Dr. Leah J. LeVay
Publications
Parnell-Turner, R.E., Briais, A., LeVay, L.J., and the Expedition 395 Scientists, 2025. Reykjanes Mantle Convection and Climate. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 395: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program).
https://doi.org/10.14379/
Li, H., Zhang, H., Li, H., Duan, L., Zhang, X., Gao, Y., Hall, I.R., Hemming, S.R., and LeVay, L.J., 2024. Sedimentary DNA reveals the link between microbial community dynamics and climate during the late last glaciation in the offshore region of the Zambezi River, Southwest Indian Ocean. Science of The Total Environment, 906:167787.
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Parnell-Turner, R., Briais, A., LeVay, L., and the Expedition 395 Scientists, 2024. Expedition 395 Preliminary Report: Reykjanes Mantle Convection and Climate. International Ocean Discovery Program.
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Parnell-Turner, R., Briais, A., and LeVay, L.J., 2023. Expedition 395 Scientific Prospectus Addendum: Reykjanes Mantle Convection and Climate. International Ocean Discovery Program.
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Barker, S., Starr, A., van der Lubbe, J., Doughty, A., Knorr, G., Conn, S., Lordsmith, S., Owen, L., Nederbragt, A., Hemming, S., Hall, I., Levay, L., Berke, M.A., Brentegani, L., Caley, T., Cartagena-Sierra, A., Charles, C.D., Coenen, J.J., Crespin, J.G., Franzese, A.M., Gruetzner, J., Han, X., Hines, S.K.V., Jimenez Espejo, F.J., Just, J., Koutsodendris, A., Kubota, K., Lathika, N., Norris, R.D., Periera dos Santos, T., Robinson, R., Rolison, J.M., Simon, M.H., Tangunan, D., Yamane, M., and Zhang, H., 2022. Persistent influence of precession on northern ice sheet variability since the early Pleistocene. Science, 376(6596):961-967.
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Parnell-Turner, R., Briais, A., and LeVay, L.J., 2022. Expedition 395C Preliminary Report: Reykjanes Mantle Convection and Climate: Crustal Objectives. International Ocean Discovery Program.
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Woodhouse, A., Barnes, P.M., Shorrock, A., Strachan, L.J., Crundwell, M., Bostock, H.C., Hopkins, J., Kutterolf, S., Pank, K., Behrens, E., Greve, A., Bell, R., Cook, A., Petronotis, K., LeVay, L., Jamieson, R.A., Aze, T., Wallace, L., Saffer, D., and Pecher, I., 2022. Trench floor depositional response to glacio-eustatic changes over the last 45 ka, northern Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics.
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Cartagena-Sierra, A., Berke, M.A., Robinson, R.S., Marcks, B., Castañeda, I.S., Starr, A., Hall, I.R., Hemming, S.R., LeVay, L.J., and the Expedition 361 Scientific Party, 2021. Latitudinal migrations of the subtropical front at the Agulhas Plateau through the Mid-Pleistocene Transition. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 36(7):e2020PA004084.
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Romero, O.E., LeVay, L.J., McClymont, E.L., Müller, J., and Cowan, E.A., 2021. Orbital and suborbital-scale variations of productivity and sea surface conditions in the Gulf of Alaska during the past 54,000 years: impact of iron fertilization by icebergs and meltwater. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37(1):e2021PA004385.
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Savage, H.M., Shreedharan, S., Fagereng, Å., Morgan, J.K., Meneghini, F., Wang, M., McNamara, D.D., Wallace, L.M., Saffer, D.M., Barnes, P.M., Petronotis, K.E., and LeVay, L.J., 2021. Asymmetric brittle deformation at the Pāpaku fault, Hikurangi Subduction Margin, NZ, IODP Expedition 375. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22(8):e2021GC009662.
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Starr, A., Hall, I.R., Barker, S., Rackow, T., Zhang, X., Hemming, S.R., van der Lubbe, H.J.L., Knorr, G., Berke, M.A., Bigg, G.R., Cartagena-Sierra, A., Jiménez-Espejo, F.J., Gong, X., Gruetzner, J., Lathika, N., LeVay, L.J., Robinson, R.S., Ziegler, M., Brentegani, L., Caley, T., Charles, C.D., Coenen, J.J., Crespin, J.G., Franzese, A.M., Han, X., Hines, S.K.V., Jimenez Espejo, F.J., Just, J., Koutsodendris, A., Kubota, K., Norris, R.D., dos Santos, T.P., Rolison, J.M., Simon, M.H., Tangunan, D., van der Lubbe, H.J.L., Yamane, M., Zhang, H., and the Expedition 361 Science Party, 2021. Antarctic icebergs reorganize ocean circulation during Pleistocene glacials. Nature, 589(7841):236-241.
