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

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

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

Date

2010

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

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

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.