This Hammer Talks Session is helt by Romain Vaucher (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) about the impact of orbitally forced changes in solar insolation on shallow-marine deposition. Title of the talk is:
Title: Sea, Cycles, and Sun – The Early Pleistocene of Taiwa
Abstract: Global marine archives from the early Pleistocene suggest that glacial-interglacial cycles, and their corresponding sea-level cycles, have predominantly a periodicity of ~ 41 kyrs driven by Earth’s obliquity. However, in Taiwan, lower Pleistocene clastic shallow-marine strata challenge the idea of a “41-kyr world” by revealing precession-dominated sea-level fluctuations, independent of a global ice-volume proxy. In addition, precession also affected the sediments supplied to the shallow marine realm by modulating the intensity of tropical cyclones and monsoons.
NB! The session is possible to participate digitally via videolink.
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About the Hammer Talks
The Hammer Talks Sessions are organized weekly, Wednesdays at 13 o'clock. The target audience are the early career scientists (PhD, postdoc, researchers) of the G&G section at Department of Geosciences, but anyone is welcome to join the events.
Hammer Talks Sessions are meant to provide an informal platform that facilitates cooperation among the researchers and a safe place to practice presentation skills, prepare for a conference, and much more.
Coordinators for the talks are:
Sian Evans & Anna van Yperen