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Perspective on ice age terminations from absolute chronologies provided by global speleothem records
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, 80092, Switzerland
now at: Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, American Museum of Natural History, New York City, NY 10024, USA
Carlos Pérez-Mejías
Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
Heather M. Stoll
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, 80092, Switzerland
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Short summary
Terminations are large-magnitude rapid events triggered in the North Atlantic region that manifest across the global climate system. They provide key examples of climatic teleconnections and dynamics. In this study, we use the SISAL global speleothem database and find that there are sufficient climatic records from key locations to make speleothems a valuable archive for studying terminations and provide instances for more targeted work on speleothem research.
Terminations are large-magnitude rapid events triggered in the North Atlantic region that...
