Speleothems and climate: A special issue of The Holocene

Holocene

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 643-647

  Lauritzen, Stein Erik ^a   Lundberg, Joyce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Caves; Environmental reconstruction; Holocene; Laminations; Palaeoclimate; Speleothems; Stable isotopes; Trace elements; Uranium series dating

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; SPELEOTHEM;

LAMIINAE;

EID: 0032719430     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/095968399666229065     Document Type: Review

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