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Low atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations during glacial periods must have been accompanied by changes in surface-ocean carbonate chemistry. But it is unclear whether concurrent changes in the deep sea contributed to the glacial carbon dioxide decline.

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Figure 1: Glacial–interglacial changes in deep-sea carbonate ion concentration.

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  1. Department of Oceanography, Richard E. Zeebe is in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1000 Pope Road, MSB 504, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA zeebe@soest.hawaii.edu,

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