Orbital Forcing of the Marine Isotope Stage 9 Interglacial

Milankovitch orbital forcing theory has been used to assign time scales to many paleoclimate records. However, the validity of this theory remains uncertain, and independent sea-level chronologies used to test its applicability have been restricted largely to the past ∼135,000 years. Here, we report...

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Veröffentlicht in:Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2001-01, Vol.291 (5502), p.290-293
Hauptverfasser: Stirling, C. H., Esat, T. M., Lambeck, K., McCulloch, M. T., Blake, S. G., D.-C. Lee, Halliday, A. N.
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Zusammenfassung:Milankovitch orbital forcing theory has been used to assign time scales to many paleoclimate records. However, the validity of this theory remains uncertain, and independent sea-level chronologies used to test its applicability have been restricted largely to the past ∼135,000 years. Here, we report U-series ages for coral reefs formed on Henderson Island during sea-level high-stands occurring at ∼630,000 and ∼330,000 years ago. These data are consistent with the hypothesis that interglacial climates are forced by Northern Hemisphere summer solar insolation centered at 65°N latitude, as predicted by Milankovitch theory.
ISSN:0036-8075
1095-9203
DOI:10.1126/science.291.5502.290