TY - JOUR
T1 - Reconciliation of the Devils Hole climate record with orbital forcing
AU - Moseley, Gina
AU - Edwards, Richard Lawrence
AU - Wendt, Kathleen A.
AU - Cheng, Hai
AU - Dublyansky, Yuri
AU - Lu, Yanbin
AU - Boch, Ronny
AU - Spötl, Christoph
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The driving force behind Quaternary glacial-interglacial cycles and much associated climate change is widely considered to be orbital forcing. However, previous versions of the iconic Devils Hole (Nevada) subaqueous calcite record exhibit shifts to interglacial values ~10,000 years before orbitally forced ice age terminations, and interglacial durations ~10,000 years longer than other estimates. Our measurements from Devils Hole 2 replicate virtually all aspects of the past 204,000 years of earlier records, except for the timing during terminations, and they lower the age of the record near Termination II by ~8000 years, removing both ~10,000-year anomalies. The shift to interglacial values now broadly coincides with the rise in boreal summer insolation, the marine termination, and the rise in atmospheric CO2, which is consistent with mechanisms ultimately tied to orbital forcing.
AB - The driving force behind Quaternary glacial-interglacial cycles and much associated climate change is widely considered to be orbital forcing. However, previous versions of the iconic Devils Hole (Nevada) subaqueous calcite record exhibit shifts to interglacial values ~10,000 years before orbitally forced ice age terminations, and interglacial durations ~10,000 years longer than other estimates. Our measurements from Devils Hole 2 replicate virtually all aspects of the past 204,000 years of earlier records, except for the timing during terminations, and they lower the age of the record near Termination II by ~8000 years, removing both ~10,000-year anomalies. The shift to interglacial values now broadly coincides with the rise in boreal summer insolation, the marine termination, and the rise in atmospheric CO2, which is consistent with mechanisms ultimately tied to orbital forcing.
U2 - 10.1126/science.aad4132
DO - 10.1126/science.aad4132
M3 - Article
SN - 1095-9203
VL - 351
SP - 165
EP - 168
JO - Science
JF - Science
IS - 6269
ER -