Dear Dr. Hoem

Thank you for submitting your manuscript entitled «Temperate Oligocene surface ocean conditions offshore Cape Adare, Ross Sea, Antarctica» to Climate of the Past.

I think in it's present form the manuscript is well written and mostly well structured, with generally appropriate figures, text, and referencing. The reviewers have several suggestions for improving the paper to make it more accurate. I will want to see all this done before publishing the manuscript.

The paper has been reviewed by two anonymous reviewers and both have given it substantive and favorable reviews which I concur with. While the two reviewers recognize the importance of your work, they also ask for substantial modifications of your manuscript with some similarities.

As editor, two comments draw my attention. One concerns the age model and its uncertainties; the other comment is about speculations in particular those related to orbital variability. From my own understanding, your age model prevents any interpretations at orbital time scales so please adapt and modify your manuscript. You can still leave a discussion part going beyond your own results but this should be done in a way that underlines your interpretations remain to be firmly supported by new data benefiting from an age model allowing to reach orbital time scale.


Please submit a revised version of your manuscript taking into account as much as possible reviewer assessments.

I look forward to receiving your revised manuscript. If you have any questions, please contact the editorial office at editorial@copernicus.org
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Sincerely,

Yannick Donnadieu

Dear authors,
thanks for all changes you did in the revised version, the paper is now publishable as it is,
Thanks for your patience with the reviewing process which has been delayed owing to various difficulties.

Best Regards,
-- Yannick Donnadieu