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SUBMITTER: Burns SJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6362059 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Burns Stephen J SJ Welsh Lisa Kanner LK Scroxton Nick N Cheng Hai H Edwards R Lawrence RL
Scientific reports 20190204 1
The presence of large, rapid climate oscillations is the most prominent feature of the Earth's last glacial period. These oscillations are observed throughout the Northern Hemisphere and into the Southern Hemisphere tropics. Whether similar oscillations are typical of prior glacial periods, however, has not been well established. Here, we present results of a study of the South American Summer Monsoon system that covers nearly the entire penultimate glacial period, from 195 to 135 ky BP. We use ...[more]