Publications
2026
Scholarly publications
Lanterna, F., Krijgsman, W., Lourens, L., Mulch, A., & Vasiliev, I. (2026). Sea Surface Temperature and Salinity Changes in the Easternmost Mediterranean During the Pre-Evaporitic Messinian Controlled by the Restriction at Gibraltar. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 41(1), Article e2025PA005277. [DOI] [Repository]
Liu, F., Huang, E., Du, J., Ma, W., Liu, Z., Lourens, L. J., & Tian, J. (2026). Eccentricity rhythms in the Oligocene-Miocene carbon cycle regulated by weathering and carbonate burial. Science advances, 12(5), eadx6682. Article eadx6682. [DOI] [Repository]
2025
Scholarly publications
Xu, Y., Wang, C., Ji, K., Hong, H., Algeo, T. J., Christidis, G. E., Zhao, C., Lourens, L. J., Gingerich, P. D., & Abels, H. A. (2025). Reduced mean annual precipitation immediately after the onset of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Bighorn Basin (Wyoming, USA). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 678, Article 113205. [DOI] [Repository]
Hou, S., Toebrock, L., Van Der Linden, M., Rothstegge, F., Ziegler, M., Lourens, L. J., & Bijl, P. K. (2025). Southern Ocean control on atmospheric CO2 changes across late Pliocene Marine Isotope Stage M2. Climate of the Past, 21(1), 79-93. [DOI] [Repository]
2024
Scholarly publications
Cutmore, A., Bale, N., Lourens, L., & Schouten, S. (2024). A search for biomarker evidence of an intermittent deep-sea hypersaline anoxic basin in the eastern Mediterranean during the Early Pliocene. Organic Geochemistry, 196, Article 104827. [DOI] [Repository]
Liebrand, D., Wade, B. S., Beddow, H. M., King, D. J., Harrison, A. D., Johnstone, H. J. H., Drury, A. J., Pälike, H., Sluijs, A., & Lourens, L. J. (2024). Oceanography of the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean Across the Oligocene-Miocene Transition. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 39(7), Article e2024PA004892. [DOI] [Repository]
Liu, FH., Du, JL., Huang, EQ., Ma, WT., Ma, XL., Tian, J., & Lourens, LJ. (2024). Accelerated marine carbon cycling forced by tectonic degassing over the Miocene Climate Optimum. Science Bulletin, 69(6), 823-832. [DOI] [Repository]
Kaboth-Bahr, S., Schmitt, C., Bauersachs, T., Zeeden, C., Wonik, T., Schandl, J., Lenz, O., Wedmann, S., Vasiliev, I., Bahr, A., Pross, J., Mulch, A., & Lourens, L. (2024). Improved chronostratigraphy for the Messel Formation (Hesse, Germany) provides insight into early to middle Eocene climate variability. Newsletters on Stratigraphy, 57(2), 153 - 170. [DOI] [Repository]
Noti, A., Geraga, M., Lourens, L. J., Iliopoulos, I., Vlachopoulos, A. G., & Papatheodorou, G. (2024). Imprints of Holocene aridity variability in the Aegean Sea and interconnections with north-latitude areas. Holocene, 34(8), 1036-1050. [DOI] [Repository]
2023
Scholarly publications
Hodell, D. A., Crowhurst, S. J., Lourens, L., Margari, V., Nicolson, J., Rolfe, J. E., Skinner, L. C., Thomas, N. C., Tzedakis, P. C., Mleneck-Vautravers, M. J., & Wolff, E. W. (2023). A 1.5-million-year record of orbital and millennial climate variability in the North Atlantic. Climate of the Past, 19(3), 607-636. [DOI] [Repository]
Ji, K., Wang, C., Hong, H., Yin, K., Zhao, C., Xu, Y., Song, B., Prins, M., Lourens, L. J., Gingerich, P. D., & Abels, H. A. (2023). Elevated physical weathering exceeds chemical weathering of clays during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the continental Bighorn Basin (Wyoming, USA). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 615, 1-15. Article 111445. [DOI] [Repository]
Setty, S., Cramwinckel, M. J., van Nes, E. H., van de Leemput, I. A., Dijkstra, H. A., Lourens, L. J., Scheffer, M., & Sluijs, A. (2023). Loss of Earth system resilience during early Eocene transient global warming events. Science advances, 9(14), 1-11. Article eade5466. [DOI] [Repository]
Cutmore, A., Bale, N., De Lange, G. J., Nijenhuis, I. A., & Lourens, L. J. (2023). A Window Into Eastern Mediterranean Productivity Conditions Over Three Pliocene Precession-Forced Climate Cycles. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 38(4), 1-19. Article e2022PA004550. [DOI] [Repository]
Fischer, B., Luna, L., Amidon, W., Burbank, D., de Boer, B., Stap, L., Bookhagen, B., Godard, V., Oskin, M., Alonso, R., Tuenter, E., & Lourens, L. (2023). Milankovitch-paced erosion in the southern Central Andes. Nature Communications, 14(1), 1-15. Article 424 . [DOI] [Repository]
2022
Scholarly publications
Zammit, R., Lear, C. H., Samankassou, E., Lourens, L. J., Micallef, A., Pearson, P. N., & Bialik, O. M. (2022). Early Miocene Intensification of the North African Hydrological Cycle: Multi-Proxy Evidence From the Shelf Carbonates of Malta. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37(9), 1-21. Article e2022PA004414. [DOI] [Repository]
Hennekam, R., Grant, K. M., Rohling, E. J., Tjallingii, R., Heslop, D., Roberts, A. P., Lourens, L. J., & Reichart, G. J. (2022). Accurately calibrated X-ray fluorescence core scanning (XRF-CS) record of Ti ∕ Al reveals Early Pleistocene aridity and humidity variability over North Africa and its close relationship to low-latitude insolation. Climate of the Past, 18(11), 2509-2521. [DOI] [Repository]
Krijgsman, W., Vasiliev, I., Beniest, A., Lyons, T., Lofi, J., Tari, G., Slomp, C. P., Cagatay, N., Triantaphyllou, M., Flecker, R., Palcu, D., McHugh, C., Arz, H., Henry, P., Lloyd, K., Cifci, G., Sipahioglu, Ö., Sakellariou, D., & The Blackgate Workshop Participants (2022). Mediterranean-Black Sea gateway exchange: Scientific drilling workshop on the BlackGate project. Scientific Drilling, 31, 93-110. [DOI] [Repository]
Zachariasse, W. J., & Lourens, L. J. (2022). About the age and depositional depth of the sediments with reported bipedal footprints at Trachilos (NW Crete, Greece). Scientific Reports, 12(1), 1-10. Article 18471. [DOI] [Repository]
Zachariasse, W. J., & Lourens, L. J. (2022). The Messinian on Gavdos (Greece) and the status of currently used ages for the onset of the MSC and gypsum precipitation. Newsletters on Stratigraphy, 55(3), 333-360. [DOI] [Repository]
Meckler, A. N., Sexton, P. F., Piasecki, A. M., Leutert, T. J., Marquardt, J., Ziegler, M., Agterhuis, T., Lourens, L. J., Rae, J. W. B., Barnet, J., Tripati, A., & Bernasconi, S. M. (2022). Cenozoic evolution of deep ocean temperature from clumped isotope thermometry. Science, 377(6601), 86-90. [DOI] [Repository]
Zeebe, R. E., & Lourens, L. J. (2022). Geologically constrained astronomical solutions for the Cenozoic era. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 592, 1-14. Article 117595. [DOI] [Repository]
Grant, K. M., Amarathunga, U., Amies, J. D., Hu, P., Qian, Y., Penny, T., Rodriguez-Sanz, L., Zhao, X., Heslop, D., Liebrand, D., Hennekam, R., Westerhold, T., Gilmore, S., Lourens, L. J., Roberts, A. P., & Rohling, E. J. (2022). Author Correction: Organic carbon burial in Mediterranean sapropels intensified during Green Sahara Periods since 3.2 Myr ago. Communications Earth and Environment, 3(1), 1-1. Article 30. [DOI] [Repository]
Grant, K. M., Amarathunga, U., Amies, J. D., Hu, P., Qian, Y., Penny, T., Rodriguez-Sanz, L., Zhao, X., Heslop, D., Liebrand, D., Hennekam, R., Westerhold, T., Gilmore, S., Lourens, L. J., Roberts, A. P., & Rohling, E. J. (2022). Organic carbon burial in Mediterranean sapropels intensified during Green Sahara Periods since 3.2 Myr ago. Communications Earth and Environment, 3(1), 1-9. Article 11. [DOI] [Repository]
Hooghiemstra, H., Pérez, G. S., Torres Torres, V., Berrío, J. C., Lourens, L., & Flantua, S. G. A. (2022). 60 years of scientific deep drilling in Colombia: The north Andean guide to the Quaternary. Scientific Drilling, 30, 1-15. [DOI] [Repository]
Lyu, J., Kouwenhoven, T. J., Calieri, R., & Lourens, L. J. (2022). Foraminifera of the Faneromeni section (Crete, Greece) reflect the palaeoenvironmental development towards the Messinian salinity crisis. Marine Micropaleontology, 172, 1-17. Article 102107. [DOI] [Repository]
