Fig. 5: Ages of cryogenic cave carbonates from the Obir caves compared with key records for the Last Glacial Maximum.
From: Increased autumn and winter precipitation during the Last Glacial Maximum in the European Alps
Cryogenic cave carbonates data (red, with two sigma error bars), oxygen isotope records from the North Greenland Ice Core Project (NGRIP2) and Sieben Hengste cave16 and the reconstructed extent of the Rhine and Garda paleoglaciers9. The green dashed line separates dominantly southern (i.e., Mediterranean-sourced) and northern/northwestern (i.e., Atlantic-derived) trajectories according to ref. 16. The yellow and orange bars at the bottom indicate the global Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)1 and the timing of Heinrich event (H) 235,36,37, respectively. Selected Greenland Interstadials (GI) and Stadials (GS) are labeled. Note that the cryogenic cave carbonate data have no y-variability and that the offsets are only for visibility.
