Arabia’s alluvial fans grow and decay with Earth’s orbital cycles
Paleoclimate records for the last 400,000 years in the study region of Hajar mountains, Oman. This includes alluvial records of wetter (blue) and drier (orange) conditions from both the sample sites and literature (a), lake sediments (b), speleothem records from Hoti Cave (c), marine organic carbon from bromine (d), prediction of Indian Ocean Summer Monsoon (e), solar insolation reaching Earth at 30°N in June (f), and benthic oxygen isotopes as a proxy for temperature fluctuations (g). Credit: Quaternary Science Reviews…
