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Time Scale of the Wisconsin/Holocene Transition: Oxygen Isotope Record in the Western Equatorial Pacific

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

W. H. Berger ,
J. S. Killingley  and
E. Vincent
W. H. Berger
Affiliation:
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, California 92093 USA
J. S. Killingley
Affiliation:
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, California 92093 USA
E. Vincent
Affiliation:
Département de Géologie Dynamique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 Place Jussieu, Paris, France
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Abstract

An evaluation of both published and new oxygen isotope and radiocarbon data from the west equatorial Pacific (7 box cores, 2 piston cores, 2 gravity cores) indicates that there was no significant input of meltwater to the ocean before 14,000 14C yr B.P. This finding is in conflict with various early deglaciation scenarios suggested several years ago on the basis of Wisconsin/Holocene transition records from the Atlantic, but agrees with late-onset scenarios proposed more recently, both for Pacific and Atlantic deglaciation records.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , September 1987 , pp. 295 - 306
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University of Washington

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