An optimized scheme of lettered marine isotope substages for the last 1.0 million years, and the climatostratigraphic nature of isotope stages and substages

2015/02/10 by L. Bruce Railsback, Philip L. Gibbard, Martin J. Head +2 · 1 voice · 6 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Isotope Analysis in Ecology #Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

paper · doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.01.012

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Discussions

• I ran into this problem when I asked Bruce Railsback for the age definitions of the MIS substages highlighted in this review paper. He wouldn't give them to me! Though MIS 5e has a pretty well known d [bsky, 0 points, 1 comments]