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East Asian Monsoon History as Indicated by C/N Ratios and ${\delta}^{13}C$ Evidence from the Estuarine Tidal Flat Sediments in the West Coast of Korea  

Park, Jung-Jae (Department of Geography, Chonnam National University)
Shin, Young-Ho (Department of Geography, Seoul National University)
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Journal of the Korean Geographical Society / v.45, no.5, 2010 , pp. 541-552 More about this Journal
Abstract
Geochemical and physical investigations such as ${\delta}^{13}C$ isotope ratio, carbon/nitrogen (C/N) ratio, magnetic susceptibility (MS), and particle size analyses were carried out on the estuarine tidal flat sediments from the west coast of Korea in order to reconstruct the East Asian summer monsoon variability during the late Pleistocene and Holocene Our results indicated that the summer monsoon probably peaked around 7,700-7,800 yr BP and then started to decline about 7,400 yr BP in the Korean peninsular, and that the monsoon was relatively weak between 24,000-24,500 yr BP but relatively strong between 18,500-19,500 yr BP during the Last Glacial Maximum. Our estuarine geochemical data have proven to be valuable as a new proxy for detecting the shifts in monsoon strength. This new evidence will be helpful, especially for Korean paleoenvironmental studies with few proxy data archives.
Keywords
East Asian summer monsoon; Korea; late Pleistocene and Holocene; estuarine tidal flat sediments; ${\delta}^{13}C$ and C/N;
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