Causes of ice age intensification across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition

TB Chalk, MP Hain, GL Foster… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
During the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT; 1,200–800 kya), Earth's orbitally paced ice age
cycles intensified, lengthened from∼ 40,000 (∼ 40 ky) to∼ 100 ky, and became distinctly …

The middle Pleistocene transition: characteristics, mechanisms, and implications for long-term changes in atmospheric pCO2

PU Clark, D Archer, D Pollard, JD Blum, JA Rial… - Quaternary Science …, 2006 - Elsevier
The emergence of low-frequency, high-amplitude, quasi-periodic (∼ 100-kyr) glacial
variability during the middle Pleistocene in the absence of any significant change in orbital …

[HTML][HTML] The Eocene–Oligocene transition: a review of marine and terrestrial proxy data, models and model–data comparisons

DK Hutchinson, HK Coxall, DJ Lunt… - Climate of the …, 2021 - cp.copernicus.org
Abstract The Eocene–Oligocene transition (EOT) was a climate shift from a largely ice-free
greenhouse world to an icehouse climate, involving the first major glaciation of Antarctica …

Pleistocene sea-surface temperature evolution: Early cooling, delayed glacial intensification, and implications for the mid-Pleistocene climate transition

EL McClymont, SM Sosdian, A Rosell-Melé… - Earth-Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
The mid-Pleistocene climate transition (MPT) is defined by the emergence of high amplitude,
quasi-100ka glacial–interglacial cycles from a prior regime of more subtle 41kacycles. This …

The Mid-Pleistocene climate transition: onset of 100 ka cycle lags ice volume build-up by 280 ka

M Mudelsee, M Schulz - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 1997 - Elsevier
The Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition (MPT) is the complex climatic change which brought
the Late Pleistocene ice ages. We explore the MPT in the time and frequency domains by …

The mid-Pleistocene climate transition

TD Herbert - Annual review of earth and planetary sciences, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The timing of ice ages over the past∼ 2,600 thousand years (kyr) follows pacing by cyclical
changes in three aspects of Earth's orbit that influence the solar energy received as a …

Climate evolution through the onset and intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation

EL McClymont, SL Ho, HL Ford, I Bailey… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Pliocene Epoch (∼ 5.3–2.6 million years ago, Ma) was characterized by a
warmer than present climate with smaller Northern Hemisphere ice sheets, and offers an …

Orbital Forcing, Ice Volume, and CO2 Across the Oligocene‐Miocene Transition

R Greenop, SM Sosdian, MJ Henehan… - Paleoceanography …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Paleoclimate records suggest that a rapid major transient Antarctic glaciation occurred
across the Oligocene‐Miocene transition (OMT; ca. 23 Ma;~ 50‐m sea level equivalent in …

Departures from eustasy in Pliocene sea-level records

ME Raymo, JX Mitrovica, MJ O'Leary, RM DeConto… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Proxy data suggest that atmospheric CO2 levels during the middle of the Pliocene epoch
(about 3 Myr ago) were similar to today, leading to the use of this interval as a potential …

Global climate evolution during the last deglaciation

PU Clark, JD Shakun, PA Baker… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Deciphering the evolution of global climate from the end of the Last Glacial Maximum
approximately 19 ka to the early Holocene 11 ka presents an outstanding opportunity for …