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A 150,000-year climatic record from Antarctic ice

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During much of the Quaternary, the Earth's climate has undergone drastic changes most notably successive glacial and interglacial episodes. The past 150 kyr includes such a climatic cycle: the last interglacial, the last glacial and the present holocene interglacial. A new climatic–time series for this period has been obtained using δ18 O data from an Antarctic ice core.

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  1. Laboratoire de Glaciologie et de Géophysique de l'Environnement, CNRS, BP96, 38402, Saint Martin d'Héres Cedex, France

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  2. Laboratoire de Géochimie Isotopique DPC, CEN Saclay, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France

    J. Jouzel, L. Merlivat & Y. S. Korotkevich

  3. The Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Fontanka 34, Leningrad, 191104, USSR

    N. I. Barkov

  4. Institute of Geography, Academy of Sciences of USSR, Staronometry, St 29, Moscow, 109017, USSR

    V. M. Kotlyakov

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Lorius, C., Jouzel, J., Ritz, C. et al. A 150,000-year climatic record from Antarctic ice. Nature 316, 591–596 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1038/316591a0

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