Carbonate speleothems in the dry, inneralpine Vinschgau Valley, Northernmost Italy: Witnesses of changes in climate and hydrology since the Last Glacial Maximum

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 793-808

  Spotl C ^a   Unterwurzacher, M ^a   Mangini, A ^b   Longstaffe, F J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; QUATERNARY; SPELEOTHEM; ARAGONITE; BASEMENT ROCK; BRECCIA; CALCITE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRYSTALLINE ROCK; HYDROLOGY; LAMINATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); TUFA;

ITALY; BOLZANO; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TRENTINO-ALTO ADIGE; VENOSTA VALLEY;

AQUIFERS; CALCITE; CARBONATE MINERALS; CARBONATION; CEMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; DEPOSITS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORES; SPRINGS (COMPONENTS); SULFATE MINERALS; TEXTURES;

CARBONATE PRECIPITATION; CRYSTALLINE BASEMENT; FLUORESCENCE INTENSITIES; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; OXIDATION OF SULFIDES; PRIMARY PRECIPITATES; THERMAL IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; TRITIUM CONCENTRATION;

MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0038067800     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/041102720793     Document Type: Article

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