL OF SEDIMENTARY RESEARCH, VOL. 67, No. I. JANUARY, 1997, P. 1-16

Blanchon, P., Eisenhauer, A., Fietzke, J. and Liebetrau, V. (2009). "Rapid sea-level rise and reef back-stepping at the close of the last interglacial highstand." Nature(458): 881-884.

Broecker, W. S., Thurber, D. L., Goddard, J. G., Ku, T. L., Matthews, R. K. and Mesolella, K. J. (1968). "Milankovitch hypothesis supported by precise dating of coral reefs and deep-sea sediments." Science 159: 297-300.

Freiburger, N. C., Gallup, C. D., Taylor, F. W., Cheng, H. and Edwards, R. L. (2005). "New dates and revelations on the last interglacial terrace, Barbados, West Indies." EOS Transactions American Geophysical Union 86(52): Suppl., Abstract PP21C-1578.

Gallup, C. D., Cheng, H., Taylor, F. W. and Edwards, R. L. (2002). "Direct determination of the timing of sea level change during Termination II." Science 295: 310-313.

Goreau, T. F. (1959). "The ecology of Jamaican coral reefs I. Species composition and zonation." Ecology 40(1): 67-90.

Hearty, P. J., Hollin, J. T., Neumann, A. C., O'Leary, M. and McColloch, M. (2007). "Global sea-level fluctuations during the Last Interglaciation (MIS5e)." Quaternary Science Reviews 26: 2090-2112.

Henderson, G. M. and Slowey, N. C. (2000). "Evidence from U-Th dating against Northern Hemisphere forcing of the penultimate deglaciation." Nature 404: 61-66.

Terence P. Hughes: Phase Shifts, and Large-Scale Degradation of a Caribbean Coral Reef, Science, New Series, Vol. 265, No. 5178 (Sep. 9, 1994), pp. 1547-1551

Kerr, R. A. (1992). "A revisionist timetable for the ice ages." Science 258: 220-221.

J.B. Lewis: Evidence from aerial photography of structural loss of coral reefs at Barbados, West Indies, Coral Reefs (2002) 21:49?56

Mesolella, K. J. (1967). "Zonation of uplifted Pleistocene coral reefs on Barbados, West Indies." Science 156: 638-640.

Schellmann, G. and Radtke, U. (2004). "A revised morpho- and chronostratigraphy of the Late and Middle Pleistocene coral reef terraces on Southern Barbados (West Indies)." Earth-Science Reviews 64(3-4): 157-187.

Scholz, D. and Mangini, A. (2007). U-redistribution in fossil reef corals from Barbados, West Indies, and sea-level reconstruction for MIS 6.5. Developments in Quaternary Science. F. Sirocko, M. Claussen, M. F. Sanchez-Goni and T. Litt. 7: 119-139.

Speed, R., Thompson, W. G., Fairbanks, R. G., Rubenstone, J. L. and Mortlock, R. A. (2002 unpublished manuscript). Marine terrace evolution in southeastern Barbados and the Stage 5c highstand.

Speed, R. C. (1983). "Structure of the accretionary complex of Barbados I: Chalky Mount." GSA Bull. 84(1): 92-116.

Speed, R. C. and Cheng, H. (2004). "Evolution of marine terraces and sea level in the last interglacial, Cave Hill, Barbados." GSA Bulletin 116(1/2): 219-232.

Thompson, W. G. and Curran, H. A. (2007). "Climate instability during the last interglacial: abrupt sea level events."

Thompson, W. G., Spiegelman, M. W., Goldstein, S. L. and Speed, R. C. (2003). "An Open-System model for the U-series age determinations of fossil corals." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 210: 365-381.

Winograd, I. J., Coplen, T. B., Landwehr, J. M., Riggs, A. C., Ludwig, K. R., Szabo, B. J., Kolesar, P. T. and Revesz, K. M. (1992). "Continuous 500,000-year climate record from vein calcite in Devils Hole, Nevada." Science 258: 255-284.

