Speleothem master chronologies: Combined Holocene 18O and 13C records from the North Island of New Zealand and their palaeoenvironmental interpretation

Holocene

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 194-208

  Williams, P W ^a   King, D N T ^a   Zhao, J X ^b   Collerson, K D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Caves; Climatic change; Holocene; New Zealand; Palaeoclimate; Periodicities; Speleothems; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; SPELEOTHEM; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND;

EID: 1542754682     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683604hl676rp     Document Type: Article

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