Annual trace element variations in a Holocene speleothem

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 154, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 237-246

  Roberts, Mark S ^a   Smart, Peter L ^a   Baker, Andy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Luminescence; Palaeoclimatology; Secondary ion mass spectroscopy; Speleothems

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; PALAEOCLIMATE; SIMS; SPELEOTHEM; TRACE ELEMENT;

UK, SCOTLAND;

EID: 0031849089     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(97)00116-7     Document Type: Article

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