Pronounced warmth during early Middle Pleistocene interglacials: Investigating the Mid-Brunhes Event in the British terrestrial sequence

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 103, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 183-196

  Candy, I ^a   Coope, G R ^a   Lee, J R ^b   Parfitt, S A ^c,d   Preece, R C ^e   Rose, J ^a,b   Schreve, D C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b British Geological Survey   (Bulgaria)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early Middle Pleistocene; Interglacial climates; Mid Brunhes Event; Terrestrial sequences; Thermophiles

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; INTERGLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WARMING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 78650179140     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2010.09.007     Document Type: Review

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