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 r...

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Published in:Science
Main Authors: Cooper, Alan, Turney, Chris, Hughen, Konrad
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2016
Subjects:
Multidisciplinary
Greenland
Rasmussen
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aad8016
https://syndication.highwire.org/content/doi/10.1126/science.aad8016
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Summary: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 that interstadial warming was associated with megafaunal genetic transitions.

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