Monsoon reconstruction from radiocarbon dated tropical Indian speleothems

Holocene

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 48-59

  Yadava, M G ^a   Ramesh, R ^a  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; India; Late Holocene; Oxygen isotopes; Radiocarbon; Rainfall; Rainfall reconstruction; Southwest monsoon; Speleothems; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIOCARBON DATING; SPELEOTHEM;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 12544250624     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683605h1783rp     Document Type: Article

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