Past environmental changes in the Sea of Okhotsk during the last 1.5 Ma reconstructed using long-chain diol proxies ...

Long-chain diols have been detected in a wide range of environments and have been used to reconstruct past environmental changes, however only a few long-term records exist to date. Here we reconstructed past environmental changes in the central Sea of Okhotsk over the last 1.5 million years, covering the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT). Sea surface temperatures (SST) reconstructed using the Long-Chain Diol Index (LDI) reflects glacial/interglacial changes. However, when compared with other organic paleothermometers (Uk'37 and TEXL86) the LDI-SST is lower during interglacials and similar or h... Mehr ...