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Correlation between high-resolution climate records from a Nanjing stalagmite and GRIP ice core during the last glaciation |
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| Authors: | Wang Yongjin WU Jiangying Wu Jinquan MU Xinan XU Hankui CHEN Jun |
| Institution: | 1. Geography College, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097, China 2. Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China 3. Geoscience Department, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210008, China |
| Abstract: | A 400-mm-long stalagmite from Tangshan Cave, Nanjing has been analyzed by a high-precision TIMS-U series dating method and also determined for oxygen and carbon stable isotopic compositions. The results provided a high-resolution paleoclimate record for eastern China during a time interval (from 54 000 to 19 000 aBP) of the last glaciation. The continuous record of oxygen-18 variations in the stalagmite, indicating a precipitation history of the East Asian monsoon, shows not only signals of the Heinrich events, but also the Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles which are first found in the last glacial climate record of the East Asian monsoon area. Although the stalagmite-based climatic signals match well with the GRIP ice core record, some differences between the two records can be recognized: (1) The last glacial climate changes in eastern China exhibited a long-term remarkably cooling trend, superimposed on which were four successive Bond’s cycles illustrated by the δ18O curve. This strong cooling tendency may be an effect of the strong summer monsoon event during the MIS 3 over the Tibetan Plateau. (2) There exist some phase differences of 1000–2000 years between the cooling events in the stalagmite-based climate signal and the GRIP ice core record. Such differences should be further verified by calibrations of multiple dating methods |
| Keywords: | stalagmite the last glaciation D-O cycle East Asian summer monsoon |
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