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<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">(Acronym for Climate: Long-range Investigation Mapping and Prediction.) A project that reconstructed [[sea surface temperatures]] 18 000 years before present (BP).</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">The [[temperature]] information was derived from properties of deep-ocean sediments sampled by means of corers, and provided strong support for the role of [[Milankovitch]] variations as a pacemaker for [[climate fluctuations]]. The primary attributes used were the species composition of planktonic organisms found in the sediments, and the [[oxygen]] isotopic composition of foraminiferan skeletons.</div><br/> </div> | <div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">(Acronym for Climate: Long-range Investigation Mapping and Prediction.) A project that reconstructed [[sea surface temperatures]] 18 000 years before present (BP).</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">The [[temperature]] information was derived from properties of deep-ocean sediments sampled by means of corers, and provided strong support for the role of [[Milankovitch theory|Milankovitch]] variations as a pacemaker for [[climate fluctuations]]. The primary attributes used were the species composition of planktonic organisms found in the sediments, and the [[oxygen]] isotopic composition of foraminiferan skeletons.</div><br/> </div> | ||
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CLIMAP
(Acronym for Climate: Long-range Investigation Mapping and Prediction.) A project that reconstructed sea surface temperatures 18 000 years before present (BP).
The temperature information was derived from properties of deep-ocean sediments sampled by means of corers, and provided strong support for the role of Milankovitch variations as a pacemaker for climate fluctuations. The primary attributes used were the species composition of planktonic organisms found in the sediments, and the oxygen isotopic composition of foraminiferan skeletons.
