PANGAEA_992727 Trace-elements of stalagmite HS4 in Heshang Cave, Central China Liao, Jin; Day, Christopher Trace-elements of stalagmite HS4 in Heshang Cave, Central China 2026-03-16 PANGAEA Dataset https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.992727 Investigator Jin Liao liaojin_earth@163.com Earth Science Sample number AGE Age, error DISTANCE Magnesium/Calcium ratio Strontium/Calcium ratio Barium/Calcium ratio geoscientificInformation Archaeological cultures Calcium isotopes Central China Heshang_Cave_HS4 speleothem Speleothem sample trace elements Age, Uranium-Thorium Age, 14C calibration OxCal (Ramsey, 2008) Measured Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS), Perkin-Elmer, Nexion 350D Complete 30.45 30.45 110.4167 110.4167 unrestricted CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International English PANGAEA Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science https://www.pangaea.de/ Data Center Contact Michael Diepenbroek info@pangaea.de

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Bremen Bremen 28359 Germany online 860 data points text/tab-separated-values Liao, Jin; Day, Christopher; Hu, Chaoyong; Liu, Y; Henderson, Gideon M (2026): Precise chronology of hydrological changes at ∼4.2 kyr in Central China to assess the impact of flooding on Neolithic societies. National Science Review, 13(2), nwaf567, https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaf567 Ramsey, Christopher Bronk (2008): Deposition models for chronological records. Quaternary Science Reviews, 27(1-2), 42-60, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.01.019

Stalagmite trace-elements data (Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca, Ba/Ca) were used to reconstruct regional hydrological variations in the Central China between 4.6 kyr BP and 3.5 kyr BP. The stalagmite (HS4) was collected from Heshang Cave in the Middle Yangtze Valley, Central China (30º27′N, 110º25′E, 294 m.a.s.l). HS4 Stalagmite length in this study ranges between 112.63 and 151.03 cm. The working half of HS4 was slabbed. Micro drilling of 343 continuous samples was undertaken by using a New-Wave Micromill. Every second sample was measured for trace-elements. The measurement resolution is 6~7 years. The data was measured using a PerkinElmer NexIon 350D quadrupole Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP–MS) at the University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences in 2016. ** For all details see the full metadata description at "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.992727"!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyr AGE https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.01.019 Age, 14C calibration OxCal (Ramsey, 2008) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.01.019 Deposition models for chronological records https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaf567 Precise chronology of hydrological changes at ∼4.2 kyr in Central China to assess the impact of flooding on Neolithic societies DIF 9.4 2026-03-16 2026-03-16