The History of South American Tropical Precipitation for the Past 25,000 Years

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Baker, Paul A., Seltzer, Geoffrey O., Fritz, Sherilyn C., Dunbar, Robert B., Grove, Matthew J., Tapia, Pedro M., Cross, Scott L., Rowe, Harold D., Broda, James P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2001
• Subjects: The Altiplano; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.291.5504.640; https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.291.5504.640

Long sediment cores recovered from the deep portions of Lake Titicaca are used to reconstruct the precipitation history of tropical South America for the past 25,000 years. Lake Titicaca was a deep, fresh, and continuously overflowing lake during the last glacial stage, from before 25,000 to 15,000...