Zeebe, R. E., & Lourens, L. J. (2022). A Deep-Time Dating Tool for Paleo-Applications Utilizing Obliquity and Precession Cycles: The Role of Dynamical Ellipticity and Tidal Dissipation. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37(2), 1-17. Article e2021PA004349. [DOI] [Repository]
Kontakiotis, G., Butiseacă, G. A., Antonarakou, A., Agiadi, K., Zarkogiannis, S. D., Krsnik, E., Besiou, E., Zachariasse, W. J., Lourens, L., Thivaiou, D., Koskeridou, E., Moissette, P., Mulch, A., Karakitsios, V., & Vasiliev, I. (2022). Hypersalinity accompanies tectonic restriction in the eastern Mediterranean prior to the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 592, 1-14. Article 110903. [DOI] [Repository]
Agterhuis, T., Ziegler, M., Winter, N. J. D., & Lourens, L. J. (2022). Warm deep-sea temperatures across Eocene Thermal Maximum 2 from clumped isotope thermometry. Communications Earth & Environment, 3(1), 1-9. Article 39. [DOI] [Repository]
2021
Scholarly publications
Lourens, L. J. (2021). The variation of the Earth’s movements (orbital, tilt, and precession) and climate change. In Climate Change (Third edition): Observed Impacts on Planet Earth (pp. 583-606). Elsevier. [DOI] [Repository]
Adnew, G. A., Hofmann, M. E. G., Pons, T. L., Koren, G., Ziegler, M., Lourens, L. J., Peters, W., & Röckmann, T. (2021). Fractionation of clumped isotopes of CO2 during photosynthesis. Abstract from EGU General Assembly 2021, Vienna, Austria. [DOI] [Repository]
Drury, A. J., Liebrand, D., Westerhold, T., Beddow, H. M., Hodell, D. A., Rohlfs, N., Wilkens, R. H., Lyle, M., Bell, D. B., Kroon, D., Pälike, H., & Lourens, L. J. (2021). Climate, cryosphere and carbon cycle controls on Southeast Atlantic orbital-scale carbonate deposition since the Oligocene (30-0 Ma). Climate of the Past, 17(5), 2091-2117. [DOI] [Repository]
Zachariasse, W. J., Kontakiotis, G., Lourens, L. J., & Antonarakou, A. (2021). The Messinian of Agios Myron (Crete, Greece): A key to better understanding of diatomite formation on Gavdos (south of Crete). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 581, 1-18. Article 110633. [DOI] [Repository]
Adnew, G. A., Hofmann, M. E. G., Pons, T. L., Koren, G., Ziegler, M., Lourens, L. J., & Röckmann, T. (2021). Leaf scale quantification of the effect of photosynthetic gas exchange on Δ47 of CO2. Scientific Reports, 11(1), Article 14023. [DOI] [Repository]
De Boer, B., Peters, M., & Lourens, L. J. (2021). The transient impact of the African monsoon on Plio-Pleistocene Mediterranean sediments. Climate of the Past, 17(1), 331-344. [DOI] [Repository]
Berends, T., van de Wal, R., Lourens, L., & Köhler, P. (2021). On the Cause of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition. Reviews of Geophysics, 59(2), 1-20. Article e2020RG000727. [DOI] [Repository]
2020
Scholarly publications
Westerhold, T., Marwan, N., Drury, A. J., Liebrand, D., Agnini, C., Anagnostou, E., Barnet, J. S. K., Bohaty, S. M., De Vleeschouwer, D., Florindo, F., Frederichs, T., Hodell, D. A., Holbourn, A. E., Kroon, D., Lauretano, V., Littler, K., Lourens, L. J., Lyle, M., Pälike, H., ... Zachos, J. C. (2020). An astronomically dated record of Earth's climate and its predictability over the last 66 million years. Science, 369(6509), 1383-1388. [DOI] [Repository]
van der Weijst, C. M. H., Winkelhorst, J., Lourens, L., Raymo, M. E., Sangiorgi, F., & Sluijs, A. (2020). A Ternary Mixing Model Approach Using Benthic Foraminifer δ13C-δ18O Data to Reconstruct Late Pliocene Deep Atlantic Water Mass Mixing. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 35(12), Article e2019PA003804. [DOI] [Repository]
Hilgen, F., Lourens, L., Palike, H., & Research support team (2020). Should unit-stratotypes and astrochronozones be formally defined? A dual proposal (including postscriptum). Newsletters on Stratigraphy, 53(1), 19-39. [DOI] [Repository]
Dearing Crampton-Flood, E., Noorbergen, L. J., Smits, D., Christine Boschman, R., Donders, T. H., Munsterman, D. K., Ten Veen, J., Peterse, F., Lourens, L., & Sinninghe Damsté, J. S. (2020). A new age model for the Pliocene of the southern North Sea basin: A multi-proxy climate reconstruction. Climate of the Past, 16(2), 523-541. [DOI] [Repository]
van der Meulen, B., Gingerich, P. D., Lourens, L. J., Meijer, N., van Broekhuizen, S., van Ginneken, S., & Abels, H. A. (2020). Carbon isotope and mammal recovery from extreme greenhouse warming at the Paleocene–Eocene boundary in astronomically-calibrated fluvial strata, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 534, Article 116044. [DOI] [Repository]
2019
Scholarly publications
Zeebe, R. E., & Lourens, L. J. (2019). Solar System chaos and the Paleocene–Eocene boundary age constrained by geology and astronomy. Science, 365(6456), 926-929. [DOI] [Repository]
Dearing Crampton-Flood, E., Smits, D., van der Molen, G., Noorbergen, L. J., Lourens, L., Munsterman, D., Van Der Weijst, C., Donders, T., Peterse, F., & Sinninghe Damsté, J. S. (2019). Towards reliable reconstructions of Pliocene terrestrial temperatures using branched tetraether membrane lipids. Paper presented at 29th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry, IMOG 2019, Gothenburg, Sweden. [DOI]
Zeeden, C., Meyers, S. R., Hilgen, F. J., Lourens, L. J., & Laskar, J. (2019). Time scale evaluation and the quantification of obliquity forcing. Quaternary Science Reviews, 209, 100-113. [DOI] [Repository]
Hollis, C. J., Dunkley Jones, T., Anagnostou, E., Bijl, P. K., Cramwinckel, M. J., Cui, Y., Dickens, G. R., Edgar, K. M., Eley, Y., Evans, D., Foster, G. L., Frieling, J., Inglis, G. N., Kennedy, E. M., Kozdon, R., Lauretano, V., Lear, C. H., Littler, K., Lourens, L., ... Lunt, D. J. (2019). The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: Methodologies for selection, compilation and analysis of latest Paleocene and early Eocene climate proxy data, incorporating version 0.1 of the DeepMIP database. Geoscientific Model Development, 12(7), 3149-3206. [DOI] [Repository]
Datema, M. C., Sangiorgi, F., De Vernal, A., Reichart, G.-J., Lourens, L. J., & Sluijs, A. (2019). Millennial‐Scale Climate Variability and Dinoflagellate‐Cyst‐Based Seasonality Changes Over the Last ~150 kyrs at “Shackleton Site” U1385. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 34(7), 1139-1156. [DOI] [Repository]
2018
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Francescone, F., Lauretano, V., Bouligand, C., Moretti, M., Sabatino, N., Schrader, C., Catanzariti, R., Hilgen, F., Lanci, L., Turtù, A., Sprovieri, M., Lourens, L., & Galeotti, S. (2018). A 9 million-year-long astrochronological record of the early- middle Eocene corroborated by seafloor spreading rates. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 131(3-4), 499-520. [DOI] [Repository]
Kaboth-Bahr, S., Bahr, A., Zeeden, C., Toucanne, S., Eynaud, F., Jiménez-Espejo, F., Röhl, U., Friedrich, O., Pross, J., Löwemark, L., & Lourens, L. J. (2018). Monsoonal Forcing of European Ice-Sheet Dynamics During the Late Quaternary. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(14), 7066-7074. [DOI] [Repository]
Lauretano, V., Zachos, J. C., & Lourens, L. J. (2018). Orbitally Paced Carbon and Deep-Sea Temperature Changes at the Peak of the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 33(10), 1050-1065. [DOI] [Repository]
Liebrand, D., Raffi, I., Fraguas, Á., Laxenaire, R., Bosmans, J. H. C., Hilgen, F. J., Wilson, P. A., Batenburg, S. J., Beddow, H. M., Bohaty, S. M., Bown, P. R., Crocker, A. J., Huck, C. E., Lourens, L. J., & Sabia, L. (2018). Orbitally Forced Hyperstratification of the Oligocene South Atlantic Ocean. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 33(5), 511-529. [DOI] [Repository]
Stap, L. B., van de Wal, R. S. W., de Boer, B., Köhler, P., Hoencamp, J. H., Lohmann, G., Tuenter, E., & Lourens, L. J. (2018). Modeled Influence of Land Ice and CO2 on Polar Amplification and Paleoclimate Sensitivity During the Past 5 Million Years. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 33(4), 381-394. [DOI] [Repository]
