David B. Kemp

Kemp paleoenvironmental change research group at China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)


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Over 100 papers have been published. A full listing of publications is at Google Scholar

2025

Bao, Z., Li, G., Kemp, D.B., Jin, S., Jiang, G., Wang, T., Li, X., Li, X., Li, Y., Zhang, W., Ding, J., Yao, Y., Wang, J., Zhang, W., Li, J. & Xu, X. 2025. Benthic foraminiferal biostratigraphy, microfacies analysis, depositional environment during the PETM in the Tingri-Gamba Basin, Southern Tibet, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 661, 112684, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112684

Li, Y., Tan, L., Jin, S., Xu, H., Chen, L., Kemp, D.B., Sinha, A., Ma, L., Huang, C., Edwards, L.R. & Cheng, H. 2025. Mercury deposition in central China from the Last Glacial Maximum to the early Holocene recorded in an accurately-dated stalagmite, Science Bulletin, 90-95, doi:10.1016/j.scib.2024.07.045

2024

Chen, W., Kemp, D.B., Jenkyns, H.C., Robinson, S.A., Guo, W., Jiang, S. & Li, C. 2024. Widespread upper-ocean deoxygenation in the Alpine-Mediterranean Tethys during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event, Global and Planetary Change, 243, 104631, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104631

Zhao, D., Xiao G., Huang, C., Wu, H., Hao, Q., Kemp, D.B., Tian, S., Wu, Z., Lu, H., Dai, G., Peng, S., Tang, C., Wu, J., Lin, Y., Zhu, S. & Yin, Q. 2024. Contrasting orbital rhythms preserved in loess grain-size records across the Chinese Loess Plateau, Global and Planetary Change, 243, 104613, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104613

Han, Z., Banerjee, S., Dal Corso, J., Hu, X. & Kemp, D.B. 2024. Editorial preface to special issue: Response of marine and terrestrial environments to Triassic–Paleogene hyperthermals, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 655, 112562, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112562

Kemp, D.B. Han, Z., Hu, X., Chen, W., Jin, S., Izumi, K., Yan, Q., Baranyi, V., Jin, X., Dal Corso, J., Ge, Y. 2024. Global hydroclimate perturbations during the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event, Earth-Science Reviews, 258, 104946, doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2024.104946

Liu, J., Li, Y., Tan, L., Zhang, R., Liu, X., Zhang, Z., Anguo, X., Kemp, D.B. & Huang, C. 2024. Orbital and suborbital climate cycles recorded in terrestrial strata from the late Paleocene-early Eocene in the Subei Basin, East China, Global and Planetary Change, 242, 104590, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104590

Liu, J., Shi, J., Lu, Y., Fan, X., Zhang, Z., Zhang, R., Wang, Z., Xu, K., Xiao, A., Kemp, D.B. & Huang, C. 2024. Astronomical forcing of terrestrial organic carbon burial in East Asia during the Eocene, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 646, 119014, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2024.119014

Hua, X., Kemp, D.B., Shen, J., Yin, R., Jin, X. & Huang, C. 2024. Mercury enrichments as a paleo-volcanism proxy: Sedimentary bias and a critical analysis across the end-Triassic, Global and Planetary Change, 242, 104589, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104589

Kemp, D.B., Ramezani, J., Izumi, K., Al-Suwaidi, A., Chen, W. & Zhu, Y. 2024. The timing and duration of large-scale carbon release in the Early Jurassic, Geology, 52(11), p. 891-895, doi:10.1130/G52457.1

Guo, H., Chen, X., Yao, H., Zhang, Y., Mills, B.J.W., Han, K., Wu, S., Yang, Y., Wang, Z. & Kemp, D.B. 2024. Quantifying the pattern of organic carbon burial through Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2, Earth-Science Reviews, 257, 104903, doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2024.104903

He, J., Hu, X., Li, J. Kemp, D.B., Hou, M. & Han, Z. 2024. Millennial-scale sedimentary evolution of carbonate platforms during the Permian–Triassic boundary hyperthermal event, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 654, 112455, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112455

Jin, S., Kemp, D.B., Zhang, Z., Huang, C. & Liu, Q. 2024. Response of turbidite deposition to climate change and astronomical forcing during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Quaternary Sciences, 44(5), 1225-1234, doi:10.11928/j.issn.1001-7410.2024.05.1 [in Chinese with English abstract]

