Stalagmite records and model simulation indicating wet conditions in northwestern Madagascar during the 8.2 ka event

Ny Riavo Gilbertinie Voarintsoa1,2, Ilkka Seppo Olavi Matero3, Lauren J Gregoire4, L. Bruce Railsback1, Julia Claire Tindall5, Louise C Sime6, Hai Cheng7, R. Lawrence Edwards8, George A. Brook9, Gayatri Kathayat7, Xianglei Li7, Amos Fety Michel Rakotondrazafy10 and Marie Olga Madison Razanatseheno10, (1)University of Georgia, Department of Geology, Athens, GA, United States, (2)The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Institute of Earth Sciences, Jerusalem, Israel, (3)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (4)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom, (5)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (6)Ice Dynamics and Paleoclimate, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (7)Xi’an Jiaotong University, Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an, China, (8)University of Minnesota, Department of Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (9)University of Georgia, Department of Geography, Athens, GA, United States, (10)Université d'Antananarivo, Sciences de la Terre et de l'Environnement, Antananarivo, Madagascar