Westbrook, G. K. (1982). The Barbados ridge complex: Tectonic of a mature forearc system. Geological Society of London Special Publication. J. K. Leggett. London, Blackwell.

Stephen Blake's Reading List

Thorvaldur Thordarson and Stephen Self: Atmospheric and environmental effects of the 1783?1784 Laki eruption: A review and reassessment, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 108, NO. D1, 4011, doi:10.1029/2001JD002042, 2003

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Alan Robock: Volcanic Eruptions and Climate, Reviews of Geophysics, 38, 2 / May 2000 pages 191-219

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S. Blake: Correlations between eruption magnitude, S02 yield, and surface cooling, Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2003; v. 213; p. 371-380

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Jim Zachos's Reading List

Zachos, J.C., Dickens, G.R., and Zeebe, R.E., 2008, An early Cenozoic perspective on greenhouse warming and carbon-cycle dynamics. Nature. |Vol 451|17 January 2008|doi:10.1038/nature

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Zeebe, R.E., J. C. Zachos, K. Caldeira, T. Tyrrell, 2008, Carbon Emissions and Acidification. Science, 321, p.51-52, DOI: 10.1126/science.1159124.

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McCarren, H., E. Thomas, T. Hasegawa, U. Rohl, and J. C. Zachos (2008), Depth dependency of the Paleocene-Eocene carbon isotope excursion: Paired benthic and terrestrial biomarker records (Ocean Drilling Program Leg 208, Walvis Ridge), Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 9, Q10008

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John, C. M., S. M. Bohaty, J. C. Zachos, A. Sluijs, S. Gibbs, H. Brinkhuis, and T. J. Bralower, 2008, North American continental margin records of the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum: Implications for global carbon and hydrological cycling. Paleoceanography, 23, PA2217, doi:10.1029/2007PA001465.

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Thure Cerling's Reading List

T.E. Cerling et al.: Carbon isotopes in soils and palaeosols as ecology and palaeoecology indicators, NATURE, Vol. 341, 14 September 1989

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Thure E. Cerling, John M. Harris, Bruce J. MacFadden, et al.: Global vegetation change through the Miocene/Pliocene boundary, NATURE |VOL 389 | 11 SEPTEMBER 1997

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Naomi E. Levin, Thure E. Cerling, Benjamin H. Passey, et al.: A stable isotope aridity index for terrestrial environments, PNAS _ July 25, 2006 _ vol. 103 _ no. 30 _ 11201?11205

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F.H. Brown and C.S. Feibel: Stratigraphy, Depositional Environments, and Palaeogeography of the Koobi For a Formation, Koobi For a Research Project, Vol. 3 The Fossil Ungulates: Geology, Fossil Antiodactyles, and Palaeoenvironments, Ed. Harris, J.M., 1991

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Jerry X. Mitrovica"s Reading List

Jerry X. Mitrovica, Mark E. Tamisiea, James L. Davis & Glenn A. Milne, Recent mass balance of polar ice sheets inferred from patterns of global sea-level change, NATURE | VOL 409 | 22 FEBRUARY 2001

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Jerry X. Mitrovica, John Wahr, Isamu Matsuyama, Archie Paulson, Mark E. Tamisiea: Reanalysis of ancient eclipse, astronomic and geodetic data: A possible route to resolving the enigma of global sea-level rise, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 243 (2006) 390?399

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Jerry X. Mitrovica, Natalya Gomez, Peter U. Clark: The Sea-Level Fingerprint of West Antarctic Collapse, SCIENCE VOL 323 6 FEBRUARY 2009

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Peter Keleman's Reading List

Peter Kelemen and Jurg Matter: Synopsis of paper on mineral carbonation in peridotite for CO2 capture and storage (CCS), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008

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Peter B. Kelemen and Jurg Matter: In situ carbonation of peridotite for CO2 storage, PNAS _ November 11, 2008 _ vol. 105 _ no. 45 _ 17295?17300

