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The Berger–Heath model of vertical mixing in deep-sea sediments provides a simple means of simulating an original input signal by ‘unmixing’ a signal found in deep-sea cores. When applied to an oxygen isotope record from the western equatorial Pacific, the possibility emerges that the entire ocean was covered by a low salinity water layer, during deglaciation.
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Berger, W., Johnson, R. & Killingley, J. ‘Unmixing’ of the deep-sea record and the deglacial meltwater spike. Nature 269, 661–663 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1038/269661a0
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