CHRONOLOGY FOR COOL-CLIMATE EPISODES IN THE SOUTHERN-HEMISPHERE 12 000-1000 YR BP

A radiocarbon-dated chronology of glacial events and other phenomena related to cool climate shows that series of relatively cool episodes occurred in Southern Hemisphere localities about 11 500-9500 (several events), 8000, 5400, 4800-4500, 3600, 2700-2200, 1800-1500 and 1100-900 radiocarbon yr B.P. Warmer periods presumably intervened between the cool episodes and the longest warm part of the Holocene seems to have been about 9000 (8000)-(6000) 5000 yr B.P. There are indications of some regional differences in intensity of the cool periods. © 1979.