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Addressing Past Monsoon Variability from Speleothems


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1 Geoscience Department, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China
2 Physical Research Laboratory, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad 380 009, India
 

Numerous observations indicate that speleothems can record signatures of the past climate variability. Systematics of stable isotopes and trace elements in speleothems and current methods of dating are discussed. δ 18O in Indian speleothems is presently being used as a monsoon proxy. Several records from Indian karst locations are available, many of these cover recent several millennia and some extend back to ~280 ka. Salient features of monsoon variability reconstructed so far from Indian speleothems is briefly discussed. Some of the δ 18O records show presence of non-persistent periodic changes suggesting controls of subtle variations in solar output and internal changes in the climate system.

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Indian Monsoon, Palaeoclimate, Periodic Analysis, Speleothem.
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Authors

Shraddha Band
Geoscience Department, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China
M. G. Yadava
Physical Research Laboratory, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad 380 009, India

Abstract


Numerous observations indicate that speleothems can record signatures of the past climate variability. Systematics of stable isotopes and trace elements in speleothems and current methods of dating are discussed. δ 18O in Indian speleothems is presently being used as a monsoon proxy. Several records from Indian karst locations are available, many of these cover recent several millennia and some extend back to ~280 ka. Salient features of monsoon variability reconstructed so far from Indian speleothems is briefly discussed. Some of the δ 18O records show presence of non-persistent periodic changes suggesting controls of subtle variations in solar output and internal changes in the climate system.

Keywords


Indian Monsoon, Palaeoclimate, Periodic Analysis, Speleothem.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv119%2Fi2%2F244-254