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MIS
MIS or mis may refer to: Science and technology * Management information system * Marine isotope stage, stages of the Earth's climate * Maximal independent set, in graph theory * Metal-insulator-semiconductor, e.g., in MIS capacitor * Minimally invasive surgery, surgical techniques with limited incision sizes * Müllerian inhibiting substance or Anti-Müllerian hormone, a developmental glycoprotein * Multi Interface Shoe, a Sony camera hotshoe * Multisystem inflammatory syndrome, a class of medical conditions Organizations * Maritime Internet Services Inc. * Military Intelligence Service (United States), WWII Japanese translation unit * Movement for the Independence of Sicily Schools * The Mother's International School, New Delhi, India * Manado Independent School, Indonesia * Melaka International School, Malaysia * Myanmar International School, Myanmar * Munich International School, Starnberg Speedways * Madison International Speedway, Wisconsin, US * Michigan International Spee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marine Isotope Stage
Marine isotope stages (MIS), marine oxygen-isotope stages, or oxygen isotope stages (OIS), are alternating warm and cool periods in the Earth's paleoclimate, deduced from oxygen isotope data reflecting changes in temperature derived from data from deep sea core samples. Working backwards from the present, which is MIS 1 in the scale, stages with even numbers have high levels of oxygen-18 and represent cold glacial periods, while the odd-numbered stages are lows in the oxygen-18 figures, representing warm interglacial intervals. The data are derived from pollen and foraminifera (plankton) remains in drilled marine sediment cores, sapropels, and other data that reflect historic climate; these are called proxies. The MIS timescale was developed from the pioneering work of Cesare Emiliani in the 1950s, and is now widely used in archaeology and other fields to express dating in the Quaternary period (the last 2.6 million years), as well as providing the fullest and best data ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
