Bacterial influence on speleothem oxygen isotope composition: An example based on cave pisoids from Perlová Cave (Slovakia)

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 199-204

  Gradziński, Michal ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bacterial influence; Speleothems; Stable oxygen isotopes; Velk Fatra Mts

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CARBONATE; CAVE; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SPELEOTHEM;

SLOVAKIA;

EID: 0042243657     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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