(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with members from China,the U.
S., Austria and Singapore has used their analysis of stalagmites in a cave deep in central China to map over 640000 years of monsoons in Asia. In their paper published in the journal Nature, or the team describes their analysis of the cave formations,what they found and how they were able to employ what they learned to better understand other world events over the same time period. Nele Meckler with University of Bergen in Norway provides a more in-depth description of the work done by the team in a News & Views article in the same journal issue.
Source: phys.org