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Railsback, L. Bruce; Brook, George A.; Liang, Fuyuan; Marais, Eugene; Cheng, Hai; Edwards, R. Lawrence. |
Stalagmite Orum-1 from a cave near Orumana in northwestern Namibia provides a multi-proxy record of regional drying with increasing global-scale warmth over the last 47 kyr, in a region with few long well-dated location specific paleoclimate records. Data from Stalagmite Orum-1 include carbon and oxygen stable isotope ratios, proportions of aragonite and calcite, pronouncedly differing petrographic fabrics, positions of layer-bounding surfaces, variation in layer-specific width, and changes in layer thickness, all of which combine to support change from wetter to drier conditions. Combined with fourteen U-Th ages, they suggest that climate was wetter in northwestern Namibia during globally cold MIS 3 than it is today, and with more grass than is present... |
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Palavras-chave: Namibia; Paleoclimate; Pleistocene; Holocene; Savanna; Stalagmite. |
Ano: 2016 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00421/53213/54862.pdf |
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Railsback, L. Bruce; Gibbard, Philip L.; Head, Martin J.; Voarintsoa, Ny Riavo G.; Toucanne, Samuel. |
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 explicitly defined by Shackleton (1969), but analogous substages before or after MIS 5 have not been coherently defined. Short-term discrete events in the isotopic record were defined in the 1980s and given decimal-style numbers, rather than letters, but unlike substages they were neither intended nor suited to identify contiguous intervals of time. Substages for time outside MIS 5 have been lettered, or in some cases numbered, piecemeal and with conflicting designations. We therefore propose a system of lettered substages that is complete, without missing substages, and optimized to... |
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Palavras-chave: Substages; Stages; Marine isotope stages; MIS; Chronology; Chronostratigraphy; Climatostratigraphy. |
Ano: 2015 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00251/36216/35796.pdf |
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