Publications Group Prof. Fleitmann
2024
Affolter, S., Kipfer, T., Hofmeister, E., Leuenberger, M., Fleitmann, D., in revision. Paleoclimatic significance of water isotopes in speleothem fluid inclusions. Earth Science Reviews.
Fleitmann, D., Bosomworth, M.; Amin Al-Manmi, D.A.M.; Leng, M.J., Sahy, D., Radner, K., Morgan, A., Pike, A.W.G., Altaweel, M., in revision. Mid-Holocene hydroclimatic optimum recorded in a stalagmite from Shalaii Cave, Northern Iraq. Quaternary Science Reviews.
Santos, R.N., Rodrigues, T., Naughton, F., Schefuss, E., Oliveira, D., Moreno, J., Raposeiro, P.M., Gil-Romera, G., Morgan, A., Leira, M., Gomes, S.D., Ladd, S.N., Trigo, R.M., Ramos, A.M., Hernández, A., 2024. Understanding the Atlantic influence on climate and vegetation dynamics in western Iberia over the last 2000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews 337. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108796
Gabriel, I., Plunkett, G., Abbott, P.M., Behrens, M., Burke, A., Chellman, N., Cook, E., Fleitmann, D., Hörhold, M., Hutchison, W., McConnell, J.R., Oladóttir, B.A., Preiser-Kapeller, J., Sliwinski, J.T., Sugden, P., Twarloh, B., Sigl, M., 2024. Decadal-to-centennial increases of volcanic aerosols from Iceland challenge the concept of a Medieval Quiet Period. Communications Earth & Environment 5. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01350-6
Held, F., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Tüysüz, O., Koç, K., Fleitmann, D., 2024. Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles of the penultimate and last glacial period recorded in stalagmites from Türkiye. Nature Communications 15. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45507-5
Luterbacher, J., Xoplaki, E., Izdebski, A., Fleitmann, D., 2024. Palaeoclimatology of Byzantine Lands (AD 300-1500). In: A Companion to the Environmental History of Byzantium. In: Izdebski, A. and Preiser-Kappeller, J. (Eds.) A Companion to the Environmental History of Byzantium, Brill, 27-58. doi.org/10.5771/9783465145509-63
Kempf, M., 2024. Climate change, the Arab spring, and COVID-19-Impacts on landcover transformations in the Levant. Journal of Arid Environments 221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105132
Bilotti, G., Kempf, M., Oksanen, E., Scholtus, L., Nakoinz, O., 2024. Point Pattern Analysis (PPA) as a tool for reproducible archaeological site distribution analyses and location processes in early iron age south-west Germany. Plos One 19. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0297931
Nimis, P., Zanetti, A., Franz, L., 2024. A revision of the Ni-in-garnet geothermometer with special regard to its pressure dependence. Lithos 468. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2024.107513
Izdebski, A., Bloomfield, K., Eastwood, W.J., Fernandes, R., Fleitmann, D. et al., 2024. The Emergence of Interdisciplinary Environmental History - Collaborative Approaches to the Late Holocene. Anales HSS. DOI: 10.1017/ahss.2022.114.; https://www.cairn-int.info/journal-annales-2022-1-page-11.htm
2023
Tian, Y., Fleitmann, D., Zhang, Q., Sha, L., Wassenburg, J.A., Axelsson, J., Zhang, H., Li, X., Hu, J., Li, H., Zhao, L., Cai, Y., Ning, Y., Cheng, H. Holocene climate change in southern Oman deciphered by speleothem records and climate model simulations. Nature Communications 14, 4718 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40454-z
Izdebski, A., Bloomfield, K., Eastwood, W., Fernandes, R., Fleitmann, D., Guzowski, P., . . . Heudre, A. (2022). L’émergence d’une histoire environnementale interdisciplinaire: Une approche conjointe de l’Holocène tardif. Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales,77(1), 11-58. doi:10.1017/ahss.2022.114
Haldon, J. & Fleitmann, D. (in press). A Sixth-Century C.E. Drought in Arabia. New Palaeoclimate Data and Some Historical Implications. Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies.
