Asian summer monsoon variability during the late glacial and Holocene inferred from the stable carbon isotope record of black carbon in the sediments of Muge Co, southeastern Tibetan Plateau, China

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Sun, Weiwei, Zhang, Enlou, Jones, Richard T, Liu, Enfeng, Shen, Ji
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2015
• Subjects: Paleontology; Earth-Surface Processes; Ecology; Archeology; Global and Planetary Change; Alpine Lake; Pacific; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683615605743; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0959683615605743; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/0959683615605743

A sediment core from an alpine lake (Muge Co) from the southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau was analyzed for sediment grain size distribution and the carbon isotopic composition of black carbon in order to reconstruct Asian summer monsoon variability over the last 12 ka. Five major climatic st...