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New paper from my colleague and friend Julio Cauhy, reconstructing extreme rainfall events in Southern Brazil over the past 7.5 ka. Julio and colleagues combined cave monitoring with painstaking petrography and careful U-Th dating to analyse detrital flood layers in speleothems from Malfazido cave. They found that extreme rainfall events are influenced by Antarctic-tropical teleconnections, and that El Nino events had an important contribution in the last millennium. It's a fantastic piece of work!

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03506-y

#QuaternaryScience #palaeoscience #palaeoclimatology #speleothem #CaveScience #Brazil #ExtremeRainfallEvents

Always a good day when friends have a good day! Out today in NATURE (!) from Monika Markowska - 8 million year record of recurrent humid phases in Arabia.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08859-6

#Quaternary #QuaternaryScience #speleothem #speleothems #palaeoclimate

Reminder that the #AusQuaternary AGM is happening this Friday! A wonderful time to renew your membership if you haven't already...

https://aqua.org.au/membership/become-an-aqua-member/

#QuaternaryScience

Another excellent edition of Quaternary Australasia is out! I always enjoy the post-conference student reports, especially when the students seem to have really gotten into the 'AQUA vibe'!

#AusQuaternary #QuaternaryScience #Palaeoclimate #paleoclimate