Younger Dryas-Holocene temperature and rainfall history of southern Indonesia from δ 18 O in speleothem calcite and fluid inclusions

• Published in: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
• Main Authors: Griffiths, Michael L, Drysdale, Russell N, Vonhof, Hubert B., Gagan, Michael, Zhao, Jian-xin, Ayliffe, Linda, Hantoro, Wahyoe, Hellstrom, John Charles, Cartwright, Ian, Frisia, Silvia, Suwargadi, Bambang W
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier
• Subjects: Keywords: Air temperature; Deglacial; Eustatic sea-level rise; Fluid inclusion; High-elevation snow; Holocenes; In-phase; Indonesia; Intertropical convergence zone; Isotope ratio; Monsoon rainfall; Planktonic foraminifera; Rapid cooling; Sea surface temperatures; S Fluid inclusions; Monsoon; Speleothem; Stable isotopes; Younger Dryas
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/38671; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2010.03.018; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/38671/5/Griffiths_Gagan_Younger_Dryas_2010.pdf.jpg; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/38671/7/01_Griffiths_Younger_Dryas-Holocene_2010.pdf.jpg

We have applied a new technique to analyze the oxygen (δ18O) and hydrogen (δD) isotope ratios in speleothem fluid inclusions to reconstruct the temperature and rainfall history of southern Indonesia during the Younger Dryas (YD) event and the Holocene.