= Ice Ages - Solving the Mystery = [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Imbrie | John Imbrie ]] and Katherine Palmer Imbrie PSU QE697.I45 1979 ---- Nice history of ice age science. Did not read whole book, no time. === Chapter 12: Milankovitch Revival === Correlation of histories of sea level change === Chapter 13: Signal from the Earth === . 1906 Bernard Brunhes learns bricks and then rocks freeze in Earth's magnetic field as they cool . 1930's? Motonori Matuyama finds reversals in lava flows in Japan and Korea . 1955-1965 proof of worldwide correlation . Vruhes-Matuyama boundary 700 kya, later found in deep-sea cores === Chapter 14: Pulsebeat of Climate === . ice sheets large, central Europe polar climate, windy with loess deposits. . ice sheets small, warm and wet with broadleaf trees . oxygen-isotope ratio varies from 0 to -2 (something), 6 times in 400 Ky === Ch 15: Pacemaker of the Ice Ages === . 1971 CLIMAP project . International Decade of Ocean Exploration IDOE. Columbia, Brown, OSU; later Maine and Princeton, later worldwide === Ch 16: The Coming Ice Age === . Photocopy on file . Fig 43 shows temperature variation over last 11 ky, with a climatic peak ("optimum") at 6.5 kya, and a 6C colder minimum at 10.5 kya. The "little ice age" is shown. No citation for the data source, it may be illustrative rather than a direct plotting of data. . Fig 45 is the last 1000 years, with the "little ice age" featured, adapted from [[ http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v223/n5212/pdf/2231209a0.pdf | H.H. Lamb 1969 ]] . p185 "effects will endure for 1000 years, Fig 47 temperature hockey stick graph, 6 F per century, . p186 Fig 48 175 kY window, showing 140 kY climate cycle and CO2 "superglacial" as a 3 F extra peak, citation JM Mitchell Jr 1977, perhaps "Carbon Dioxide and Future Climate" pp 3-9, ''Environmental Data Service, March, U.S. Dept. Commerce'', but not this [[ http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.178.6288&rep=rep1&type=pdf#page=68 | JM Mitchell Jr 1977 ]]