@article {703,
	title = {A high-resolution paleoclimate record spanning the past 25,000 years in southern East Africa},
	journal = {Science},
	volume = {296},
	year = {2002},
	note = {Johnson, Thomas CBrown, Erik TMcManus, JamesBarry, SylviaBarker, PhilipGasse, FrancoisengResearch Support, U.S. Gov{\textquoteright}t, Non-P.H.S.2002/04/06 10:00Science. 2002 Apr 5;296(5565):113-32.},
	month = {Apr 05},
	pages = {113-32},
	abstract = {High-resolution profiles of the mass accumulation rate of biogenic silica and other geochemical proxies in two piston cores from northern Lake Malawi provide a climate signal for this part of tropical Africa spanning the past 25,000 years. The biogenic silica mass accumulation rate was low during the relatively dry late Pleistocene, when the river flux of silica to the lake was suppressed. Millennial-scale fluctuations, due to upwelling intensity, in the late Pleistocene climate of the Lake Malawi basin appear to have been closely linked to the Northern Hemisphere climate until 11 thousand years ago. Relatively cold conditions in the Northern Hemisphere coincided with more frequent north winds over the Malawi basin, perhaps resulting from a more southward migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone.},
	issn = {0036-8075 (Linking)},
	doi = {10.1126/science.1070057},
	author = {Johnson, T. C. and Brown, E. T. and McManus, J. and Barry, S. and Barker, P. and Gasse, F.}
}
@article {985,
	title = {Slip rates of the Karakorum fault, Ladakh, India, determined using cosmic ray exposure dating of debris flows and moraines},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth},
	volume = {107},
	year = {2002},
	note = {634wuTimes Cited:104Cited References Count:72},
	month = {Sep},
	pages = {ESE 7-1{\textendash}ESE 7-13},
	abstract = {We measure an average slip rate of 4+/-1 mm yr(-1) along the Karakorum fault, heretofore considered one of Earth{\textquoteright}s greatest strike-slip faults and thought by many to play a key role in Asian deformation kinematics. Levees of a debris flow, and contours of the fan on which it was deposited, have been displaced 40+/-5 m. Concentrations of Be-10 in boulders from the debris flow yield ages of 11-14 ka, implying a slip rate of 4+/-1 mm yr(-1) during that period. A fresher debris flow has been offset 2-2.5 m since 1-2 ka, implying the occurrence of an earthquake with Msimilar to7 since that time. Concentrations of Be-10 in boulders on the crest of the most extensive moraine near Leh imply that the most recent major glacial advance occurred at 90+/-15 ka. This is consistent with the inference of others that alpine glaciers in this region have not necessarily expanded in concert with Northern Hemisphere continental ice sheets. If features, including lateral moraines, that Liu inferred to have been offset 300-350 m by the Karakorum fault date from the same period, they too imply a slip rate of 3-4 mm yr(-1). This slip rate is comparable to rates of extension across grabens within Tibet. With recent evidence that slip along the Altyn Tagh fault occurs at similar to10 mm yr(-1), our rate suggests that slip along the boundaries of Tibet is not significantly more rapid than extension within the plateau. Hence, plate tectonics, in the strictest sense, ought not be applied to Tibet, because Tibet does not behave as a rigid plate.},
	issn = {2169-9313},
	doi = {10.1029/2000JB000100},
	author = {Brown, E. T. and Bendick, R. and Bourles, D. L. and Gaur, V. and Molnar, P. and Raisbeck, G. M. and Yiou, F.}
}
@article {412,
	title = {The Holocene paleolimnology of Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgystan: trace element and stable isotope composition of ostracods},
	journal = {Paleogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeocecology},
	volume = {176},
	year = {2001},
	note = {id: 341},
	pages = {207-227},
	abstract = {The stable isotope and trace element geochemistry of ostracode shells from Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, provide an important new paleoclimate record for central Asia. The δ18O, δ13C, Sr/Ca, Mg/Ca and U/Ca composition of shells from the species Candona neglecta found in two piston cores constrains the paleohydrology of the lake from 8700 to 1000 calendar yr before present. These data, combined with robust chronologies based on 16 AMS 14C dates, suggest that the region went from a relatively moist climate in the early Holocene to a more arid climate in the late Holocene. Intense freshwater input, presumably glacial runoff, flowed into the lake from 8700 to 8300 cal yr BP as evident from the δ18O and δ13C values. From 8300 to 6900 cal yr BP δ18O and Sr/Ca values indicate that the lake was relatively fresh and an open basin, and U/Ca values suggest that the lake was well-mixed with well-oxygenated bottom waters. There is a transition zone between 6900 and 4900 cal yr BP when δ18O and Sr/Ca values rapidly increase and Mg/Ca and U/Ca values rapidly decrease. During this period the lake evolved from an open, freshwater, well-mixed lake to a closed, more saline, less well-mixed lake. For the remainder of the record δ18O, Sr/Ca, Mg/Ca and U/Ca are relatively constant, implying conditions similar to modern conditions, although the slight increasing trend in Sr/Ca may suggest an increase in salinity over this period. The δ13C values were approximately in equilibrium with atmospheric CO2 in the early part of the record but became relatively negative in the later part of the record. This indicates that the dominant mechanism controlling the isotopic composition of dissolved inorganic carbon shifted from exchange with the atmosphere to variations in biological productivity.},
	doi = {10.1016/S0031-0182(01)00339-X},
	author = {Ricketts, R. D. and Johnson, T. C. and Brown, E. T. and Rasmussen, K. A. and Romanovsky, V. V.}
}
@conference {1797,
	title = {Stable isotope and trace element composition of ostracodes from Lake Issyk Kul, Kyrgyzstan},
	booktitle = {American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting},
	year = {1999},
	note = {id: 1366},
	month = {1999},
	address = {San Francisco, California},
	author = {Ricketts, R. D. and Rasmussen, K. A. and Brown, E. T. and Johnson, T. J.}
}
