Hydroclimate changes across the Amazon lowlands over the past 45,000 years

Xianfeng Wang (), R. Lawrence Edwards, Augusto S. Auler, Hai Cheng, Xinggong Kong, Yongjin Wang, Francisco W. Cruz, Jeffrey A. Dorale and Hong-Wei Chiang
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Xianfeng Wang: Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University
R. Lawrence Edwards: University of Minnesota
Augusto S. Auler: Instituto do Carste, Belo Horizonte
Hai Cheng: University of Minnesota
Xinggong Kong: School of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University
Yongjin Wang: School of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University
Francisco W. Cruz: Instituto de Geociências, Universidade de São Paulo
Jeffrey A. Dorale: University of Iowa
Hong-Wei Chiang: Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University

Nature, 2017, vol. 541, issue 7636, 204-207

Abstract: Oxygen isotope records derived from stalagmites in the eastern Amazon reveal that rainfall was about half of today’s during the Last Glacial Maximum but half again as much during the mid-Holocene, broadly coinciding with global changes in temperature and carbon dioxide.

Date: 2017
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