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Abrupt increase in east Indonesian rainfall from flooding of the Sunda Shelf ∼9500 years ago

Date

Authors

Griffiths, Michael

Drysdale, Russell N

Gagan, Michael

Zhao, Jian-xin

Hellstrom, John Charles

Ayliffe, Linda

Hantoro, Wahyoe

Publisher

Pergamon-Elsevier Ltd

Abstract

We present a precisely dated, multi-proxy stalagmite record from Liang Luar Cave, Flores (southeast Indonesia) that reveals a rapid increase in Indonesian monsoon rainfall at ~9.5ka. A "ramp-fitting" method for detecting statistically significant inflecti

Keywords

Keywords: Indonesia; Indonesian throughflow; Monsoon; Monsoon rainfall; North-east australia; Sea surface temperatures; Speleothem; Sunda shelves; Atmospheric temperature; Floods; Rain; Sea level; Atmospheric thermodynamics; air-sea interaction; deglaciation; flood Indonesia; Monsoon; Speleothem; Sunda Shelf

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/53060

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Quaternary Science Reviews

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.07.006

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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