Interglacials of the last 800,000 years

Past Interglacials Working Group of … - Reviews of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Interglacials, including the present (Holocene) period, are warm, low land ice extent (high
sea level), end‐members of glacial cycles. Based on a sea level definition, we identify …

A 600,000 year long continental pollen record from Lake Van, eastern Anatolia (Turkey)

T Litt, N Pickarski, G Heumann, M Stockhecke… - Quaternary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Lake Van is the fourth largest terminal lake in the world (38.5° N, 43° E, volume 607 km 3,
area 3570 km 2, maximum water depth 460 m), extending for 130 km WSW–ENE on the …

A Pliocene‐Pleistocene stack of 57 globally distributed benthic δ18O records

LE Lisiecki, ME Raymo - Paleoceanography, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
We present a 5.3‐Myr stack (the “LR04” stack) of benthic δ18O records from 57 globally
distributed sites aligned by an automated graphic correlation algorithm. This is the first …

Delayed build-up of Arctic ice sheets during 400,000-year minima in insolation variability

Q Hao, L Wang, F Oldfield, S Peng, L Qin, Y Song, B Xu… - nature, 2012 - nature.com
Abstract Knowledge of the past variability of climate at high northern latitudes during
astronomical analogues of the present interglacial may help to inform our understanding of …

Critical insolation–CO2 relation for diagnosing past and future glacial inception

A Ganopolski, R Winkelmann, HJ Schellnhuber - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The past rapid growth of Northern Hemisphere continental ice sheets, which terminated
warm and stable climate periods, is generally attributed to reduced summer insolation in …

Collapse of polar ice sheets during the stage 11 interglacial

ME Raymo, JX Mitrovica - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Contentious observations of Pleistocene shoreline features on the tectonically stable islands
of Bermuda and the Bahamas have suggested that sea level about 400,000 years ago was …

Interglacial diversity

PC Tzedakis, D Raynaud, JF McManus, A Berger… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
Earth's climate has progressively cooled over the past 3 million years with a concomitant
expansion of continental ice volume. This global trend towards increasingly severe and …

Relative sea-level fall since the last interglacial stage: are coasts uplifting worldwide?

K Pedoja, L Husson, V Regard, PR Cobbold… - Earth-Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
The growing interest in quantification of vertical ground motion stems from the need to
understand in detail how the Earth's crust behaves, for both scientific and social reasons …

The impacts of climate change on terrestrial Earth surface systems

J Knight, S Harrison - Nature Climate Change, 2013 - nature.com
National and international policy initiatives have focused on reducing carbon emissions as a
means by which to limit future climate warming. Much less attention has been paid by …

Marine Isotope Stage 11: Palaeoclimates, palaeoenvironments and its role as an analogue for the current interglacial

I Candy, DC Schreve, J Sherriff, GJ Tye - Earth-Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Interglacials of the Quaternary Period are currently the focus of a great deal of
attention within the scientific community. This is primarily because they play a vital role in …