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Tangunan, D., Berke, M.A., Cartagena-Sierra, A., Flores, J.A., Gruetzner, J., Jiménez-Espejo, F., LeVay, L.J., Baumann, K.-H., Romero, O., Saavedra-Pellitero, M., Coenen, J.J., Starr, A., Hemming, S.R., Hall, I.R., Barker, S., Brentegani, L., Caley, T., Charles, C.D., Crespin, J.G., Franzese, A.M., Han, X., Hines, S.K.V., Jimenez Espejo, F.J., Just, J., Koutsodendris, A., Kubota, K., Lathika, N., Norris, R.D., dos Santos, T.P., Robinson, R.S., Rolison, J.M., Simon, M.H., Tangunan, D., van der Lubbe, J.J.L., Yamane, M., Zhang, H., and the Expedition 361 Science Party, 2021. Strong glacial-interglacial variability in upper ocean hydrodynamics, biogeochemistry, and productivity in the southern Indian Ocean. Communications Earth & Environment, 2(1):80.
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Taylor, A.K., Berke, M.A., Castañeda, I.S., Koutsodendris, A., Campos, H., Hall, I.R., Hemming, S.R., LeVay, L.J., Sierra, A.C., O’Connor, K., and the Expedition 361 Scientists, 2021. Plio-Pleistocene continental hydroclimate and Indian Ocean sea surface temperatures at the southeast African margin. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 36(3):e2020PA004186.
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Babin, D.P., Franzese, A.M., Hemming, S.R., Hall, I.R., LeVay, L.J., Barker, S., Tejeda, L., Simon, M.H., and the Expedition 361 Scientists, 2020. Data report: X-ray fluorescence core scanning of IODP Site U1474 sediments, Natal Valley, Southwest Indian Ocean, Expedition 361. In Hall, I.R., Hemming, S.R., LeVay, L.J., and the Expedition 361 Scientists, South African Climates (Agulhas LGM Density Profile). Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 361: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program).
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Beasley, C., Cotton, L., Al-Suwaidi, A., LeVay, L., Sluijs, A., Ullmann, C.V., Hesselbo, S.P., and Littler, K., 2020. Triumph and tribulation for shallow water fauna during the Paleocene-Eocene transition: insights from the United Arab Emirates. Newsletters on Stratigraphy, 54(1):79-106.
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Barnes, P.M., Wallace, L.M., Saffer, D.M., Bell, R.E., Underwood, M.B., Fagereng, A., Meneghini, F., Savage, H.M., Rabinowitz, H.S., Morgan, J.K., Kitajima, H., Kutterolf, S., Hashimoto, Y., Engelmann de Oliveira, C.H., Noda, A., Crundwell, M.P., Shepherd, C.L., Woodhouse, A.D., Harris, R.N., Wang, M., Henrys, S., Barker, D.H.N., Petronotis, K.E., Bourlange, S.M., Clennell, M.B., Cook, A.E., Dugan, B.E., Elger, J., Fulton, P.M., Gamboa, D., Greve, A., Han, S., Hüpers, A., Ikari, M.J., Ito, Y., Kim, G.Y., Koge, H., Lee, H., Li, X., Luo, M., Malie, P.R., Moore, G.F., Mountjoy, J.J., McNamara, D.D., Paganoni, M., Screaton, E.J., Shankar, U., Shreedharan, S., Solomon, E.A., Wang, X., Wu, H.-Y., Pecher, I.A., and LeVay, L.J., 2020. Slow slip source characterized by lithological and geometric heterogeneity. Science Advances, 6(13):eaay3314.
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Barnet, J.S.K., Harper, D.T., LeVay, L.J., Edgar, K.M., Henehan, M.J., Babila, T.L., Ullmann, C.V., Leng, M.J., Kroon, D., Zachos, J.C., and Littler, K., 2020. Coupled evolution of temperature and carbonate chemistry during the Paleocene-Eocene: new trace element records from the low latitude Indian Ocean. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 545:116414.
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Just, J., and the Expedition 361 Scientists (including L.J. LeVay), 2020. Data report: evaluation of shipboard magnetostratigraphy by alternating field demagnetization of discrete samples, Expedition 361, Site U1475. In Hall, I.R., Hemming, S.R., LeVay, L.J., and the Expedition 361 Scientists, South African Climates (Agulhas LGM Density Profile). Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 361: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program).
