Changes in climate and vegetation of central Guizhou in southwest China since the last glacial reflected by stalagmite records from Yelang Cave

• Published in: Journal of Asian earth sciences Vol. 114; pp. 549 - 561
• Main Authors: Zhao, Min, Li, Hong-Chun, Liu, Zai-Hua, Mii, Horng-Sheng, Sun, Hai-Long, Shen, Chuan-Chou, Kang, Su-Chen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 15.12.2015
• Subjects: AMS 14C dating; Central Guizhou; East Asian monsoon; Holocene; Late pleistocene; Pacific Decadal Oscillation; Stalagmite; δ18O and δ13C record; AMS 14C dating; Stalagmite; East Asian monsoon; Late pleistocene; Holocene; δ18O and δ13C record; Pacific Decadal Oscillation; Central Guizhou

•AMS 14C dating is suitable to date young stalagmites with low U and high Th.•Two stalagmites recorded changes in monsoonal climate and vegetation during the past 50Ka.•Wet climates and better vegetation during early Holocene and Medieval Warm Period.•Solar insolation strongly affects the Asian mons...