Simon Blockley
Royal Holloway, University of London
116 Papers
564 Citations
Simon Blockley is an academic researcher from Royal Holloway, University of London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tephra & Tephrochronology. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 99 publications. Previous affiliations of Simon Blockley include University of Bradford & University of Oxford.
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Papers
A stratigraphic framework for abrupt climatic changes during the Last Glacial period based on three synchronized Greenland ice-core records: refining and extending the INTIMATE event stratigraphy
Sune Olander Rasmussen,Matthias Bigler,Simon Blockley,Thomas Blunier,Susanne L Buchardt,Henrik Clausen,Ivana Cvijanovic,Ivana Cvijanovic,Dorthe Dahl-Jensen,Sigfus J Johnsen,Hubertus Fischer,Vasileios Gkinis,Myriam Guillevic,Myriam Guillevic,Wim Z. Hoek,J. John Lowe,Joel B Pedro,Joel B Pedro,Trevor Popp,Inger K Seierstad,Jørgen Peder Steffensen,Anders Svensson,Paul Vallelonga,Bo Møllesøe Vinther,Michael Walker,Michael Walker,Joe J. Wheatley,Mai Winstrup,Mai Winstrup +28 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a more detailed and extended version of the Greenland Stadials (GS) and Greenland Interstadials (GI) template for the whole of the last glacial period is presented, based on a synchronization of the NGRIP, GRIP, and GISP2 ice-core records.
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A new and less destructive laboratory procedure for the physical separation of distal glass tephra shards from sediments
Simon Blockley,Simon Blockley,Sean Pyne-O'Donnell,J. John Lowe,Ian Matthews,A Stone,A. M. Pollard,Chris S. M. Turney,Elizabeth Molyneux +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a less destructive procedure for tephra extraction based on stepped heavy liquid flotation and which results in samples of sufficient quality for analysis while preserving their geochemical integrity.
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Synchronisation of palaeoenvironmental records over the last 60,000 years, and an extended INTIMATE event stratigraphy to 48,000 b2k
Simon Blockley,Christine Lane,Mark Hardiman,Sune Olander Rasmussen,Inger K Seierstad,Jørgen Peder Steffensen,Anders Svensson,André F. Lotter,Chris S. M. Turney,Christopher Bronk Ramsey +9 more
TL;DR: The INTIMATE protocol for the correlation of marine ice core and terrestrial records is here updated, reflecting recent developments in palaeoclimate research as discussed by the authors, which has now extended its study period back to 60,000 years.
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Volcanic ash layers illuminate the resilience of Neanderthals and early modern humans to natural hazards
J. John Lowe,Nick Barton,Simon Blockley,Christopher Bronk Ramsey,Victoria L. Cullen,William Davies,Clive Gamble,Katharine M. Grant,Mark Hardiman,Rupert A. Housley,Christine Lane,Sharen Lee,Mark Lewis,Alison MacLeod,Martin Menzies,Wolfgang Müller,Mark Pollard,Cathy J. Price,Andrew P. Roberts,Eelco J. Rohling,Christopher Satow,Victoria C. Smith,Chris Stringer,Emma L. Tomlinson,Dustin White,Paul G. Albert,Ilenia Arienzo,Graeme Barker,Dusan Boric,Antonio Carandente,L. Civetta,Catherine Ferrier,Jean-Luc Guadelli,Panagiotis Karkanas,Margarita Koumouzelis,Ulrich C Müller,Giovanni Orsi,Jörg Pross,Mauro Rosi,Ljiljiana Shalamanov-Korobar,Nikolay Sirakov,Polychronis C Tzedakis +41 more
TL;DR: The results confirm that the combined effects of a major volcanic eruption and severe climatic cooling failed to have lasting impacts on Neanderthal or early modern humans in Europe and infer that modern humans proved a greater competitive threat to indigenous populations than natural disasters.
Early levallois technology and the lower to middle paleolithic transition in the southern caucasus
Daniel S. Adler,Keith Wilkinson,Simon Blockley,Darren F. Mark,Ron Pinhasi,Beverly A. Schmidt-Magee,Samvel Nahapetyan,Carolina Mallol,Francesco Berna,P. J. Glauberman,Yannick Raczynski-Henk,Nathan Wales,Nathan Wales,Ellery Frahm,Olaf Jöris,Alison MacLeod,Victoria C. Smith,Victoria L. Cullen,Boris Gasparian +18 more
TL;DR: The data from Nor Geghi 1, Armenia, record the earliest synchronic use of bifacial and Levallois technology outside Africa and are consistent with the hypothesis that this transition occurred independently within geographically dispersed, technologically precocious hominin populations with a shared technological ancestry.
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