of the presence of tephric loess; therefore, the age for tephra WP
assigned by Kudo et al. (2004) might be older than ours. The fissiontrack
age of WP (0.28 ± 0.05 Ma: Kuwabara, 2007) is also older than
our age for WP.
We propose the following refinements in the interpretation of
our spikes in terms of the d18O record: move spikes G10 and G11
from the second half of MIS 7 to the first half of MIS 7; move spikes
G12 and G13 (ODP 794 2H-2-120) from MIS 7 to MIS 8
(274e283 ka); move spike G14 (So-OT) from MIS 7 to MIS 9 (320
ka); and move spikes G15 and G16 from MIS 8 to MIS 10 (Figs. 10
and 11). However, the correlation of these sediments with MIS 9
or older stages should be checked by other time markers.