GEOL766: Earth Systems Change

Lecture 03: Tuesday, September 2, 2008: Short-term climate controls and O isotopes

Suggested reading list (You don't need to read all these; pick up only the ones that you are interested in):

1. Ruddiman, W.F., 2001, Earth's Climate: Past and Future, W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd, 465 p.: Chapters 6 to 15.
2. Laskar, J., Robutel, P., Joutel, F., Gastineau, M., Correia, A.C.M., and Levrard, B., 2004, A long-term numerical solution for the insolation quantities of the Earth: Astronomy & Astrophysics, v. 428, p. 261-285. [ A classic paper for the numerical calculation of the time series analysis: You possibly cannot understand it without reading it many times and track the references. However, if you are trying to do the time series analysis, you cannot escape it. ]
3. Mitchell, R.N., Bice, D.M., Montanari, A., Cleaveland, L.C., Christianson, K.T., Coccioni, R., and Hinnov, L.A., 2008, Oceanic anoxic cycles? Orbital prelude to the Bonarelli Level (OAE 2): Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 267, p. 1-16. [ An example of using the time series analysis for an anceint event ]
4. If you are interested in time series analysis, have a look at the following website: http://paos.colorado.edu/research/wavelets and Torrence, C., Compo, G.P., 1998. A practical guide to wavelet analysis. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, v. 79, p. 61-78.

5. If you are interested in looking at the Clumped isotopes and their implications for the ancient seawater temperature, read the following:
5a. Eiler, J.M., 2007, "Clumped-isotope" geochemistry--The study of naturally-occurring, multiply-substituted isotopologues: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 262, p. 309-327.
5b. Came, R.E., Eiler, J.M., Veizer, J., Azmy, K., Brand, U., and Weidman, C.R., 2007, Coupling of surface temperatures and atmospheric CO2 concentrations during the Palaeozoic era: Nature, v. 449, p. 198-201.

6. Barron, E.J., Fawcett, P.J., Peterson, W.H., Pollard, D., and Thompson, S.L., 1995, A simulation of Midcretaceous climate: Paleoceanography, v. 10, p. 953-962.
7. Johnson, C.C., Barron, E.J., Kauffman, E.G., Arthur, M.A., Fawcett, P.J., and Yasuda, M.K., 1996, Middle Cretaceous reef collapse linked to ocean heat transport: Geology, v. 24, p. 376-380.
8. Olsen, P.E., 1986, A 40-Million-Year Lake Record of Early Mesozoic Orbital Climatic Forcing: Science, v. 234, p. 842-848.
9. Olsen, P.E., 1997, Stratigraphic record of the Early Mesozoic breakup of Pangea in the Laurasia-Gondwana rift system: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 25, p. 337-401.
10. Hinnov, L.A., 2000, New Perspectives on Orbitally Forced Stratigraphy: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 28, p. 419-475.
11. Kashiwaya, K., Ochiai, S., Sakai, H., and Kawai, T., 2001, Orbit-related long-term climate cycles revealed in a 12-Myr continental record from Lake Baikal, Nature, v. 410, p. 71-74.
12. Park, J., D'Hondt, S.L., King, J.W., and Gibson, C., 1993, Late Cretaceous Precessional Cycles in Double Time: A Warm-Earth Milankovitch Response: Science, v. 261, p. 1431-1434.
13. Winograd, I.J., Coplen, T.B., Szabo, B.J., and Riggs, A.C., 1988, A 250,000-Year Climatic Record from Great Basin Vein Calcite: Implications for Milankovitch Theory: Science, v. 242, p. 1275-1280.