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

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

doi:10.1126/science.1091220

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

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

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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 and millennial-scale circulation shifts. The Last Interglacial Monsoon lasted 9.7 ± 1.1 thousand years, beginning with an abrupt (less than 200 years) drop in ¹⁸O/¹⁶O values 129.3 ± 0.9 thousand years ago and ending with an abrupt (less than 300 years) rise in ¹⁸O/¹⁶O values 119.6 ± 0.6 thousand years ago. The start coincides with insolation rise and measures of full interglacial conditions, indicating that insolation triggered the final rise to full interglacial conditions.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	575-578
Number of pages	4
Journal	Science
Volume	304
Issue number	5670
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1091220
State	Published - Apr 23 2004

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