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  <dc:contributor>J.W. Hoganson</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>A.C. Ashworth</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1993</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;The chi-squared test of independence and cluster analysis of Otsuka similarity coefficients of fossil beetle assemblages from the Chilean Lake Region in the mid-latitudes of South America support the following conclusions: (1) the mean summer temperature of the glacial climate was 4-5??C lower than today's climate; (2) the climatic change from glacial to interglacial mode was in a single step centered on about 14,000 yr B.P.; (3) the climatic change was rapid, and within 1500 years the biota of a moorland had been completely replaced by a biota of a rain forest; (4) by 12,500 yr B.P., the low elevation beetle fauna of the Chilean Lake Region was similar in composition to that of the present day; and (5) no reversal in the postglacial warming trend, equivalent in age to the Younger Dryas Stade, was detected.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1016/0031-0182(93)90018-E</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Elsevier</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>The magnitude and rapidity of the climate change marking the end of the Pleistocene in the mid-latitudes of South America</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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