Journal article

A Stalagmite record of holocene indonesian-australian summer monsoon variability from the australian tropics

RF Denniston, KH Wyrwoll, VJ Polyak, JR Brown, Y Asmerom, AD Wanamaker, Z LaPointe, R Ellerbroek, M Barthelmes, D Cleary, J Cugley, D Woods, WF Humphreys

Quaternary Science Reviews | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD | Published : 2013

Abstract

Oxygen isotopic data from a suite of calcite and aragonite stalagmites from cave KNI-51, located in the eastern Kimberley region of tropical Western Australia, represent the first absolute-dated, high-resolution speleothem record of the Holocene Indonesian-Australian summer monsoon (IASM) from the Australian tropics. Stalagmite oxygen isotopic values track monsoon intensity via amount effects in precipitation and reveal a dynamic Holocene IASM which strengthened in the early Holocene, decreased in strength by 4ka, with a further decrease from ~2 to 1ka, before strengthening again at 1ka to years to levels similar to those between 4 and 2ka. The relationships between the KNI-51 IASM reconstru..

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Funding Acknowledgements

This research was funded by grants from the Kimberley Foundation (to KHW), and the National Science Foundation grant (AGS 1103413), the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, and Cornell College (to RFD). Samples obtained with the permission and understanding of the pastoral lease-holders and managers of Carlton Hill Station. We thank Donna Cavlovic for generous assistance in Kununurra, Tim Kelly in Mount Vernon, and an anonymous reviewer for insightful comments which improved this manuscript.