Table. Summary of Mass Accumulation Rates of Biomarkers for the Last Deglaciation from a Sediment Core TSP-2PC																		
																		
																		
Depth	Age	Climate		      Aliphatic hydrocarbons				Alkenones				Fatty alcohols			                   Sterols			
		regimes	CPIalka	ACLalkb	C25-C35		C37-C39	UK37'	SSTc		CPIalcd	ACLalce	C24-C28		Dinosterol	Brassicasterol		
cm	cal. ka				ng/cm2/kyr		ng/cm2/kyr		?C				ng/cm2/kyr		ng/cm2/kyr	ng/cm2/kyr		
																		
																		
14.0	10.1	MIS 1	6.44	30.59	228		78.6	0.411	11.0		6.16	26.30	124		14.6	22.8		
18.0	11.7	MIS 1	8.42	30.60	178		27.1	0.465	12.5		6.00	26.27	61.7		4.33	3.17		
22.0	13.6	Trans.	8.10	30.61	155		16.2	0.450	12.1		6.82	26.30	74.8		2.49	3.40		
26.0	15.8	Trans.	8.70	30.62	176		38.5	0.413	11.0		6.75	26.31	84.3		5.24	6.55		
34.0	21.0	Trans.	8.05	30.58	194		44.2	0.354	9.3		7.03	26.37	86.1		3.70	6.65		
38.0	23.9	MIS 2	7.95	30.51	246		25.2	0.325	8.4		6.89	26.33	104		5.27	8.71		
40.0	25.5	MIS 2	8.23	30.55	272		24.0	0.314	8.1		6.98	26.35	109		4.92	9.19		
42.0	27.0	MIS 2	8.24	30.57	305		28.3	0.319	8.2		7.00	26.35	106		5.77	10.1		
44.0	28.7	MIS 2	8.57	30.59	284		25.0	0.329	8.5		7.23	26.33	104		6.16	9.63		
46.0	30.4	MIS 3	8.66	30.59	215		22.7	0.314	8.1		6.87	26.35	97.4		4.92	9.94		
48.0	32.1	MIS 3	8.50	30.56	199		32.5	0.287	7.3		7.09	26.40	84.2		3.87	8.07		
50.0	33.8	MIS 3	8.35	30.54	175		19.6	0.281	7.1		7.13	26.39	74.7		3.91	8.16		
																		
																		
a CPIalk : Carbon preference indices of C25-C34 n-alkanes as difined by Peltzer and Gagosian [1989]. CPI = ?odd (C25-C33) / ?even (C26-C34)																		
b ACLalk : Average chain lengths of C25-C35 n-alkanes as difined by Ohkouchi et al. [1997a]. 																		
c SST records from Ikehara et al. [1997].																		
d CPIalc : Carbon preference indices of C23-C28 fatty alcohols as difined by Peltzer and Gagosian [1989]. CPI = ?even (C24-C28) / ?odd (C23-C27)																		
e ACLalc : Average chain lengths of C24-C28 fatty alcohols as difined by Ohkouchi et al. [1997a].