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Science 14 December 2001:
Vol. 294. no. 5550, pp. 2345 - 2348
DOI: 10.1126/science.1064618
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A High-Resolution Absolute-Dated Late Pleistocene Monsoon Record from Hulu Cave, China

Y. J. Wang,13 H. Cheng,2 R. L. Edwards,2* Z. S. An,3 J. Y. Wu,4 C.-C. Shen,5 J. A. Dorale6

Oxygen isotope records of five stalagmites from Hulu Cave near Nanjing bear a remarkable resemblance to oxygen isotope records from Greenland ice cores, suggesting that East Asian Monsoon intensity changed in concert with Greenland temperature between 11,000 and 75,000 years before the present (yr. B.P.). Between 11,000 and 30,000 yr. B.P., the timing of changes in the monsoon, as established with 230Th dates, generally agrees with the timing of temperature changes from the Greenland Ice Sheet Project Two (GISP2) core, which supports GISP2's chronology in this interval. Our record links North Atlantic climate with the meridional transport of heat and moisture from the warmest part of the ocean where the summer East Asian Monsoon originates.

1 College of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097, China.
2 Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, MN 55455, USA.
3 State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710054, China.
4 State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210008, China.
5 Department of Earth Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, China.
6 Department of Geological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
*   To whom correspondence should be addressed: E-mail: edwar001{at}umn.edu

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