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Geologists have for long been interested in past climate, and there are very many known climatic indicators in the geological record. Such evidence as fossil sand dunes and all the known features of a hot desert have been observed in Scotland, while glacial deposits are known in the northern Sahara. These features, from far back in the geological record, have been used as evidence for climate and hence for former continental position. However, such isolated spots of evidence can hardly be used for understanding climatic change and its causes. For such purposes one really requires the possibility of obtaining measurements of a particular climatic variable, for example temperature, either as a function of time at one location, or else as a function of geographical location at one time. For the past 108 years or so this is most easily achieved by using stable isotope techniques.
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Shackleton, N.J. (1981). Palaeoclimatology Before Our Ice Age. In: Berger, A. (eds) Climatic Variations and Variability: Facts and Theories. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 72. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8514-8_9
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