The Early-Middle Pleistocene Transition: characterisation and proposed guide for the defining boundary

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2008

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Head, M John
Pillans, Bradley
Farquhar, Sarah A.

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International Union of Geological Sciences

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The mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT, c. 1.2 to 0.5 Ma) records fundamental changes in Earth's climate state, where low-amplitude 41-kyr obliquity-dominated cycles gave way progressively to the high-amplitude, quasi-periodic (c. 100-kyr) fluctuations that

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Keywords: benthic foraminifera; climate change; glaciation; Holocene; paleoclimate; Pleistocene; wavelet analysis

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