Wei W., Kemp, D.B., Lu, Y., Wang, Z., Ma, Y., Liu, H., Zhang, S. Zhang, J., Teng, X., Robbins, L.J. & Konhauser, K. 2024. Astronomically forced salinity variations in a marginal-marine environment, Bohai Bay Basin, NE China, Chemical Geology, 665, 122300, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2024.122300

Ge, Y., Han, Z., Algeo, T.J., Kemp, D.B. & Wu, L. 2024. Heterogeneous marine response during the Toarcian Ocean Anoxic Event (TOAE): The potential role of storminess, Global and Planetary Change, 242, 104533, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104533

Zhang, Z., Röhling, E.J., Kemp, D.B., Wang, Z. & Huang, C. 2024. Orbital-scale global ocean sea surface temperature coupling with cryosphere-carbon cycle changes over the past 4 million years, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 39, e2024PA004856, doi:10.1029/2024PA004856

Wang, M., Li, M., Hajek, E., Kemp, D.B., Wu, Y., Zhu, H., Huang, C., Zhang, H., Ji, K., Zhang, R., Wei, R. & Jin, Z. 2024. Assessing the preservation of orbital signals across different sedimentary environments: Insights from stochastic sedimentation modeling, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 642, 118866, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118866

Zhang, T., Han, W., Tian, Q., Zhang, J., Kemp, D.B., Wang, Z., Yan, X., Mai, L., Fang, X. & Ogg, J.G. 2024. Tectonically controlled establishment of modern-like precipitation patterns in East and Central Asia during the early Late Miocene, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129, e2024JD041025, doi:10.1029/2024JD041025

Fan, X., Wang, C., Teng, X., Kemp, D.B., Lu, Y., Yan, K., Wei, W. & Zhang, J. 2024. Mechanisms of terrestrial organic matter accumulation across the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum in the Jianghan Basin, Central China, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 648, 112283, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112283

Huang, Y., Jin, X., Pancost, R.D., Kemp, D.B. & Naafs, D.A. 2024. An intensified lacustrine methane cycle during the Toarcian OAE (Jenkyns Event) in the Ordos Basin, northern China, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 639, 118766, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118766

Dal Corso, J., Sun, Y. & Kemp, D.B. 2024. Palaeogeographic heterogeneity of large-amplitude changes in marine sedimentation rates during the Carnian Pluvial Episode (Late Triassic), Global and Planetary Change, 237, 104437, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104437

Baranyi, V., Jin, X., Dal Corso, J., Li, B. & Kemp, D.B. 2024. Vegetation response to climate change during an Early Jurassic hyperthermal event (Jenkyns Event) from Northern China (Ordos Basin), Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 643, 112180, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112180

Zhang, J., Teng, X., Wang, C., Kemp, D.B., Wang, Z., Yang, H., Gai, C., Zhang, Y., Zhong, Y., Jiang, X., Zhang, Q., Zhang, W., Fan, X. & Liu, Q. 2024. Orbital modulation of an intensified hydrological cycle during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 635, 118693, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118693

Zhu, Y., La Croix, A., Kemp, D.B., Shen, J., Huang, C., Hua, X., Li, Y. & Wei, M. 2024. Are sulfides the primary host of sedimentary Hg? A case study from the Lower Jurassic of the Surat Basin (Australia), Chemical Geology, 652, 122028, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2024.122028

Bianchi, T.S., Mayer, L.M., Amaral, J.H.F., Arndt, S., Galy, V., Kemp, D.B., Kuehl, S.A., Murray, N.J. & Regnier. P. 2024. Anthropogenic impacts on mud and organic carbon cycling, Nature Geoscience, 17, 287-297, doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01405-5

Han, W., Zan, J., Zhang, T., Wang, Z., Kemp, D.B. & Fang, X. 2024. The influence of subpolar marine ice expansion on global climate in the Early Pleistocene, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 7:44, doi:10.1038/s41612-024-00589-2

Zhang, R., Huang, C., Kemp, D.B., Zhang, Z., Wang, Z., Zhang, X., Zhao, D., Jin, S. & Zhang, R. 2024. Eccentricity forcing of the hydrological cycle in East Asia during the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO), Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129, e2023JD040314, doi:10.1029/2023JD040314

