Re: paleonet Termination 1 and Termination 2 (glacialinterglacial cycles)

[Bill Chaisson/Deirdre Cunningham <chaisson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>Dr. Sérgio Ávila (MSc.)
>Departamento de Biologia
>Universidade dos Açores
>9500 Ponta Delgada
>Portugal
>
>Dear researchers:
>
>I needed to know the approximate ages of beggining and ending of the
>Termination 1 (transition between isotopic stage 2 and 1) and  Termination
>2 (transition from the isotopic stage 6 to the isotopic substage 5e).
>
>I believe Termination 1 has begun about 19,500 y and ended about 6,000 y.



I found one paper (Shackleton et al. (2003) 
Global and Planetary Change 36:151-155) that 
gives an age of 116.1 +/- 0.9 ka for the end of 
Stage 5e.

You should probably hunt around in Nick 
Shackleton's Godwin Lab site at Cambridge.

Bill
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