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In this Letter, the third sentence of the Acknowledgements should have read: “We thank M. Bar-Matthews for the updated version of the Soreq Cave chronology table, R. N. Drysdale and J. Hellstrom for helpful discussions, B. Martrat, P. Jimenez-Amat, R. Zahn, and J. O. Grimalt for the ODP976 records, L. Skinner for the MD01-2444 data, and other colleagues who made data available through the NOAA National Climatic Data Center and/or Pangaea.”. The online versions have been corrected.