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Climate Change and Marine Geological Dynamics
This special issue belongs to the section “Geological Oceanography“.
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The tendency for climate to change has been one of the most surprising outcomes of the study of Earth history. Marine geosciences (including marine geology, sedimentology, geochemistry, paleoceanography, paleontology) can record valuable information about past environment, climate, and biota just before, during, and after each climate perturbation. Particularly, certain intervals of the geological record are windows to key episodes in the climate history of the Earth‑life system. Marine geological dynamics such as sea‑level changes, environmental parameters, sedimentary cyclicity, and climate are strongly related through a direct exchange between the oceanographic and atmospheric systems. This Special Issue aims to provide an overview of the interplay of these processes across a variety of settings (coastal to open marine) and timescales (early Mesozoic to modern). Among the priorities are the hydroclimate reconstructions using integrated geochemical and/or paleontological proxies measured from different natural archives. We also encourage contributions outlining the applications of novel techniques that provide important information on this topic.
Dr. George Kontakiotis
Prof. Dr. Assimina Antonarakou
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Earth’s orbital sedimentary cyclicity (e.g., sapropels) and its relationship with climate
- Hydrological‑sedimentological regime and biotic response to climate‑induced extreme geological events (e.g., MSC, MMCO, PETM)
- Controls of climate to carbon and water cycles
- Application of geochemical (e.g., TEX86, Uk’37, Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca, Δ47) and paleontological (e.g., corals, foraminifera, nannofossils, otoliths, bivalves, speleothems) proxies to reconstruct environmental parameters (e.g., SST, SSS)
- Monitoring and modeling the climate system
- Marine petroleum geology and exploitation of natural energy resources (e.g., hydrocarbons, gas/oil, methane, mud volcanoes)
- Paleoceanographic evolution and paleoclimatic changes along both latitudinal and longitudinal gradients
- Impact of climate change on open ocean and marginal marine ecosystems
- Natural and human (e.g., ocean acidification, water pollution, abnormal foraminiferal types) environmental stressors in marine sedimentary basins
- Sea level indicators in Late Quaternary and paleogeographical reconstructions.
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