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The oxygen isotope record in deep sea sediments covering the past half million years or so has become one of the most important records of climate variability on the glacial-interglacial timescale (Emiliani, 1955; Shackleton and Opdyke, 1973). The oxygen isotope records of Emiliani (1955) immensely enhanced the standing of the Milankovich hypothesis (that the succession of ice ages was caused by variation in the geometry of the earth-sun orbital system). Hays, Imbrie and Shackleton (1976) provided the first more or less mathematically rigorous test of the hypothesis and again the oxygen isotope record, an indicator of the Nothern hemisphere glacial record, was vital to the success of their study which was based on Southern hemisphere cores.
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Shackleton, N.J. (1983). The Evolution of Pleistocene Climatic Variability. In: Ghazi, A. (eds) Palaeoclimatic Research and Models. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7236-0_23
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