TY - JOUR
T1 - A penultimate glacial monsoon record from Hulu Cave and two-phase glacial terminations
AU - Cheng, Hai
AU - Edwards, R. Lawrence
AU - Wang, Yongjin
AU - Kong, Xinggong
AU - Ming, Yanfang
AU - Kelly, Megan J.
AU - Wang, Xianfeng
AU - Gallup, Christina D.
AU - Liu, Weiguo
PY - 2006/3
Y1 - 2006/3
N2 - Oxygen isotope records of three stalagmites from Hulu Cave, China, extend the previous high-resolution absolute-dated Hulu Asian Monsoon record from the last to the penultimate glacial and deglacial periods. The penultimate glacial monsoon broadly follows orbitally induced insollation variations and is punctuated by at least 16 millennial-scale events. We confirm a Weak Monsoon Interval between 135.5 ± 1.0 and 129.0 ± 1.0 ka, prior to the abrupt increase in monsoon intensity at Asian Monsoon Termination II. Based on correlations with both marine ice-rafted debris and atmospheric CH4 records, we demonstrate that most of marine Termination II, the full rise in Antarctic temperature and atmospheric CO2, and much of the rise in CH4 occurred within the Weak Monsoon Interval, when the high northern latitudes were probably cold. From these relationships and similar relationships observed for Termination I, we identify a two-phase glacial termination process that was probably driven by orbital forcing in both hemispheres, affecting the atmospheric hydrological cycle, and combined with ice sheet dynamics.
AB - Oxygen isotope records of three stalagmites from Hulu Cave, China, extend the previous high-resolution absolute-dated Hulu Asian Monsoon record from the last to the penultimate glacial and deglacial periods. The penultimate glacial monsoon broadly follows orbitally induced insollation variations and is punctuated by at least 16 millennial-scale events. We confirm a Weak Monsoon Interval between 135.5 ± 1.0 and 129.0 ± 1.0 ka, prior to the abrupt increase in monsoon intensity at Asian Monsoon Termination II. Based on correlations with both marine ice-rafted debris and atmospheric CH4 records, we demonstrate that most of marine Termination II, the full rise in Antarctic temperature and atmospheric CO2, and much of the rise in CH4 occurred within the Weak Monsoon Interval, when the high northern latitudes were probably cold. From these relationships and similar relationships observed for Termination I, we identify a two-phase glacial termination process that was probably driven by orbital forcing in both hemispheres, affecting the atmospheric hydrological cycle, and combined with ice sheet dynamics.
KW - Asian Monsoon
KW - Chinese interstadials
KW - Hulu Cave
KW - Penultimate glacial
KW - Speleothem records
KW - Termination II
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U2 - 10.1130/G22289.1
DO - 10.1130/G22289.1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33645235330
SN - 0091-7613
VL - 34
SP - 217
EP - 220
JO - Geology
JF - Geology
IS - 3
ER -
