Pleistocene Climates in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans: A Comparison Based on Deep-Sea Sediments

Comparison of Pleistocene climatic records defined by variations in abundance of planktonic Foraminifera in three cores from the southeastern Pacific with similar records in cores from the Atlantic suggests that times of warm surface water in this region of the Pacific were at least partly synchrono...

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Published in:Science
Main Authors: Ericson, David B., Wollin, Goesta
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1970
Subjects:
Pacific
Planktonic foraminifera
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.167.3924.1483
https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.167.3924.1483
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Summary:Comparison of Pleistocene climatic records defined by variations in abundance of planktonic Foraminifera in three cores from the southeastern Pacific with similar records in cores from the Atlantic suggests that times of warm surface water in this region of the Pacific were at least partly synchronous with times of cool water in the Atlantic. This conclusion opposes the Milankovitch theory of the causation of ice ages, but it harmonizes with a modified form of Simpson's hypothesis.

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