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Denniston, R. F., DuPree, M., Dorale, J. A., Asmerom, Y., Polyak, V. J. and Carpenter, S. J.: Episodes of late Holocene aridity recorded by stalagmites from Devil’s icebox Cave, Central Missouri, USA, Quaternary Research, 68(1), 45–52, doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2007.04.001, 2007.

automated carbonate system linked to a VG PRISM ratio mass spectrometer (except for stalagmite D1 that isotope ratios were measured on a Delta-plusXL mass spectrometer equipped with an automated carbonate preparation system Kiel III)

Replicate results from 4 samples that overlap during certain periods of time

Based on previously published results from Oman and Yemen, we interpret the oxygen isotope ratios of stalagmite calcite to primarily reflect variations in the amount of rainfall (termed ??amount effect??; Dansgaard, 1964;Rozanski et al., 1992), with more negative d18O reflecting higher monsoon rainfall (Burns et al., 1998, 2001, 2003; Neff et al., 2001; detailed discussion in Fleitmann et al., 2004). This interpretation is substantiated by isotopic time series of tropical precipitation (Dansgaard, 1964; Rozanski et al., 1992; Johnson and Ingram, 2004) and paleoclimate records from the ASM domain (e.g., Wei and Gasse, 1999; Wang et al., 2001, 2005; Dykoski et al., 2005), which confirm the inverse relationship between d18O and the amount of precipitation in regions affected by monsoons