Bosmans, J. H. C., Erb, M. P., Dolan, A. M., Drijfhout, S. S., Tuenter, E., Hilgen, F. J., Edge, D., Pope, J. O., & Lourens, L. J. (2018). Response of the Asian summer monsoons to idealized precession and obliquity forcing in a set of GCMs. Quaternary Science Reviews, 188, 121-135. [DOI] [Repository]
Beddow, H. M., Liebrand, D., Wilson, D. S., Hilgen, F. J., Sluijs, A., Wade, B. S., & Lourens, L. J. (2018). Astronomical tunings of the Oligocene-Miocene transition from Pacific Ocean Site U1334 and implications for the carbon cycle. Climate of the Past, 14(3), 255-270. [DOI] [Repository]
Donders, T., Van Helmond, N. A. G. M., Verreussel, R., Munsterman, D., Veen, J. T., Speijer, R. P., Weijers, J. W. H., Sangiorgi, F., Peterse, F., Reichart, G.-J., Sinninghe Damsté, J. S., Lourens, L., Kuhlmann, G., & Brinkhuis, H. (2018). Land-sea coupling of early Pleistocene glacial cycles in the southern North Sea exhibit dominant Northern Hemisphere forcing. Climate of the Past, 14(3), 397-411. [DOI] [Repository]
van Dijk, J., Ziegler, M., de Nooijer, L. J., Reichart, G. J., Xuan, C., Ducassou, E., Bernasconi, S. M., & Lourens, L. J. (2018). A Saltier Glacial Mediterranean Outflow. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 33(2), 179-197. [DOI] [Repository]
2017
Scholarly publications
Harper, D. T., Zeebe, R., Hönisch, B., Schrader, C. D., Lourens, L. J., & Zachos, J. C. (2017). Subtropical sea-surface warming and increased salinity during Eocene Thermal Maximum 2. Geology, 46(2), 187-190. [DOI] [Repository]
Wang, C., Adriaens, R., Hong, H., Elsen, J., Vandenberghe, N., Lourens, L. J., Gingerich, P. D., & Abels, H. A. (2017). Clay mineralogical constraints on weathering in response to early Eocene hyperthermal events in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming (Western Interior, USA). Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 129(7-8), 997-1011. [DOI] [Repository]
Grant, K. M., Rohling, E. J., Westerhold, T., Zabel, M., Heslop, D., Konijnendijk, T., & Lourens, L. (2017). A 3 million year index for North African humidity/aridity and the implication of potential pan-African Humid periods. Quaternary Science Reviews, 171, 100-118. [DOI] [Repository]
Kaboth, S., Grunert, P., & Lourens, L. (2017). Mediterranean Outflow Water variability during the Early Pleistocene. Climate of the Past, 13(8), 1023-1035. [DOI] [Repository]
Turtù, A., Lauretano, V., Catanzariti, R., Hilgen, F. J., Galeotti, S., Lanci, L., Moretti, M., & Lourens, L. J. (2017). Integrated stratigraphy of the Smirra Core (Umbria-Marche Basin, Apennines, Italy): A new early Paleogene reference section and implications for the geologic time scale. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 487, 158-174. [DOI] [Repository]
Stap, L. B., Van De Wal, R. S. W., De Boer, B., Bintanja, R., & Lourens, L. J. (2017). The influence of ice sheets on temperature during the past 38 million years inferred from a one-dimensional ice sheet-climate model. Climate of the Past, 13(9), 1243-1257. [DOI] [Repository]
Datema, M., Sangiorgi, F., de Vernal, A., Reichart, G.-J., Lourens, L. J., & Sluijs, A. (2017). Comparison of qualitative and quantitative dinoflagellate cyst approaches in reconstructing glacial-interglacial climate variability at West Iberian Margin IODP ‘Shackleton’Site U1385. Marine Micropaleontology, 136, 14-29. [DOI] [Repository]
Kaboth, S., de Boer, B., Bahr, A., Zeeden, C., & Lourens, L. J. (2017). Mediterranean Outflow Water dynamics during the past ~570 kyr: Regional and global implications. Paleoceanography, 32(6), 634-647. [DOI] [Repository]
Liebrand, D., De Bakker, A. T. M., Beddow, H. M., Wilson, P. A., Bohaty, S. M., Ruessink, G., Pälike, H., Batenburg, S. J., Hilgen, F. J., Hodell, D. A., Huck, C. E., Kroon, D., Raffi, I., Saes, M. J. M., Van Dijk, A. E., & Lourens, L. J. (2017). Evolution of the early Antarctic ice ages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(15), 3867–3872. [DOI] [Repository]
Other output
Schrader, C. D., Lauretano, V., Zachos, J. C., & Lourens, L. J. (2017). Temperature - carbon cycle interactions during the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum (ODP Site 1263, Walvis Ridge). Abstract from Climatic and Biotic Events of the Paleogene 2017, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
2016
Scholarly publications
Stap, L. B., Van De Wal, R. S. W., De Boer, B., Bintanja, R., & Lourens, L. J. (2016). The MMCO-EOT conundrum: Same benthic δ18O, different CO2. Paleoceanography, 31(9), 1270-1282. [DOI] [Repository]
Abels, H. A., Lauretano, V., van Yperen, A. E., Hopman, T., Zachos, J. C., Lourens, L. J., Gingerich, P. D., & Bowen, G. J. (2016). Environmental impact and magnitude of paleosol carbonate carbon isotope excursions marking five early Eocene hyperthermals in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Climate of the Past, 12(5), 1151-1163. [DOI] [Repository]
Liebrand, D., Beddow, H. M., Lourens, L. J., Pälike, H., Raffi, I., Bohaty, S. M., Hilgen, F. J., Saes, M. J. M., Wilson, P. A., van Dijk, A. E., Hodell, D. A., Kroon, D., Huck, C. E., & Batenburg, S. J. (2016). Cyclostratigraphy and eccentricity tuning of the early Oligocene through early Miocene (30.1–17.1 Ma): Cibicides mundulus stable oxygen and carbon isotope records from Walvis Ridge Site 1264. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 450, 392-405. [DOI] [Repository]
Stap, L. B., de Boer, B., Ziegler, M., Bintanja, R., Lourens, L. J., & van de Wal, R. S. W. (2016). CO2 over the past 5 million years: Continuous simulation and new δ11B-based proxy data. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 439, 1-10. [DOI] [Repository]
Lauretano, V., Hilgen, F. J., Zachos, J. C., & Lourens, L. J. (2016). Astronomically tuned age model for the early Eocene carbon isotope events: A new high-resolution δ13Cbenthic record of ODP Site 1263 between ~ 49 and ~ 54 Ma. Newsletters on Stratigraphy, 49(2), 383-400. [DOI] [Repository]
Beddow, H. M., Liebrand, D., Sluijs, A., Wade, B. S., & Lourens, L. J. (2016). Global change across the Oligocene-Miocene transition: High-resolution stable isotope records from IODP Site U1334 (equatorial Pacific Ocean). Paleoceanography, 31(1), 81-97. [DOI] [Repository]
Lofi, J., Voelker, A. H. L., Ducassou, E., Hernández-Molina, F. J., Sierro, F. J., Bahr, A., Galvani, A., Lourens, L. J., Pardo-Igúzquiza, E., Pezard, P., Rodríguez-Tovar, F. J., & Williams, T. (2016). Quaternary chronostratigraphic framework and sedimentary processes for the Gulf of Cadiz and Portuguese Contourite Depositional Systems derived from Natural Gamma Ray records. Marine Geology, 377, 40-57. [DOI] [Repository]
Brouwer, G. M., Duijnstee, I., Hazeleger, J. H., Rossi, F., Lourens, L. J., Middelburg, J. J., & Wolthers, M. (2016). Diet shifts and population dynamics of estuarine foraminifera during ecosystem recovery after experimentally induced hypoxia crises. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 170, 20-33. [DOI] [Repository]
Kaboth, S., Bahr, A., Reichart, G. J., Jacobs, B., & Lourens, L. J. (2016). New insights into upper MOW variability over the last 150kyr from IODP 339 Site U1386 in the Gulf of Cadiz. Marine Geology, 377, 136-145. [DOI] [Repository]
Other output
van der Meulen, B., Abels, H. A., Meijer, N., Gingerich, P. D., & Lourens, L. J. (2016). Constraints on the duration of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum by orbitally-influenced fluvial sediment records of the northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 18, Article EGU2016-15040. http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/EGU2016-15040.pdf
van der Meulen, B., Abels, H. A., Meijer, N., Gingerich, P. D., & Lourens, L. J. (2016). Carbon isotope signature and precession-scale chronology of the PETM in a terrestrial setting. 52. Abstract from ICP 12, Utrecht, Netherlands. http://icp12.uu.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Poster-abstracts-sessie-1.pdf
van der Meulen, B., Abels, H. A., Meijer, N., Gingerich, P. D., & Lourens, L. J. (2016). Constraints on the duration of the PETM by orbitally-influenced fluvial sediment records of the northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA. Abstract from NAC 13, Veldhoven, Netherlands.
