Fig. 4: Summer insolation and eccentricity over 8.09–8.03 Ma compared with present and future configuration and the HIRM time series. | Nature Communications

Fig. 4: Summer insolation and eccentricity over 8.09–8.03 Ma compared with present and future configuration and the HIRM time series.

From: Late Miocene Tarim desert wetting linked with eccentricity minimum and East Asian monsoon weakening

Fig. 4

a Summer insolation comparison between the intervals of 8.03–8.09 Ma (purple) and from 10 ka to future 50 kyr (blue). Both records are June 21 insolation from 40°N24. b Eccentricity comparison between the intervals of 8.09–8.03 Ma and from 10 ka to future 50 kyr24. c HIRM from Tarim over 8.09–8.03 Ma. We used the tuned age model for the Tarim record, with tuning tie points shown by blue arrows in Fig. 2. The gray bar highlights the interval of low amplitude insolation variations for the next 50 kyr, similar to those during 8.08–8.03 Ma.

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