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Quaternary Hypsithermals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Cesare Emiliani
Cesare Emiliani*
Affiliation:
University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, 10 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, Florida 33149 USA.
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Abstract

Oxygen isotopic analysis and absolute dating of deep-sea cores show that temperatures as high as those of today occurred for only about 10% of the time during the past half million years. The shortness of the high temperature intervals (“hypsithermals”) suggests a precarious environmental balance, a condition which makes man's interference with the environment during the present hypsithermal extremely critical. This precarious balance must be stabilized if a new glaciation or total deglaciation is to be avoided.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , November 1972 , pp. 270 - 273
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Academic Press, Inc.

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