Precise Timing of the Last Interglacial Period from Mass Spectrometric Determination of Thorium-230 in Corals
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Summary
Analyses of a number of corals that grew during the last interglacial period yield ages of 122,000 to 130,000 years, which supports the idea that changes in Pleistocene climate can be the result of variations in the distribution of solar insolation caused by changes in the geometry of the earth's orbit and rotation axis.
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- article
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- 1987-06-19
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Keywords
Interglacial, Pleistocene, Milankovitch cycles, Geology, Coral
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