Timing of the Last Glacial Maximum from Observed Sea-level Minima: Readme file
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              World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, Boulder
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                   NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!

NAME OF DATA SET: Timing of the Last Glacial Maximum from Observed Sea-level Minima

LAST UPDATE: 8/2000 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)  
CONTRIBUTORS: Yusuke Yokoyama, Kurt Lambeck, Patrick DeDeckker, 
Paul Johnston, and L. Keith Fifield.

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 2000-54

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Yokoyama, Y., et al., 2000, 
Timing of the Last Glacial Maximum from Observed Sea-level Minima, 
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series #2000-054.
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. 

ORIGINAL REFERENCE: Yokoyama, Y., Lambeck, K., DeDeckker, P., 
Johnston, P., and Fifield, L.K., 2000, Timing of the 
Last Glacial Maximum from observed sea-level minima, 
Nature, vol.406, p713-716.

GEOGRAPHIC REGION:  Bonaparte Gulf, Australia
PERIOD OF RECORD: 0-39 KYRBP

LIST OF FILES: Readme.Yokoyama2000.txt (this file),
Table1.C14.doc (Microsoft Word Format), 
Table1.C14.txt (Tab-delimited ASCII text format).

DESCRIPTION: 
Timing of the Last Glacial Maximum from observed sea-level minima. 

Faunal assemblages and preservation status of sediments from
Bonaparte Gulf, Australia, were used to reconstruct global ice volume, 
and to constrain the timing of the Last Glacial Maximum and the 
initial phase of deglaciation. Results indicate a rapid decrease 
in ice volume (by about 10%) within a few hundred years, 
beginning at 19,000 ± 250 years before present.