Climate of the Past www.clim-past.net 1814-9324 1814-9332 3 3 2007 10.5194/cp-3-475-2007 http://www.clim-past.net/3/475/2007/ http://www.clim-past.net/3/475/2007/cp-3-475-2007.html http://www.clim-past.net/3/475/2007/cp-3-475-2007.pdf 475 484 2007-08-07 "EDML1": a chronology for the EPICA deep ice core from Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, over the last 150 000 years U. Ruth uruth@awi-bremerhaven.de J.-M. Barnola J. Beer M. Bigler T. Blunier E. Castellano H. Fischer F. Fundel P. Huybrechts P. Kaufmann S. Kipfstuhl A. Lambrecht A. Morganti H. Oerter F. Parrenin O. Rybak M. Severi R. Udisti F. Wilhelms E. Wolff Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement, CNRS, Grenoble, France Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, EAWAG, Dübendorf, Switzerland Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Florence, Italy British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK Ice and Climate Research, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Departement Geografie, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium A chronology called EDML1 has been developed for the EPICA ice core from Dronning Maud Land (EDML). EDML1 is closely interlinked with EDC3, the new chronology for the EPICA ice core from Dome-C (EDC) through a stratigraphic match between EDML and EDC that consists of 322 volcanic match points over the last 128 ka. 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