Stable oxygen isotope record and Mg/Ca ratios at the Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition, ODP Site 181-1123

• Main Authors: Elderfield, Henry, Ferretti, Patrizia, Greaves, Mervyn, Crowhurst, Simon J, McCave, I Nick, Hodell, David A, Piotrowski, Alexander M
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2012
• Subjects: Ocean Drilling Program; ODP; Antarc*; Antarctic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.786205; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.786205

Earth's climate underwent a fundamental change between 1250 and 700 thousand years ago, the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT), when the dominant periodicity of climate cycles changed from 41,000 to 100,000 years in the absence of significant change in orbital forcing. Over this time, an increase...