We show that southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) colonies existed proximate to the Ross Ice Shelf during the Holocene, well south of their core sub-Antarctic breeding and molting grounds. We propose that this was due to warming (including a previously unrecognized period from approximately 1,100 to 2,300 (14)C yr B.P.) that decreased coastal sea ice and allowed penetration of warmer-than-...

Submarine groundwater discharge is recognized as a major source of chemicals to the global ocean, exerting large control over coastal water composition. Radon and 226Ra are used evaluate, for first time, occurrence magnitude submarine in Ría de Vigo, large, highly productive embayment affected by seasonal, wind-driven upwelling. The system naturally enriched 222Rn due regional granitic basement...

The Gulf of La Spezia (GLS) in Northwest Italy is a rocky embayment with low fluvial influence facing the Mediterranean Sea. Past landscape dynamics were investigated through multi-proxy, facies-based analysis down to core depth 30 m. integration quantitative ostracod, foraminifera, and pollen analyses, supported by radiocarbon ages, proved be powerful tool unravel late Quaternary palaeoenviron...

Recent advances in the determination of the mass balance of polar ice sheets show that the Greenland Ice Sheet is losing mass by near-coastal thinning, and that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, with thickening in the west and thinning in the north, is probably thinning overall. The mass imbalance of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is likely to be small, but even its sign cannot yet be determined. Lar...

The Gurpi Formation, one of the geologycal units of the Zagros Basin, stretches with in the Folded Zagros in the provinces of Khuzestan, Lorestan, and Fars,in southwest Iran. In all 525 samples were collected from five stratigraphic sectiones of the Gurpi Formation in Dezful embayment Zone for studying biostratigraphy. Totally 47 species from 23 Planktonic foraminifera genera were recognized in...

Abstract. Loess–palaeosol sequences (LPSs) of the oceanic-influenced European loess belt underwent frequent post-depositional processes induced by surface runoff or periglacial processes. The interpretation such atypical LPSs is not straightforward, and they cannot be easily used for regional to continental correlations. Within last few years, however, gained increased attention, as are valuabl...

A prominent feature in the west Cosmonaut Sea is reoccurrence of a sensible heat polynya — western Polynya (wCSP), which normally exists late austral autumn and early winter. The Southern Ocean Sate Estimate (SOSE) reanalysis product employed to investigate thermodynamic dynamic processes controlling formation evolution real wCSP event 2009, when properties revealed from satellite observations ...