Evidence for general instability of past climate from a 250-kyr ice core record.

Authors :: Dansgaard, W.
Johnsen, S.J.
Source :: Nature. 7/15/1993, Vol. 364 Issue 6434, p218. 3p. 2 Graphs.
Publication Year :: 1993
Abstract: Presents a stable-isotope record for the full length of the Greenland Ice-core Proiject Summit ice core. Non-confinement of climate instability to the last glaciation; Saale-Holstein glacial cycle; Delay in the melting of the Saalean ice sheets in America and Eurasia; Rapid reorganization in the climate of the North Atlantic region.

Subjects :: *PLEISTOCENE stratigraphic geology
*GEOPHYSICS
*ISOTOPES
*CLIMATOLOGY

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