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Koutsodendris, A., Nakajima, K., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Berke, M.A., Franzese, A.M., Hall, I.R., Hemming, S.R., Just, J., LeVay, L.J., Pross, J., and Robinson, R., 2020. A Plio-Pleistocene (c. 0-4 Ma) cyclostratigraphy for IODP Site U1478 (Mozambique Channel, SW Indian Ocean): exploring an offshore record of paleoclimate and ecosystem variability in SE Africa. Newsletters on Stratigraphy, 54(2):159-181.
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Parnell-Turner, R., Briais, A., and LeVay, L., 2020. Expedition 395 Scientific Prospectus: Reykjanes Mantle Convection and Climate. International Ocean Discovery Program.
https://doi.org/
Screaton, E.J., Torres, M.E., Dugan, B., Heeschen, K.U., Mountjoy, J.J., Ayres, C., Rose, P.S., Pecher, I.A., Barnes, P.M., and LeVay, L.J., 2020. Reply to comments by N. Sultan on “Sedimentation controls on methane-hydrate dynamics across glacial/interglacial stages: an example from International Ocean Discovery Program Site U1517, Hikurangi Margin”. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21(6):e2020GC009005.
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Braha, I., Hager-Hahn, E., and LeVay, L.J., 2019. Data report: calcareous nannofossils and bulk calcium carbonate measurements from IODP Expedition 341, Site U1418, Gulf of Alaska. In Jaeger, J.M., Gulick, S.P.S., LeVay, L.J., and the Expedition 341 Scientists, Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. 341: College Station, TX (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program).
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Dunkley Jones, T., Fauth, G., and LeVay, L.J., 2019. Expedition 388 Scientific Prospectus: Equatorial Atlantic Gateway: International Ocean Discovery Program
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Fagereng, A., Savage, H.M., Morgan, J.K., Wang, M., Meneghini, F., Barnes, P.M., Bell, R., Kitajima, H., McNamara, D.D., Saffer, D.M., Wallace, L.M., Petronotis, K., and LeVay, L., 2019. Mixed deformation styles observed on a shallow subduction thrust, Hikurangi margin, New Zealand. Geology, 47(9):872-876.
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McKinley, C.C., Thomas, D.J., LeVay, L.J., and Rolewicz, Z., 2019. Nd isotopic structure of the Pacific Ocean 40-10 Ma, and evidence for the reorganization of deep North Pacific ocean circulation between 36 and 25 Ma. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 521:139-149.
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Pecher, I.A., Barnes, P.M., LeVay, L.J., and the Expedition 372A Scientists, 2019. Creeping Gas Hydrate Slides. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 372A: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program).
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Screaton, E.J., Torres, M.E., Dugan, B., Heeschen, K.U., Mountjoy, J.J., Ayres, C., Rose, P.S., Pecher, I.A., Barnes, P.M., and LeVay, L.J., 2019. Sedimentation controls on methane-hydrate dynamics across glacial/interglacial stages: an example from International Ocean Discovery Program Site U1517, Hikurangi Margin. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20(11):4906-4921.
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Wallace, L.M., Saffer, D.M., Barnes, P.M., Pecher, I.A., Petronotis, K.E., LeVay, L.J., and the Expedition 372/375 Scientists, 2019. Hikurangi Subduction Margin Coring, Logging, and Observatories. In Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 372B/375: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program).
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Zindorf, M., Marz, C., Wagner, T., Gulick, S.P.S., Strauss, H., Benowitz, J., Jaeger, J., Schnetger, B., Childress, L., LeVay, L., van der Land, C., and La Rosa, M., 2019. Deep sulfate-methane-transition and sediment diagenesis in the Gulf of Alaska (IODP Site U1417). Marine Geology, 417:105986.
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Gruetzner, J., Jiménez Espejo, F.J., Lathika, N., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Hall, I.R., Hemming, S.R., LeVay, L.J., and the Expedition 361 Scientists, 2018. A new seismic stratigraphy in the Indian-Atlantic Ocean gateway resembles major paleo-oceanographic changes of the last 7 Ma. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20(1):339-358.
