A Test of Climate, Sun, and Culture Relationships from an 1810-Year Chinese Cave Record

Pingzhong Zhang; Hai Cheng; R. Lawrence Edwards; Fahu Chen; Yongjin Wang; Xunlin Yang; Jian Liu; Ming Tan; Xianfeng Wang; Jinghua Liu; Chunlei An; Zhibo Dai; Jing Zhou; Dezhong Zhang; Jihong Jia; Liya Jin; Kathleen R. Johnson

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A Test of Climate, Sun, and Culture Relationships from an 1810-Year Chinese Cave Record

Pingzhong Zhang1,
Hai Cheng2,*,
R. Lawrence Edwards2,
Fahu Chen1,
Yongjin Wang3,
Xunlin Yang1,
Jian Liu4,
Ming Tan5,
Xianfeng Wang2,
Jinghua Liu1,
Chunlei An1,
Zhibo Dai1,
Jing Zhou1,
Dezhong Zhang1,
Jihong Jia1,
Liya Jin1,
Kathleen R. Johnson6

¹ Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environment Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.
² Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
³ College of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097, China.
⁴ Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China.
⁵ Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China.
⁶ Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.

↵* To whom correspondences should be addressed. E-mail: cheng021{at}umn.edu

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Science 07 Nov 2008:
Vol. 322, Issue 5903, pp. 940-942
DOI: 10.1126/science.1163965

Pingzhong Zhang

1 Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environment Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.

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Hai Cheng

2 Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.

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For correspondence: cheng021@umn.edu

R. Lawrence Edwards

2 Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.

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Fahu Chen

1 Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environment Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.

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Yongjin Wang

3 College of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097, China.

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Xunlin Yang

1 Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environment Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.

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Jian Liu

4 Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China.

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Ming Tan

5 Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China.

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Xianfeng Wang

2 Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.

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Jinghua Liu

1 Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environment Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.

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Chunlei An

1 Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environment Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.

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Zhibo Dai

1 Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environment Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.

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Jing Zhou

1 Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environment Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.

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Dezhong Zhang

1 Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environment Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.

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Jihong Jia

1 Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environment Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.

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Liya Jin

1 Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environment Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.

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Kathleen R. Johnson

6 Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.

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