Schrader, C. D., Lauretano, V., Zachos, J. C., & Lourens, L. J. (2016). Planktic foraminiferal stable-isotopes across the EECO: investigating the coupling between temperature and the exogenic carbon pool (ODP Site 1263, Walvis Ridge). Geophysical Research Abstracts, 18, Article EGU2016-9850. http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/EGU2016-9850.pdf
Schrader, C. D., Lauretano, V., Zachos, J. C., & Lourens, L. J. (2016). Planktic foraminiferal stable-isotopes across the EECO: investigating the coupling between temperature and the exogenic carbon pool (ODP Site 1263, Walvis Ridge). Poster session presented at EGU 2016, Vienna, Austria.
Schrader, C. D., Lauretano, V., Zachos, J. C., & Lourens, L. J. (2016). Planktic foraminiferal stable-isotopes across the EECO: investigating the coupling between temperature and the exogenic carbon pool (ODP Site 1263, Walvis Ridge). Abstract from 12th International Conference on Paleoceanography, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Schrader, C. D., Lauretano, V., Zachos, J. C., & Lourens, L. J. (2016). Planktic foraminiferal stable-isotopes across the EECO: investigating the coupling between temperature and the exogenic carbon pool (ODP Site 1263, Walvis Ridge). Poster session presented at NAC 13, Veldhoven, Netherlands.
Schrader, C. D., Lauretano, V., Zachos, J. C., & Lourens, L. J. (2016). Planktic foraminiferal stable-isotopes across the EECO: investigating the coupling between temperature and the exogenic carbon pool (ODP Site 1263, Walvis Ridge). Abstract from NAC 13, Veldhoven, Netherlands. https://nacgeo.nl/conference-details/programme/poster/870
2015
Scholarly publications
Hilgen, F. J., Hinnov, L. A., Aziz, H. A., Abels, H. A., Batenburg, S., Bosmans, J. HC., de Boer, B., Hüsing, S. K., Kuiper, K. F., Lourens, L. J., & van de Wal, R. (2015). Stratigraphic continuity and fragmentary sedimentation: The success of cyclostratigraphy as part of integrated stratigraphy. Geological Society Special Publication, 404, 157-197. [DOI] [Repository]
Lourens, L. J. (2015). Chapter 25 - The Variation of the Earth's Movements (Orbital, Tilt and Precession). In T. Letcher (Ed.), Climate Change (Second Edition): Observed Impacts on Planet Earth (pp. 399-418). Elsevier. [DOI]
Lauretano, V., Littler, K., Polling, M., Zachos, J. C., & Lourens, L. J. (2015). Frequency, magnitude and character of hyperthermal events at the onset of the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum. Climate of the Past, 11(10), 1313-1324. [DOI] [Repository]
Bahr, A., Kaboth, S., Jiménez-Espejo, F. J., Sierro, F. J., Voelker, A. H. L., Lourens, L., Röhl, U., Reichart, G. J., Escutia, C., Hernández-Molina, F. J., Pross, J., & Friedrich, O. (2015). Persistent monsoonal forcing of mediterranean outflow water dynamics during the late Pleistocene. Geology, 43(11), 951-954. [DOI] [Repository]
Konijnendijk, T. Y. M., Ziegler, M., & Lourens, L. J. (2015). On the timing and forcing mechanisms of late Pleistocene glacial terminations: Insights from a new high-resolution benthic stable oxygen isotope record of the eastern Mediterranean. Quaternary Science Reviews, 129, 308-320. [DOI] [Repository]
Bosmans, J. H. C., Hilgen, F. J., Tuenter, E., & Lourens, L. J. (2015). Obliquity forcing of low-latitude climate. Climate of the Past, 11(10), 1335-1346. Article 10.5194/cp-11-1335-2015. [DOI] [Repository]
Hodell, D., Lourens, L., Crowhurst, S., Konijnendijk, T., Tjallingii, R., Jiménez-Espejo, F., Skinner, L., Tzedakis, P. C., & Shackleton Site Project Members (2015). A reference time scale for Site U1385 (Shackleton Site) on the SW Iberian Margin. Global and Planetary Change, 133, 49-64. [DOI] [Repository]
Bell, D. B., Jung, S. J. A., Kroon, D., Hodell, D. A., Lourens, L. J., & Raymo, M. E. (2015). Atlantic deep-water response to the Early Pliocene shoaling of the Central American seaway. Scientific Reports, 5, Article 12252. [DOI] [Repository]
Slotnick, B. S., Lauretano, V., Backman, J., Dickens, G. R., Sluijs, A., & Lourens, L. (2015). Early Paleogene variations in the calcite compensation depth: New constraints using old borehole sediments from across Ninetyeast Ridge, central Indian Ocean. Climate of the Past, 11(3), 473-493. [DOI] [Repository]
Zeeden, C., Meyers, S. R., Lourens, L. J., & Hilgen, F. J. (2015). Testing astronomically tuned age models. Paleoceanography, 30(4), 369-383. [DOI] [Repository]
Reich, S., Warter, V., Wesselingh, F. P., Zwaan, J. C., Lourens, L., & Renema, W. (2015). Paleoecological significance of stable isotope ratios in Miocene tropical shallow marine habitats (Indonesia). Palaios, 30(1), 53-65. [DOI] [Repository]
Friedrich, O., Norris, R. D., Wilson, P. A., Opdyke, B. N., & workshop participants (2015). Newfoundland Neogene sediment drifts: Transition from the Paleogene greenhouse to the modern icehouse. Scientific Drilling, 19, 39-42. [DOI] [Repository]
Brouwer, M. G. M., Wolthers, M., Hazeleger, J. H., Rossi, F., Lourens, L. J., Middelburg, J. J., & Duijnstee, I. A. P. (2015). Differential response of intertidal foraminifera to community recovery following experimentally induced hypoxia. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 45(3), 220-234. [DOI] [Repository]
Bosmans, J. H. C., Drijfhout, S. S., Tuenter, E., Hilgen, F. J., Lourens, L. J., & Rohling, E. J. (2015). Precession and obliquity forcing of the freshwater budget over the Mediterranean. Quaternary Science Reviews, 123, 16-30. [DOI] [Repository]
Grimm, R., Maier-Reimer, E., Mikolajewicz, U., Schmiedl, G., Müller-Navarra, K., Adloff, F., Grant, K. M., Ziegler, M., Lourens, L. J., & Emeis, K.-C. (2015). Late glacial initiation of Holocene eastern Mediterranean sapropel formation. Nature Communications [E], 6, Article 7099. [DOI] [Repository]
Noorbergen, L. J., Lourens, L. J., Munsterman, D. K., & Verreussel, R. M. C. H. (2015). Stable isotope stratigraphy of the early Quaternary of borehole Noordwijk, southern North Sea. Quaternary International, 386, 148-157. [DOI] [Repository]
Hilgen, F., Abels, H., Kuiper, K., Lourens, L., & Wolthers, M. (2015). Towards a stable astronomical time scale for the Paleocene: Aligning Shatsky Rise with the Zumaia – Walvis Ridge ODP Site 1262 composite. Newsletters on Stratigraphy, 48(1), 91-110. [DOI] [Repository]
Bosmans, J. H. C., Drijfhout, S. S., Tuenter, E., Hilgen, F. J., & Lourens, L. J. (2015). Response of the North African summer monsoon to precession and obliquity forcings in the EC-Earth GCM. Climate Dynamics, 44(1-2), 279-297. [DOI] [Repository]
Other output
Schrader, C. D., & Lourens, L. J. (2015). Understanding the Greenhouse World: Stable Isotope Signatures during the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum. Poster session presented at Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology, Urbino, Italy. [Repository]
2014
Scholarly publications
Bell, D. B., Jung, S. J. A., Kroon, D., Lourens, L. J., & Hodell, D. A. (2014). Local and regional trends in Plio-Pleistocene δ18O records from benthic foraminifera. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15(8), 3304-3321. [DOI]
