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- noun geology
Temperature (such as of a specific place orstone ) in thegeological past .
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Oxygen isotope and palaeotemperature records from six Greenland ice-core stations: Camp Century, Dye-3, GRIP, GISP, Renland and NorthGRIP.
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What you are showing is that despite the graph showing what looks like *further comment in a moment impressive precision on relative temperatures, the confidence limit on tying the method to an absolute temperature is huge, it could easily cover 10C or more and so useless for palaeotemperature estimates.
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Ammonia beccarii that extended all the way up to AD 2006; and when operating upon these data with a well-established palaeotemperature equation, the two scientists created a concomitant history of bottom-water temperatures that revealed the occurrence of a distinctive warm period between about AD 940 and 1050, during which time the peak warmth attained was approximately 0. 3°C less than the peak warmth of the Current Warm Period.
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Oxygen isotope and palaeotemperature records from six Greenland ice-core stations: Camp Century ohnsen, S.J.,
Scientific American 2010
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