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Metagenomic analyses of the late Pleistocene permafrost – additional tools for reconstruction of environmental conditions [PDF]

Biogeosciences, 2016
A comparative analysis of the metagenomes from two 30 000-year-old permafrost samples, one of lake-alluvial origin and the other from late Pleistocene Ice Complex sediments, revealed significant differences within microbial communities.
E. Rivkina, L. Petrovskaya, T. Vishnivetskaya, K. Krivushin, L. Shmakova, M. Tutukina, A. Meyers, F. Kondrashov   +7 more
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Late Pleistocene and Holocene palaeoenvironments in and around the middle Caspian basin as reconstructed from a deep-sea core [PDF]

, 2014
This article has been made available through Open Access by the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.Late Pleistocene and/or Holocene high-resolution palynological studies are available for the south basin of the Caspian Sea (CS), the world's largest lake.
López-Merino, L, Chalié, F., López-Merino, Lourdes, Lopez-Merino, L., Leroy, S.A.G., Gasse, F, Tudryn, A, Chalié, Françoise, Gasse, Françoise, Tudryn, A., Gasse, F., Leroy, Suzanne A.G., Leroy, SAG, Chalié, F, Tudryn, Alina   +14 more
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Trophic interactions between larger crocodylians and giant tortoises on Aldabra Atoll, Western Indian Ocean, during the Late Pleistocene [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2018
Today, the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Aldabra Atoll is home to about 100 000 giant tortoises, Aldabrachelys gigantea, whose fossil record goes back to the Late Pleistocene. New Late Pleistocene fossils (age ca.
Torsten M. Scheyer, Massimo Delfino, Nicole Klein, Nancy Bunbury, Frauke Fleischer-Dogley, Dennis M. Hansen   +5 more
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Migration of the Antarctic Polar Front through the mid-Pleistocene transition: evidence and climatic implications [PDF]

, 2010
The Antarctic Polar Front is an important biogeochemical divider in the Southern Ocean. Laminated diatom mat deposits record episodes of massive flux of the diatom Thalassiothrix antarctica beneath the Antarctic Polar Front and provide a marker for ...
Naveira Garabato, A.C., I. Grigorov, Grigorov, I., R.B. Pearce, Kemp, A.E.S., Pearce, Richard B., A.E.S. Kemp, A.C. Naveira Garabato   +7 more
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Late Pleistocene pericoastal landforms as targets for early coastal site discovery: A case study from Devils Kitchen, Oregon, USA

Quaternary Science Advances
Identifying Late Pleistocene archaeological sites along the Pacific margin of North America remains difficult outside glaciated areas where emergent paleoshorelines experiencing minimal relative sea level change facilitate early site discovery above sea ...
Loren G. Davis, Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, Alexander J. Nyers, Richard L. Rosencrance   +3 more
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NEW PLEISTOCENE FISSURE-FILLING DEPOSITS FROM THE HYBLEAN PLATEAU (SOUTH EASTERN SICILY)

Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2017
On the Hyblean Plateau (south eastern Sicily) at Contrada Cimillà, south west of Ragusa, the infillings of a karstic cavity on the carbonatic Ragusa platform has yielded abundant Pleistocene mammal bones.
LAURA BONFIGLIO, GIOVANNI DI STEFANO, GIANNI INSACCO, ANTONELLA C. MARRA   +3 more
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Short-tailed mice with a long fossil record: the genus Leggadina (Rodentia: Muridae) from the Quaternary of Queensland, Australia [PDF]

PeerJ, 2018
The genus Leggadina (colloquially known as ‘short-tailed mice’) is a common component of Quaternary faunas of northeastern Australia. They represent a member of the Australian old endemic murid radiation that arrived on the continent sometime during the ...
Jonathan Cramb, Gilbert J. Price, Scott A. Hocknull   +2 more
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Origin, evolution and biogeographic dynamics of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in Southwestern Europe

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The Pleistocene is a key period for understanding the evolutionary history and palaeobiogeography of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). The species was first documented in southeastern Iberia at the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene and appears to have rapidly spread throughout Southwestern Europe, where it was found in numerous ...
Maxime Pelletier
wiley   +1 more source

Subsurface geology of the Torino metropolitan area (Westernmost Po Plain, NW Italy)

Journal of Maps
The 1:100,000 subsurface geological map of the Torino metropolitan area covers ∼900 km2 in the westernmost Po Plain, an area of great relevance being crossed by the late Neogene to Quaternary ‘Torino Hill Front’ (THF), a tens of kilometers long, NW ...
Andrea Irace, Igor Marcelli, Gianfranco Fioraso, Andrea Festa, Rita Catanzariti, Brunella Raco, Matia Menichini, Giulio Masetti, Elisa Brussolo, Gianna Vivaldo, Marco Doveri   +10 more
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New techniques for old bones: Morphometric and diffeomorphometric analysis of the bony labyrinth of the Reilingen and Ehringsdorf Neandertals

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Neandertals are known to possess very distinctive traits in their bony labyrinth morphology, such as an inferiorly positioned posterior canal and a very low number of turns in the cochlea. Hence, the inner ear has been often used to assess the Neandertal status of fragmentary fossils.
Alessandro Urciuoli, Julia Diez‐Valero, Ignacio Martínez, Rolf Quam, Brian A. Keeling, Nicole M. Webb, Mercedes Conde‐Valverde   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source