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LEC # TOPICS
1 A Brief Review of Events Over the Last 100 Million Years (and the Evidence)
2 Oxygen Isotope Paleoclimatology; Oxygen-isotope Paleothermometry; Oxygen Isotope Hydrology
3 Paleo-ecological Temperature Estimates: Imbrie-Kipp Method; Fundamentals of Factor Analysis; Modern Analogue Technique
4 Alkenone Paleothermometry
5 Sea-level and Climate Change: Late Pleistocene Carbon-14 and Th-230 Geochronology from Coral Reefs on Rising Islands and Oceanic Coral Drill Cores; Global Viscoelastic Models
6 Studies of δ18O and Foraminifera in the Modern Ocean: Plankton Tow and Sediment Trap Studies: δ18O as a Tracer of the Foram Lifestyle
7 Paleoclimate Record in Ice Cores
8 Continental Evidence for Glacial Climate Change
9 Coral Climate Studies
10 Abrupt Climate Change as seen in the Marine Record
11 Deep-ocean Paleoceanography and Ocean Chemistry; Benthic Forams, 13C, 14C, Cd, Ba
12 A Brief History of Data and Ideas on Last Glacial Maximum Deep Circulation
13 Why are there Glacial/Interglacial 'Oscillations'?; Fourier Power Series Analysis; SPECMAP
14 Climatology of Glaciation; Atmospheric CO2, Ocean Chemistry, and Mechanisms of Climate Change
15 Glacial/Interglacial CO2 Cycles and Ocean Chemistry
16 Meltwater Pulses, Mediterranean Sapropels, Paleo-winds; Paleo-productivity
17 New Paleo-tracers and Tracer Calibrations: Nitrogen Isotopes, Silicon Isotopes, …
18 Introduction to Long-term DSDP/ODP Paleoceanography; Construction of the Cenozoic Time Scale; Some Important Events from the Paleoclimatic History of the Cenozoic
19 The C14 Story