A complete and optimized scheme of lettered marine isotope substages spanning the last
1.0 million years is proposed. Lettered substages for Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5 were …

Convective removal of lower lithosphere beneath the Tibetan Plateau can account for a
rapid increase in the mean elevation of the Tibetan Plateau of 1000 m or more in a few …

Ice volume (and hence sea level) and deep-sea temperature are key measures of global
climate change. Sea level has been documented using several independent methods over …

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 …

We review the ages of Quaternary magnetic polarity reversals and magnetic excursions.
Improvements in radioisotopic 40 Ar/39 Ar dating of reversals and excursions reflect the use …

The middle Miocene represents a major change in state in Cenozoic climatic evolution,
following the climax of Neogene warmth in the late early Miocene at∼ 16 Ma. The early …

One of the great debates about extinction is whether humans or climatic change caused the
demise of the Pleistocene megafauna. Evidence from paleontology, climatology …

Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 677 provided excellent material for high resolution stable
isotope analysis of both benthonic and planktonic foraminifera through the entire …

Below oxygen isotope stage 16, the orbitally derived time-scale developed by Shackleton et
al.[1] from ODP site 677 in the equatorial Pacific differs significantly from previous ones [eg …

Calcareous nannofossils are widely used in Cenozoic marine biostratigraphy. At present,
the two most widely used calcareous nannofossil biozonations were established …