Stap, L. B., Van De Wal, R. S. W., De Boer, B., Bintanja, R., & Lourens, L. J. (2014). Interaction of ice sheets and climate during the past 800 000 years. Climate of the Past, 10(6), 2135-2152. [DOI] [Repository]
De Boer, B., Lourens, L. J., & Van De Wal, R. S. W. (2014). Persistent 400,000-year variability of antarctic ice volume and the carbon cycle is revealed throughout the plio-pleistocene. Nature Communications [E], 5, Article 2999. [DOI] [Repository]
Konijnendijk, T. Y. M., Ziegler, M., & Lourens, L. J. (2014). Chronological constraints on Pleistocene sapropel depositions from high-resolution geochemical records of ODP sites 967 and 968. Newsletters on Stratigraphy, 47(3), 263-282. [DOI]
Dedert, M., Stoll, H., Kars, S., Young, J. R., Shimizu, N., Kroon, D., Lourens, L., & Ziveri, P. (2014). Temporally variable diagenetic overgrowth on deep-sea nannofossil carbonates across Palaeogene hyperthermals and implications for isotopic analyses. Marine Micropaleontology, 107, 18-31. [DOI]
Hermández-Molina, F. J., Stow, D. A. V., Alvarez-Zarikian, C. A., Acton, G., Bahr, A., Balestra, B., Ducassou, E., Flood, R., Flores, J.-A., Furota, S., Grunert, P., Hodell, D., Jimenez-Espejo, F., Kim, J. K., Krissek, L., Kuroda, J., Li, B., Llave, E., Lofi, J., ... Xuan, C. (2014). Onset of Mediterranean outflow into the North Atlantic. Science, 344(6189), 1244-1250. [DOI] [Repository]
Zeeden, C., Hilgen, F. J., Hüsing, S. K., & Lourens, L. J. (2014). The Miocene astronomical time scale 9-12Ma: New constraints on tidal dissipation and their implications for paleoclimatic investigations. Paleoceanography, 29(4), 296-307. [DOI]
Dorador, J., Rodríguez-Tovar, F. J., & IODP Expedition 339 Scientists (2014). Quantitative estimation of bioturbation based on digital image analysis. Marine Geology, 349, 55-60. [DOI]
Groot, M. H. M., van der Plicht, J., Hooghiemstra, H., Lourens, L. J., & Rowe, H. D. (2014). Age modelling for Pleistocene lake sediments: A comparison of methods from the Andean Fúquene Basin (Colombia) case study. Quaternary Geochronology, 22, 144-154. [DOI]
Hilgen, F. J., Zeeden, C., & Lourens, L. (2014). Comment on Colleoni et al. (2012): Integrated stratigraphy and pitfalls of automated tuning. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 387(1), 22-24. [DOI]
Other output
Lauretano, V., Zachos, J. C., & Lourens, L. J. (2014). High-resolution benthic stable isotope records from ODP Site 1263 in the Southern Atlantic encompassing early Eocene warming events. Rendiconti Online della Società Geologica Italiana, 31, 135-136. [DOI]
Abels, H. A., Wang, C., Lauretano, V., Bowen, G. J., Karssenberg, D., Ziegler, M., Li, G., Van Den Berg, P. F., Van Broekhuizen, S., Hopman, T., Laks, J., Adriaens, R., Clyde, W. C., Elsen, J., Kraus, M. J., Sluijs, A., Vandenberghe, N., Lourens, L. J., & Gingerich, P. D. (2014). Terrestrial sedimentary archives of episodes of greenhouse warming in ancient river floodplain deposits of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Rendiconti Online della Società Geologica Italiana, 31, 3-4. [DOI]
2013
Scholarly publications
Zeeden, C., Hilgen, F., Westerwold, T., & Lourens, L. (2013). Revised Miocene splice, astronomical tuning and calcareous plankton biochronology. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 369, 430-451. [DOI]
Torres, V., Hooghiemstra, H., Lourens, L., & Tzedakis, P. C. (2013). Astronomical tuning of long pollen records reveals the dynamic history of montane biomes and lake levels in the tropical high Andes during the Quaternary. Quaternary Science Reviews, 63, 59-72. [DOI]
Hodell, D. A., Lourens, L., Stow, D. A. V., Hernández-Molina, F. J., Alvarez-Zarikian, C. A., Abrantes, F., Acton, G. D., Bahr, A., Balestra, B., Llave Barranco, E., Carrara, G., Crowhurst, S., Ducassou, E., Flood, R., Flores, J.-A., Furota, S., Grimalt, J., Grunert, P., Jimenez-Espejo, F. J., ... Williams, T. (2013). The "Shackleton Site" (IODP Site U1385) on the Iberian Margin. Scientific Drilling, 16, 13-19. [DOI] [Repository]
Hernández-Molina, F. J., Stow, D. A. V., Alvarez-Zarikian, C., Acton, G., Bahr, A., Balestra, B., Ducassou, E., Flood, R., Flores, J.-A., Furota, S., Grunert, P., Hodell, D., Jimenez-Espejo, F., Kim, J. K., Krissek, L., Kuroda, J., Li, B., Llave, E., Lofi, J., ... Xuan, C. (2013). IODP Expedition 339 in the Gulf of Cadiz and off West Iberia: Decoding the environmental significance of the Mediterranean outflow water and its global influence. Scientific Drilling, 16, 1-11. [DOI] [Repository]
de Boer, B., van de Wal, R. S. W., Lourens, L. J., Bintanja, R., & Reerink, T. J. (2013). A continuous simulation of global ice volume over the past 1 million years with 3-D ice-sheet models. Climate Dynamics, 41(5-6), 1365-1384. [DOI]
Other output
Konijnendijk, T., Lourens, L., & Ziegler, M. (2013). ODP Sites 967 and 968 (eastern Mediterranean) revisited and implications for the global oxygen stable isotope chronology of the late Pleistocene. Abstract from EGU General Assembly 2013, Vienna, Austria. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013EGUGA..15.8423K
Bosmans, J., Lourens, L., & Hilgen, F. (2013). Obliquity signals at low latitudes. Poster session presented at EGU General Assembly 2013, Vienna, Austria. ftp://ftp.geog.uu.nl/pub/posters/2013/
Bosmans, J., Drijfhout, S., Tuenter, E., Lourens, L., & Hilgen, F. (2013). Precession and obliquity forcing of the North-African summer monsoon: A sensitivity study with the high resolution GCM EC-Earth. Poster session presented at EGU General Assembly 2013, Vienna, Austria. ftp://ftp.geog.uu.nl/pub/posters/2013/
2012
Scholarly publications
de Boer, B., van de Wal, R. S. W., Lourens, L. J., & Bintanja, R. (2012). Transient nature of the Earth's climate and the implications for the interpretation of benthic δ18 O records. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 335-336, 4-11. [DOI]
Bosmans, J. H. C., Drijfhout, S. S., Tuenter, E., Lourens, L. J., Hilgen, F. J., & Weber, S. L. (2012). Monsoonal response to mid-holocene orbital forcing in a high resolution GCM. Climate of the Past, 8(2), 723-740. [DOI]
Hilgen, F. J., Lourens, L. J., & van Dam, J. A. (2012). The Neogene Period. In F. M. Gradstein, J. G. Ogg, M. Schmitz, & G. Ogg (Eds.), The Geologic Time Scale 2012 (pp. 923-978). Article Chapter 29 Elsevier Science. [DOI]
Abels, H. A., Clyde, W. C., Gingerich, P. D., Hilgen, F. J., Fricke, H. C., Bowen, G. J., & Lourens, L. J. (2012). Terrestrial carbon isotope excursions and biotic change during Palaeogene hyperthermals. Nature Geoscience, 5, 326-329. [DOI]
van der Laan, E., Hilgen, F. J., Lourens, L. J., De Kaenel, E., Gaboardi, S., & Iaccarino, S. (2012). Astronomical forcing of Northwest African climate and glacial history during the late Messinian (6.5-5.5 Ma). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 313-314, 107-126. [DOI]
2011
Scholarly publications
Lirer, F., Afferri, A., Bergami, C., Capotondi, L., De Lange, G., Ferraro, L., Foresi, L. M., Girone, A., Lourens, L., Vallefuoco, M., & Verducci, M. (2011). Variability in the ionian sea (core kc01b) during mis 9-13 evidenced by planktonic foraminiferal assemblages. Alpine and Mediterranean Quaternary, 24, 211.
