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Strong coupling of centennial-scale changes of Asian monsoon and soil processes derived from stalagmite δ18O and δ13C records, southern China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Dianbing Liu ,
Yongjin Wang ,
Hai Cheng ,
R. Lawrence Edwards ,
Xinggong Kong  and
Ting-Yong Li
Dianbing Liu
Affiliation:
College of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China
Yongjin Wang*
Affiliation:
College of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China
Hai Cheng
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
R. Lawrence Edwards
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Xinggong Kong
Affiliation:
College of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China
Ting-Yong Li
Affiliation:
School of Geographical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
*
⁎Corresponding author. E-mail address:ldb9921@njnu.edu.cn (D. Liu), yjwang@njnu.edu.cn (Y. Wang), cheng021@umn.edu (H. Cheng), edwar001@umn.edu (R.L. Edwards), kongxinggong@njnu.edu.cn (X. Kong), cdlty@swu.edu.cn (T.-Y. Li).
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Abstract

The paleoclimate application of speleothem δ13C is influenced by site-specific processes. Here we present four stalagmite δ13C records from two caves in southern China, covering early and late Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 3 and the Holocene, to investigate the spatio-temporal pattern of calcite δ13C changes and the relationship with Asian monsoon (AM) variability. In each growth period, precessional- to millennial-scale changes are clear in the δ18O record. In contrast, millennial variability is absent in the δ13C record, which characterizes persistent centennial oscillations. However, centennial-scale δ18O variations agree well with those of δ13C, with a larger amplitude in δ13C changes (about twice that of δ18O). This suggests that soil humidity balance associated with regional hydrological circulations is important for these centennial δ13C changes, although evaporation-related kinetic fractionation can induce concurrent enrichments in δ18O and δ13C. In frequency, the detrended δ18O and δ13C records are coupled at a periodicity of about 300 yr during the last glacial period and 150 yr during the Holocene. Those centennial-scale δ13C variations are generally consistent with Greenland temperature variability, indicating a climate response over broad regions. Thus, strong co-variation of δ18O and δ13C records should have a climatic origin, even if it is amplified by kinetic effects.

Keywords

Wulu and Dongge cavesSpeleothem δ13CCentennial-scale AM variabilitySoil processes
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Quaternary Research , Volume 85 , Issue 3 , May 2016 , pp. 333 - 346
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University of Washington

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