Climate of the Past www.clim-past.net 1814-9324 1814-9332 4 1 2008 10.5194/cp-4-47-2008 http://www.clim-past.net/4/47/2008/ http://www.clim-past.net/4/47/2008/cp-4-47-2008.html http://www.clim-past.net/4/47/2008/cp-4-47-2008.pdf 47 57 2008-03-31 A 60 000 year Greenland stratigraphic ice core chronology A. Svensson as@gfy.ku.dk K. K. Andersen M. Bigler H. B. Clausen D. Dahl-Jensen S. M. Davies S. J. Johnsen R. Muscheler F. Parrenin S. O. Rasmussen R. Röthlisberger I. Seierstad J. P. Steffensen B. M. Vinther Centre for Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute, Univ. of Copenhagen, Juliane Maries Vej 30, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark Department of Geography, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK GeoBiosphere Science Centre, Quaternary Sciences, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, 22362 Lund, Sweden Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement, CNRS and Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK Climate Research Unit, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, NR47TJ, Norwich, UK The Greenland Ice Core Chronology 2005 (GICC05) is a time scale based on annual layer counting of high-resolution records from Greenland ice cores. Whereas the Holocene part of the time scale is based on various records from the DYE-3, the GRIP, and the NorthGRIP ice cores, the glacial part is solely based on NorthGRIP records. Here we present an 18 ka extension of the time scale such that GICC05 continuously covers the past 60 ka. The new section of the time scale places the onset of Greenland Interstadial 12 (GI-12) at 46.9±1.0 ka b2k (before year AD 2000), the North Atlantic Ash Zone II layer in GI-15 at 55.4±1.2 ka b2k, and the onset of GI-17 at 59.4±1.3 ka b2k. The error estimates are derived from the accumulated number of uncertain annual layers. In the 40–60 ka interval, the new time scale has a discrepancy with the Meese-Sowers GISP2 time scale of up to 2.4 ka. Assuming that the Greenland climatic events are synchronous with those seen in the Chinese Hulu Cave speleothem record, GICC05 compares well to the time scale of that record with absolute age differences of less than 800 years throughout the 60 ka period. 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