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Clues in caves: drought may have brought down Mughal empire

27/09/2022 07:28 PM | Click to read full article

In a cave in northeast India, rainwater has slowly dripped from the ceiling in the same spots for over 1,000 years slowly growing into calcium carbonate towers known as stalagmites.

By analyzing the geochemistry of these stalagmites in a new study in the Proceedings of the NAS, we were able to create the most precise chronology yet of the summer Indian monsoon over the past millennium.

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