The BRITICE-CHRONO consortium of researchers undertook a dating programme to constrain the timing advance, maximum extent and retreat British–Irish Ice Sheet between 31 000 15 years before present. campaign across Ireland Britain their continental shelves, North Sea included 1500 days field investigation yielding 18 km marine geophysical data, 377 cores sea floor sediments, geomorphological str...

Some gastropod specimens belonging to the planorbid genus Ferrissia were recently collected in Lebanon and in Iraq, where the autochthonous species Ferrissia clessiniana (Jickeli, 1882) is supposed to occur. The molecular identification of collected specimens proved that they belong to the allochthonous species Ferrissia fragilis (Tryon, 1863), the protagonist of a dramatic cryptic invasion whi...

We have extended the 3-D ocean based “Grid ENabled Integrated Earth system model” (GENIE-1) to help understand the role of ocean biogeochemistry and marine sediments in the long-term (∼100 to 100 000 year) regulation of atmospheric CO2, and the importance of feedbacks between CO2 and climate. Here we describe the ocean carbon cycle, which in its first incarnation is based around a simple single...

The notion of Stochastic Resonance appeared about twenty years ago in the works of Benzi et al. [1] and Nicolis [2] in the context of an attempt to explain the phenomenon of ice ages. The modern methods of acquiring and interpreting climate records indicate at least seven major climate changes in the last 700,000 years. These changes occurred with the periodicity of about 100, 000 years and are...