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Climate and sea level in isotope stage 5: an East Antarctic ice surge at ∼95,000 BP?

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Six high-resolution records correlated with marine isotope stage 5 suggest that substage 5c was essentially interglacial, and was terminated by a catastrophic cooling. Over sixty 230Th dates indicate that the sea level in substage 5c rose to at least −2 m. Amino acid ratios, archaeology, pollen and lithostratigraphy suggest that the sea later jumped to about +16 m. The combination of the cooling and the large jump points to an East Antarctic ice surge, at ∼95 kyr BP.

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