Liu, J., Ma, X., Lu, Y., Ogg, J.G., Yu, W., Qian, Z., Zhang, Z. Tai, H., Liu, Z., Kemp, D.B., Huang, C. 2024. Astronomically forced late Paleocene-early Eocene climate variability in the Subei Basin, East China, Global and Planetary Change, 232, 104350, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104350

2023

Jin, S., Kemp, D.B., Shen, J., Yin, R., Huang, C., Jolley, D.W. & Vieira, M. 2023. Spatiotemporal distribution of global mercury enrichments through the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum and links to volcanism, Earth-Science Reviews, 248, 104647, doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104647

Wang, Z., Mao, Y., Zhang, R., Kemp, D.B. & Huang, C. 2023. Links between orbital forcing, Antarctic ice volume, and the East Asian hydrological cycle over the Pliocene, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128, e2023JD039519, doi:10.1029/2023JD039519

Xu, K., Ren, J., Kemp, D.B., Huang, C., Lei, C. & Sun, Z. 2023. Astrochronology of the late Oligocene-middle Miocene in the Maldives, central Indian Ocean, Global and Planetary Change, 230, 104291, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104291

Jin, S., Li, G., Li, J., Hu, X., Yang, H., Huang, C., Baoke, Z. & Kemp, D.B. 2023. Tropical ocean temperatures and changes in terrigenous flux during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum in Southern Tibet, Global and Planetary Change, 230, 104289, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104289

Hua, X., Kemp, D.B., Shen, J., Jin, X. & Huang, C. 2023. Mercury isotope constraints on the timing of intrusive-extrusive volcanism during the end-Triassic mass extinction, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 624, 118438, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118438

Chen, W., Zhang, Z., Ciais, P., Tan, L., Kemp, D.B. & Viovy, N. 2023. Enhanced Mid-Holocene Vegetation Growth and its Biophysical Feedbacks in China, Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL104702, doi:10.1029/2023GL104702

Zhang, Z., Huang, C., Kemp, D.B., Xu, Y., Cao, M. & Wang, Z. 2023. Low-latitude forcing and high-latitude response of the South Asian summer monsoon through the Pliocene, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128, e2023JD039057, doi:10.1029/2023JD039057

Zhang, R., Huang, C., Kemp, D.B., Wang, Z., Zhang, Z. & Chen, W. 2023. Astronomical forcing of the hydrological cycle in the Weihe Basin (North China) during the middle to late Eocene, Global and Planetary Change, 228, 104208, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104208

Breeden III, B.T., Izumi, K., Kemp, D.B. & Irmis, R.B. 2023. Geochemical fingerprinting fossils with uncertain stratigraphic provenance: a case study from the Lower Jurassic Nishinakayama Formation (Yamaguchi, Japan), Evolving Earth, 1, 100004, doi:10.1016/j.eve.2023.100004

Xu, K., Ren, J., Kemp, D.B., Zhu, H., Zheng, J. & Sun, Z. 2023. Astronomical pacing of third-order sea-level sequences during the middle Miocene in the northern South China Sea, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 154, 106335, doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2023.106335

Yan, Q., Li, X., Kemp, D.B., Guo, J., Zhang, Z., Hu, Y. 2023. Enhanced tropical cyclone potential intensity during the early Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event arising from higher CO2 concentration, PNAS, 120, e2301018120, doi:10.1073/pnas.2301018120

Yang, R., Stubbs, D., Elliott, T, Li, T., Chen, T., Paytan, A., Kemp, D.B., Ling, H., Chen, J., Hein, J.R., Coath, C.D. & Li, G. 2023. Stable tungsten isotopic composition of seawater over the past 80 million years, Geology, doi:10.1130/G51208.1

Zhang, R., Kemp, D.B., Thibault, N., Jelby, M., Li, M., Huang, C., Sui, Y., Wang, Z., Liu, D. & Jia, S. 2023. Astrochronology and sedimentary noise modeling of Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic) sea-level changes, Paris Basin, France, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 614, 118119, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118199

Husinec, A., Read, J.F. & Kemp, D.B. 2023. Orbital forcing of Upper Jurassic (Tithonian) shallow-water carbonates, Tethyan Adriatic Platform, Croatia evaluated using synthetic vs. real data sets, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 622, 111617, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111617

