When the Ice Melts: A New Perspective on the Causes of Quaternary Glacial Terminations

Grant number: DP110102185 | Funding period: 2011 - 2014

Completed

Abstract

The project will assemble an unprecedented palaeoclimate time series extending back to 1.2 million years ago that will allow marine and ice core records to be placed onto an absolute time scale. This will allow testing of fundamental hypotheses on why the Earth's climate shifts from glacial to interglacial states, with flow-on effects to climate models.

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2019-03-15

During the Quaternary several glaciations occurred in the mountain regions around the Mediterranean and, in recent years, new ages..

A continuous stable isotope record from the penultimate glacial maximum to the Last Interglacial (159-121ka) from Tana Che Urla Cave (Apuan Alps, central Italy)

E Regattieri, G Zanchetta, RN Drysdale, I Isola, JC Hellstrom, A Roncioni

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Relatively few radiometrically dated records are available for the central Mediterranean spanning the marine oxygen isotope stage ..

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