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Science 26 June 1970:
Vol. 168. no. 3939, pp. 1570 - 1572
DOI: 10.1126/science.168.3939.1570
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Antarctic Ice Sheet: Stable Isotope Analyses of Byrd Station Cores and Interhemispheric Climatic Implications

Samuel Epstein 1, R. P. Sharp 1, and A. J. Gow 2

1 Division of Geological Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91109
2 U. S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755

Oxygen- and hydrogen-isotope analyses from the core hole through the Antarctic Ice Sheet at Byrd Station define temperature variations over more than 75,000 years. Synchronism between major climatic changes in Antarctica and the Northern Hemisphere is strongly indicated. The Wisconsin cold interval extended from 75,000 to 11,000 years ago. Three intra-Wisconsin warmer phases were all colder than pre- or post-Wisconsin times, which suggests that North American and Eurasian continental ice sheets did not disappear at any time during the Wisconsin.


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