THE ACCUMULATION RECORD FROM THE GISP2 CORE AS AN INDICATOR OF CLIMATE-CHANGE THROUGHOUT THE HOLOCENE

A depth-age scale and an accumulation history for the Holocene have be en established on the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 (GISP2) deep core, providing the most continuously dated record of annual layer accumula tion currently available. The depth-age scale was obtained with the us e of various independent techniques to count annual layers in the core . An annual record of surface accumulation during the Holocene was obt ained by correcting the observed layer thicknesses for flow-thinning. Fluctuations in accumulation provide a continuous and detailed record of climate variability over central Greenland during the Holocene. Cli mate events, including ''Little Ice Age'' type events, are examined.