[M-IS23] [JJ] Paleoclimatology and paleoceanography

[MIS23-P04] Relationship between climate changes and solar activity in a mid-Holocene stalagmite from Minami Daito, Okinawa

*Kanako Omine¹, Ryu Uemura¹, Kosuke Masaka¹, Ryuji Asami¹, Chuan-Chou Shen², Mahjoor Ahmad Lone² (1.University of the Ryukyus, 2.Dept. of Geosci., National Taiwan University)

Keywords:stalagmite, isotope, solar activity

Correlations between atmospheric Δ¹⁴C and oxygen isotope (δ¹⁸O) record of the stalagmites suggest that the variations of Indian and Asian monsoons are influenced by solar activity during the Holocene (Neff et al., 2001; Wang et al., 2005; Duan et al., 2014). To evaluate the influence of solar activity on a small oceanic island in East Asian monsoon region, we investigate multi-proxy records of a stalagmite from Okinawa, Japan. A stalagmite, HSN1, was collected in Hoshino cave in Minami Daito Island, Okinawa, Japan. The δ¹⁸O of the calcite was measured using Gas-bench IRMS (Delta V advantage). The isotope compositions of the fluid-inclusion water were measured using a semi-automated version of our fluid inclusion analysis system described in Uemura et al. (2016). U-Th dates were measured at National Taiwan University. The HSN1 stalagmite grew from ca. 6,000 to 8,000 years before present with a high growth rate (ca. 130μm/yr). The pattern of calcite δ¹⁸O variation (e.g., 80-year periodicity) was similar to that of the atmospheric Δ¹⁴C.
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Uemura et al., Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 172, 159–176, 2016