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Dr Lissenberg, Prof MacLeod and colleagues have demonstrated that crustal accretion beneath a fast-spreading mid-ocean ridge is far more protracted than previously supposed.

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Dr. Alan Channing and colleagues have discovered the first known Jurassic hot-spring habitat in the San Agustin geothermal deposits of Patagonia, Argentina.

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Dr. Chris Berry and colleagues have provided the first direct evidence that some early forests contained widely divergent groups of plants based on an unearthed fossil forest dating back 385 million years.

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Congratulations to Professor John Parkes who has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his seminal work in geomicrobiology.

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Dr. Stephen Barker and his colleagues have just published exciting findings demonstrating that abrupt climate change has been a systemic feature of Earth's climate for hundreds of thousands of years

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Dr. Stephen Barker publishes findings on climate change

22 Dec 2011

Dr. Stephen Barker and his colleagues have just published exciting findings demonstrating that abrupt climate change has been a systemic feature of Earth's climate for hundreds of thousands of years and may play an active role in longer-term climate variability through its influence on ice age terminations.

The work, recently published in Science (Sept. 2011), features an 800 kyr synthetic record of Greenland climate variability based on the thermal bipolar seesaw model that reproduces much of the variability seen in the Greenland ice cores over the last 100 kyr. The synthetic record provides both a stratigraphic reference and a conceptual basis for assessing the long-term evolution of millennial-scale variability, and its potential role in longer timescale climate change. Importantly, they provide evidence for a ubiquitous association between bipolar seesaw oscillations and glacial terminations throughout the Middle to Late Pleistocene.