#palaeoscience — Public Fediverse posts
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New paper from my colleague and friend Julio Cauhy, reconstructing extreme rainfall events in Southern Brazil over the past 7.5 ka. Julio and colleagues combined cave monitoring with painstaking petrography and careful U-Th dating to analyse detrital flood layers in speleothems from Malfazido cave. They found that extreme rainfall events are influenced by Antarctic-tropical teleconnections, and that El Nino events had an important contribution in the last millennium. It's a fantastic piece of work!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03506-y
#QuaternaryScience #palaeoscience #palaeoclimatology #speleothem #CaveScience #Brazil #ExtremeRainfallEvents
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Someone has kindly included me in an email chain about a pollen library. Very generous. And yet, one of my career aspirations is to NEVER have to spend time staring at pollen down a microscope. How does one say that politely?!
#pollen #palynology #microscopy #palaeoscience #palaeoenvironment