Ice Age Terminations
0301 basic medicine
0303 health sciences
03 medical and health sciences
13. Climate action
15. Life on land
01 natural sciences
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
DOI:
10.1126/science.1177840
Publication Date:
2009-10-08T21:50:01Z
AUTHORS (8)
ABSTRACT
Monsoon Cave Recordings
Rocky deposits in caves in central China record the changes over time in the Asian Monsoon through the oxygen isotopic composition of the minerals from which they are formed. These deposits can be precisely dated and provide an absolute time line for climate system changes.
Cheng
et al.
(p.
248
; see the Perspective by
Severinghaus
) present oxygen isotope data from speleothems collected from Sanbao Cave, China, for the three glacial terminations that occurred between 120,000 and 350,000 years ago. The data reveal variations in the amount of precipitation delivered by the Asian Monsoon over time. Comparison of the timing of these changes with corresponding changes in ice core and marine sedimentary records provides mechanistic insights into how variations in insolation affect ice sheets and ice age terminations.
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