18 O Changes in Foraminifera Carbonates During the Last 10 5 Years in the Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean response to major climatic events during the Upper Pleistocene could be seen as an integration of the principal phenomena particular to oceans and of regional phenomena peculiar to the Mediterranean Sea. The magnitude of oxygen isotope changes in foraminifera tests suggests that the temperature variations between stadial and interstadial periods could not exceed 11°C and that the correction factor for isotopic changes of waters should be about twice the value used for the oceans, or 2.7 per mil.