Li, Y., Zhang, R., Long, H., Cheng, P., Kemp, D.B., Zhang, Z., Huang, C., Hou, M., Li, Y., Jia, S., Wang, Z. & Tan, L. 2023. Climate changes in the Hexi Corridor, western China over the past 13.3 ka, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 622, 111605, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111605

Baranyi, V., Jin, X., Dal Corso, J., Shi, Z., Grasby, S.E. & Kemp, D.B. 2023. Collapse of terrestrial ecosystems initiated by heavy metal poisoning during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event, Geology, doi:10.1130/G51037.1

Wang, M., Li, M., Kemp, D.B., Landwehrs, J. & Jin, Z. 2023. Late Triassic sedimentary records reveal the hydrological response to climate forcing and the history of the chaotic solar system, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 607, 118052, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118052

He, T., Kemp, D.B., Li, J. & Ruhl, M. 2023. Editorial preface to special issue: Paleoenvironmental changes across the Mesozoic–Palaeogene hyperthermal events, Global and Planetary Change, 222, 104058, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104058

Xu, K., Kemp, D.B., Ren, J. & Qian, W. 2023. Astronomically forced climate variability across the Eocene–Oligocene climate transition from a low latitude terrestrial record (Lühe Basin, South China), Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, doi:10.1130/B36588.1

Yi, L., Medina-Elizalde, M., Tan, L., Kemp, D.B., Li, Y., Kletetschka, G., Xie, Q., Yao, H., He, H., Deng., C. & Ogg, J.G. 2023. Plio-Pleistocene deep-sea ventilation in the eastern Pacific and potential linkages with Northern Hemisphere glaciation, Science Advances, 9, eadd1467, doi:10.1126/sciadv.add1467

Chen, W., Kemp, D.B., He, T., Newton, R.J., Xiong, Y., Jenkyns, H.C., Izumi, K., Cho, T., Huang, C. & Poulton, S.W. 2023. Shallow- and deep-ocean Fe cycling and redox evolution across the Pliensbachian–Toarcian boundary and Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event in Panthalassa, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 602, 117959, 10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117959

Jin, S., Kemp, D.B., Yin, R., Shen, J., Jolley, D.W., Vieira, M. & Huang, C. 2023. Mercury isotope evidence for protracted North Atlantic magmatism during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 602, 117926, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117926

Jolley, D.W., Viera, M., Jin, S. & Kemp, D.B. 2023. Palynofloras, paleoenvironmental change and the inception of the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum. The record of the Forties Fan, Sele Formation, North Sea Basin, Journal of the Geological Society (London), 180, doi:10.1144/jgs2021-131

2022

Zhang, Z., Licht, A., De Vleeschouwer, D., Wang, Z., Li, Y., Kemp, D.B., Tan, L., Zhang, R., Qiang, X. & Huang, C. 2022. East Asian monsoonal climate sensitivity changed in the late Pliocene in response to Northern Hemisphere glaciations, Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL101280, doi:10.1029/2022GL101280

Kemp, D.B. & Sadler, P.M. 2022. Incompleteness: dealing with an imperfect stratigraphical record. In: Coe, A.L. (ed.) Deciphering Earth history: The practice of stratigraphy, Geological Society, London, Geoscience in Practice 1, 213-225, doi:10.1144/GIP1-2022-37

Jin, X., Zhang, F., Baranyi, V., Kemp, D.B., Feng, X., Grasby, S.E., Sun, G., Shi, Z., Chen, W. & Dal Corso, J. 2022. Early Jurassic massive release of terrestrial mercury linked to floral crisis, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 598, 117842, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117842

Chen, W., Kemp, D.B., He, T., Newton, R.J., Huang, C. & Cho, T. 2022. Major sulfur cycle perturbations in the Panthalassic Ocean across the Pliensbachian-Toarcian boundary and the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event, Global and Planetary Change, 215, 103884, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2022.103884

Kemp, D.B., Suan, G., Fantasia, A., Jin, S. & Chen, W. 2022. Global organic carbon burial during the early Toarcian oceanic anoxic event: Patterns and controls, Earth-Science Reviews, 231, 104086, doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104086

