Authors: Ao, Hong, Rohling, Eelco J., Stringer, Chris, Roberts, Andrew P., Dekkers, Mark J., Dupont-Nivet, Guillaume, Yu, Jimin, Liu, Qingsong, Zhang, Peng, Zhonghui, Ma, Xiaolin, Zhou, Weijian, Jin, Zhangdong, Xiao, Guoqiao, Wang, Sun, Qiang, Yang, Pingguo, Xianzhe, Shi, Zhengguo, Xiaoke, An, Zhisheng, Paleomagnetism
Venue: Earth-Science Reviews
Type: Publication
Abstract: International audience; Global climate shifted to markedly warmer interglacial conditions across the “mid-Brunhes transition” (MBT, ~400 ka). However, a global MBT synthesis that spans marine and terrestrial evidence remains elusive, which limits our understanding of the role of the MBT in mid-Pleistocene human evolution. We synthesize Asian precipitation reconstructions within a context of global palaeoclimatic records and find that the MBT occurred in two stages. First, stronger warming of northern hemisphere continents, weaker southern h...
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Climatology
Oceanography
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