On 15/04/2008, David B. Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But the time of maximum temperature is an 'instant', not an
> interval. I would prefer another definition, one which agrees
> with the Eem has having had warm-cool-hot-cool-warm subintervals
> and something roughlly similar for the Holocene.
I may have missed some prior discussion, but what makes you think the
Eemian was strongly variable? Initial interpretation of the bottom of
the ?GISP? core showed this; further analysis showed the core to be
unreliable down there
-W.
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