Smoothed millennial-scale palaeoclimatic reference data as unconventional comparison targets: Application to European loess records.

ABSTRACT: Millennial-scale palaeoclimate variability has been documented in various terrestrial and marine palaeoclimate proxy records throughout the Northern Hemisphere for the last glacial cycle. Its clear expression and rapid shifts between different states of climate (Greenland Interstadials and Stadials) represents a correlation tool beyond the resolution of e.g. luminescence dating, especially relevant for terrestrial deposits. Usually, comparison of terrestrial proxy datasets and the Greenland ice cores indicates a complex expression of millennial-scale climate variability as recorded in terrestrial geoarchives including loess. Loess is the most widespread terrestrial geoarchive of the Quaternary and especially widespread over Eurasia. However, loess often records a smoothed representation of

SUBMITTER: Zeeden C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7096450 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature