Oxygen isotope records

Fig. 18-1 Benthic foraminiferal oxygen isotope record from 3477 m water depth in the eastern tropical Pacific ocean from Ocean Drilling Program site 677 (Shackleton et al, 1990). ratios are expressed in the S...

Fig. 18-13 High-resolution measurements of CO2 over the last glacial-interglacial transition from the Byrd ice core in west Antarctica (Neftel et ai, 1982). Also plotted is the oxygen isotope record temperature proxy from the Byrd core (Johnsen et ai, 1972). The time scale for the records plotted here is from Sowers and Bender (1995).

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However, the Slowey et al. (1995) work on shallower carbonate bank sediments (off of the Bahamas) was successful and led to the dating of a number of important events in the marine oxygen isotope record (including the timing of the Last Interglacial (Slowey et al. 1996), Termination II (Henderson and Slowey 2000) and portions of the Penultimate Interglacial (Slowey et al. 1996, Robinson et al. 2002). The shallower depths obviate the most serious of the initial thorium problems encountered in the Nicaragua Rise work. 

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The signals in the oxygen isotope record from the S. gigan-tea s rings at 6.69 and 37.4 years may or may not be related to periodicities, of the sun. The sun has many ways to vary, apart from the sun spot cycle, such as fluctuations in frequency of solar flares and plages, and misbehaviors of the overall magnetic field of the sun and of the solar corona. 

A careful examination of the curve shown in Fig. 3.49 shows a periodicity of approximately 100,000 years. Hays et al. (1976) argued that the main structure of the oxygen isotope record is caused by variations in solar insolation, promoted by... 

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