Reconciliation of hydroclimate sequences from the Chinese Loess Plateau and low-latitude East Asian Summer Monsoon regions over the past 14,500 years》.pdf

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 435 (2015) 127–135 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology journal homepage: /locate/palaeo Reconciliation of hydroclimate sequences from the Chinese Loess Plateau and low-latitude East Asian Summer Monsoon regions over the past 14,500 years Jinguo Dong a,b,⁎, Chuan-Chou Shen c,⁎⁎, Xinggong Kong d, Hao-Cheng Wang c, Xiuyang Jiang e a College of Geosciences, Nantong University, Nantong 226007, PR China b State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xian 710075, PR China c High-Precision Mass Spectrometry and Environment Change Laboratory (HISPEC), Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan ROC d College of Geosciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097, PR China e Key Laboratory of Humid Subtropical Eco-geographical Process, College of Geosciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 35000, PR China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: We discuss replicated stalagmite δ18O records with interannual-to-multidecadal resolution from Lianhua Cave on Received 18 November 2014 the Chinese Loess Plateau to illustrate the precipitation history of the East Asian Summer Monsoon (EASM) re- Received in revised form 24 May 2015 gion over the last 14.5 thousand years (ka BP, before 1950 CE, hereafter), and to re-evaluate the inconsistency Accepted 9 June 2015