2003/09/04 by Stephen Burns, Dominik Fleitmann, Albert Matter +2 · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · Social Sciences · #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Isotope Analysis in Ecology #Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies #Stalagmite #Chronology #Stadial #Climatology #Precipitation #Period (music) #Geology #Monsoon #Isotopes of oxygen #Oceanography #Western Hemisphere Warm Pool #Ice core #Paleoclimatology #Climate change #Glacial period #Sea surface temperature #Geography #Holocene #Paleontology
paper · doi:10.1126/science.1086227
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Oxygen-isotope ratios of a stalagmite from Socotra Island in the Indian Ocean provide a record of changes in monsoon precipitation and climate for the time period from 42 to 55 thousand years before the present. The pattern of precipitation bears a striking resemblance to the oxygen-isotope record from Greenland ice cores, with increased tropical precipitation associated with warm periods in the high northern latitudes. The largest change, at the onset of interstadial 12, occurred very rapidly, in about 25 years. The chronology of the events found in our record requires a reevaluation of previously published time scales for climate events during this period.