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Robert Socolow and Stephen Pacala: A Plan to Kepp Carbon in Check, Scientific America, Sept. 2006

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Peter Huybers's Reading List

Peter Huybers and Charles Langmuir: Feedback between deglaciation and volcanic emissions of CO2, Preprint submitted to Elsevier, 15 February 2009

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Jonathan Bamber's Reading List

Jonathan L. Bamber, Richard B. Alley, and Ian Joughin: Rapid response of modern day ice sheets to external forcing, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 257 (2007) 1?13

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Andrew Shepherd and Duncan Wingham: Recent Sea-Level Contributions of the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets, SCIENCE VOL 315 16 MARCH 2007

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Eric Rignot, Jonathan Bamber, et al.: Recent Antarctic ice mass loss from radar interferometry and regional climate modeling, Nature Geoscience, published online: 13 January 2008, with supplemental material.

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William Peltier's Reading List

Global glacial ice volume and Last Glacial maximum duration from n extended Barbados sea level record, Quat. Sci. Rev. 25, 3322-3337,2006

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History of Earth Rotation, W.R. Peltier, as Chapter 10 of volume 9 of the Treatise on Geophysics, Elsevier Press, pp 243-293, 2007.

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Warren Prell's Reading List

Peter Molnar: Mio-Pliocene Growth Of The Tibetan Plateau And Evolution of East Asian Climate, Palaeontologia Electronica Vol. 8, Issue 1; 2A:23p. 625KB; http://palaeo-electronica.org/paleo/2005_1/molnar2/issue1_05.htm

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Maureen Raymo's Reading List

Maureen E. Raymo & Peter Huybers: Unlocking the mysteries of the ice ages, NATURE, Vol 451|17 January 2008 doi:10.1038/nature06589

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M. E. Raymo, L. E. Lisiecki, Kerim H. Nisancioglu: Plio-Pleistocene Ice Volume, Antarctic Climate, and the Global 18O Record, 28 JULY 2006 VOL 313 SCIENCE

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Kenneth Miller's Reading List

Miller, K.G., Kominz, M.A., Browning, J.V., Wright, J.D., Mountain, G.S., Katz, M.E., Sugarman, P.J., Cramer, B.S., Christie-Blick, N., and Pekar, S.F., 2005, The Phanerozoic record of global sea-level change: Science, v. 310, p. 1293-1298. (with supplement)

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Kenneth G. Miller, et al.: Supporting Online Material for The Phanerozoic Record of Global Sea-Level Change, Published 25 November 2005, Science 310, 1293 (2005)

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Miller, K.G., Sugarman, P.J., Browning, J.V., Horton, B.J., Stanley, A., Kahn, A., Uptegrove, J., and Aucott, M., Sea-level rise in New Jersey over the past 5000 years: Implications to anthropogenic changes, Global and Planetary Change, 2009.

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Bill Curry's Reading List

Peter Huybers & William Curry: Links between annual, Milankovitch and continuum temperature variability, Nature, Vol 441|18 May 2006|doi:10.1038/nature04745

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J. Murray Mitchell: An Overview of Climatic Variability and Its Causal Mechanisms, Quaternary Research 6,481-493 (1976)

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Bill Thompson's Reading List

Thompson W. G., and Goldstein, S. L. : A radiometric calibration of the SPECMAP timescale, Quaternary Science Reviews 25 (2006) 3207?321, 2006

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Christina D. Gallup, R. Lawrence Edwards, Robert G. Johnson: The Timing of High Sea Levels Over the Past 200,000 Years, Science, New Series, Vol. 263, No. 5148 (Feb. 11, 1994), 796-800.

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Emma-Kate Potter, Tezer M. Esat, Gerhard Schellmann, Ulrich Radtke, Kurt Lambeck, Malcolm T. McCulloch: Suborbital-period sea-level oscillations during marine isotope substages 5a and 5c, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 225 (2004) 191? 204

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