Indian Monsoon: Trends, Rhythms and Thresholds since Eocene

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• Liviu Giosan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Thursday 20 April 2017, 12:00-13:00
• Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Ioan Lascu.

If you would like to meet with Liviu please let me know asap (il261@cam.ac.uk). There are opportunities to talk to him before the seminar and after 2:00 pm

Complete lack of consensus on the Neogene establishment and evolution of the Asian monsoon in general, and Indian monsoon in particular, is remarkable after almost half a century of research. My lecture will introduce novel interpretations base on new terrestrial and oceanic records spanning the last 34 million years from the Bay of Bengal as well the Arabian and Andaman Seas. I discuss a potential solution to the conundrum of monsoon wind-precipitation decoupling and I propose that the Indian monsoon had two distinct flavours during the Neogene that can be largely explained by its heartbeat, or the astronomical forcing, interacting with the paleogeography of South Asia. Lastly I touch on potential effects of this monsoon reinterpretation on elemental cycles, including carbon, during Neogene.

This talk is part of the Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown) series.

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