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Sources of paleoclimatic data for the Quaternary have greatly increased in the last twenty years. Long terrestrial records, in ice cores, lake sediments, peat and loess-paleosol sequences have greatly expanded knowledge of climatic changes over the last interglacial-glacial cycle; the reconstruction of past atmospheric composition has been of particular significance. Developments in dating methods (accelerator-based 14C, thermoluminescence [TL] and electron spin resonance [ESR] dating) have been important in understanding the paleoclimatic record in sediments. New techniques are needed for recovering deep ice cores from ice sheets and long cores of lacustrine sediments in order to expand the limited number of terrestrial records which cover the last interglacial-glacial (and earlier) cycles.
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Bradley, R.S. (1989). Recent Developments in Quaternary Paleoclimatology. In: Berger, A., Schneider, S., Duplessy, J.C. (eds) Climate and Geo-Sciences. NATO ASI Series, vol 285. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2446-8_8
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