Deep-Sea Temperature and Ice Volume Changes Across the Pliocene-Pleistocene Climate Transitions

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Sosdian, Sindia, Rosenthal, Yair
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2009
• Subjects: Rosenthal; Ice Sheet; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1169938; https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.1169938

Stepping Down Earth's environment changed markedly over the past 5.2 million years, when a permanent ice sheet has developed in the Northern Hemisphere and the glacial cycle has changed its period from roughly every 40,000 years to the dominantly 100,000-year duration of the past half-million y...