Wang, Z., Mao, Y., Geng, J., Huang, C., Ogg, J., Kemp, D.B., Zhang, Z., Pang, Z. & Zhang, R. 2022. Pliocene-Pleistocene evolution of the lower Yellow River in eastern North China: Constraints on the age of the Sanmen Gorge connection, Global and Planetary Change, 213, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2022.103835

Kemp, D.B., Chen, W., Cho, T., Algeo, T.J., Shen, J. & Ikeda, M. 2022. Deep ocean anoxia across the Pliensbachian-Toarcian boundary and the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event in the Panthalassa Ocean, Global and Planetary Change, 212, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2022.103782

Jin, X., Ogg, J.G, Song, L., Shi, Z., Kemp, D.B., Hua, X., Onoue, T. & Rigo, M. 2022. Terrestrial record of carbon-isotope shifts across the Norian/Rhaetian boundary: A high-resolution study from northwestern Sichuan Basin, South China, Global and Planetary Change, 210, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2022.103754

Yang, R., Li, T., Stubbs, D., Chen, T., Liu, S., Kemp, D.B., Li, W., Yang, S., Chen, J., Elliott, T., Dellwig, O., Chen, J. & Li, G. 2022. Stable tungsten isotope systematics on the Earth’s surface, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 322, p. 227-243, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2022.01.006

Jin, S., Kemp, D.B., Jolley, D.W., Viera, M., Zachos, J.C., Huang, C., Li, M. & Chen, W. 2022. Large-scale, astronomically-controlled sediment input to the North Sea Basin during the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 579, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117340

Wang, M., Li, M., Kemp, D.B., Boulila, S. & Ogg, J.G. 2022. Sedimentary noise modeling of lake-level change in the Late Triassic Newark Basin of North America, Global and Planetary Change, 208, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103706

2021

Chen, W., Kemp, D.B., He, T., Huang, C., Jin, S., Xiong, Y. & Newton, R.J. 2021. First record of the early Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event in the Hebrides Basin (UK) and implications for redox and weathering changes, Global and Planetary Change, 207, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103685

Cao, M., Wang, Z., Sui, Y., Li, Y., Zhang, Z., Xiao, A., Zhang, R. & Kemp, D.B. 2021. Mineral dust coupled with climate‐carbon cycle on orbital timescales over the past 4 Ma. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, doi:10.1029/2021GL095327

Song, H., Kemp, D.B., Li, T., Chu, D., Song, H. & Dai, X. 2021. Thresholds of temperature change for mass extinctions, Nature Communications, 12, doi:10.1038/s41467-021-25019-2

Liu, D, Huang, C., Ogg, J.G., Kemp, D.B., Li, M., Yu, M. & Foster, W.J. 2021. Astronomically forced changes in chemical weathering and redox during the Anisian (Middle Triassic): Implications for marine ecosystem recovery following the end-Permian mass extinction, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 569, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110355

Liu, D, Huang, C., Kemp, D.B., Li, M., Yu, M. & Foster, W.J. 2021. Paleoclimate and sea level response to orbital forcing in the Middle Triassic of the eastern Tethys, Global and Planetary Change, 199, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103454

Wang, Z., Huang, C., Kemp, D.B., Zhang, Z. & Sui, Y. 2021. Distinct responses of late Miocene eolian and lacustrine systems to astronomical forcing in NE Tibet, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, doi:10.1130/B35776.1

2020

Kemp, D.B., Sadler, P.M. & Vanacker, V. 2020. The human impact on North American erosion, sediment transfer and storage in a geologic context, Nature Communications, 11, 6012, doi:10.1038/s41467-020-19744-3

Huang, C., Ogg, J.G. & Kemp, D.B. 2020. Cyclostratigraphy and astrochronology: Case studies from China, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 560, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110017

Jiang, S., Song, H., Kemp, D.B., Dai, X., & Liu, X. 2020. Two pulses of extinction of larger benthic foraminifera during the Pliensbachian-Toarcian and early Toarcian environmental crises, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 560, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109998

Jin, X., Shi, Z., Baranyi, V., Kemp, D.B., Han, Z., Luo, G., Hu, J., He, F., Chen, L. & Preto, N. 2020. The Jenkyns Event (early Toarcian OAE) in the Ordos Basin, North China, Global and Planetary Change, 193, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2020.103273

