Entries by Cin-Ty Lee

QSR: Marine record of Holocene climate, ocean, and cryosphere interactions: Herbert Sound, James Ross Island, Antarctica

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Marine record of Holocene climate, ocean, and cryosphere interactions: Herbert Sound, James Ross Island, Antarctica Rebecca Totten Minzoni, John B. Anderson, Rodrigo Fernandez, Julia Smith Wellner Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 129, 1 December 2015, Pages 239–259 The sediment record offshore James Ross Island, northeast Antarctic Peninsula presents an unparalleled opportunity to directly compare marine and […]

Past ice-sheet behaviour: retreat scenarios and changing controls in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

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Past ice-sheet behaviour: retreat scenarios and changing controls in the Ross Sea, Antarctica Anna Ruth W. Halberstadt, Lauren M. Simkins, Sarah L. Greenwood, and John B. Anderson Past ice-sheet behaviour: retreat scenarios and changing controls in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, The Cryosphere, 10, 1003-1020, doi:10.5194/tc-10-1003-2016, 2016. Studying the history of ice-sheet behaviour in the Ross […]

Rice University scientists propose that life in the solar system could have been very different

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The Solar System of Forking Paths: Bifurcations in Planetary Evolution and the Search for Life-Bearing Planets in Our Galaxy Lenardic A., Crowley J.W., Jellinek A.M., and Weller M.. Astrobiology. June 2016, 16(7): 551-559. doi:10.1089/ast.2015.1378. —From Rice News… Rice University scientists propose that life in the solar system could have been very different If conditions had […]

EPSL: Critical porosity of melt segregation during crustal melting: Constraints from zonation of peritectic garnets in a dacite volcano

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Critical porosity of melt segregation during crustal melting: Constraints from zonation of peritectic garnets in a dacite volcano Xun Yu* and Cin-Ty Lee *visiting student Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 449, 1 September 2016, Pages 127–134   The presence of leucogranitic dikes in orogenic belts suggests that partial melting may be an important process […]

PNAS: A lead isotope perspective on urban development in ancient Naples

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A lead isotope perspective on urban development in ancient Naples Hugo Delile, Duncan Keenan-Jones, Janne Blichert-Toft, Jean-Philippe Goiran, Florent Arnaud-Godet, Paola Romano and Francis Albarède Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2016: doi: 10.1073/pnas.1600893113 A well-dated sedimentary sequence from the ancient harbor of Naples sheds new light on an old problem: could the great […]

NATURE GEOSCIENCE: Two step rise of atmospheric oxygen

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Two-step rise of atmospheric oxygen linked to the growth of continents Cin-Ty A. Lee, Laurence Y. Yeung, N. Ryan McKenzie, Yusuke Yokoyama, Kazumi Ozaki, & Adrian Lenardic Nature Geoscience (2016) doi:10.1038/ngeo2707 Earth owes its oxygenated atmosphere to its unique claim on life, but how the atmosphere evolved from an initially oxygen-free state remains unresolved. The […]

NATURE: Fault-controlled hydration of the upper mantle during continental rifting

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Fault-controlled hydration of the upper mantle during continental rifting Nature Geoscience 9,384–388(2016)doi:10.1038/ngeo2671 G. Bayrakci, T. A. Minshull, D. S. Sawyer, T. J. Reston, D. Klaeschen, C. Papenberg, C. Ranero, J. M. Bull, R. G. Davy, D. J. Shillington, M. Perez-Gussinye, J. K. Morgan Water and carbon are transferred from the ocean to the mantle in a process that alters mantle peridotite to […]