The preliminary reading list is:
Sea level
Dutton et al., 2012
Broecker et al., 1968, Milankovitch hypothesis supported by precise dating of coral reefs and deep-sea sediments, Science, 159, 297-300
Sr isotopes
Raymo et al., 1988, Influence of late Cenozoic mountain building on ocean geochemical cycles
Veizer et al., 1997, Strontium isotope statigraphy: potential resolution and event correlation, Paleogeography, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, 132 (1-4), 65-77.
Palmer and Edmond, 1989, The Strontium isotope budget of the modern ocean, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 92, 11-26
Paytan et al., 2021, A 35-million-year record of seawater Sr isotopes reveals a fluctuating global carbon cycle, Science, 371(6536), 1346-1350
Seawater circulation
Piotrowski et al., 2005, Temporal Relationships of carbon cycling and ocean circulation at Glacial boundaries, Science, 307, 1933-1938
Raymo et al., 1992, Response of Deep Ocean Circulation to Initiation of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation, Paleoceanography, 7(5), 645-672
Henry et al., 2016, North Atlantic ocean circulation and abrupt climate change during the last glaciation, Science, 353, 470-474
Ocean budgets
Palmer and Edmond, 1989, The Strontium isotope budget of the modern ocean, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 92, 11-26
Jeandeal et al., 2011, Ocean Margins: The missing Term of Oceanic Element Budgets
Jeandel and Oelkers, 2015, The influence of Terrigenous particulate material dissolution on ocean chemistry and global element cycles.
Tipper et al., 2006, The Magnesium isotope budget of the modern Ocean: constraints from riverine magnesium isotope ratios, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 250(1-2), 241-253
Howarth et al., 1996, Regional nitrogen budgets and riverine N & P fluxes for the drainages to the North Atlantic Ocean: Natural and human influences. In: Howarth R.W. (eds) Nitrogen Cycling in the North Atlantic Ocean and its Watersheds. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1776-7_3
Broecker, 2013, How to think about the evolution of the Mg to Ca in seawater, Journal of Science, 313, 776-789
Brenan et al., 2013, The major-ion composition of Cenozoic seawater: the past 36 million years from fluid inclusions in marine halite, Journal of science, 313, 713-775.
Horita et al., 2002, Chemical evolution of seawater during the Phanerozoic: Implications from the record of marine evaporites, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 66(21), 3733-3756
Past pH, pCO2
Honisch et al., 2012, The geological record of ocean acidification, Science, 335(6072), 1058-1063
Foster, 2008, Seawater pH, pCO2 and [CO2−3] variations in the Caribbean Sea over the last 130 kyr: A boron isotope and B/Ca study of planktic foraminifera, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 271(1-4), 254-266
Honisch and Hemming, 2005, Surface ocean pH response to variations in pCO2 through two full glacial cycles, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 236(1-2), 305-314.
Mid-Pleistocene Transition
Elderfield et al., 2012, Evolution of ocean temperature and ice volume through the mid-Pleistocene climate transition, Science,
Tziperman and Gildor, 2003
Honisch et al., 2009
Pena and Goldstein, 2014
Other papers
Broekcer et al., 2004, Ventilation of the Glacial Deep Pacific Ocean, Science, 306, 1169-1172
Bova et al., 2021, Seasonal origin of the thermal maxima at the Holocene and the last interglacial, Nature 589.7843, 548-553.
Adkins and Schrag, 2001, Pore fluid constraints on deep ocean temperature and salinity during the last glacial maximum, Geophysical Research Letters, 28(5), 771-774
Heinrich, 1988, Origin and consequences of cyclic ice rafting in the northeast Atlantic Ocean during the past 130,000 years, Quaternary Research, 29, 142-152
Paillard, 2001, Glacial cycles: toward a new paradigm, Review of Geophysics, 39(3), 325-346.