Multi-proxy constraints on the climatic significance of trace element records from a New Zealand speleothem

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 287-297

  Hellstrom, J C ^a,b   McCulloch, M T ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Isotopes; New Zealand; Paleoclimatology; Quaternary; Speleothems; Trace elements; Uranium

Indexed keywords

LAST DEGLACIATION; PALEOCLIMATE; SPELEOTHEM; TRACE ELEMENT; URANIUM;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0033910166     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00115-1     Document Type: Article

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