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ArticleNature2019

The amplitude and origin of sea-level variability during the Pliocene epoch.

G R Grant, T R Naish, G B Dunbar, P Stocchi, M A Kominz, P J J Kamp, C A Tapia, R M McKay, R H Levy, M O Patterson

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Article in Nature, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed.

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  18. A new sea-level record for the Neogene/Quaternary boundary reveals transition to a more stable East Antarctic Ice Sheet.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

G R GrantAntarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand. g.grant@gns.cri.nz.
T R NaishAntarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
G B DunbarAntarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
P StocchiCoastal Systems Department, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, and Utrecht University, Den Burg, The Netherlands.
M A KominzDepartment of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA.
P J J KampSchool of Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.
C A TapiaDepartamento de Obras Civiles y Geologia, Facultad de Ingenieria, Universidad Catolica de Temuco, Temuco, Chile.
R M McKayAntarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
R H LevyAntarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
M O PattersonBinghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Earth is heading towards a climate that last existed more than three million years ago (Ma) during the 'mid-Pliocene warm period'

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Carbon DioxideForaminiferaGeologic SedimentsHistory, AncientIce CoverNew ZealandOceans and SeasOxygen IsotopesPartial PressureSeawaterCarbon DioxideOxygen Isotopes

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