Holocene Paleoclimates of India

Quaternary Research - Tập 66 - Trang 442-453 - 2006
Sushma Prasad1, Yehouda Enzel2
1Climate Dynamics and Sediments, GeoForschungsZentrum, Telegrafenberg, D 14473 Potsdam, Germany
2Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel

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AbstractWe present a comprehensive summary of the available palaeoclimate records from India and compare the results from different proxies. The results indicate (i) fluctuating lake levels during the early Holocene. The period of relatively higher lake levels from increased precipitation efficiency was reached only ∼7.2–6.0 cal kyr BP, possibly due to increased contribution from winter rainfall; (ii) the onset of aridity in NW India could have begun as early as ∼5.3 cal kyr BP. Subsequently, there were multiple wet events but of shorter duration and smaller magnitude than during the mid Holocene; (iii) there is evidence of several short term climate events in the proxy record. However, in the absence of a rigorous chronological framework a detailed regional correlation is not possible at this stage. Finally, a comparison between marine and terrestrial records indicates that episodes of strongest and weakest monsoon winds were not always associated with wettest and driest episodes respectively in the NW Indian lakes.

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