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DURING the late and post Pleistocene, cyclic oscillations in global temperature seem to have occurred, superimposed on the predominant temperature trends determined by the advance and retreat of the mid-latitude ice sheets. Oscillation periods of around 2,600 yr (refs. 1–3) and of around 400 and 2,400 yr (ref. 4) have been proposed. Since these cycles were noted further palaeotemperature data have been obtained and are here included in an analysis of cyclic temperature patterns over the past 20,000 yr.
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BRAY, J. Cyclic Temperature Oscillations from 0–20,300 yr BP. Nature 237, 277–279 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/237277a0
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