A paleoclimate record of the last 17,600 years in stalagmites from the B7 cave, Sauerland, Germany

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 22, Issue 5-7, 2003, Pages 555-567

  Niggemann, Stefan ^a,b   Mangini, Augusto ^c   Richter, Detlev K ^a   Wurth, Georg ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b Dechencave and Cave Museum   (Germany)

^c HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; FLOODS; POROUS MATERIALS;

KINETIC FRACTIONATION;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

GEOCHEMISTRY; HOLOCENE; LATE GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; POSTGLACIAL; STALAGMITE;

GERMANY;

LAMIINAE;

EID: 0037342934     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(02)00143-9     Document Type: Article

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