A precisely dated climate record for the last 9 kyr from three high alpine stalagmites, Spannagel Cave, Austria

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 20, 2006, Pages

  Vollweiler, Nicole ^a   Scholz, Denis ^a   Mühlinghaus, Christian ^a   Mangini, Augusto ^a   Spötl, Christoph ^b  

^a HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVES; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA RECORDING; GEOCHRONOLOGY;

CLIMATE RECORD; HOLOCENE; STALAGMITES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SPELEOTHEM; STALAGMITE; TIME SERIES;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33845603499     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027662     Document Type: Article

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