Testing theoretically predicted stalagmite growth rate with Recent annually laminated samples: Implications for past stalagmite deposition

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 393-404

  Baker, Andy ^a   Genty, Dominique ^b   Dreybrodt, Wolfgang ^c   Barnes, William L ^a   Mockler, Natalie J ^a   Grapes, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CAVE; GROWTH RATE; PALAEOCLIMATE; STALAGMITE;

EUROPE;

EID: 0031876937     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(97)00343-8     Document Type: Article

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