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Pecher, I.A., Barnes, P.M., LeVay, L.J., and the Expedition 372 Scientists, 2018. Expedition 372 Preliminary Report: Creeping Gas Hydrate Slides and Hikurangi LWD: College Station, TX, United States
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Penkrot, M.L., Jaeger, J.M., Cowan, E.A., St-Onge, G., and LeVay, L., 2018. Multivariate modeling of glacimarine lithostratigraphy combining scanning XRF, multisensory core properties, and CT imagery: IODP Site U1419. Geosphere, 14(4):1935-1960.
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Tangunan, D.N., Baumann, K.-H., Just, J., LeVay, L.J., Barker, S., Brentegani, L., De Vleeschouwer, D., Hall, I.R., Hemming, S., and Norris, R., 2018. The last 1 million years of the extinct genus Discoaster: Plio-Pleistocene environment and productivity at Site U1476 (Mozambique Channel). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 505:187-197.
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Barnes, P.M., Pecher, I., and LeVay, L.J., 2017. Expedition 372 Scientific Prospectus: Creeping Gas Hydrate Slides and LWD for Hikurangi Subduction Margin. International Ocean Discovery Program.
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Hall, I.R., Hemming, S.R., LeVay, L.J., and the Expedition 361 Scientists, 2017. South African Climates (Agulhas LGM Density Profile). Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 361: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program).
https://doi.org/
Penkrot, M., Levay, L.J., and Jaeger, J.M., Gulick, S.P.S., LeVay, L.J., and the Expedition 341 Scientists, 2017. Data report: X-ray florescence scanning of sediment cores, Site U1419, Gulf of Alaska. In Jaeger, J.M., Gulick, S.P.S., LeVay, L.J., and the Expedition 341 Scientists, Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. 341: College Station, TX (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program).
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Clemens, S.C., Kuhnt, W., LeVay, L.J., and the Expedition 353 Scientists, 2016. Indian Monsoon Rainfall. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 353: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program).
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Hall, I.R., Hemming, S.R., LeVay, L.J., and the Expedition 361 Scientists, 2016. Expedition 361 Preliminary Report: South African Climates (Agulhas LGM Density Profile): International Ocean Discovery Program
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Clemens, S.C., Kuhnt, W., LeVay, L.J., and the Expedition 353 Scientists, 2015. Expedition 353 Preliminary Report: Indian Monsoon Rainfall. International Ocean Discovery Program.
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Gulick, S.P.S., Jaeger, J.M., Mix, A.C., Asahi, H., Bahlburg, H., Belanger, C.L., Berbel, G.B.B., Childress, L., Cowan, E., Drab, L., Forwick, M., Fukumura, A., Shulan, G., Gupta, S., Kioka, A., Konno, S., LeVay, L.J., März, C., Matsuzaki, K.M., McClymont, E.L., Moy, C., Müller, J., Nakamura, A., Ojima, T., Ribeiro, F.R., Ridgway, K.D., Romero, O.E., Slagle, A.L., Stoner, J.S., St-Onge, G., Suto, I., Walczak, M.D., Worthington, L.L., Bailey, I., Enkelmann, E., Reece, R., and Swartz, J.M., 2015. Mid-Pleistocene climate transition drives net mass loss from rapidly uplifting St. Elias Mountains, Alaska. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(49):15042-15047.
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Hall, I., Hemming, S., and LeVay, L., 2015. Expedition 361 Scientific Prospectus: South African Climates (Agulhas LGM Density Profile): International Ocean Discovery Program
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Walczak, M.H., Mix, A.C., Willse, T., Slagle, A., Stoner, J.S., Jaeger, J., Gulick, S., LeVay, L., and Kioka, A., 2015. Correction of non-intrusive drill core physical properties data for variability in recovered sediment volume. Geophysical Journal International, 202(2):1317-1323.
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Clemens, S.C., Kuhnt, W., and LeVay, L.J., 2014. Expedition 353 Scientific Prospectus: iMonsoon. International Ocean Discovery Program.
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Expedition 341 Scientists (including L. LeVay), 2014. Southern Alaska margin: interactions of tectonics, climate, and sedimentation. Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Preliminary Report, 341.
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Holbourn, A., Kuhnt, W., Lyle, M., Schneider, L., Romero, O., and Andersen, N., 2014. Middle Miocene climate cooling linked to intensification of eastern equatorial Pacific upwelling. Geology, 42(1):19-22.
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Jaeger, J.M., Gulick, S.P.S., LeVay, L.J., and the Expedition 341 Scientists, 2014. Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, 341: College Station, TX (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program).
