Geochemistry of speleothem records from southern Illinois: Development of (234U)/(238U) as a proxy for paleoprecipitation

Chemical Geology

Volumn 221, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 1-20

  Zhou, Juanzuo ^a   Lundstrom, Craig C ^a   Fouke, Bruce ^a   Panno, Samuel ^b   Hackley, Keith ^b   Curry, Brandon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Paleoprecipitation; Speleothem; U series disequilibrium

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SPELEOTHEM;

ILLINOIS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 23844435788     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2005.02.005     Document Type: Article

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