Timing, Duration, and Transitions of the Last Interglacial Asian Monsoon

Yuan, Daoxian; Cheng, Hai; Lawrence Edwards, R.; A. Dykoski, C.; J. Kelly, Megan; Zhang, Meiliang; Qing, Jiaming; Lin, Yushi; Wang, Yongjin; Wu, Jiangyin; A. Dorale, Jeffery; An, Zhisheng; Cai, Yanjun

doi:10.1126/science.1091220

Public

Timing, Duration, and Transitions of the Last Interglacial Asian Monsoon

Published in Science • Apr 22, 2004

Authors:

Daoxian Yuan

Hai Cheng

R. Lawrence Edwards

Abstract

Thorium-230 ages and oxygen isotope ratios of stalagmites from Dongge Cave, China, characterize the Asian Monsoon and low-latitude precipitation over the past 160,000 years. Numerous abrupt changes in 18O/16O values result from changes in tropical and subtropical precipitation driven by insolation a...

Subject

Stalagmite

Interglacial

Climatology

Finding related papers...

Discussions

(0)

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!