Ian Matthews

Publications

• A second tephra isochron for the Younger Dryas period in northern Europe: The Abernethy Tephra
• A comparison of reconstructions based on aquatic and terrestrial beetle assemblages: Late glacial-Early Holocene temperature reconstructions for the British Isles
• Revisiting the Y-3 tephrostratigraphic marker: A new diagnostic glass geochemistry, age estimate, and details on its climatostratigraphical context
• Was the 12.1ka Icelandic Vedde Ash one of a kind?
• Middle-Holocene environmental change and archaeology in coastal wetlands: Further implications for our understanding of the history of Taxus woodland
• Phased Patagonian Ice Sheet response to Southern Hemisphere atmospheric and oceanic warming between 18 and 17 ka
• High-resolution chronology for deglaciation of the Patagonian Ice Sheet at Lago Buenos Aires (46.5°S) revealed through varve chronology and Bayesian age modelling
• On the timing of retreat of the Loch Lomond (‘Younger Dryas’) Readvance icefield in the SW Scottish Highlands and its wider significance
• Reply to comments by Bourgois et al. (2019) on: “Glacial lake evolution and Atlantic-Pacific drainage reversals during deglaciation of the Patagonia Ice Sheet”
• Tephrochronology and the extended intimate (integration of ice-core, marine and terrestrial records) event stratigraphy 8-128kab2k
• Developing a robust tephrochronological framework for Late Quaternary marine records in the Southern Adriatic Sea: New data from core station SA03-11
• Chironomid-inferred summer temperatures for the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition from a lake sediment sequence in Muir Park Reservoir, west-central Scotland
• Oxygen isotopic evidence for high-magnitude, abrupt climatic events during the Lateglacial Interstadial in north-west Europe: analysis of a lacustrine sequence from the site of Tirinie, Scottish Highlands
• The RESET project: Constructing a European tephra lattice for refined synchronisation of environmental and archaeological events during the last c. 100 ka
• New age estimates and climatostratigraphic correlations for the borrobol and penifiler tephras: Evidence from Abernethy Forest, Scotland
• Integrating timescales with time-transfer functions: A practical approach for an INTIMATE database
• Age modelling of late Quaternary marine sequences in the Adriatic: Towards improved precision and accuracy using volcanic event stratigraphy
• Toward a tephrostratigraphic framework for the British Isles: A Last Glacial to Interglacial Transition (LGIT c. 16-8 ka) case study from Crudale Meadow, Orkney
• Improved age estimates for key Late Quaternary European tephra horizons in the RESET lattice
• Tephrochronology of core PRAD 1-2 from the Adriatic Sea: Insights into Italian explosive volcanism for the period 200-80ka
• A compilation of Western European terrestrial records 60-8kaBP: Towards an understanding of latitudinal climatic gradients
• High resolution Lateglacial and early-Holocene summer air temperature records from Scotland inferred from chironomid assemblages
• A new and less destructive laboratory procedure for the physical separation of distal glass tephra shards from sediments
• Scottish early Holocene vegetation dynamics based on pollen and tephra records from Inverlair and Loch Etteridge, Inverness-shire
• Scales of analysis: Evidence of fish and fish processing at Star Carr
• The resilience of postglacial hunter-gatherers to abrupt climate change
• Centennial-scale climate change in Ireland during the Holocene
• Distal tephra record for the last ca 105,000 years from core PRAD 1-2 in the central Adriatic Sea: Implications for marine tephrostratigraphy
• The evolution of Palaeolake Flixton and the environmental context of Star Carr, NE. Yorkshire: Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition (LGIT) lacustrine sequences
• Late Holocene vegetation and palaeoenvironmental history of the Dunadd area, Argyll, Scotland: chronology of events
• A regional tephrostratigraphic framework for central and southern European climate archives during the Last Glacial to Interglacial transition: Comparisons north and south of the Alps
• The evolution of Palaeolake Flixton and the environmental context of Star Carr: An oxygen and carbon isotopic record of environmental change for the early Holocene
• Lateglacial cryptotephra detected within clay varves in Östergötland, south-east Sweden
• First evidence of cryptotephra in palaeoenvironmental records associated with Norse occupation sites in Greenland
• A high-resolution tephrostratigraphy from Quoyloo Meadow, Orkney, Scotland: Implications for the tephrostratigraphy of NW Europe during the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition
• Establishing tephrostratigraphic frameworks to aid the study of abrupt climatic and glacial transitions: a case study of the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition in the British Isles (c. 16-8 ka BP)
• A revised chronology for the growth and demise of Loch Lomond Readvance (‘Younger Dryas’) ice lobes in the Lochaber area, Scotland