Oxygen Isotope Stage

Figure 1. Time scales. Paleomagnetio scale constructed from Cande and Kent (1995) and Berggren et al. (1995). Oxygen isotope stages from SPECMAP and redrawn from Bradley (1999). Late Pleistocene consistent with Greenland ice core records (Alley et al., 1993). Historical period from Lauritzen and Lundberg (1999).

Howard, W.R., 1999, The Marine Record of the MIS 11 Oscillation. In Poore, R. Z., Burckle, L., Droxler, A., McNulty, W.E., Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 11 and associated Terrestial Records Workshop Report. uses Open File Report 99-312. p. 31-34. 

Holocene (Recent) 1) Time The last epoch within the Quaternary Period and the Ceno-zoic Era, equivalent to Oxygen Isotope Stage 2. Traditionally defined to have begun at 10 ka, some now place the boundary at approximately 10.8 ka, at the end of the Younger Dryas event. 2) Rocks The rocks or sediment formed during the Holocene Epoch, also known as the Flandrian in Britain. 

Oxygen Isotope Stages A sequence of sedimentation events recognized in deep oceanic cores by the oxygen isotope (ratios in the benthic and planktonic foraminifera... 

If we adopt the age divisions of Henderiks et al (2002), we obtain the following major events. Holocene between present and 7000 years Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), oxygen isotope stage 2.2 16,000-24,000 years Last Interglacial Climax (LlC), oxygen isotope... 

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