Comment on "Deep-sea temperature and ice volume changes across the Pliocene-Pleistocene climate transitions".
Sosdian and Rosenthal (Reports, 17 July 2009, p. 306) used magnesium/calcium ratios in benthic foraminifera from the North Atlantic to reconstruct past bottom-water temperatures. They suggested that both ice volume change and ice-sheet dynamics played important roles during the late Pliocene and mid-Pleistocene climate transitions. We present evidence that their record of deep ocean temperature is not reliable, thus raising doubts about their conclusions.
Yu
Jimin
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Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, Post Office Box 1000, Palisades, NY 10964-8000, USA. jiminyu@ldeo.columbia.edu
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Wally S
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