Li, Y., Fleitmann, D., Wang, X., Pérez-Mejías, C., Sha, L., Dong, X., et al. (2023). 550-year climate periodicity in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau during the late mid-Holocene: Insights and implications. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL103523 https://doi. org/10.1029/2023GL103523
Dragusin, V., Ersek, V., Fleitmann, D., Ionita, M., Onac, B.P., 2023. Winter hydroclimate contrasts between southern and northern Europe at ∼ 5.2 ka. Palaeogeogr Palaeocl 632. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111863
Maccali, J., Meckler, A. N., Lauritzen, S.-E., Brekken, T., Rokkan, H. A., Fernandez, A., Krüger, Y., Adigun, J., Affolter, S., Leuenberger, M. Multi-proxy speleothem-based reconstruction of mid-MIS 3 climate in South Africa, Climate of the Past. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2023-1
Kempf, M., 2023. A 'Divergence Problem' of global explanatory models in-between science and humanities. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications 10. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02232-6
Hess, T., Mullis, J., Franz, L., 2023. The first petrographic characterisation of a prehistoric rock crystal mine in the Swiss Alps. Scientific Reports 13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-48914-8
Sun, T.T., Franz, L., Ling, K.H., Heng, C., Ying, L.H., 2023. Polymer Carving Imitating Dickite. Journal of Gemmology 38, 559-561.
Phyo, M.M., Franz, L., Romer, R.L., de Capitani, C., Balmer, W.A., Krzemnicki, M.S., 2023. Petrology, geothermobarometry and geochemistry of granulite facies wall rocks and hosting gneiss of gemstone deposits from the Mogok area (Myanmar). Journal of Asian Earth Sciences-X 9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaesx.2022.100132
2022
Fleitmann, D., Haldon, J., Bradley, R.S., Burns, S.J., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Raible, C.C., Jacobson, M., Matter, A. Droughts, societal change and a context for the emergence of Islam in late Antique Arabia. Science 376; 1317-+, 2022.
Jacobson, M.J., Pickett, J., Gascoigne, A.L., Fleitmann, D., Elton, H. Settlement, environment, and climate change in SW Anatolia: Dynamics of regional variation and the end of Antiquity. PLOS ONE, 17: e0270295. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270295, 2022.
Fleitmann, D., Burns, S.J., Matter, A., Cheng, H., Affolter, S. Moisture and seasonality shifts recorded in Holocene and Pleistocene speleothems from south-eastern Arabia. Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2021GL097255, 2022.
Nicholson, S.L., Hosfield, R., Groucutt, H.S., Pike, A.W.G., Burns, S.J., Matter, A., Fleitmann, D. A climatic evaluation of the southern dispersal route during MIS 5e. Quaternary Science Reviews 279, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107378, 2022.
Midgley, S.D., Fleitmann, D., Grau-Crespo, R. Bromate incorporation in calcite and aragonite. Geochemica and Cosmochimica Acta 324, 17-25, 2022.
Erkan, G., Bayari, C.S., Fleitmann, D., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Ozbakir, M. Late Pleistocene-Holocene climatic implications of high-resolution stable isotope profiles of a speleothem from south-central Anatolia, Turkey. Journal of Quaternary Science, 37, 503-515, 2022.
Weissbach, T., Kluge, T., Affolter, S., Leuenberger, M. C., Vonhof, H., Riechelmann, D. F.C., Fohlmeister, J., Juhl, M.-C., Hemmer, B., Warken, S. F., Schmidt, M., Frank, N., Aeschbach, W. Constraints for precise and accurate fluid inclusion stable isotope analysis using water-vapour saturated CRDS techniques. Chemical geology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2022.121268, 2022.
Arosio, T., Affolter, S., Nicolussi, K., Sigl, M., Ziehmer-Wenz, M. M., Schlüchter, C., Schaad, E., Stähli, R., Leuenberger, M. C. Variable response in Alpine tree-ring stable isotopes following volcanic eruptions in the tropics and Iceland, Geosciences, https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences12100371, 2022.
Min, M., Ratschbacher, L., Franz, L., Hacker, B.R., Enkelmann, E., Toreno, E.Y., Härtel, B., Schurr, B., Tichomirowa, M., Pfänder, J.A., 2022. India (Tethyan Himalaya Series) in Central Myanmar: Implications for the Evolution of the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis and the Sagaing Transform-Fault System. Geophys Res Lett 49. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL099140
Jacobson, M.J., Flohr, P., Gascoigne, A., Leng, M.J., Sadekov, A., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Tüysüz, O., Fleitmann, D. Heterogenous late Holocene climate in the Eastern Mediterranean – The Kocain Record From SW Turkey. Geophysical Reserch Letters, 48, e20
GeophysicalResearch Letters, 48, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094733, 2021.
