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A tropical speleothem record of glacial inception, the South American Summer Monsoon from 125 to 115 ka
S. J. Burns
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Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01002, USA
L. C. Kanner
Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01002, USA
present address: 2nd Nature LLC, 500 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz, CA 95062, USA
H. Cheng
Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
R. Lawrence Edwards
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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