title: Response to Comments on "Reconciliation of the Devils Hole climate record with orbital forcing".
abstract: Winograd and Coplen question the thorium-230 distribution model proposed to explain the age bias observed with increasing depth during Termination II. We have evaluated both criticisms and find that all samples display virtually identical fabrics, argue that the modern setting is not analogous to the conditions during Termination II, and reiterate the robustness of our age models. Our conclusions remain unchanged.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Geology, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria. gina.moseley@uibk.ac.at.
authors.forename: Gina E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Moseley
authors.affiliation: Institute of Geology, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
authors.forename: Yuri V
authors.initials: YV
authors.lastname: Dublyansky
authors.affiliation: Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, 310 Pillsbury Drive SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
authors.forename: R Lawrence
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Edwards
authors.affiliation: Institute of Geology, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
authors.forename: Kathleen A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Wendt
authors.affiliation: Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, 310 Pillsbury Drive SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
authors.forename: Mathieu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pythoud
authors.affiliation: Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, 310 Pillsbury Drive SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
authors.forename: Pu
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, 310 Pillsbury Drive SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.|Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.
authors.forename: Hai
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.affiliation: Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, 310 Pillsbury Drive SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
authors.forename: Yanbin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.affiliation: Institute of Geology, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
authors.forename: Ronny
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Boch
authors.affiliation: Institute of Geology, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Spötl
mesh_terms: D002980:Climate; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D013910:Thorium
chemical_list: D013910:Thorium