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MOST post-Pleistocene glaciation has apparently been confined to four phases at intervals of around 2,600 years1. The exact timing of these phases will be examined in relation to recent carbon-14 age corrections and additional glacial chronologies.
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BRAY, J. Temporal Patterning of Post-Pleistocene Glaciation. Nature 228, 353 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/228353a0
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