THE CONTINENTAL RECORD OF STAGE 11: A REVIEW

The review of terrestrial records of marine isotope stage 11 indicates that they are mostly yielded by pollen and loess sequences. They occur in different localities around the world and show different time resolution and environmental conditions. Other records are discussed which correspond to more particular conditions, i.e., the Lake Baikal deposits, or the terrestrial malacofauna from tufa deposits in Western Europe. If almost all the records indicate moister conditions than present, the temperature estimates vary from similar to the present, to warmer from place to place. Another problem related to the interpretation of terrestrial deposits of stage 11 is the time resolution and the sampling interval of the related deposits that makes correlation with other proxies even more difficult due to the long duration of this interglacial. However, a scenario is proposed to link the different reviewed record based on a general warm climate of MIS 11.