Kemp, D.B., Selby, D. & Izumi, K. 2020. Direct coupling between carbon release and weathering during the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event, Geology, 48, p. 976–980, doi:10.1130/G47509.1

Oppo, D., De Siena, L. & Kemp, D.B. 2020. A record of seafloor methane seepage across the last 150 million years, Scientific Reports, 10, doi:10.1038/s41598-020-59431-3

Wang, M., Chen, H., Huang, C., Kemp, D.B., Xu, Y. & Hongan, Z., Li, M. 2020. Astronomical forcing and sedimentary noise modeling of lake-level changes in the Paleogene Dongpu Depression of North China, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 535, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116116

Xu, Y., Jiang, R., Deng, Y., Kemp, D.B., Yang, Z., Huang, C. & Zhu, Z. 2020. A Robust geochronology of the Yangtze River Delta based on magnetostratigraphy and cyclostratigraphy of Sediment Core ZKA2, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 541, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109532

Izumi, K., Suzuki, K., Kemp, D.B. & Iizuka, T. 2020. Palaeogeographical and tectonic setting of the Lower Jurassic (Pliensbachian‐Toarcian) Nishinakayama Formation, Toyora Group, SW Japan, Geological Journal, 55, p. 862-874, doi:10.1002/gj.3466

2019

Sinnesael, M., De Vleeschouwer, D., Zeeden, C., Batenburg, S.J., Da Silva, A-C., de Winter, N.J., Dinarès-Turell, J., Drury, A.J., Gambacorta, G., Hilgen, F.J., Hinnov, L., Hudson, A., Kemp, D.B., Lantink, M., Laurin, J., Li, M., Liebrand, D., Ma, C., Meyers, S.R., Monkenbusch, J., Montanari, A., Nohl, T., Pälike, H., Pass, D., Ruhl, M., Thibault, N., Vahlenkamp, M., Valero, L., Wouters, S., Wu, H. & Claeys, P. 2019. The cyclostratigraphy intercomparison project (CIP): consistency, merits and pitfalls of cyclostratigraphy, Earth Science Reviews, 199, doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102965

Liu, Y., Huang, C., Ogg, J.G., Algeo, T.J., Kemp, D.B. & Shen, W. 2019. Oscillations of global sea level elevation during the Paleogene correspond to 1.2-myr amplitude modulation of orbital obliquity cycles, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 522, p. 65-78, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2019.06.023

Wang, Z., Huang, C., Licht, A., Zhang, R. & Kemp, D.B. 2019. Middle to late Miocene eccentricity forcing on lake expansion in NE Tibet: implications for the evolution of the East Asian monsoon, Geophysical Research Letters, 46, p. 6926-6935, doi:10.1029/2019GL082283

Kemp, D.B., Baranyi, V., Izumi, K. & Burgess, R.D. 2019. Organic matter variations and links to climate change across the early Toarcian oceanic anoxic event (T-OAE) in Toyora area, southwest Japan, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 530, p. 90-102, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.05.040

Saker-Clark, M., Kemp, D.B. & Coe, A.L. 2019. Portable X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy as a tool for cyclostratigraphy, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20, p. 2531-2541, doi:10.1029/2018GC007582

Kemp, D.B. & van Manen, S. 2019. Metre-scale cycles in shallow water carbonates: Milankovitch and stochastic origins, Sedimentology, 66, p. 2590-2604, doi:10.1111/sed.12609

Izumi, K., Kemp, D.B. & Breeden, B.T. 2019. The Nishinakayama Formation (Toyora Group) exposed along the Era River revisited: Preliminary report on recent outcrop condition and lithology, Bulletin of the Toyora Firefly Museum, 11, p. 25-35

2018

Sui, Y., Huang, C., Zhang, R., Wang, Z., Ogg, J.G. & Kemp, D.B. 2018. Astronomical time scale for the lower Doushantuo Formation of early Ediacaran, South China, Science Bulletin, 63, p. 1485-1494, doi:10.1016/j.scib.2018.10.010

Han, Z., Hu, X., Kemp, D.B. & Li, J. 2018. Carbonate platform response to the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event in the Tibetan Himalaya: Implications for environmental change and biotic platform demise, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 489, p. 59-71, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2018.02.017

Kemp, D.B., Fraser, W.T. & Izumi, K. 2018. Stratigraphic completeness and resolution in an ancient mudrock succession, Sedimentology, 65, p. 1875-1890, doi:10.1111/sed.12450

