Comment on "Abrupt warming events drove Late Pleistocene Holarctic megafaunal turnover".
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Cooper et al. (Research Article, 7 August 2015, p. 602) combined the annual-layer-counted Greenland Ice Core Chronology 2005 with chronological information from the Hulu Cave and Cariaco Basin records to produce a "revised" time scale. We argue that their time scale is incompatible with the nature of annual-layer-counted time scales and may lead to seriously flawed conclusions if used elsewhere at face value.
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Response to Comment on "Abrupt warming events drove Late Pleistocene Holarctic megafaunal turnover".
Rasmussen and Svensson correctly point out that there is currently no satisfactory method to fully align the Greenland and Cariaco Basin records of climate change. However, our approach using interstadial onsets as tie-points allows direct comparison between radiocarbon dates and Greenland climate records. Crucially, both the standard Greenland and the merged Greenland-Cariaco time scales show ...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Science
دوره 351 6276 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016