Tarantino, F., Maiorano, P., Marino, M., De Lange, G. J., & Lourens, L. (2011). Calcareous nannofossil assemblages at core KC01B (Ionian Sea) through oxygen Marine Isotope Stages 9-13. Alpine and Mediterranean Quaternary, 24, 219-220.
Bogotá-A, R. G., Groot, M. H. M., Hooghiemstra, H., Lourens, L. J., van der Linden, M., & Berrio, J. C. (2011). Rapid climate change from north Andean Lake Fúquene pollen records driven by obliquity: implications for a basin-wide biostratigraphic zonation for the last 284 ka. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30(23-24), 3321-3337. [DOI]
Joordens, J. C. A., Vonhof, H. B., Feibel, C. S., Lourens, L. J., Dupont-Nivet, G., van der Lubbe, J. H. J. L., Sier, M. J., Davies, G. R., & Kroon, D. (2011). An astronomically-tuned climate framework for hominins in the Turkana Basin. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 307(1-2), 1-8. [DOI]
Liebrand, D., Lourens, L. J., Hodell, D. A., de Boer, B., van de Wal, R. S. W., & Pälike, H. (2011). Antarctic ice sheet and oceanographic response to eccentricity forcing during the early Miocene. Climate of the Past, 7, 869-880. [DOI]
Groot, M. H. M., Bogota, R. G., Lourens, L. J., Hooghiemstra, H., Vriend, M., Berrio, J. C., Tuenter, E., van der Plicht, J., van Geel, B., Ziegler, M., Weber, S. L., Betancourt, A., Contreras, L., Gaviria, S., Giraldo, C., Gonzalez, N., Jansen, J. H. F., Konert, M., Ortega, D., ... Westerhoff, W. (2011). Ultra-high resolution pollen record from the northern Andes reveals rapid shifts in montane climates within the last two glacial cycles. Climate of the Past, 7(1), 299-316.
van de Wal, R. S. W., de Boer, B., Lourens, L., Köhler, P., & Bintanja, R. (2011). Reconstruction of a continuous high-resolution CO2 record over the past 20 million years. Climate of the Past, 7, 1459-1469. [DOI] [Repository]
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Slotnick, B. S., Dickens, G. R., Nicolo, M. J., Hollis, C. J., Crampton, J. S., Strong, C. P., Zachos, J. C., Sluijs, A., Lourens, L., & Lauretano, V. (2011). Large amplitude variations in carbon cycling and terrestrial weathering during the latest Paleocene and earliest Eocene. 151-151. Abstract from Climate and Biota of the Early Paleogene 2011.
Zeeden, C., Hilgen, F. J., Lourens, L., Westerhold, T., & Röhl, U. (2011). Revised stratigraphy and tuning of the equatorial Atlantic Ceara Rise: Challenges and applications of astronomical time scales in the Miocene. EGU2011-295-EGU2011-295. Abstract from 8th EGU General Assembly 2011, Vienna, Austria, Vienna.
Lauretano, V., Lourens, L. J., Zachos, J. C., Polling, M., Littler, K., & Sluijs, A. (2011). Reconstruction of deep-sea temperatures across Early Eocene climate transition.. Paper presented at EGU, Vienna.
Slotnick, B. S., Lauretano, V., Dickens, G. R., Sluijs, A., & Lourens, L. J. (2011). Early Paleogene variations in the carbonate compensation depth of the Indian Ocean: New constraints using old boreholes (DSDP Leg 22).. Paper presented at IODP meeting on Drilling in the Indian Ocean, Goa.
Slotnick, B. S., Lauretano, V., Dickens, G. R., Sluijs, A., & Lourens, L. J. (2011). Early Paleogene variations in the carbonate compensation depth of the Indian Ocean: New constraints using old boreholes (DSDP Leg 22).. Paper presented at EGU, Vienna.
Zeeden, C., Hilgen, F., Lourens, L., Westerhold, T., Röhl, U., & Hüsing, S. (2011). The Neogene astronomical tuned (polarity) timescale between 5 and 14 Ma revisited. GP53A-04. Abstract from AGU Fall Meeting 2011, San Francisco, USA.
van der Wal, S., Taylor, K., Thomas, E., Gibbs, S., Pancost, R. D., Zachos, J. C., Lourens, L. J., & Sluijs, A. (2011). Orbital forcing and carbon cycle variations in relation to changes in climate and ecosystem in late Paleocene. 163-163. Abstract from Climate and Biota of the Early Paleogene 2011.
2010
Scholarly publications
Lourens, L. J., Becker, J., Bintanja, R., Hilgen, F. J., Tuenter, E., van de Wal, R. S. W., & Ziegler, M. (2010). Linear and non-linear response of late Neogene glacial cycles to obliquity forcing and implications for the Milankovitch theory. Quaternary Science Reviews, 29(1-2), 352-365.
Hilgen, F. J., Lourens, L. J., & Kuiper, K. F. (2010). Evaluation of the astronomical time scale for the Paleocene and earliest Eocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 300, 139-151.
Mourik, A. A., Bijkerk, J. F., Cascella, A., Hüsing, S. K., Hilgen, F. J., Lourens, L. J., & Turco, E. (2010). Astronomical tuning of the La Vedova High Cliff section (Ancona, Italy)-Implications of the Middle Miocene Climate Transition for Mediterranean sapropel formation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 297(1-2), 249-261.
Wang, P., Tian, J., & Lourens, L. J. (2010). Obscuring of long eccentricity cyclicity in Pleistocene oceanic carbon isotope records. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 290(3-4), 319-330, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.028.
Ziegler, M., Lourens, L. J., Tuenter, E., & Reichart, G.-J. (2010). High Arabian Sea productivity conditions during MIS 13-odd monsoon event or intensified overturning circulation at the end of the Mid-Pleistocene transition? Climate of the Past, 6(1), 63-76. [DOI]
de Boer, B., van de Wal, R. S. W., Bintanja, R., Lourens, L. J., & Tuenter, E. (2010). Cenozoic global ice-volume and temperature simulations with 1-D ice-sheet models forced by benthic delta O-18 records. Annals of Glaciology, 51(55), 23-33. [DOI]
Ziegler, M., Tuenter, E., & Lourens, L. J. (2010). The precession phase of the boreal summer monsoon as viewed from the eastern Mediterranean (ODP Site 968). Quaternary Science Reviews, 29(11-12), 1481-1490, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.03.011. [DOI]
Galeotti, S., Krishnan, S., Pagani, M., Lanci, L., Gaudio, A., Zachos, J. C., Monechi, S., Morelli, G., & Lourens, L. J. (2010). Orbital chronology of Early Eocene hyperthermals from the Contessa Road section, central Italy. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 290(1-2), 192-200, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.021.
Stap, L., Lourens, L. J., van Dijk, A., Schouten, S., & Thomas, E. (2010). Coherent pattern and timing of the carbon isotope excursion and warming during Eocene Thermal Maximum 2 as recorded in planktic and benthic foraminifera. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 11, Q11011-doi:10.1029/2010GC003097.
Stap, L., Lourens, L. J., Thomas, E., Sluijs, A., Bohaty, S., & Zachos, J. C. (2010). High-resolution deep-sea carbon and oxygen isotope records of Eocene Thermal Maximum 2 and H2. Geology, 38(7), 607-610. [DOI] [Repository]
Ziegler, M., Lourens, L. J., Tuenter, E., Hilgen, F. J., Reichart, G.-J., & Weber, S. L. (2010). Precession phasing offset between Indian summer monsoon and Arabian Sea productivity linked to changes in Atlantic overturning circulation. Paleoceanography, 25(3), PA3213-doi:10.1029/2009PA001884. [DOI]
Ciaranfi, N., Lirer, F., Lirer, L., Lourens, L. J., Maiorano, P., Marino, M., Petrosino, P., Sprovieri, M., Stefanelli, S., Brilli, M., Girone, A., Joannin, S., Pelosi, N., & Vallefuoco, M. (2010). Integrated stratigraphy and astronomical tuning of lower-middle Pleistocene Montalbano Jonico section (southern Italy). Quaternary International, 219(1-2), 109-120, doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2009.10.027.
Other output
Stap, L., Lourens, L. J., Thomas, E., Sluijs, A., Bohaty, S. M., & Zachos, J. C. (2010). Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum and Eocene Thermal Maximum 2: hyperthermals of one kind?. EGU2010-2197. Abstract from EGU 2010, Vienna.
