Corroborated rainfall records from aragonitic stalagmites

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 215, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 265-273

  Finch, Adrian A ^a   Shaw, Paul A ^b   Holmgren, Karin ^c   Lee Thorp, Julia ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cold Air Cave; Ion probe; Palaeoenvironments; SIMS; South Africa; Speleothem

Indexed keywords

ARAGONITE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RAINFALL; SPELEOTHEM; STALAGMITE; TRACE ELEMENT;

COLD AIR CAVE; MAKAPANSGAT VALLEY; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0141919540     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00431-X     Document Type: Article

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