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

Head, M JohnPillans, BradleyFarquhar, Sarah A.2015-12-080705-3797http://hdl.handle.net/1885/32009The 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 thatKeywords: benthic foraminifera; climate change; glaciation; Holocene; paleoclimate; Pleistocene; wavelet analysisThe Early-Middle Pleistocene Transition: characterisation and proposed guide for the defining boundary20082015-12-08