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These criticisms are welcome and helpful. In drawing up my Pleistocene correlation I first rejected the idea of glacial-pluvial correlation and began afresh constructing series of sedimentary cycles in tabular form. In areas where the sequence is complete seven cycles are present; in others some are missing, always the earlier. By comparing these tables with the three standards I adopted, those for Europe and India which I know well, and for China (I was assisted in this by Pére Teilhard de Chardin), the correlation became obvious.
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PATERSON, T. Geology and Early Man. Nature 147, 49–51 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147049a0
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