Izumi, K., Kemp, D.B., Itamiya, S. & Inui, M. 2018. Sedimentary evidence for enhanced hydrological cycling in response to rapid carbon release during the early Toarcian oceanic anoxic event, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 481, p. 162-170, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2017.10.030

Thibault, N., Ruhl, M., Ullmann, C.V., Korte, C., Kemp, D.B., Gröcke, D.R. & Hesselbo, S.P. 2018. The wider context of the Lower Jurassic Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event in Yorkshire coastal outcrops, UK, Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, 129, p. 372-291, doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2017.10.007

Izumi, K., Endo, K., Kemp, D.B. & Inui, M. 2018. Ocean redox conditions through the late Pliensbachian to early Toarcian in the northwestern Panthalassic margin: Insights from pyrite and geochemical data, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 493, p. 1-10, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.12.024

2017

Ebinghaus, A., Jolley, D.W., Andrews, S. & Kemp, D.B. 2017. Lake sedimentological and ecological response to hyperthermals: Boltysh Impact Crater, Ukraine, Sedimentology, 64, p. 1465-1487, doi:10.1111/sed.12360

Kirillova, N., Kemp, D.B. & Artemzeva, Z. 2017. Colorimetric analysis of soils using flatbed scanners, European Journal of Soil Science, 68, p. 420-433, doi:10.1111/ejss.12442

Jolley, D.W., Daly, R.J., Ebinghaus, A., Kemp, D.B., Gilmour, I., Mac Niocaill, C. & Kelley, S.P. 2017. Centennial to decadal vegetation community changes linked to orbital and solar forcing during the Dan-C2 hyperthermal event, Journal of the Geological Society (London), 174, p. 1019-1030, doi:10.1144/jgs2017-022

Marsaglia, K., Browne, G.H., George, S.C., Kemp, D.B., Jaeger, J., Carson, D., Richaud, M. & IODP Expedition 317 Scientific Party. 2017. The transformation of sediment into rock: insights from IODP Site U1352, Canterbury Basin, New Zealand, Journal of Sedimentary Research, 87, p. 272-287, doi:10.2110/jsr.2017.15

2016

Kemp, D.B. 2016. Optimizing significance testing of astronomical forcing in cyclostratigraphy, Paleoceanography, 31, doi:10.1002/2016PA002963

Miller, C.S., Gosling, W.D., Kemp, D.B., Coe, A.L. & Gilmour, I. 2016. Drivers of ecosystem and climate change in tropical West Africa over the past ∼540 000 years, Journal of Quaternary Science, 31, p. 671-677, doi:10.1002/jqs.2893

Kemp, D.B., van Manen, S., Pollitt, D.A. & Burgess, P.M. 2016. Investigating the preservation of orbital forcing in peritidal carbonates, Sedimentology, 63, p. 1701-1718, doi:10.1111/sed.12282

2015

Kemp, D.B., Eichenseer, K. & Kiessling, W. 2015. Maximum rates of climate change are systematically underestimated in the geological record, Nature Communications, 6, doi:10.1038/ncomms9890

Jolley, D.W., Gilmour I., Gilmour, M.A., Kemp D.B., and Kelley S.P. 2015. Long term resilience decline in plant ecosystems across the Danian Dan-C2 hyperthermal event, Boltysh crater, Ukraine, Journal of the Geological Society (London), 172, p. 491-498, doi:10.1144/jgs2014-130

2014

Kemp, D.B., & Izumi, K. 2014. Multiproxy geochemical analysis of a Panthalassic margin record of the early Toarcian oceanic anoxic event (Toyora area, Japan), Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 414, p. 332-341, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.09.019

Kemp, D.B., & Sexton, P.F. 2014. Timescale uncertainty of abrupt events in the geologic record arising from unsteady sedimentation, Geology, 42, p. 891-894, doi:10.1130/G35783.1

Kemp, D.B., Robinson, S., Crame, A., Ineson, J., Francis, J., Whittle, R., Bowman, V., O’Brien, C. 2014. A cool temperate climate on the Antarctic Peninsula through the latest Cretaceous to early Palaeogene, Geology, 42, p. 583-586, doi:10.1130/G35512.1

