The mid-Pleistocene transition in the subtropical southwest Pacific

• Published in: Paleoceanography
• Main Authors: Russon, T., Elliot, M., Sadekov, A., Cabioch, Guy, Correge, T., De Deckker, Patrick
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Geophysical Union
• Subjects: Keywords: air-sea interaction; climate forcing; climate variation; glacial-interglacial cycle; greenhouse gas; hydrological cycle; paleoceanography; paleoclimate; planktonic foraminifera; Pleistocene; reconstruction; sea surface temperature; sediment core; Coral Se; Pacific; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/68488; https://doi.org/10.1029/2010PA002019; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/68488/5/The_mid-Pleistocene_transition_in_the_subtropical_southwest_Pacific.pdf.jpg; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/68488/7/01_Russon_The_mid-Pleistocene_transition_2011.pdf.jpg

Reconstructions of subtropical southwest Pacific climate variability over the Pleistocene were derived from coupled planktic foraminiferal δ18O-Mg/Ca measurements taken from a southern Coral Sea sediment core. A clear shift from ∼40 kyr to ∼100 kyr m