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Late Pleistocene and Holocene Climates: Some Persistent Problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

F. Kenneth Hare
F. Kenneth Hare*
Affiliation:
Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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A series of lectures as comprehensive as those reported in this issue leaves very little for a general reviewer to say. The lecturers have included many of the leading specialists in each of the subfields of palaeoclimatology, upon whose work a reviewer must lean. Moreover there has recently been published a fine synthesis of what is known about the overall character of Quaternary and Holocene climates (U.S. GARP Committee, 1974) (hereafter referred to as GARP-74). All I can do in this situation is to point out some disturbing and persistent problems that tend to defy solution.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , December 1976 , pp. 507 - 517
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University of Washington

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