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Oxygen isotope and palaeomagnetic analysis of the lower half of LDGO piston core V28–179 shows that glacial–interglacial fluctuations have characterised Earth's climate for the past 3.2 Myr, before which there was a period of stable ‘interglacial’ or ‘preglacial’ climate. The scale of glaciations increased about 2.5 Myr ago.
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Shackleton, N., Opdyke, N. Oxygen isotope and palaeomagnetic evidence for early Northern Hemisphere glaciation. Nature 270, 216–219 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1038/270216a0
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