Cover photograph

• Wadi Howar: Settlement Area and Thoroughfare at the Southern Margin of the Libyan Desert (Stefan Kröpelin et al.)

Rock Art

• World Rock Art, University of New England, Australia

Introduction

• The Quaternary
• The Ice Ages (Illinois State Museum)

The Climate System

• Global climate data (Topography, ENSO, Temperature, Precipitation, Ocean Climatology)

Orbital Forcing

• Universite Catholique de Louvain: Institut d'Astronomie et de Geophysique Georges Lemaitre

Radiocarbon dating and calibration

• University of Waikato, N.Z. Radiocarbon Dating Lab. Information on radiocarbon dating.
• CalPal: Cologne Radiocarbon Calibration & Palaeoclimate Research Package Allows calendric age-conversion ("calibration") of ¹⁴C-data by a variety of methods
• Radiocarbon: An International Journal of Cosmogenic Isotope Research
• CALIB for PC and Mac: See Stuiver, M. and P. J. Reimer, 1993. Extended ¹⁴C data base and revised Calib 3.0 ¹⁴C age calibration program. Radiocarbon, 35, 215-230.
• OXCAL Online Radiocarbon Calibration See Ramsey, C. N., 1995. Radiocarbon calibration and analysis of stratigraphy: the Oxcal program. Radiocarbon, 37, 425-430.

Cosmogenic isotopes

• University of Washington Cosmogenic Isotopes Dating Lab

Luminescence dating

• A users' guide by Geoff Duller, University of Wales, Aberystwyth:

Tephrochronology

Tephrabase: A Tephrochronological Database

Ice cores

• GISP2
• GRIP
• Byrd Polar Research Center Ice Core Group
• National Ice Core Laboratory
• Center for Ice & Climate, Neils Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark:

Glaciology

• National Glaciology Group, Geological Survey of Canada

Paleoceanography

• Ocean Drilling Program

Corals

• WDC for Paleoclimatology - Coral and Sclerosponge Data Search
• Australian Coral Records Research Group

Sclerosponges

• NOAA Special Report

Loess

• Loess Letter Online

Borehole temperatures

• Borehole Temperatures and Climate Reconstruction Database, University of Michigan

Speleothems

• Good Earth Graphics Virtual Cave

Paleolimnology

• PEARL: Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Laboratory, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
• Indiana University
• The Core Facility at the Limnological Research Center, University of Minnesota

Chironomids

• The Chironomid Home Page

Coleoptera

• Bugs Coleopteran ecology pakage (P.I. Buckland and P.C. Buckland)
• Bibliography of Coleoptera in Quaternary studies (P.C. Buckland et al.)

Quaternary mammals

• Illinois State Museum Faunmap

Ecology

• Ecology WWW page

Paleovegetation maps

• LGM vegetation map

Palynology

• University of Arizona
• Catalogue of pollen types

Diatoms

• Academy of Natural Sciences Algae Image Database

Micropaleontology

• The Micropalaeontological Society

Tree rings

• University of Arkansas Tree Ring Lab
• Columbia University's Earth Institute Tree Ring Lab
• Ultimate Tree Ring Web Pages
• University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree Ring Research
• Crossdating Tree Rings Using Skeleton Plotting

Paleoclimate modeling

• Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI)
• Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project
• NOAA Paleoclimatology Program: Paleoclimate model output search
• Climate models and modeling groups
• Paleoclimate Model Output Visualization (WDC for Paleoclimatology)

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