Gilmour, I., Jolley, D.W., Kelley, S., Kemp, D.B., Gilmour, M., Daly, R. & Widdowson, M. 2014. The early Danian hyperthermal event at Boltysh (Ukraine): Relation to Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary events, in: Volcanism, Impacts, and Mass Extinctions: Causes and Effects, Geological Society of America Special Papers 505, p. 133-146, doi:10.1130/2014.2505(06)

Smith, A.G., Barry, T., Bown, P., Cope, J., Gale, A., Gibbard, P., Hounslow, M., Kemp, D.B., Knox, R., Marshall, J., Pearson, P., Powell, J.H., Rawson, P., Waters, C., Williams, M., Zalasiewicz, J. 2014. GSSPs, global stratigraphy and correlation, in: Strata and time: probing the gaps in our understanding, Geological Society of London Special Publication 494, p. 37-67, doi:10.1144/SP404.8

Kemp, D.B. & Sadler, P.M. 2014. Climatic and eustatic signals in a global compilation of shallow marine carbonate accumulation rates, Sedimentology, 61, p. 1286-1297, doi:10.1111/sed.12112

Kemp, D.B. 2014. Colorimetric characterisation of flatbed scanners for rock/sediment imaging, Computers and Geosciences, 67, p. 69-74, doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2014.03.002

2013

Gilmour, I., Gilmour, M., Jolley, D.W., Kelley, S., Kemp, D.B., Daly, R. & Watson, J. 2013. A high-resolution nonmarine record of an early Danian hyperthermal event, Boltysh Crater, Ukraine, Geology, 41, p. 783-786, doi:10.1130/G34292.1

2012

Kemp, D.B. 2012. Stochastic and deterministic controls on stratigraphic completeness and fidelity, International Journal of Earth Sciences, 101, p. 2225-2238, doi:10.1007/s00531-012-0784-1

2011

Kemp, D.B. 2011. Shallow water records of astronomical forcing and the eccentricity paradox, Geology, 39, p. 491-494, doi:10.1130/G31878.1

Kemp, D.B., Coe, A.L., Cohen, A.S. & Weedon, G.P. 2011. Astronomical forcing and chronology of the early Toarcian (Early Jurassic) Oceanic Anoxic Event in Yorkshire, UK, Paleoceanography, 26, PA4210, doi:10.1029/2011PA002122

Gröcke, D.R., Hori, R., Trabucho-Alexandre, J., Kemp, D.B., & Schwark, L. 2011. An open ocean record of the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event, Solid Earth, 2, p. 245–257, doi:10.5194/se-2-245-2011

Fulthorpe, C.S., Hoyanagi, K., Blum, P., and Expedition 317 Scientists (inc. Kemp, D.B.). 2011. IODP Expedition 317: Exploring the record of sea-level change off New Zealand, Scientific Drilling, 12, p. 4-14, doi:10.2204/iodp.sd.12.01.2011

Fulthorpe, C.S., Hoyanagi, K., Blum, P., and Expedition 317 Scientists (inc. Kemp, D.B.). 2011. Proceedings of the integrated Ocean Drilling Program Volume 317, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International Inc., Tokyo, doi:10.2204/iodp.proc.317.2011

2009

Li, G., Ji, J., Chen, J., Kemp, D.B. 2009. Evolution of the Cenozoic carbon cycle: the role of tectonics and CO2 fertilization, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 23, doi:10.1029/2008GB003220

2007

Kemp, D.B., & Coe, A.L. 2007. A nonmarine record of eccentricity forcing through the Upper Triassic of southwest England and its correlation with the Newark Basin astronomically calibrated geomagnetic polarity time scale from North America, Geology, 35, p. 991-994, doi:10.1130/G24155A.1

Cohen, A.S., Coe, A.L. & Kemp, D.B. 2007. The Late Palaeocene-Early Eocene and Toarcian (Early Jurassic) carbon isotope excursions: a comparison of their timescales, associated environmental changes, causes and consequences, Journal of the Geological Society (London), 164(6), p. 1092-1108, doi:10.1144/0016-76492006-123

2005

Kemp, D.B., Coe, A.L., Cohen, A.S. & Schwark, L. 2005. Astronomical pacing of methane release in the Early Jurassic period, Nature, 437, p. 396-399, doi:10.1038/nature04037