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Nature 316, 591-596 (15 August 1985) | doi:10.1038/316591a0; Accepted 17 May 1985

A 150,000-year climatic record from Antarctic ice

C. Lorius*, J. Jouzel†, C. Ritz*, L. Merlivat†, N. I. Barkov‡, Y. S. Korotkevich† & V. M. Kotlyakov§

  1. *Laboratoire de Glaciologie et de Géophysique de l'Environnement, CNRS, BP96, 38402 Saint Martin d'Héres Cedex, France
  2. †Laboratoire de Géochimie Isotopique DPC, CEN Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
  3. ‡The Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Fontanka 34, Leningrad 191104, USSR
  4. §Institute of Geography, Academy of Sciences of USSR, Staronometry, St 29, Moscow 109017, USSR
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During much of the Quaternary, the Earth's climate has undergone drastic changes most notably successive glacial and interglacial episodes. The past 150 kyr includes such a climatic cycle: the last interglacial, the last glacial and the present holocene interglacial. A new climatic–time series for this period has been obtained using delta18 O data from an Antarctic ice core.