Abrupt weakening of the Indian summer monsoon at 8.2 kyrB.P.

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 391, Issue , 2014, Pages 16-23

  Dixit, Yama ^a   Hodell, David A ^a   Sinha, Rajiv ^b   Petrie, Cameron A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Paleoclimate; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; GLACIAL OUTBURST FLOODS; INDIAN SUBCONTINENTS; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTATIONS; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RECORDS; PALEOCLIMATES; STABLE ISOTOPES;

DRIERS (MATERIALS); GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES;

LAKES;

BIOGENIC DEPOSIT; CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; LATE GLACIAL; LIMESTONE; MONSOON; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; SEDIMENTATION; SUMMER; TELECONNECTION;

INDIA;

EID: 84893558820     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.01.026     Document Type: Article

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