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Asian connections

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About 8,200 years ago, the overturning circulation in the Atlantic Ocean slowed and the Northern Hemisphere cooled. A speleothem record from China reveals a period of drying that occurred almost simultaneously with the cooling recorded by the Greenland ice cores.

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Figure 1: The Heshang Cave speleothem.

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  1. Carrie Morrill is at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0216, USA, and National Climatic Data Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305-3337, USA,

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