Enhanced climate variability in the tropics: a 200 000 yr annual record of monsoon variability from Pangea's equator

A continuous series of 209 000 evaporite varves from the equator of arid western Pangea (age = −255 ma), as a proxy for surface temperature, has a complete suite of Milankovitch cycles and harmonics as expected for a rectified reaction to precession-modulated insolation at the equator. Included are...

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Main Author: R. Y. Anderson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2011-07-01
Series:Climate of the Past
Online Access:http://www.clim-past.net/7/757/2011/cp-7-757-2011.pdf