Tropical response to the 8200 yr B.P cold event? Speleothem isotopes indicate a weakened early Holocene monsoon in Costa Rica

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 957-960

  Lachniet, Matthew S ^a   Asmerom, Yemane ^b   Burns, Stephen J ^c   Patterson, William P ^d   Polyak, Victor J ^b   Seltzer, Geoffrey O ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^e SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

18O; 8200 yr B.P. event; Central American monsoon; Costa Rica; Holocene; Intertropical Convergence Zone; Paleoclimate; Stalagmite; Tropics; U Th dating

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PERTURBATIONS; TELECONNECTION; WETLAND CONTRACTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; METHANE; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RAIN;

ISOTOPES;

HOLOCENE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; SPELEOTHEM; STALAGMITE; TELECONNECTION; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 9144264893     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G20797.1     Document Type: Article

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