Figure 7

Palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic proxies. (a) Stacked ice-rafted debris events3, (b) mid-European high lake levels38, (c) δ18O depletion from the CR1 speleothem record at the Carburangeli cave in Sicily13, (d) K/Al ratio at the 293G site in the Alboran Sea40, (e) temperate and Mediterranean forest trees at the MD95-2043 site in the Alboran Sea11, (f) mesophytic optimum at the Siles lake in SE Iberia12, (g) thermo-Mediterranean fire activity in SW Mediterranean39, (h) total sediment flux at the ODP 658C site off Mauritania46, (i) water density difference at the RAPID-12-K site in the subpolar North Atlantic44, (j) δ18O from the speleothem record at the Wintimdouine cave in Morocco14, (k) total solar insolation (TSI, W m−2) derived from 14C and 10Be radionuclides37.