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Late Holocene drought responsible for the collapse of Old World civilizations is recorded in an Italian cave flowstone
Abstract
A severe drought in parts of low-latitude northeastern Africa and southwestern Asia\n\nca 4200 yr ago caused major disruption to ancient civilizations. Stable isotope, trace element,\n\nand organic fluorescence data from a calcite flowstone collected from the wellwatered\n\nAlpi Apuane karst of central-western Italy indicate that the climatic event responsible\n\nfor this drought was also recorded in mid-latitude Europe. Although the timing\n\nof this event coincides with an episode of increased ice-rafted debris to the subpolar North\n\nAtlantic, the regional ocean-atmosphere response seems atypical of similar Holocene icerafting events. Furthermore, comparison of the flowstone data with other regional proxies suggests that the most extreme part of the dry spell occurred toward the end of a longerterm climate anomaly.
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- Drysdale, R., Zanchetta, G., Hellstrom, J., Maas, R., Fallick, A., Pickett, M., Cartwright, I., & Piccini, L.
- Venue
- Geology
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- Geological Society of America
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- 2006
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 101
- ISSN
- 0091-7613 (ISSN-L)
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- W1983709595
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- 334
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 8.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
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