Post by jonsdigs on Jan 20, 2010 18:41:26 GMT -5
Cave Reveals Southwest's Abrupt Climate Swings During Ice Age
Sarah Truebe, a geosciences doctoral student at the University of Arizona,
checks on an experiment that measures how fast cave formations grow in
Arizona's Cave of the Bells. (Credit: Copyright 2010 Stella Cousins.)
ScienceDaily (Jan. 20, 2010) — Ice Age climate records from an Arizona stalagmite link the Southwest's winter precipitation to temperatures in the North Atlantic, according to new research.
The finding is the first to document that the abrupt changes in Ice Age climate known from Greenland also occurred in the southwestern U.S., said co-author Julia E. Cole of the University of Arizona in Tucson.
"It's a new picture of the climate in the Southwest during the last Ice Age," said Cole, a UA professor of geosciences. "When it was cold in Greenland, it was wet here, and when it was warm in Greenland, it was dry here."
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Sarah Truebe, a geosciences doctoral student at the University of Arizona,
checks on an experiment that measures how fast cave formations grow in
Arizona's Cave of the Bells. (Credit: Copyright 2010 Stella Cousins.)
ScienceDaily (Jan. 20, 2010) — Ice Age climate records from an Arizona stalagmite link the Southwest's winter precipitation to temperatures in the North Atlantic, according to new research.
The finding is the first to document that the abrupt changes in Ice Age climate known from Greenland also occurred in the southwestern U.S., said co-author Julia E. Cole of the University of Arizona in Tucson.
"It's a new picture of the climate in the Southwest during the last Ice Age," said Cole, a UA professor of geosciences. "When it was cold in Greenland, it was wet here, and when it was warm in Greenland, it was dry here."
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