Nicholson, S.L., Jacobson, M.J., Hosfield, R., Fleitmann, D. The stalagmite record of southern Arabia: Climatic Extremes, Human Evolution and Societal Development. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9:749488. doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.749488, 2021.
Midgley, S.D., Di Tommaso, D., Fleitmann, D., Grau-Crespo, R. Sulfate and Molybdate Incorporation at the Calcite Water Interface: Insights from Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics. Acs Earth Space Chem 5, 2066-2073, 2021.
Troch J., Affolter S., Harris C., Bernasconi S.M., Leuenberger M. Oxygen and hydrogen isotope analysis of experimentally generated magmatic and metamorphic aqueous fluids using laser spectroscopy (WS-CRDS), Chemical geology, 584, 120487 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120487), 2021.
Affolter S., Leuenberger M., Challenges in the direct determination of 17Oexcess in microliter amount of water extracted from speleothem fluid inclusions, Frontiers in Earth Sciences, 9:612436, (doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.612436), 2021.
Affolter S., Schibig M., Berhanu T., Bukowiecki N., Steinbacher M., Nyfeler P., Hervo M., Lauper J., Leuenberger M. Assessing local CO2 contamination revealed by two near-by high altitude records at Jungfraujoch, Switzerland, Environmental Research Letters, 16, 044037, (https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abe74a), 2021.
Bukowiecki N., Brem B., Wehrle G., Močnik G., Affolter S., Leuenberger M., Collaud Coen M., Hervo M., Baltensperger U., Gysel-Beer M. Elucidating local pollution and site representativeness at the Jungfraujoch, Switzerland through parallel aerosol measurement at an adjacent mountain ridge, Environmental Research Communications, 3, 021001, (doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/abe987), 2021.
Nicholson, S.L., Hosfield, R., Groucutt, H.S., Pike, A.W.G., Fleitmann, D.. Beyond arrows on a map: The dynamics of Homo sapiens dispersal and occupation of Arabia during Marine Isotope Stage 5. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 62, doi: j.jaa2021.101269, 2021.
Affolter S., P. Steinmann, F. Aemisegger, R. Purtschert, M. Leuenberger, “Origin and percolation times of Milandre Cave drip water determined by tritium time series and beryllium-7 data from Switzerland”, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 222, 106346, 2020 (link)
Corrick, E.C., Drysdale, R.N., Hellstrom, J.C., Capron, E., Rasmussen, S.O., Zhang, X., Fleitmann, D., Couchoud, I., Wolff, E. (2020) Synchronous timing of abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period. Science, 369, 963-969.
Ghadiri, E., S. Affolter, M. S. Brennwald, D. Fleitmann, A. D. Häuselmann, H. Cheng, C. Maden, M. Leuenberger, R. Kipfer, “Estimation of temperature – altitude gradients during the Pleistocene–Holocene transition from Swiss stalagmites”, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 544, 116387, 2020 (link)
Koc, K., Kosun, E., Cheng, H., Demirtas, F., Edwards, R.L., Fleitmann, D., 2020. Black carbon traces of human activities in stalagmites from Turkey. Journal of Archaeological Science 123, doi: j.jas.2020.105255.
Midgley, S.D., Taylor, J.O., Fleitmann, D., Grau-Crespo, R., 2020. Molybdenum and sulfur incorporation as oxyanion substitutional impurities in calcium carbonate minerals: A computational investigation. Chem Geol 553, doi: j.chemgeo.2020.119796.
Nicholson, S. L., A. Pike, R. Hosfield, N. Roberts, D. Sahy, J. Woodhead, H. Cheng, S. Affolter, M. Leuenberger, S. J. Burns, A. Matter, D. Fleitmann, “Pluvial periods in Southern Arabia over the last 1.1 million-years”, Quaternary Science Reviews, 229, 106112, 2020 (link)
Therre, S., Fohlmeister, J., Fleitmann, D., Matter, A., Burns, S.J., Arps, J., Schroder-Ritzrau, A., Friedrich, R., Frank, N., 2020. Climate-induced speleothem radiocarbon variability on Socotra Island from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Younger Dryas. Climate of the Past 16, 409-421.