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Pristine Early Eocene wood buried deeply in kimberlite from northern CanadaAlexander P Wolfe
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
PLoS ONE 7:e45537. 2012..Canadian kimberlites offer Lagerstätte-quality preservation of wood from a region with limited alternate sources of paleobotanical information...
Spectrofluorescence of sediment humic substances and historical changes of lacustrine organic matter provenance in response to atmospheric nutrient enrichmentAlexander P Wolfe
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Environ Sci Technol 36:3217-23. 2002....
A new proposal concerning the botanical origin of Baltic amberAlexander P Wolfe
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E3, Canada
Proc Biol Sci 276:3403-12. 2009....
Insect outbreaks produce distinctive carbon isotope signatures in defensive resins and fossiliferous ambersRyan C McKellar
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, 1 26 Earth Sciences Building, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Proc Biol Sci 278:3219-24. 2011..Plant exudate δ(13)C values constitute a sensitive monitor of ecological stress in both modern and ancient forest ecosystems, and provide considerable insight concerning the genesis of amber in the geological record...
Over three millennia of mercury pollution in the Peruvian AndesColin A Cooke
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2E3
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:8830-4. 2009..Our results demonstrate the existence of a major Hg mining industry at Huancavelica spanning the past 3,500 years, and place recent Hg enrichment in the Andes in a broader historical context...
A millennium of metallurgy recorded by lake sediments from Morococha, Peruvian AndesColin A Cooke
Department of Geology and Planetary Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
Environ Sci Technol 41:3469-74. 2007..Our results represent the first evidence for pre-Colonial smelting in the central Peruvian Andes, and corroborate the sensitivity of lake sediments to pre-Colonial metallurgical activity suggested by earlier findings from Bolivia...
Reliance on (210)Pb chronology can compromise the inference of preindustrial Hg flux to lake sedimentsColin A Cooke
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E3, Canada
Environ Sci Technol 44:1998-2003. 2010..The incorporation of (14)C dates may therefore be necessary if accurate Hg flux histories are sought from oligotrophic lake sediments...
Quantifying recent ecological changes in remote lakes of North America and Greenland using sediment diatom assemblagesWilliam O Hobbs
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
PLoS ONE 5:e10026. 2010..Diatom-based paleolimnological syntheses offer an effective tool for retrospective assessments of past and ongoing changes in remote lake ecosystems...
Response to comment on "a diverse assemblage of late cretaceous dinosaur and bird feathers from canadian amber"Ryan C McKellar
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E3, Canada
Science 335:796. 2012..However, reported observations and their further refinement herein are insufficient to falsify the hypothesized dinosaurian origin for protofeathers...
A diverse assemblage of Late Cretaceous dinosaur and bird feathers from Canadian amberRyan C McKellar
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E3, Canada
Science 333:1619-22. 2011..Because amber preserves feather structure and pigmentation in unmatched detail, these fossils provide novel insights regarding feather evolution...
Mid-Miocene cooling and the extinction of tundra in continental AntarcticaAdam R Lewis
Department of Earth Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:10676-80. 2008..07 +/- 0.05 Ma and 13.85 +/- 0.03 Ma. These results provide novel constraints for the timing and amplitude of middle-Miocene cooling in Antarctica and reveal the ecological legacy of this global climate transition...
Atmospheric science. Sprucing up GreenlandEric J Steig
Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Science 320:1595-6. 2008
