High-precision constraints on timing of Alpine warm periods during the middle to late Pleistocene using speleothem growth periods

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 236, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 751-764

  Holzkämper, Steffen ^a,c   Spötl, Christoph ^b   Mangini, Augusto ^a  

^a HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

High alpine climate; Last Interglacial; Penultimate Interglacial; Speleothems; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

HIGH ALPINE CLIMATE; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE; PENULTIMATE INTERGLACIAL; SPELEOTHEMS; STABLE ISOTOPES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CALCITE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; SAMPLING; SEDIMENTS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

CHRONOLOGY; LAST INTERGLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; SPELEOTHEM; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ALPS; AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 24344478244     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.06.002     Document Type: Article

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