Sluijs, A., Bijl, P. K., van Roij, L., Röhl, U., Sessa, J., Harrington, G., Reichart, G.-J., Lourens, L. J., Sinninghe Damsté, J. S., Anderson, L., Zachos, J. C., Brinkhuis, H., & Schouten, S. (2010). Temperature and salinity evolution of marginal marine surface waters during early Paleogene hyperthermals: new PETM sections and intercomparison of temperature proxies.. EGU2010-10272. Abstract from EGU General Assembly 2010, Wenen.
2009
Scholarly publications
Stap, L., Sluijs, A., Thomas, E., & Lourens, L. (2009). Patterns and magnitude of deep sa carbonate dissolution during Eocene Thermal Maximum 2 and H2, Walvis Ridge, southeastern Atlantic Ocean. Paleoceanography, 24, PA1211-doi: 10.1029/2008PA001655. [DOI] [Repository]
Van Couvering, J. A., Aubry, M.-P., Berggren, W. A., Gradstein, F. M., Hilgen, F. J., Kent, D. V., Lourens, L. J., & McGowran, B. (2009). What, if anything, is Quaternary? Episodes, 32(2), 125-126.
Lourens, L. J., & Tuenter, E. (2009). The Role of Variations of the Earth's Orbital Characteristics in Climate Change. In T. M. Letcher (Ed.), Climate Change: Observed Impacts on Planet Earth (pp. 103-123). Elsevier.
Jaeschke, A., Ziegler, M., Hopmans, E. C., Reichart, G.-J., Lourens, L. J., Schouten, S., & Sinninghe Damste, J. S. (2009). Molecular fossil evidence for anaerobic ammonium oxidation in the Arabian Sea over the last glacial cycle. Paleoceanography, 24, PA2202-doi: 10.1029/2008PA001712. http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2009/2008PA001712.shtml
Aubry, M.-P., Berggren, W. A., Van Couvering, J., McGowran, B., Hilgen, F., Steininger, F., & Lourens, L. (2009). The Neogene and Quaternary: chronostratigraphic compromise or non-overlapping magisteria? Stratigraphy, 6(1), 1-16.
McGowran, B., Berggren, B., Hilgen, F., Steininger, F., Aubry, M.-P., Lourens, L., & Van Couvering, J. (2009). Neogene and Quaternary coexisting in the geological time scale: The inclusive compromise. Earth-Science Reviews, 96(4), 249-262.
Professional publications
Lourens, L. J. (2009). Expedition Greenhouse World. Public Service Review: Science and Technology, 2, 168-169.
2008
Scholarly publications
Lourens, L. J. (2008). On the Neogene-Quaternary debate. Episodes, 31(2), 239-242.
Ziegler, M., Jilbert, T., de Lange, G. J., Lourens, L. J., & Reichart, G.-J. (2008). Bromine counts from XRF scanning as an estimate of the marine organic carbon content of sediment cores. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 9(5), art. QO5009. Article QO5009. [DOI]
Ziegler, M., Nurnberg, D., Karas, C., Tiedemann, R., & Lourens, L. J. (2008). Persistent summer expansion of the Atlantic Warm Pool during glacial abrupt cold events. Nature Geoscience, 1(9), 601-605. [DOI]
Other output
Stap, L., Lourens, L. J., Sluijs, A., & Thomas, E. (2008). Reconstruction of ocean temperature and carbonate dissolution during ETM-2 (~53.7 Ma).. Abstract from EGU General Assembly 2008.
2007
Scholarly publications
Huguet, C., Schimmelmann, A., Thunell, R., Lourens, L. J., Sinninghe Damsté, J. S., & Schouten, S. (2007). A study of the TEX86 paleothermometer in the water column and sediments of the Santa Barbara Basin, California. Paleoceanography, 22(3), PA3203-doi:10.1029/2006PA001310.
Sluijs, A., Bowen, G. J., Brinkhuis, H., Lourens, L. J., & Thomas, E. (2007). The Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum super greenhouse: biotic and geochemical signatures, age models and mechanisms of global change. In M. Williams, A. M. Haywood, F. J. Gregory, & D. N. Schmidt (Eds.), Deep time perspectives on Climate Change: Marrying the Signal from Computer Models and Biological Proxies. (pp. 323-349). (TMS Special Publications; No. 002). The Geological Society Publishing House.
Tuenter, E., Weber, S. L., Hilgen, F. J., & Lourens, L. J. (2007). Simulating sub-Milankovitch climate variations associated with vegetation dynamics. Climate of the Past, 3(1), 169-180.
Qian-yu, L., Lourens, L. J., & Wang, P. (2007). New ages for Neogene marine biostratigraphic events. Journal of Stratigraphy, 31(3), 197-208.
Kroon, D., Zachos, J. C., Blum, P., Bowles, J., Gaillot, P., Hasegawa, T., Hathorne, E. C., Hodell, D. A., Kelly, D. C., Jung, J.-H., Keller, S. M., Lee, Y.-S., Leuschner, D. C., Kyger, Z. L., Lohmann, C., Lourens, L. J., Monechi, S., Nicolo, M., Raffi, I., ... Vallius, H. (2007). Leg 208 synthesis: Cenozoic climate cycles and excursions. In D. Kroon, J. C. Zachos, & C. Richter (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 208: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program) (pp. 1-55 . doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.208.20) [Repository]
Westerhold, T., Röhl, U., Laskar, J., Raffi, I., Bowles, J., Lourens, L. J., & Zachos, J. C. (2007). On the duration of magnetochrons C24r and C25n and the timing of early Eocene global warming events: Implications from the Ocean Drilling Program Leg 208 Walvis Ridge depth transect. Paleoceanography, 22(1), PA2201.
Professional publications
Weber, S. L., Lourens, L. J., & Hoek, W. Z. (2007). Het klimaat en de mens. Geo.brief, 31(2), 20-21.
Brinkhuis, H., & Lourens, L. J. (2007). Van fossiele broeikaswereld naar toekomstige broeikaswereld. Payenborchiana, 47(2), 22-27.
Other output
Donders, T. H., Munsterman, D. K., Kloosterboer-van Hoeve, M. L., Brinkhuis, H., & Lourens, L. (2007). Coupled land-sea Miocene climate changes from the Southern North Sea Basin, NW Europe.. Abstract from EGU 2007.
2006
Scholarly publications
van Dam, J. A., Abdul Aziz, H., Sierra, M. A. A., Hilgen, F. J., van den Hoek Ostende, L. W., Lourens, L. J., Mein, P., van der Meulen, A. J., & Pelaez-Campomanes, P. (2006). Long-period astronomical forcing of mammal turnover. Nature, 443(7112), 687-691.
Becker, J., Lourens, L. J., & Raymo, M. E. (2006). High-frequency climate linkages between the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean during marine oxygen isotope stage 100 (MIS100). Paleoceanography, 21(3), PA3002-doi:10.1029/2005PA001168. http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2006/2005PA001168.shtml
Raffi, I., Backman, J., Fornaciari, E., Pälike, H., Rio, D., Lourens, L., & Hilgen, F. (2006). A review of calcareous nannofossil astrobiochronology encompassing the past 25 million years. Quaternary Science Reviews, 25(23-24), 3113-3137. [DOI]
Sluijs, A., Schouten, S., Pagani, M., Woltering, M., Brinkhuis, H., Sinninghe Damsté, J. S., Dickens, G. R., Huber, M., Reichart, G.-J., Stein, R., Matthiessen, J., Lourens, L. J., Pedentchouk, N., Backman, J., & Moran, K. (2006). Subtropical Arctic Ocean temperatures during the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum. Nature, 441(7093), 610-613. [Repository]
Rogerson, M., Weaver, P. P. E., Rohling, E. J., Lourens, L. J., Murray, J. W., & Hayes, A. (2006). Colour logging as a tool in high-resolution palaeoceanography. In R. G. Rothwell (Ed.), New Techniques in Sediment Core Analysis (pp. 99-112). (Geological Society Special Publication; No. 267). Geological Society of London. [DOI]
Popularising publications
Lourens, L. J. (2006). Astronomische sturing van het klimaat en de gevolgen voor de aswenteling van de Aarde. Zenit, 1, 10-15.
Other output
Thomas, E., Lourens, L. J., Sluijs, A., & Stap, L. (2006). Benthic foraminifera and stable isotopes during the ‘Elmo’ Early Eocene Hyperthermal Event (~52.5 Ma).. 136. Abstract from Climate and Biota of the Early Paleogene 2006, Bilbao, Spain.
Sluijs, A., Schouten, S., Brinkhuis, H., Sinninghe Damsté, J. S., Dickens, G. R., Huber, M., Reichart, G.-J., Pagani, M., & Lourens, L. J. (2006). A subtropical North Pole during the late Paleocene - early Eocene. Abstract from 3rd EGU General Assembly.
