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The last interglacial was the last time that there was as small a volume of ice on earth as there is today. This period can be recognized in the benthic foraminiferal oxygen isotopic record (Fig- 1, from Dansgaard and Duplessy, 1981) as the last time that δ18 0 values were as low as they are today. It coincides with isotopic substage 5e, using the nomenclature introduced by Emiliani (1955) and Shackleton (1969). This last interglaciation lasted only 11,000 years: it began about 127,000 years ago and finished 116,000 years ago.
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Pujol, C., Duplessy, JC. (1983). The Ocean Surface During the Last Interglacial to Glacial Transition: A Review of the Available Data. In: Ghazi, A. (eds) Palaeoclimatic Research and Models. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7236-0_18
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