A new regional, mid-Holocene palaeoprecipitation signal of the Asian Summer Monsoon

• Main Authors: Strong, D., Flecker, R., Valdes, P.J., Wilkinson, I.P., Rees, J.G., Michaelides, K., Zong, Y.Q., Lloyd, J.M., Pancost, R.D., Yu, Fengling.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/106008; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/17913; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.07.034
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Dongge Cave speleothem δ18O record, which lies in the Pearl River basin (China), has been interpreted as recording a regional decline in Asian Summer Monsoon precipitation over the last 6.5 ka. The same overall trend is seen in the bulk sedimentary organic δ13Corg record from a core in the Pearl...