Antarctic Ice Sheet: Stable Isotope Analyses of Byrd Station Cores and Interhemispheric Climatic Implications

作者：Samuel Abraham Epstein, Robert P. Sharp, Anthony J. Gow · 发表于：Science · 年份：1970 · DOI：10.1126/science.168.3939.1570 · 被引用次数：179 · 研究领域：Geology and Paleoclimatology Research、Cryospheric studies and observations、High Altitude and Hypoxia

Oxygen- and hydrogen-isotope analyses from the core hole through the Antarctic Ice Sheet at Byrd Station define temperature variations over more than 75,000 years. Synchronism between major climatic changes in Antarctica and the Northern Hemisphere is strongly indicated. The Wisconsin cold interval extended from 75,000 to 11,000 years ago. Three intra-Wisconsin warmer phases were all colder than pre- or post-Wisconsin times, which suggests that North American and Eurasian continental ice sheets did not disappear at any time during the Wisconsin.