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Temperature evolution from the δ 18O record of Hani peat, Northeast China, in the last 14000 years

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From the last deglaciation to the Holocene, the Greenland Ice Core (GISP2) δ 18O records as well as the records of ice-rafted debris on the surface of the North Atlantic have revealed a succession of sudden cooling events on the centennial to millennial scales. However, the temperature proxy records are rarely studied systematically and directly to ensure that this air temperature cooling pattern simultaneously existed in the East Asian Region, in addition to the repeated pattern occurring in the Greater Atlantic Region. A peat cellulose δ 18O temperature proxy record proximately existing for 14000 years was picked up from the Hani peat in Jilin Province, China. It suggests by comparison that the sudden cooling events, such as the Older Dryas, Inter-Allerød, Younger Dryas, and nine ice-rafted debris events of the North Atlantic, are almost entirely reiterated in the temperature signals of Hani peat cellulose δ 18O. These cooling events show that the repeatedly occurring temperature cooling pattern not only appeared in the North Atlantic Region in the high latitudes, but also in the Northwest Pacific Region in the middle latitudes. The climate change events marking the start of the Holocene Epoch, the Holocene Megathermal, the “8.2 kyr” event, the “4.2 kyr” event, the Medieval Warm Period, and the Little Ice Age are further discussed. The sensitivity response of Hani peat cellulose δ 18O to the land surface temperature and the reason for the age accuracy of peat cellulose 14C are also discussed based on the characteristics of the peat bog environment.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang, 550002, China

    Bing Hong, CongQiang Liu, QingHua Lin, Yu Wang, YongXuan Zhu & YeTang Hong

  2. Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Bing Hong

  3. Environmental Chemistry Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0052, Japan

    Shibata Yasuyuki

  4. College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, 130024, China

    XueTian Leng

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Hong, B., Liu, C., Lin, Q. et al. Temperature evolution from the δ 18O record of Hani peat, Northeast China, in the last 14000 years. Sci. China Ser. D-Earth Sci. 52, 952–964 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-009-0086-z

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