Sluijs, A., Brinkhuis, H., Harding, I. C., King, A., Deltrap, R., John, C. M., Bohaty, S., Reichart, G.-J., van Bergen, P. F., Lourens, L. J., & Zachos, J. C. (2006). Dinoflagellates show Pre-Carbon-Isotope-Excursion climate change at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary.. 120. Abstract from Climate and Biota of the Early Paleogene 2006, Bilbao, Spain.
2005
Scholarly publications
Lourens, L. J., Sluijs, A., Kroon, D., Zachos, J. C., Thomas, E., Röhl, U., Bowles, J., & Raffi, I. (2005). Astronomical pacing of late Palaeocene to early Eocene global warming events. Nature, 435(7045), 1083-1087. [DOI] [Repository]
Zachos, J. C., Röhl, U., Schellenberg, S. A., Sluijs, A., Hodell, D. A., Kelly, D. C., Thomas, E., Nicolo, M., Raffi, I., Lourens, L. J., McCarren, H., & Kroon, D. (2005). Rapid acidification of the ocean during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Science, 308(5728), 1611-1615. [DOI] [Repository]
Hilgen, F. J., Abdul Aziz, H., Abels, H. A., Becker, J., Kuiper, K. F., Lourens, L. J., Meijer, P. T., Steenbrink, J., Tuenter, E., van der Laan, E., & Weber, S. L. (2005). Mediterranean Neogene cyclostratigraphy and astrochronology: Recent progress and new developments. In A. Berger, M. Ercegovac, & F. Mesinger (Eds.), Milutin Milankovitch 125th Anniversary Symposium: Paleoclimate and the Earth Climate System. Proceedings of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
Tuenter, E., Weber, S. L., Hilgen, F. J., & Lourens, L. J. (2005). Sea-ice feedbacks on the climatic response to precession and obliquity forcing. Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L24704.
van der Laan, E., Gaboardi, S., Hilgen, F. J., & Lourens, L. J. (2005). Regional climate and glacial control on high-resolution oxygen isotope records from Ain el Beida (latest Miocene, NW Morocco): A cyclostratigraphic analysis in the depth and time domain. Paleoceanography, 20(1), PA000995.
Becker, J., Lourens, L. J., Hilgen, F. J., van der Laan, E., Kouwenhoven, T. J., & Reichart, G.-J. (2005). Late Pliocene climate variability on Milankovitch to millennial time scales: A high-resolution study of MIS100 from the Mediterranean. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 228(3-4), 338-360.
Tuenter, E., Weber, S. L., Hilgen, F. J., Lourens, L. J., & Ganopolski, A. (2005). Simulation of climate phase lags in the response to precession and obliquity forcing and the role of vegetation. Climate Dynamics, 24(2-3), 279-295.
Other output
Hilgen, F. J., Abels, H. A., Brinkhuis, H., Lourens, L. J., & Zachariasse, W. J. (2005). Cyclostratigraphy, Orbital Tuning and Unit-Stratotypes. 06216. Abstract from 1st EGU General Assembly, Vienna.
Sluijs, A., Schouten, S., Pagani, M., Brinkhuis, H., Sinninghe Damsté, J. S., Dickens, G. R., Huber, M., Reichart, G.-J., Stein, R., & Lourens, L. J. (2005). Ultra-high late Paleocene - early Eocene sea surface temperatures on the North Pole.. Paper presented at AGU Meeting, San Francisco, USA.
2004
Scholarly publications
Kuypers, M. M. M., Lourens, L. J., Rijpstra, W. I. C., Pancost, R. D., Nijenhuis, I. A., & Sinninghe Damsté, J. S. (2004). Orbital forcing of organic carbon burial in the proto-North Atlantic during Oceanic Anoxic Event 2. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 228, 465-482.
Lourens, L. J. (2004). Revised tuning of Ocean Drilling Program Site 964 and KC01B (Mediterranean) and implications for the delta 0-18, tephra, calcareous nannofossil, and geomagnetic reversal chronologies of the past 1.1 Myr. Paleoceanography, 19(3), PA3010.
Gradstein, F. M., Ogg, J. G., Smith, A. G., Bleeker, W., & Lourens, L. J. (2004). A New Geologic Time Scale, with special reference to Precambrian and Neogene. Episodes, 27(2), 83-100.
Lourens, L. J., Hilgen, F. J., Laskar, J., Shackleton, N. J., & Wilson, D. (2004). The Neogene Period. In F. M. Gradstein, J. G. Ogg, & A. G. Smith (Eds.), A Geologic Time Scale 2004 (pp. 409-440). Cambridge University Press.
Professional publications
Kroon, D., Zachos, J. C., Blum, P., Bowles, J., Gaillot, P., Hasegawa, T., Hathorne, E. C., Hodell, D. A., Kelly, D. C., Jung, J.-H., Keller, S. M., Lee, Y.-S., Leuschner, D. C., Liu, Z., Lohmann, K. C., Lourens, L. J., Monechi, S., Nicolo, M., Raffi, I., ... Vallius, H. (2004). Early Cenozoic Extreme Climates: The Walvis Ridge Transect. http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/208_IR/208TOC.HTM. (Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, 208 ed.) ODP. http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/208_IR/208TOC.HTM
2003
Scholarly publications
Tuenter, E., Weber, S. L., Hilgen, F. J., & Lourens, L. J. (2003). The response of the African summer monsoon to remote and local forcing due to precession and obliquity. Global and Planetary Change, 36(4), 219-235.
Professional publications
Kroon, D., Zachos, J. C., Blum, P., Bowles, J., Gaillot, P., Hasegawa, T., Hathorne, E. C., Hodell, D. A., Kelly, D. C., Jung, J.-H., Keller, S. M., Lee, Y.-S., Leuschner, D. C., Kyger, Z. L., Lohmann, C., Lourens, L. J., Monechi, S., Nicolo, M., Raffi, I., ... Vallius, H. (2003). Ocean Drilling Program Leg 208. Early Cenozoic Extreme Climates: The Walvis Ridge Transect. Available from World Wide Web: http//www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/prelim/208_prel/208PREL.PDF. (ODP Prelim. Rpt ed.) nn.
2001
Scholarly publications
Turco, E., Hilgen, F. J., Lourens, L. J., Shackleton, N. J., & Zachariasse, W. J. (2001). Punctuated evolution of global climate cooling during late Middle to early Late Miocene: High resolution planktonic foraminiferal and oxygen isotope records from the Mediterranean. Paleoceanography, 16, 405-423.
Lourens, L. J., Wehausen, R., & Brumsack, H.-J. (2001). Geological constraints on tidal dissipation and dynamical ellipticity of the Earth over the past three million years. Nature, 409, 1029-1033.
2000
Professional publications
Hilgen, F. J., Krijgsman, W., & Lourens, L. J. (2000). De invloed van astronomische cycli op het klimaat op Aarde. Een metronoom voor de geologische tijdschaal. Gea, 35(4), 1-8.
1999
Scholarly publications
Passier, H. F., Bosch, H.-J., Nijenhuis, I. A., Lourens, L. J., Böttcher, M. E., Leenders, A., Sinninghe Damste, J., De Lange, G. J., & de Leeuw, J. W. (1999). Sulphidic mediterranean surface waters during Pliocene sapropel formation. Nature, 397(6715), 146-149. [DOI]
Hilgen, F. J., Abdul Aziz, H., Krijgsman, W., Langereis, C. G., Lourens, L. J., Meulenkamp, J. E., Raffi, I., Steenbrink, J., Turco, E., van Vugt, N., Wijbrans, J. R., & Zachariasse, W. J. (1999). Present status of the astronomical (polarity) time-scale for the Mediterranean Late Neogene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 357(1757), 1931-1947. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0346968477&partnerID=40&md5=b7761ec3e9f9d6adfa24180fabc81b84
1997
Scholarly publications
Hilgen, F. J., Krijgsman, W., Langereis, C. G., & Lourens, L. J. (1997). Breakthrough made in dating of the geological record. EOS : transactions / American Geophysical Union, 78(28), 285-289. [DOI]
1995
Scholarly publications
Hilgen, F. J., Krijgsman, W., Langereis, C. G., Lourens, L. J., Santarelli, A., & Zachariasse, W. J. (1995). Extending the astronomical (polarity) time scale into the Miocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 136(3-4), 495-510. [DOI]
1990
Scholarly publications
Zachariasse, W. J., Gudjonsson, L., Hilgen, F. J., Langereis, C. G., Lourens, L. J., Verhallen, P. J. J. M., & Zijderveld, J. D. A. (1990). Late Gauss to early Matuyama invasions of Neogloboquadrina atlantica in the Mediterranean and associated record of climatic change. Paleoceanography, 5(2), 239-252. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0025636962&partnerID=40&md5=62a79f39729ddbc71f3c8cc5894a57e7