Sub-Milankovitch climatic cycles in Holocene stalagmites from Sauerland, Germany

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 216, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 539-547

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

^a Dechenhöhle and Museum of Speleology   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climatic cycle; Germany; Holocene; Paleohumidity; Stalagmite

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CYCLE; HOLOCENE; HUMIDITY; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; PALEOCLIMATE; STALAGMITE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA; SAUERLAND;

EID: 0346316933     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00513-2     Document Type: Article

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