A total of 1413 sub-samples for ?18O measurements were performed on a Finnigan MAT-253 mass spectrometer linked to an on-line automated preparation system (Kiel Carbonate Device) at the college of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University.

Replicate results from four overlapping samples

Given differences in dating errors and resolution, the ?18O records are virtually identical during contemporaneous growth periods, providing a robust replication test for equilibrium calcite deposition.

BM (14/03/2019) info sent using GitHub: These are multiple entities for one cave: Sanbao cave,  lipd file has just sb49 (tab sb49 in the attachment), please add the other 5: dong et al., 2010, the holocene sanbao2010.xlsx, Stalagmite sb44 (tab sb44), Stalagmite sb43 (tab sb43) - relevant for Iso2k, Stalagmite sb26 (tab sb26) - relevant for Iso2k, Stalagmite sb27 (tab sb27), Stalagmite sb10 (tab sb10)

Weighted mean annual ?18O value for the period from 1988?1996 was ?7.0?, with more neg- ative   in summer months (average ~ ?9.5?, SMOW) and more positive ?18O in winter months (average ~ ?4.5?, SMOW). Therefore, more negative ?18O values are consistent with a greater contribution of summer rainfall

East Asian summer monsoon strength; more negative values of d18O are interpreted as indicative of increased monsoon precipitation

Jinguo Dong, Yongjin Wang, Hai Cheng, Hardt, B., Edwards, R. L., Xinggong Kong, Jiangying Wu, Shitao Chen, Dianbing Liu, Xiuyang Jiang and Kan Zhao: A high-resolution stalagmite record of the Holocene East Asian monsoon from Mt Shennongjia, central China, The Holocene, 20(2), 257–264, doi:10.1177/0959683609350393, 2010.

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Gas bench II coupled to a ThermoFinnigan DeltaPlusXP IRMS

final record was smoothed with a 212 year filter and resampled at 60 year itnervals

lack of correlation of d18O and d13c along the growth axis; repetition test showing similar records for contemporaneous samples