Comment on “Abrupt warming events drove Late Pleistocene Holarctic megafaunal turnover”

TY - JOUR

T1 - Comment on “Abrupt warming events drove Late Pleistocene Holarctic megafaunal turnover”

AU - Rasmussen, Sune Olander

AU - Svensson, Anders

PY - 2016/2/26

Y1 - 2016/2/26

N2 - Cooper et al. (Research Article, 7 August 2015, p. 602) combined the annual-layer-counted Greenland Ice Core Chronology 2005 with chronological information from the Hulu Cave and Cariaco Basin records to produce a "revised" time scale.We argue that their time scale is incompatible with the nature of annual-layer-counted time scales and may lead to seriously flawed conclusions if used elsewhere at face value.

AB - Cooper et al. (Research Article, 7 August 2015, p. 602) combined the annual-layer-counted Greenland Ice Core Chronology 2005 with chronological information from the Hulu Cave and Cariaco Basin records to produce a "revised" time scale.We argue that their time scale is incompatible with the nature of annual-layer-counted time scales and may lead to seriously flawed conclusions if used elsewhere at face value.

U2 - 10.1126/science.aad3573

DO - 10.1126/science.aad3573

M3 - Comment/debate

C2 - 26917761

SN - 0036-8075

VL - 351

SP - 927

EP - 928

JO - Science

JF - Science

IS - 6276

ER -