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Preface
We are grateful to the following colleagues for their efforts in reviewing and offering many valuable
suggestions for improving the manuscripts: A. Almogi-Labin, D. Archer, W.H. Berger, E. Boyle, J. Bijma,
G.-J. Brummer, C. Charles, T. Crowley, 1 Dearing, G. DeLange, G. Ganssen, J. Giraudeau, B. Grieger,
1. Harding, S. Hillier, R. Keir, P. Kershaw, H. Keupp, K. Kohfeld, D. Kroon, J. Kielmann, R. Littke,
M.M. Rutgers van der Loeff, R. Lovlie, M. Lyle, E. Michel, U. Mikolajewicz, B. Moran, D. Oppo,
A. Paytan, R. Petrovsky, C. Robert, W.F. Ruddiman, C. Sancetta, A. Sanyal, R. Schlitzer, J. Scholten,
M. Schulz, D. Sigman, S. Snyder, R. Stattegger, R. Stein, T. Stocker, lA. Tarduno, H. Thierstein,
M. Voss and R. Zahn.
For their technical support we would like to thank V. Diekamp, B. Schilder, A. Grimm-Geils,
S. Middendorf, V. Ratmeyer and T. Klein. We are also very much indebted to B. Oelkers and W. Hale.
Publication ofthis book was supported and funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through
the Sonderforschungsbereich 261: "The South Atlantic in the Late Quaternary: Reconstruction of Mass
Budget and Current Systems", and through individual projects by the Federal Ministry for Education,
Science, Research, and Technology (Paleoclimate and JGOFS), and by the state of Bremen.
Gerhard Fischer, Bremen, August 1999
Gerold Wefer, Bremen, August 1999
Preface
We are grateful to the following colleagues for their efforts in reviewing and offering many valuable
suggestions for improving the manuscripts: A. Almogi-Labin, D. Archer, W.H. Berger, E. Boyle, J. Bijma,
G.-J. Brummer, C. Charles, T. Crowley, 1 Dearing, G. DeLange, G. Ganssen, J. Giraudeau, B. Grieger,
1. Harding, S. Hillier, R. Keir, P. Kershaw, H. Keupp, K. Kohfeld, D. Kroon, J. Kielmann, R. Littke,
M.M. Rutgers van der Loeff, R. Lovlie, M. Lyle, E. Michel, U. Mikolajewicz, B. Moran, D. Oppo,
A. Paytan, R. Petrovsky, C. Robert, W.F. Ruddiman, C. Sancetta, A. Sanyal, R. Schlitzer, J. Scholten,
M. Schulz, D. Sigman, S. Snyder, R. Stattegger, R. Stein, T. Stocker, lA. Tarduno, H. Thierstein,
M. Voss and R. Zahn.
For their technical support we would like to thank V. Diekamp, B. Schilder, A. Grimm-Geils,
S. Middendorf, V. Ratmeyer and T. Klein. We are also very much indebted to B. Oelkers and W. Hale.
Publication ofthis book was supported and funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through
the Sonderforschungsbereich 261: "The South Atlantic in the Late Quaternary: Reconstruction of Mass
Budget and Current Systems", and through individual projects by the Federal Ministry for Education,
Science, Research, and Technology (Paleoclimate and JGOFS), and by the state of Bremen.
Gerhard Fischer, Bremen, August 1999
Gerold Wefer, Bremen, August 1999