It appears that three regional increases in the KAR document three successive humid episodes during the Valanginian.
This is confirmed by contemporaneous increases in DAR and partly also PAR, which highlight higher terrigenous and nutrient fluxes to the Vocontian Basin during these episodes.
The occurrence of the three humid episodes is interpreted to relate to an orbital-paced monsoonal circulation pattern through seasonally reversing movements of air mass heat and precipitation over the northwestern Tethyan margin.