The ‘flickering switch’ of late Pleistocene climate change

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InterglacialGlacial periodIce coreStadialGeologyAbrupt climate changeClimatologyPaleoclimatologyClimate changeOceanographyPaleontologyGlobal warmingEffects of global warming

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Year: 1993
Type: article
Volume: 361
Issue: 6411
Pages: 432-436
Citations: 593
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                                    K. C. Taylor, 
                                
                                    G. Lamorey, 
                                
                                    Georgia Doyle
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (1993). 
                            The ‘flickering switch’ of late Pleistocene climate change. 
                            Nature
                            , 361
                            (6411)
                            , 432-436.
                            https://doi.org/10.1038/361432a0
                        

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DOI: 10.1038/361432a0