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Speculations about the Next Glaciation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

W. Dansgaard ,
S.J. Johnsen ,
H.B. Clausen  and
C.C. Langway
H.B. Clausen
Affiliation:
Geophysical Isotope Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Denmark
C.C. Langway
Affiliation:
U.S.A. Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH 03755
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Abstract

A spectacular 10‰ drop in the 18O16O ratio (δ) in precipitation indicative of rapid cooling occurred at Camp Century, Greenland, 89,500 y.a. The timing is based upon an assumption of δ periodicity being constant in time. Onset of the Wisconsin pleniglacial is reflected by 6‰ δ drop at 73,000 BP. Similar event might have occurred 109,000 y.a., but the core at corresponding depth is missing. Could it also happen today?

Type
Original Articles
Information
Quaternary Research , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , November 1972 , pp. 396 - 398
Copyright
Academic Press, Inc.

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