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Sluijs, A., van Roij, L., Harrington, G.J., Schouten, S., Sessa, J.A., LeVay, L.J., Reichart, G.J., and Slomp, C.P., 2014. Warming, euxinia and sea level rise during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum on the Gulf Coastal Plain: implications for ocean oxygenation and nutrient cycling. Climate of the Past, 10(4):1421-1439.
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Schneider, L.J., Bralower, T.J., Kump, L.R., and Patzkowsky, M.E., 2013. Calcareous nannoplankton ecology and community change across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Paleobiology, 39(4):628-647.
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Wilkens, R.H., Dickens, G.R., Tian, J., Backman, J., and the Expedition 320/321 Scientists, 2013. Data report: revised composite depth scales for Sites U1336, U1337, and U1338. In Pälike, H., Lyle, M., Nishi, H., Raffi, I., Gamage, K., Klaus, A., and the Expedition 320/321 Scientists, Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. 320/321: Tokyo (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.).
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Pälike, H., Lyle, M.W., Nishi, H., Raffi, I., Ridgwell, A., Gamage, K., Klaus, A., Acton, G., Anderson, L., Backman, J., Baldauf, J., Beltran, C., Bohaty, S.M., Bown, P., Busch, W., Channell, J.E.T., Chun, C.O.J., Delaney, M., Dewangan, P., Dunkley Jones, T., Edgar, K.M., Evans, H., Fitch, P., Foster, G.L., Gussone, N., Hasegawa, H., Hathorne, E.C., Hayashi, H., Herrle, J.O., Holbourn, A., Hovan, S., Hyeong, K., Iijima, K., Ito, T., Kamikuri, S.-i., Kimoto, K., Kuroda, J., Leon-Rodriguez, L., Malinverno, A., Moore Jr, T.C., Murphy, B.H., Murphy, D.P., Nakamura, H., Ogane, K., Ohneiser, C., Richter, C., Robinson, R., Rohling, E.J., Romero, O., Sawada, K., Scher, H., Schneider, L., Sluijs, A., Takata, H., Tian, J., Tsujimoto, A., Wade, B.S., Westerhold, T., Wilkens, R., Williams, T., Wilson, P.A., Yamamoto, Y., Yamamoto, S., Yamazaki, T., and Zeebe, R.E., 2012. A Cenozoic record of the equatorial Pacific carbonate compensation depth. Nature, 488(7413):609-614.
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Westerhold, T., Röhl, U., Wilkens, R., Pälike, H., Lyle, M., Jones, T.D., Bown, P., Moore, T., Kamikuri, S., Acton, G., Ohneiser, C., Yamamoto, Y., Richter, C., Fitch, P., Scher, H., Liebrand, D., and the Expedition 320/321 Scientists, 2012. Revised composite depth scales and integration of IODP Sites U1331-U1334 and ODP Sites 1218-1220. In Pälike, H., Lyle, M., Nishi, H., Raffi, I., Gamage, K., Klaus, A., and the Expedition 320/321 Scientists, Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. 320/321: Tokyo (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.).
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Schneider, L.J., Bralower, T.J., and Kump, L.R., 2011. Response of nannoplankton to early Eocene ocean destratification. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 310(3):152-162.
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Lyle, M., Pälike, H., Nishi, H., Raffi, I., Gamage, K., Klaus, A., and the IODP Expeditions 320/321 Science Party [including L. Schneider], 2010. The Pacific Equatorial Age Transect, IODP Expeditions 320 and 321: building a 50-million-year-long environmental record of the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Scientific Drilling, 9:4-15.
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Pälike, H., Lyle, M., Nishi, H., Raffi, I., Gamage, K., Klaus, A., and the Expedition 320/321 Scientists [including L. Schneider], 2010. Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, 320/321: Tokyo (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.).
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Lyle, M., Raffi, I., Pälike, H., Nishi, H., Gamage, K., Klaus, A., and the Expedition 320/321 Scientists [including L. Schneider], 2009. Pacific Equatorial Transect. Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Preliminary Report, 321.
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Pälike, H., Nishi, H., Lyle, M., Raffi, I., Klaus, A., Gamage, K., and the Expedition 320/321 Scientists [including L. Schneider], 2009. Pacific Equatorial Transect. Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Preliminary Report, 320.
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Schneider, L.J., Bralower, T.J., Kump, L.R., Hilting, A.K, and Sessa, J.A., 2009. The paleoecology of Eocene nannoplankton and global oceanographic variability during the early-middle Eocene. The Climatic and Biotic Events of the Paleogene Abstracts.