1. School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
2. Department of Earth Sciences, Brock University, 1812 Sir Isaac Brock Way, St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1, Canada
3. Environmental Change Research Centre, Department of Geography, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
4. Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, 9 Circuit Drive, Box 90238, Durham, 16 NC 27708, USA
5. Scott Polar Research Institute, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1ER, UK
6. Departamento de Geología, Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU, Apartado 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain
7. Department of Geology, University of Vienna, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
8. School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
9. Estuary Research Center, Shimane University, Matsue 690-8504, Japan
10. Department of Geological Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Malteserstr. 74-100/D, 12249 Berlin, Germany
11. Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Institute of Geoecology and Geoinformation, Biogeochemistry Research Unit, Krygowskiego 10, Poznań 2861-680, Poland
12. State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China
13. INSTAAR, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
14. Geochemistry and the Environment Division, Institute of Chemistry, Jan Kochanowski University, 7 Uniwersytecka St, 25-406 Kielce, Poland
15. Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemünde (IOW), Rostock, Germany
16. Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
17. School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK
18. Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA 39