Eemian

Johnsen, S. J., Clausen, H. B., Dansgaard W. et al. (1997). The record along the Greenland Ice Core Project deep ice core and the problem of possible Eemian climatic instability. /. Geophys. Res. 102(C12), 26397-26410. 

Mangarud, J., Sonstergaard., E., and Sejrup, H. P., 1979, Correlation of the Eemian and Weichselian with deep sea oxygen isotope stratigraphy, Quat. Int. 3/4 1-4. 

The early part of the Eemian was dominated by several oscillations between warm and cool stages. 

Eemian, rather than during the conditions which preceded it. disruptions of the early such a discovery match nicely... 

The Eemian might well have been the period first important exposure to psychedelic drugs, we see the appearance of sophisticated bone harpoons and knives in what is now Zaire, a level of technology that was not seen in Europe until 50 thousand years later. (28) But we should not expect that the initial psychedelic exposure would have led to rapid cultural change as we would today... 

Present-day researches have shown that the climate of Central Asia varied rather widely. The proxy paleoclimatic data (sporo-pollen analysis, reconstraction of the levels of ancient lakes, fossil soils, archeological materials) prove that in different time periods essential changes in the water and heat balance were recorded on the territory of the modem Aral basin. The major global climate events, the response to which is detected also in the climate of Central Asia, were Eemian (about 125,000 years ago), the Last Glacial Maximum (about 21,000 yeas ago), and the mid-Holocene optimum (about 6,000 years ago). 

According to paleoreconstmctions [8, 9], during the Eemian the air temperature in the Aral Sea area was 2°C higher than at present, while the annual sum of precipitation exceeded the modem values by 100 mm, i.e., more than twofold. It is assumed that the increase in precipitation occurred mainly in winter due to intensification of the western transfer and cyclonic activity. 

Velichko AA, Grichuk VP, Gurtovaya EE, ZeUkson EM (1983) Palaeoclimate of the USSR in Eemian. Izv AN SSSR. Geography 6 30-45 (in Russian)... 

The integrity of the last interglacial (The Eemian denoted as Eem) shown in Fig. 9 is still being debated (Alley et al., 1995 Chappellaz et al., 1997 Johnsen et al, 1997 Johnsen et al., 1995b Peel, 1995) and the Eemian part of die GRIP core may need further interpretation. 

Figure 9. Past temperatures for Greenland based on the GRIP 8 0 and the borehole thermometry calibration discussed in section 2. The Eemian part of the record between 115 Iqt and 135 kyr is still being debated.

Steffensen, J.P., H.B. Clausen, C.U. Hammer, M. Legrand, and M. De Angelis, (1997), The chemical composition of cold events within the Eemian section of the Greenland Ice Core Project ice core from Summit, Greenland., Journal of Geophysical Research, 102 (C12) 26,747-26,754. 

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