A new, detailed ice-age oxygen-18 record from the ice-sheet margin in central West Greenland

A new detailed oxygen-18 record measured on surface-ice samples from a West Greenland ice-margin location reveals the hitherto longest climatic record from the Greenland ice sheet, spanning the last c. 150,000 years. The new record implies that the Greenland deep ice-core records from Dye3 and Camp...

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Published inPalaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology Vol. 90; no. 4; pp. 373 - 383
Main Authors Reeh, Niels, Oerter, Hans, Letréguilly, Anne, Miller, Heinz, Hubberten, Hans-Wolfgang
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier B.V 01.10.1991
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Summary:A new detailed oxygen-18 record measured on surface-ice samples from a West Greenland ice-margin location reveals the hitherto longest climatic record from the Greenland ice sheet, spanning the last c. 150,000 years. The new record implies that the Greenland deep ice-core records from Dye3 and Camp Century need to be re-interpreted. A comparison with the deuterium record from the Vostok deep ice core, Antarctica indicates that climate behaved differently in the northern and southern hemispheres during the last glacial/interglacial cycle, with major differences occurring in Emiliani isotopic stage 5.
ISSN:0031-0182
1872-616X
DOI:10.1016/S0031-0182(12)80036-8