@article {670,
	title = {Recent 2000-year geological records of mud in the inner shelf of the East China Sea and their climatic implications},
	journal = {Chinese Science Bulletin},
	volume = {50},
	year = {2005},
	note = {923yeTimes Cited:20Cited References Count:58},
	month = {Mar},
	pages = {466-471},
	abstract = {AXIS(14)C dating and grain-size analysis for Core DD2, located at the north of the Yangtze River-derived mud off the Zhejiang-Fujian coasts in the inner shelf of the East China Sea, provide us a high-resolution grain-size distribution curve varying with depth and time. Data in the upper mud layer of Core DD2 indicate that there are at least 9 abrupt grain-size increasing in recent 2000 years, with each corresponding very well with the low-temperature events in Chinese history, which might result from the periodical strengthening of the East Asian Winter Monsoon (EAWM), including the first-revealed maximum temperature lowering event at around 990 a BP. At the same time, the finer grain size section in Core DD2 agrees well with the Sui-Tang Warming Period (600-1000 a AD) defined previously by Zhu Kezhen, during which the climate had a warm, cold and warm fluctuation, with a dominated cooling period of 750-850 a AD. The Little Ice Age (LIA) can also be identified in the core. It starts around 1450 a AD and was followed by a subsequent cooling events at 1510, 1670 and 1840 a AD. Timing of these cold events revealed here still needs to be further verified owing to some current uncertainty of dating we used in this study.},
	issn = {1001-6538},
	doi = {10.1360/03wd0571},
	author = {Xiao, S. B. and Li, A. C. and Jiang, F. Q. and Li, T. G. and Huang, P. and Xu, Z. K.}
}
