The Australasian-Intimate project special volume

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Barrows, Timothy, Alloway, Brent, Reeves, Jessica
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: 21 History and Archaeology; Last glacial maximum; New Zealand; Event stratigraphy; NZ-INTIMATE; Ice-Core; Termination; Records; Hoek; Lowe; ice core; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/69169; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.05.021

This special issue, produced by the members of the Australasian INTegration of Ice core, MArine and TErrestrial records (AUS-INTIMATE) group, represents the culmination of a project spanning just on ten years. INTIMATE was first established as a core programme of the INQUA Palaeoclimate Commission in 1995 at the XIVth INQUA Congress in Berlin and aimed to establish a more detailed knowledge of the nature, timing and regional-to-global extent of climatic and environmental changes associated with Termination I (the end of the last glaciation). Facilitated through a series of international workshops, the project aimed to improve precision in correlating climatic events and associated ages for Termination I (e.g. Bjorck et al., 1998; Lowe and Hoek, 2001). INTIMATE then gradually expanded its focus from the North Atlantic to other regions.