Vostok ice core: a continuous isotope temperature record over the last climatic cycle (160,000 years)

J. Jouzel; C. Lorius; J. R. Petit; Christophe Genthon; N. I. Barkov; V. M. Kotlyakov; V. M. Petrov

doi:10.1038/329403a0

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Ice corePleistocenePaleoclimatologyGeologyClimatologyOceanographyForcing (mathematics)Climate changePhysical geographyAtmospheric sciencesPaleontologyGeography

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Year: 1987
Type: article
Volume: 329
Issue: 6138
Pages: 403-408
Citations: 897
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                                    J. Jouzel, 
                                
                                    C. Lorius, 
                                
                                    J. R. Petit
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (1987). 
                            Vostok ice core: a continuous isotope temperature record over the last climatic cycle (160,000 years). 
                            Nature
                            , 329
                            (6138)
                            , 403-408.
                            https://doi.org/10.1038/329403a0
                        

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DOI: 10.1038/329403a0